The daily Gate City., 1861-12-12
Slavcholdcrs will Rule or Ruin.

For thirty years or more the country
had been falling more and more under the
influence and control Of sma II oligarchy
Of shareholders. They taught the people
Of one section at least to regard the inter
ests of slavery as the chief concern of our
republican government They ostracised
everybody who opposed their views. They
broke up the Wing party in 1854, and
the Democratic party IN 1860, and finally,
in 1861 they disrupted the Union itself.
A few of the shareholders of the border
States, however, did not enter into this
last IN movement, by joining the Southern
Confederacy. They followed the example
of the English Government, and with open
sympathies in favor of the South they
adopted policy of neutrality between the
United States and the Confederate States
But after some months had elapsed ii be-
came clear to the apprehension of these
shareholders Of the border States that the
Government was too strong for the rebels,
and they would be forced to take sides
against il unless they at once proclaimed
their allegiance.
1t was under such circumstances that
the shareholders of the border States, or
portion of them, were retained as loyal
citizens Of this Government And, in
consideration of the responsibility or gen
tllity that they conferred upon this other
wise unmitigated population of 'mud.
sills, it is claimed that the war shall be
henceforth conducted solely for the pro-
lection of their Interests in the peculiar
institution and under their direction for
the general benefit of all persons, rebel
or loyal, who may be interested in human
property.
To meet their views Fremont was mod
ifed not to give offence to them Came
ron's policy is squelched, and the war
generally is conducted in such manner
as to cause The least possible harm to the
slaveholding traitors And down to the
present time the Shareholders of Kentucky
who have furnished neither men nor
money TO carry on the war, have had more
influence in directing the policy upon
which il has been prosecuted than nine
teen millions of the people Of the North.
But at length the President has said
something in his message that docs not
meet their views, and they are at once
thrown into convulsions. The Louisville
Journal, tie able advocate of the oligar.
chy, Is displeased with the President
message, and fears that indications ar,
there given of a disposition to interfer.
with the .'corner stone Of the Traitor OIL
igarchy. The Journal, therefore, urges
the loyal shareholders of the border States
TO 'agitate," and howl, aud hold indp
nation meetings, and send delegates i
Washington to take the President il
charge and to lobby Congress out Of ii
fanalicsm. And il finally they fail wit
the President and Congress, to spare n
efforts to induce the Regular Arm
officers, who are counted on As the regr
lar allies of the shareholders, to thro
down their arms and refuse to fight an
longer. The aim, as stated by the Jou
nal, failng in other projects, is ,
bring about a resolution of the con
mander In the field and his principal a
soclates in command 10 surrender the
swords rather than link them with the i
fanny Of such measures. III
l.si mode is our last hope When ever
thing else fails, this NAV save us
The attempt to accomplish that obje
Is downright treason. 1t il treason. to
more infamous in its type than any g
hibited In the Cotton State rebellion, d,
IL itly withheld for the cowardly sla,
holders who maintained neutral attitu
between the Government of their count
aud powerful combination Of traitor
as long as such an attitude promis
safety to themselves
And now, at last, after all the forbes
ance and all the favor Of the Goyernine
toward them, they proclaim their inte
tion to arouse their whole energies
wheedle and bully the President and Co
gress into their measures, and failing
that, as last resort TO strain every ner
to excite mutiny on the part of I
Regular Army officers