Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-04-10
A Cloud now no bigger than Mans hand.

i That the western States, of what remains ot
 the old union, will eventually secede, is only a question ftime. They have the alternative Of
 supporting the east or becoming independent. The conflicting interests of the two sections have
 already produced jars and discord, which are
 partially drowned in the thunder of war; Mean while over the border States, cloud has arisen, no bigger than a mans hand now, but which it
 requires no prophet to toresee, will end in ter
 rible storm. Between the renegades in Missouri, Kentucky, East Tennessee, Western Virginia Maryland, and the abolitionists of the North, a bitter feeling is growing, and a hostility that
 will yet end in blows. The tories in the border States begin to seq their folly and raise their voices against the impending ruin. Their fate
 is dreadful and inevitable. If the North sue ceeds they are handed over, bound hand and
 foot, to the demon of abolitionism. If the South succeeds the fate of the tories in the first revo
 luton Is in store for them. As a sample of the
 feeling, we give an extract from an editorial in
 the Louisville Journal of the l0th nit. The
 northern papers charged that.a fraud was com
 mitted by changing the terms of a railroad bill
 before Lincoln's Congress- so as to enure to the advantage of the border States. The journal calls this |" a bubble of calumny" and say
 "The blowing of the bubble, however, is sig nlcant it is in keeping with the general conduct of the abolitonists toward the border States and especially toward Kentucky; it shows the deep seated and eager malignity with which the aboi- ti0nsts lie in wait to blacken or destroy the men and authorities that stand firm barrier against treason in the North as well as against treason in the south; in short it discloses clearly than ever the strong desire and fixed determination of the abolitionists to let slip opportunity, fair foul, which they imagine they can wied with effect against Kentucky and her sister States of the Dor der, as means of breaking down and sweeping away the chief obstacle to the realization of the wild and guilty dream of universal abolition. In this point of view, we commend the incident to the candid and loyal people ofthe north.
 The abolltonists hate the border States as good people hate the Devil. This is manifest enough. As an amusing illustration of the fact, very dis tinguished member of the Kentucky legislature who visited Washington several weeks ago, tells Us that the abolitionist CheeYer in his abolition discourse at the capital, reserved his "particular thunder'' for the communities, which, with strong remns- cence of his native Down East, he styled the .s sBarder States" and which he served up for the declaration of his mainly abolition audience with reckless pungency not surpassed even by that which in the days of "Deacon Giles distillery'' won for this reverend lbeller cell ill the jail of Salem. Mr Cheever, herein at least, is a fair rep resentatiye of his class. They all hate the Bar C r States with a rancor unchecked by honesty gr truth
 1ven the Kentucky tories are beginning to open tar eyes, but too late. The hate which the Journa depicts will yet be felt, and as ia naticism ne's recedes,t he renegades of Ken lucky will yet is the iangs of the abolition dogs ip their throats'sd as their blood gushes out