M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-05-09
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nov I Kenlacky EaIlor speaks

ing Democratic paper IN hentucky
DheG Louisville Democrat) speaks tor
itself. We publish it to show the
views Of that journal, representing, as
we thipk it does, the sentiments OF q
large body of men in the State OF
kentucky, who are now, as heretofore
opposed to the heresy Of secession.
The Democrat is right. Secession
will find no support in the free States.
No matter what opinion the Demo
Gratis aud conservative men OF the
North may have OF the arti.slavery
dogmas Of the Republican party, they
will stand by the government, aud to
the fullest extent aid in maintaining
the Union and executing the laws
Sta.esmdn.
The South in the Union has had
the support Of nearly half the North.
When the Fugitive Slave Law be-
came inefficient, another was made,
just such as the South asked. When
the South demonstrated against the
Wilmot Proyiso, patriotic men OF the
North came up and deieatedit. When
the South asked that the restriction
upon slavery, passed in 1920, should
10 taken of, it was done, and by the
aid ofNortherh men supported by q
Northern constituency. These men,
representing nearly halt the North,
opposed, with uncompromiSing reso'
luton, the anti.slavery party at the
last Presidential election.
1t must be recollected that these
same conservative men Of the North
are as uncomprOmising against the
measures Of the extreme South. They
have no federation for Secession. They
Justly consider it desertion of them,
after all the fidelity they have shown,
in opposing the sectiOnalisrn OF their
own part Of the Union. They are un-
cOmpromisingly opposed to Secession,
as unnecessary aud criminal. They
always have been ready to stand by
the rights OF the South in the Union,
and they are ready to do SO now
They are not ready to see the Union
broken up. They are hostile to any
movement looking to that. They
have opposed coertion, as a means OF
preserving the Union; but they are
quite as resolutely opposed to being
coerced by the Gotten States. To
this class of men Kentucky owes
debt Of gratitude, for their constant &.
deity through & long series Of years.
They will now stand by the rights of
the Southern States in the Uuior;
they will oppose the South in war
upon the Union. We had as well,
then, dismiss the idee that secession
will find any support IN the Free
States. In this our friends in the
North are inconsistent. Whilst they
have said, and proved their assertions
by their acts, that they would stand
by the rights of the South, they also
cay this Union must be preserved, and
and that forcible attack upon it will
be resented.
The Confederate States may say
that they only exercised the right Of
peacible secession. That is d right
they assume as o settled point, and
act upon it, when it is a right not ad'
nitted; and even if it were, no ceFe
was taken to exercise it ina peacible
way. Extreme violence was every.
where used. No matter, if the right
OF secession were granted, it is sub
ject to rights long vested and under
stood.
1t will not do totellus that all prop.
city in State that has seeded is
subject to its absolute dominion; that
a State is under no obligations to re-
tpect the rights that have grown up
ont Of former connections long estab-
lished; that State has right to seize
forts, arsenals, arms and munitions,
the property as much Of other States
as their own, ard admit no rule but
It's own high discretion. This is not
a psaceble right, it is revolutionary
one, il it exists at all.
. However much partizan feeling and
passion msy exult over such facts, the
world will condemn them as justified
by theory of peaceable secession.
The Confederate States do not JUS
ify their conduct by the right Of
peaceable secession. If that were the
basis, then they need allege no wrongs
or grievonces at NIL. A State goes
because size chooses to 60, and those
outside have no right to ask the rea-
SOD; instead Of that, they place their
defense On the wrongs they have suff.
cred and that they appreEend. They
give the reasons of revolutionists, not
Of men seeking lawful and peacea-
bic mode of redress.
As conservative men North will
look at the wtole subject without any
sectional interest to Justify the wrongs
of Secession movement, they can
only oppose it and all that engage in
IL. When Kentucky joins in the war