Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-22
MAGoFFINs NEUTRALITY.

Gov. Magoiin of Kentucky, who is ma
lionaut secessiouist bat who cannot do all he
desires. has issued a reasonable proclamation.
He calls it proclamation of neutrality
This man has urged Kentucky to join the
JEFF. DAVIS reaes, aud he would now be an
open traitor and have large force in the
field making war on the federal government,
public sentiment in Kentucky could have
been brought TO support his policy. AT pres
emit he is attempting to undermine the Union
sentment OF the state, by talking neutrality
and threatening to make terrible war on any
party that shall undertake to march through
Kentucky Gov. Magotlin says in his proc
lamation
''Now, therefore, / hereby n)tity and warn
all other states, separated or united, especially
the United and Confederate States, that sol
emily forbid any movement upon kentucky
soil, or occupation of any post or place therein
for any purpose whatever, until authorized by
invitation or permission Of tue legislative and
executive authorities.
He commands" the federal government,
places himself outside the Union, and talks TO
the country as if kentucky were an independ.
ent empire. He notifies and warns" the fed.
eral government not to claim right Of way
through that state and "solemnly forbids" any
such movement upon Kentucky soil. He dis
tincty threatens to make war on the federal
government, if it shall attempt to do in Ken
lucky what it has perfect right TO do there,
and what it may be compelled TO do, in order
to maintain its authority and reach its enemies
And the miserable traitor calls this neutrality
There is treason in the very thought of such
neutrality" which practically withdraws Ken
lucky from the Union and audaciously assumes
that the confederate rebels have as much right
Oh the soil OF that state as the federal govern
ment itself, which threatens TO attack federal
troops that may find it necessary TO go there
and disregards without scrupe all the obliga
tons of The federal constitution. The only
proper reply to his proclamation is arrest aut
trial for treason.
Ii is not a fortunate circumstance that Ken
lucky and Missouri, both essentially Union
states, should at this time have governor:
who are among the meancst and most unscru
pulOus secessioDists in the country. Soutl
Carolina has no traitors SO mean, ant
Louisiana none more capable of the vii
est secession rascalities. jackson, the gov.
ernor of Missouri has contrived to get bill
through the legislature, which. il carried out
would establish the most atrocious military
despotism ever heard of, and lie has stolen
the scheol fund to get means to Dragon the
Union R,en Of the state into submission to Sc
cessionism. A stale convention, fresh froiI
the people, has just voted down disunionisu
by an overwhelming majority; but wha
cares he? But Tor Gen. Harvey ant
the United States troops, he would prob
ably dsarm the Union men and organize
reign OF terror that would make the seces
sion minority supreme. He too has professed
and talked neutrality" but, we tliak, he
WIN ma s rs constrained TO behave with
more decency. Gov. Maga af - 51auefng adj,
to do all he desires in Kentucky, does wha
he can, and proposes such policy as will give
spirators, and do most to harm the fedora
Union Such men are traitors, and they
should have the doom Of traitors.
There has been too much forbearance; Toe
much foolish tenderness towards traitors. The
villains who haunt Washington as spies some
times get arrested, but they are all discharged
from arrest" for one reason or another, SO that
they are never punished This policy may
hova hoe Hat tla
apparent to us, but plain enough to those who
understand The matter but it is time there
was an end to such forbearance. Let treason
be dealt with as it deserves We send armies
to crush it out, and have a right TO demand
that traitors everywhere, whether acting as
spies or as defiant "neutrals," shall have prop
er treatment.