Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-06-06
KeutuCkY.

If the friends of the Uuion residing il
| the Slave States were as ready to make the
necessary allowances for difference of po-
sition as the rest of us are, there would be
no fear Of alienation. We realize that ir
a contest between the Union under Re
publican Executive on one side and a Pro
Slavery rebellion on the other, they must
steer their bark cautiously and skillfully te
avoid shipwreck. Can they not perceive
and feel the difficulty under which we Ia
Dor, in view of SO wanton and causeless g
rebellion, ofrecognizing any middle ground
between whole-souled loyalty and rampant
treason? If there be possible balancing
point between these, is it like Kentucky te
seek it. y, .esI ~ .-.-
Kentucky claims to be Union State
No one doubts that she at heart is so.-
But so is Virginia-so is North Carolina
so is Tennessee-yet each of these have
been bullied and lied into the embrace oil
the traitors. When such men as John
Bell, A. H. H. Stuart and George E. Bae
ger, are shouting for Secession, in what
Southern men can We repose confidence?
All these States have been tolled into
the net of the Disunionists by those whom
their people followed and trusted as Union
men. And the beginning of tehir defec-
tion in every case was an idle attempt to
carry water on both shoulders. They
were for the Union, JM the North must
make concessions. They were for the Un-
ion but the South must have additional
guarantees. They were for the Union, 6nt
against coercion! Why not say they were
for good corn crop this season, ,Jt against
sunshine or rain in the meantime? For
when force is employed to subvert the Un-
ion, force must be employed to uphold it;
and 10 shut eyes TO so indisputable truth
and cry "No coercion" is to play right
into the hands of Secession. He must be
dull indeed who fails to see this, and a
knave, who, seeing, tries or feigns to ig-
more it.
A vast and formidable conspiracy threat
ems the life of the Union-threatens it o.
penly, unmistakably, undeniably. The
Governors of thirteen States, Kentucky in
elusive, are involved in that conspiracy
One of those Slates-Texas-had a Un-
ion Governor, elected by her people, but
be was expelled by force, and Disunion.
ist installed in bis stead. Arms have been
the reliance of the rebels from the outset,
though perfdy--as in the capture of our
army in Texas-has been employed when
ever it would serve a purpose. The au-
thorlty of the United States has been ex-
PEELED by arms from South Carolina and
from most of her confederates in rebellion
it remains in others by virtue of its can
non. Had we permitted the traitors to
monopolize "coercion" = as Kentucky
would seem to require-there would not
have been to-day Federal flag flying in
any Slave State. 9a
Kentucky Unionists cry Peace, but their
Disunion neighbors make war. Those
Unionists talk of Cancellation and compro-
mise; but Kentucky Secessionists sna 'ch
up their rifles and start to join the armies
of jeff. Davis. Kentucky claims to be a
loyal and peaceful State, but her lower
ports on the Ohio arc recruiting stations
for the traitor armies, and provisions are
drawn thither from the patriotic States to
be dispatched thence 10 feed the rebel for
ces. If all this is regarded with compla-
cency in kentucky, it is not SO here. 1t
is not the treatment to which the Union
is entitled at the hands of n loyal State
Forclble is the remonstrance recorded in
the Good Book-"I would thou vert eth
er cold or shot" Will Kentucky heed it /?