M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-09-19
The Folly Of the Kentucky Secession.

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lists.
We take tile following excellent ar
ticle from the Louisville (Ky) Demo
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The Secesaionists keeps up theil
consistency in absurdity. They arc
for Southern rights, and the whole
world sees they are sacrificing all the
rights they pretend to be fighting for
They are indignant at the difficulty
of recovering fugitive slaves, and they
propose to cancel the bond requiring
fngitives to be returned at all. They
want slavery extended, and relinquish
all territories except what they car
get by the sword, and whnt they gel
they are to lose, for the people, when
they come to form a State, may choose
to secede, if they don't otherwise gel
rid Of slavery. This right, is then, the
most important, as it rquires room tc
extend slavery, is relinquished.
They complain that they have been
taxed beyond their proportion to pay
the expenses Of the Government, un.
der the operation of tariffs, and they
adopt tie tariff system themselves
and even levy a duty on exports
which the Federal Constitution does
not allow. Besides, they are incur.
ring responsibilities that will over.
whelm them with taxes for genera.
lions, ifthey are not entirely bank.
rupt.
Up to this time, they have had the
right to free trade with all the Free
States and there free States have just
what they want, and want just what
they have. Each side has grown
rich from the other. All the foreign
trade Of the South sinks into insight.
icance between the North and South.
The South now, protesting moral ha.
tredof tariffs, plunges into tariffs with
all foreign nations, and into tariffs
with those whom, up to this time, she
has had unlimited free trade.
They complain that the North las
spent most of its revenue for supplies
in the North, when they have them.
selves spent most o. theirs in the same
region, for the same sort Of supplies.
Here in Louisville the Secessionistt
want Southern rights. Well, free
trade with North and South haI
built up this city. We buy from one
section and sell to the other. Oul
dry goods come from the North, and
are sold to the South. Even our man
ufacturers-most Of them, perhaps
fiji up their stocks by importations
from the free States; and it is the
same with nearly every branch Of
mercantile business. Cut off Louis
villo from these opportunities, and
what would she bel What would be-
come Of our rights, the right of free
trade with the North and the Southl
We feel it now. The Secessionists
rave at restrictions. They want tc
sell South, and forget they want to
buy North as much, or agreat part oI
their trade must stop.
They are raving at the North, and
can't live with Northern people, or
trade with Northern people: but are
freezing with a desire to unite and
trade with England, the chronic hot.
bed Of anti-slavery fanaticism.
They are desperately for State
rights; and yet their Confederate Coh-
gross has assumed powers over States
that would never be tolerated under
the Federal Constitution.
Such a bundle Of absurdities we
neverread of. They propose to abau.
don the rights they profess to fight
for, and to abandon the most impor.
tant rights the South has enjoyed up
to this day, and call themselves a
Southern Rights Party!
1t Is a revolution built ott falsehood
and imposture, and must die as all
falsehoods must die before a free, and
intelligent people. Nobody is inter-
ested in it but a few ambitious polite
ians, who got it up for their own ben
eft.