Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-25


Answer 70 ga Word Jrom HentuckO
To he Editors Of he Daily Prest ,- III 4. --r
Your paper of Tuesday last contains q
communication signed j.. r. Buchanan,
Louisville, KY, which should not be per-
mitted TO 90 forth as an unbiased state nent
Of a conservative man protesting TO love
his whole country" -. .-a s.t
The whole tenor of his argument drifts
toward Secession, and a covert justification
of those Low in rebellion against the author
tiles Of the General Government. he sets
out by saying; War Against our fellow
citizens is q crime which nothing but neces-
sity can excuse" and winds up BY declsriog
this attempt 10 enforce obedience to the
Federal laws a, needless and atrociouS
war; This ought to be sufficient 70 cons
vince every reader of his article of his
insipcerity, and that he is nothing but Q
stumbling block. in the way Of all good
Union n en- in his Stale. But We will tOilow
him further. He claims for the leading
trsitors in this rebellion that they are the
" best menn of their section Of the eountyE,
and therefore must reflect the sentimentsH
The people. Here, at the North, we are slow
to believe this. ~ ~
'Neither President LiDcoin nor President
Davis" says this writer, "have intimated that
their operations are to be confined TO the
6efsDse Of their own territory" Now, cer-
tsiply, this Mr.. Bucharan can not have rekf
eitler PRECEDENT Lincolns Proclamation or
DavIs's Il win not call him President Ysham
ibaueuIal address, in which the latter ex-
pIessly said the theater of their military
operations would be in the free States which
would tie war of invasion, for which the
writer appears TO entertain such horror:
But when prosecuted on the part of she
South, is not so horrible" Certainly, the
writer did not deem the employ ment OF Fed
e1al troops in the streets of Boston in return-
ing the fugitive slave Burns TO bis owner, an
invssion OF the State Of Massachusetts 2 OF
couIse not. Then why isit an act of invasion
to invoke that same strong arm to enforce
the laws iu the Southern States7
'Thahk God" exclaims Mr., B., "Kentuck-
ians are still tue to all their country mem
rebuking alike the Norih and the South"
Yes, she -Febnkes" the South BY openly
raising and equippiDg troops for the Southern
CoDfederacy, and shows her fsaty to the
flag of the country by refusing, when called
upon by the lawfully constituted authorities,
to contribute dollar or a single man to up
hold that flag, when traitors are tramping
"Kenrucky," says the writer Sustained
the present Administration by repelling any
attack upon the North" When or how this
was done, we are not told He sees nothing
| In this attempt 70 enforce the laws in the
rtbellious States, bat war OF extermina-
| ton" On the part of the General Go ofnment
against the South, which she and tho whole
| civilized world will regard as the "boodiest
picture in the book Of timen Who bat the
| South commenced the war2 .aI
He says it was the. settled purpose of the
"Liucon Administration to conquer that
| Confederscy" 1t shoald be the purpose OF
every Administration, as il is certainly the
wish of the people, that all the laws be, en-
forced at whatever cost aud that mo- gov
eminent be established on soil purchased by
| the common treasure, an ntagOnistical to the