Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-05

is not likely to de any injury te tl1e
 States of such a character as to requil
 the point of the bayonet-and as the
 mercial and peouniary interests of the SeA
 toned, have an intimate and indissoluble
 tion with the slave States along the wall
 Mississippi, there is not the least danger conn ion with them, purely on tue account of slavery on the contrary, in the evons of the estahlshmen1 cia southern confederaey,it is my deliberate coh'ic ton, that these free States, impeled by sense o their commercial and pecuniary interests, wout'" say the least, occupy neutral positioh' anu S'' the part of a mediator between the more northein and southern States. They well know that shaulu they assume q hostile attitude towards the Souh' the Mississippi river with all it's tributaries below the confluence of the Ohio, wonld be at oncfanu efIectuay closed upon them, and commerc'asruln and pecuniary bankruptcy be precipitated <oon them. The more rational conclusion would oflne formation of a middle confederacy; Qndeed now talked of;) the States composing whch~uld find it to their interests to act as safeguard nst the nrods of the ultra abolition States, ece to our peculiar institution, and causf en- gage with the southern confederacy fie further exodus of our slaves, either pr under the guidance of abolition thie
 But for sake of argument. admit tha pms will not guide the judgment of the5 es' will it follow that they are ready ant |go to war with the South simply beca 'th refuses lodger to bear the insults M oi the abolition States? I think not. Their eitens will be very apt to sit down and count up tneost before they engage in war that their judsrnt must tell them will only prove curse to theHsees in every sense of the word. Wars are not om- mcnced and prosecuted, year after year, wa handful of men, and a few hundreds of doars. A war with the South would drain these Stats of all their military forces, and so totally impoyISh their treasures; that the mass of the people ssiu;nsusssS<l lsaue gispis,.Gad. strnSth of. Meia
 and speedily put stop to it; and this the more speedily, because the battles would have to be fought on southern soil; and when fighting for our homes, our wives and daughters, and our and their l honor, one southern man would welcome ten of his enemies to bloody grave in the soil he had inyad- cd and helped to dishonor and desecrate. Should the South secede one man, where are the re- sources of the North to carry on a war? and what would be it's cost, not only in money, but inmen? l When men in Arkansas put up the objection of a war to coerce the South, they should look first at the matter in plain, sense, practica caliew, and ask themselves what the free State to gain by going to with the South 2, notding! but eorWhiag to loose To s that this objection is scarcely worth Id time of writing it's rcfutation; so far as 6le free States are concerned, ttey wiA neyq ,cat ouh Me Soata.
 But will the more northern States go to war with the South? Possibly, for they arc lost to all reson on the subject of slavery. But how will they on- duet it? Where their physical and moneary resources to prosecute war with even South Cqo. lima? to say nothing of the entire South. Suppose nine or more of the States withdraw, would he federal Union still exist? And could it conmnd the entire army and navy of the now United Staes What right would it have to do so? And low are they to reach southern soil? By crossing he middle States territory? VI have alredy shown that the intesests of these States would re clude such an ides. Then by sea! Well. perhps they might effect landing, but few of their le- ceived victims would ever again set foot on teir native soil, l s4id possibly they may go to rar with the South, Au. it is by 10 means 1roba5!e Il statements ill the papers are true, there is mre probability that their military and monetary tortes will berequired at home to prevent rising of their own starved and bcggared population. Thou@nls upon thousands oi their operatives have aleadg lost the means of subsistence, owing to the course of the North on the slavery question: and thouand more will soon share like fate; and when tht starved masses rush in fury their destroyer ana betrayers, sAey riH do, all their resources wll bt needed at home. Let the New England States re member the fury Of the starved horIcs of Fnnce and beware and be wise in time.
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