Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-22


 nearest my heart. l have never been able to as | sume that new -fangled patriotism which spreads itsefa over the world besides and leaves out home. l believe n sustaining, first Of all, the immediate governmental organization nnler which l live, and afterwards my remoter connexions; it is unnatural for me to love Massachusetts, as 1 do Kentucky, and will not be guilty of the lying hypocrisy that would make such pretension. | despise that demagoguery of patriotism Sc fashionable of late, which being rampant for notogiety, overleaps itself while it attempts to cover its sinister purpose un- der blaze of glory.
 yield to no man in love of country. Nv love of constitutional liberty has been lifelong pas tson The inalienable rights of a freeman consti- ute my political go'pel. Ny beau ideal of all gov eIAments has been our old union, with equal social anu noitical rights to all; but any new union with 1 out such social and political equality would be to me the nast detestable of all governm ental organ lzauohs A union between conquered and con- | quenng states would not be such a union as our fathers made. feel no desire to see the proud l spirit, loity aspNton for freedom, noble, gencr- erous and warm hearted love for constitutional liberty which has always characterized the southern Peopie, crushed out Dy brute force, to witness | these brave and inteliigenSfreemen subdued hope. less crushed and bleeding finder the northern heel. | Virginia is the mother of KoeSuckv. and no true kentuckian can rejoice at her humiliation. She has been the bulwark of American freedom ever since our government was born. Her sons have been the proudest specimens of dignfed freemen that ever trod the earth.
 The blood of Virginia courses through the veins ot our most valued and influential citizens and the character of our own beloved State has receiv l cd its type mainly from our honored mother The | blood of her sons has watered every battle field | that has witnessed the struggles of freedom on tnis continent. Such people have too strong | hold upon the affections Of all the advocates of human liberty the world over, to be trodden.under foot and crrahed W.thort ase>-po< 4.ve sign, Wner ever their history is known In view of what Vir- gna has done for my native Kentucky, for the northw est for the general government in her mag nhcent donation of territory, and for the course of | universal freedom, would as soon strike my own mother as to draw the sword against her. We have many men in midst who feel differently but they arc not kentuckans
 The grand effort of . servile press in our midst. is now being directed to the work of making it ap- pear that the southern people are in all respects in feror to the northern. This is a new doctrine in Kentucky. The men who advance it are generally of fnorther birth, q Kentuckian spurn.the Yan- kee dogma. These hire'inc papers and imported mlnlons are constantly representing the southern people as being deuded ignorant, and the deceived dupes of demago&ues and pot-house po]iticians- The allegation is false. The intelligence of the southern people has been amply vindcated in every period of our c0untrvs history. There s no 0ues. ton that they are infinitely farther removed from the influence of demagogues that the people of the North are. They have never been sub ect to those popular upheavings and faaatic3ms that have con- stantly shaken the North.
 Ifthere be any spot on thi7 broad earth where 'demagogucsm is indigenous it is certainly to be found in the northern States Fourierism, Fanny grightism, abolitioniSn in all its hues of yellow ed and black, spiritualism, freeloveism, Mormon m. know nottingham, and every crazy extravgan- 4 that ever sprung from the hotbed of fanatcism, Ieanness and folly, have n these northern States | own and lOurishel like eiaut mushrooms upon a dlghiil and furnished rich repast for demago- gus and clap trap preachers for To! these many yes. l shrink with horror, as 1 would from the toull of q slimv serpent when l contemplate the proabilitv of all this progeny of hateful things beii, transpyanted from New England into Ken tuck
 M,Sumner, of Massachusetts. has just present ed tOthe Senate petition seven hundred feet long singeGby fifteen thousand women, for the abolition Ofsaary. Congress has just passed an act abolish ing slsery in the District of Columbia by au over whelmlg majority Lincoln has signed thebIl, and it nOw a law. Sumner, with cong ess at his heels, deares this is to he the first instament off series kindred measnres about to be adoptea- Wcarc ,ld in the face of such aring facts these that the pOlit0n party iu the Northis weak and can not hurts Fremont already holds over one third of Kentuky. The border slave States and all now are underhe heel of that rarty, and nothing but hard fghtig will save the other slave States tiom thesame ite. Southern me1 &ho will not open their eyes t!cts will not lsrtf} to argument. In fheory thss war of the government, but iH fact it is a vt of northern men against southern men.
 If the Nosh conquers the men fthe North will rule the metDf the South with rod of iron from generation t3 generation. Kentucky will share the fate of he SOuth in tb;s respect. She is fated to b05down to northern masters fl the North suececs in this war; Already Ohio and Massachusetts nen struttng about in our midst. proudly dctatgto K.tuclsns what they shall ! not do. They upudentlv tell kentuchians what lroads they sha'trave, what they are permitted to 'carry to market,(what they shall say and what hey shall not ss, how far they will permit one 1ighbor to visit ;pther, and how Kentuckians shall 'tehave themselvs." Aias alas. for poor Ken tpky. Our chilten's children will look back win wonder and atonishment at this period of her hisory. She sits iietly down while the grandest stncge for the rilt of self government that was eve witnessed uponthe face of the earth is going on md spell bound the c'aptrapcry of "Union" raise by the cunniul lnorthmen, suffers herself to 5e bond hand and ibt, while she is despoiled Of her tnedoal.
 Sure this westernsampsoa has been mesmeri- Zed bytome Yankee 6liah, who has sh0ln nim of HIS ioCh. DoeS any oN lma9lne that the last gen eratl0n | Ken'uckiansF Fou!d have permitted the nobIest sus of Keutucklto be torn from her bosom and incaterlted in a Aston dungeon. and there to stay the will and rkasure of an abolition des. pot? Doc not every ol know that such an out rage, praeted upon Ke!hlcnians in the last gen. eration, wed have fred.yery drop of blood in the State and tat the cari0Ipotes Of war! war;. war to the knife would haNrlnc from every valley and hilltop fom the mountas to the Mississippi But alas aia this is no ltoer the Kentucky of former days "A blighting kralys:s has come upon this generatioA and the ole gallant Kentucky meellly puts he neck undcrthe yoke! How my heart bieeds ovr my poor n.bye State,
 will furnishoy voters wib au edition monthly. until the eectin giving hetroceedings of Abra- ham Lincoln andiis abolitioAc3ncress. You can rest assured that t+shal be onthe track asa cand date, reports to Il contrary r,twithstanding.
 suppose, howeT, that live said enough to dehne my poslton,nd beg 10 pncule by repeat l ing, that want nopoiti0n vots, or votes of any one that syn patnHewith that letestabe party.
 Resqectiuit etc. W. W. OWEN.
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