The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-12-29
The Danger - the lnland Slave 6eatas.
At+3i5a-9sl From the Louisville journal. 4F.tV,

Cincinnati, Dec. 3, 1860,
GENfLEMRN: Az Kentuckian temporarily o.
jOprning here on business, allow me 70 call yonr
attentiOn-and through you the people Of Ken.
tucky-so what regard ~ consideration OF
the most vital Importance to them 10 the present
crisis. have had some opportunity Of knowing
the sentiment VI the leaders Of the Secession
movement in the cotton and sugar States, andJ
do assure you that those who imagine that it II
bssed upon the election Of Lincoln, are widely
mistaken. His election merely furnishes them
tiae pretext they have long been waiting; the
cause is fer deeper; but they careful 20 make
this pretext the apparent capss, ANd keep the
real one in the back ground, slle purpose Ui
retaining the sympAthiss Of ~ border Slate
States nnd making them serve as q rampant
against invasion from the North. The lnsinsprisg
Of this whole movement il = discrimination to
r. open the African alave trade, fillibuster On
Mexico, Central America and the adjacent b.
lands. and thus build up powerful Southetn
COntederacy. The intention alter separation is
20 embargo the eoa,nierce Of the whole Missts-
sippi Valley, by charging import and export du.
ties, for the support 81 the new government --
This, with the certainty Of becoming the great
commercial emporium Of the new COnfederacy.
y the glIttering bait that Is held out to New Or
leans, and this is the secret Of the rapid spread
of the eecessi0n feeling In ztlAe locality. Hold
ing The key 30 the Aissi1, who can doubt
that thfs will be the resulY Aad how will the
people Of Ksntacky, Tehness and Missppi rel
ish the idea, after having heir slave pgppedy
immensely deprecated by,secession, n paYi@E
duties. not only on foreign maAuFactures, u }a
their own cxposts 4 produce, and al ~ -
benc6t Of the fanatics Of the soG1e1sApd snzhr
States! Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, NtehiRans ana
Wisconsin all have lake outlets, but Ksutnoky.
Tennessee, and Missouri will be hemgned In .sd
made tributary to and dependent on adioinipg
States, North and Soaah, which may vt any - >
ment enact legislation hoatile " their intereS{s
But this is not all. New York and Pennsyl-
vania would each probably soon conclude that
il GOULD profit BY this example, and proceed &C.
cordingly to secede aud establish duties on e.
ports - xell . imports, and thus enrich them.
selves upon the labor OF the interior States. N
Secession once begun ~onld never stop, Ard
the interior Slave States would soon Gpd the}r
selves surrounded BY, and compelled to pay til
butte 70, osher powers Does not every man see
the rulnous consequences OF this 10 the interior
StAsesS And are We 70 Allow ourselves 70 be
deleded any longer BY the miserable pretext that
Al this secession business i about the election
Of Lincoln? SirA the sooner Kentuckians wnke
up from that awful mistaEe the better for them
The Secessiouists would not dare 10 carrs ont
their infamous purpose we're Il not for their sels
liancs fofsprotecxlon upon the border Stare
StateA Lss the berder 6tases TAXA memsurvs 10
protect MeDaaeltts before il u too late, By cfh-
ing out this uponstrous and damnablc sreason
Let Kentuckians - one man take their stAi,d
determinedly, and q once upon, The glaFios
Jacksonian platform. 'z1s Union msssf aud Ahal
6e pneaeyuod." 4,5.a, 4s..sst 24 "
~ an old line whig, an ardent supporter or
John Bell. and earnestlv desiring that the people