Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-07-05

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ara bound TO follow IL IN this career OF
crime. and di,card the supreme allegiance
they owe to the government assailed. Is ono
Of the shallowe.t and most dangerous falla.
cies tha, has ever gained credence among
men.
let Her Adhere to the Union.
Kentucky, occupying q central position
in tho Union, is now protected from the
seourgc Of foreign war, however much Its
ravagc- may waste the towns and cities up
on our coasts, or the commercs upon our
seas. but as member Of the Southern Con.
iederacy. she would DO q frontier State, and
necessarily tho victim OF those border feuds
and conflicts which have proved proverbial
in history alike for their Gercepe.s and irs-
quency. The people Of tho South now sleep
quietly IN their beds. while there Is no. q
home in infatuated or misguided Virginia
that is not filled with the alarms and op.
pressed by the terrors OF war. In ,he fiis
OF the an,icn, Commonwealth. dragged to
the altar OF sacrifice by those who should
have stood between her bosom and every
Zoe. Kentucky may read her own. No won-
der, therefore. that she has been so coaIing.
ly be-ought TO unite her fortunes with thoss
Of the South. and TO lay down the bodies OF
her ehiyalric sops as brcastwOrk. behind
which the southern people may he sheltered.
Even q. attached % the Southern Conteder-
acy, she would DO weak for all the purposes
Of self.pro,ectiou. n compared with her
prc.en, position. Dot amid the mutations
incident, to such helpless and di'in,egra,.
ing league, Kentucky would probably soon
find herself adhsring TO mere fragment OF
the Con,cderaey. or IL may DO standing en-.
,irsly alone. in the presence OF tier. OF free
States. with population. exceeding, by many
millions. her own. Feeble States. thu. sep
arated from powerful and warllke neishbors
by IDEAL boundaries. or by iear' m easily
traverscd as rlvulcts. are as insects that iced
upon tue lions lIp--liable ai every moment
20 be crushed. The recorded doom OF null
,i,udcs Of such has lett US warning too SOL
emn and impressive 10 DO disresarded.
Kentucky now scarcely feels the coniriOd.
ton she makes to support the government
Of the United States, but as . member OF tho
Southern Conlelcracy. OF whose policy free
trade will be a cardinal principle, she will
b. burdened with direc, taxation 90 tho
amount OF double, or, !, may be. triple or
quadruple tha, which she now pays into her
own treasury. superadded 10 this will he
required from her her share OF those vas!
ou,lays necessary for the creation Of navy,
the erection Of forts and custom'house,
along u frontier Of several thousand miles,
and f1r the maintenance OF that large stand.
ing army which will be Indispensable, at
once Tor hor safety, and Tor imp,rtins T. the
new government, tha, strong military char
ac,er which. II has teen openly ayoved, tho
peculiar Institution OF the South will mex
orably demand. Kentucky now enjoys for
her peculiar Institution the protcetion Of
the Fugitive Slave Law. loyalty eniaTced by
tho government; and it is thislaw. effective
in il. power Of rccap,ure. but infinitely NOR,
po,en, in its moral agency in preventing tho
escape OF slaves, ,ha. alone saves that lnsti.
tuition in the border states from utter cxtinc.
ton. She canno, carry this law with her
into the ncv Cou!ederacy. She will, yir'n.
ally. have Canada brouch. 10 her doors in
the torn OF FREQ States. whose population.
relieved Of oil moral and constitutional ob.
legations to deliver up fugitive slaves. will
opcn arms, inviting and welcoming them.
and defending them. il need BE-. a, the poin,
Of the bayone,. Under such influences,
slavery will perish rapidly away in Ken.
tucky. asa ball Of snow would mel, in
summers sun.
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