The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-02-05

Indians, and turned them loose to murder
and destroy aged men and helpless wo.
men and children? And what patriot
heart does not burn with indignation at
the bare thought of that far more savage
barbarism, that would ally to itself the
slaves in servile war upon their masters?
Such a policy would, moreover, be the
greatest possible cruelty to the slaves
themselves; for it would certainly result
in the destruction aud slaughter of q
large portion of them. After all that
has been said on slavery by professed phi
lanthropists, still, in the present state of
society, it remains true that the Aboli-
Zionist is the worst enemy of the slaves,
and the humane master his truest and
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The ultra Abolitionists, whether they
know it or not, have been and now are
giving the most successful aid to the dis
unionists of the South, and making the
% ost successful war upon the Union. The
great aud prevailing argument of the
leading disunionist, in the South and in
the border States has been, and still is,
that the North, in violation of the Consti-
tuition, intended, and was about to turn
the struggle into war for emancipation.
and thus "plunge the whole population,
white and black" into a remorseless and
bloody struggle" By this argument alone
he has succeeded in seducing and drawing
iuto the rebellion thousands of misguided
men. Without it he would have been
powerless, and this argument has been
furnished and put into his mouth by the
y orthern Aboli.ionists. This has been
the great question of debate, that the 10y
al men have met and hattled against
thousand times all over Kentucky daslia
But after the passage of the Critten
den Resolutions in July last--after the
President and his Cabinet had taken
strong conservative ground--after every
Department of the Government stood out,
openly committed and pledged to the
whole country, to prosecute the war for
the single purpose of sustaining the
Union and preserving the Government
with the rights ofevery State unimpaired,
then it was that the Union men in Ken.
tueky felt themselves furnished with an
uuanswerabe argument and from q re.
spcnsible source Thus armed and
strengthened, the Union men renewed the
conflict What was the result2 Ken
tucky is soon ''unchaugeably ranged on
the side of the Union"-she votes men
and money to carry on the wsr, and
though before then she had refused to
furnish q siugle regiment now more
than IS. 600 of her brave aud loyal sons
rally at once under the stars and stripes.
In view of all this, is it not monstrous
that on the very first day of cur session
men should rise here, and by their ILL.,
timed and radical measures revive the old
argument of "a war of emancipation y
thus putting it afresh 10 the mouths OF
secession leaders. crippling and disarming
the Union men, and scattering 6rebrands
through the Union camps2 3. 81
Sir, when Kentuckians, for the love
they bear to the Union, are called to ar
ray themselves against their misguided
kindred, brothers aud fathers, when they
are passing through this fiery ordeal,
when they are contending for every inch
of ground, with a martyr 6rmness and
patriotic devotion not surpassed at Bun
ker Hill or Yorktown, would it not tal
past endurance, even the patience of Job
1 for those men in the North, who are sub
i ieeted TO none of these trials, to be con
sinually furnishing the arguments and th'
means TO annoy them and destroy thei
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