M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-04-17


!, Federal Government to NEEDLE with
the property, or rights of property, ol
1.-THE, citizens Of said District. They
had everywhere in that inslunent mol
OnlS protected property from seizure
but the rights OF persons; and, their
houses, were carefully secnred against
all encroachments or interfereBees
whatever, except where property was
taken and the full value paid in mon.
ey, in particular cases Of. the public
good or necessities. 90"
But the power seemed ample in the
words Of the Constitution, aud JsfiN
20. ADAMS, jShoihad been President,
seized upon the idea that in this "ten
miles square," was a grand opening
to enter the wedge for aD anti-slavery
excitement on constitutional grounds |!
This mOvefiedt, ScSdly taken up,
re echoed by every fanatic or anxious
candidate ioK sectional excitement,
startled the whole nation from its pro.
priety, and the citizens Of Alexandria
county pciitioned to be set off to Vir.
ginia, to escape the threats OF this
New England hnaiicism. Congress
PASSED a law to that effect, and NIe
Legislature Of Virginia 0cCel ted tie
County of Alexandria back again in.
10 that State, aud the agitation Ofthe
subject meRsurably ceased from that
time. This left the County Of Wash.
irgton, coded by Maryland, only, as
tho area of the District OF Columbia,
over which Congress is now attempt
ing to carry out this project Of john
Q. ADAMS, (the emancipation OF the
slaves. is therefore only about hall
its former size.
That these agitatols should revive
this question at time when the ma,
tion Is in it's last choes for e&isIance,
when, ofall other times, every subject
likely to increace, and intensity the
causes of the war, should he avoided.
1t seems to be one Of the remarkable
fatalities which mark the course of
those in whose hands the lives, the
and liberties Of this people
are most unfortunately entrusted, toI
start fresh objects Of irritation unless
The purpose is to rend asunder the last
ties that bind the different sections
and plunge the whole ma.
tiun into irretrievable destruction.
What are the few slaves in this
single county Of the District who's
condition canuot now be bettered by
setting them free upon an ilnpover.
ished people, to the lives and happi.
ness aid future hope ofso many mil,
ions of the constituents Of those in
power, and by whose suffrages they
obtained power to do this gltat tvil9
tbs an act of dangerous assumption
Of untried power, when every one is
intensely excited at the prospec: be-
fore them. Why sport at such a
time with disturbing questions ofth is
so:tl No Free State wants these
freed negroes as inhabitants; not
single township or county in the
whole North could be got to cast a
vote inviting these blacks amongst
them as neighbors. Fit is doubted,
put the question to vote, and at ohce
transfer the surplus free negroes to
that delectable spot.
1t is notorious that the free negroes
of Ohio will not live, as a general
thing, amcng the Western Reserve
Yankees, We once asked a darkey
why he did not 90 and live among his
abolition friends on the Reserve, and
why 80 few of his color were found
theJe9 His reply was prompt: "They
crly gives poor niger three cent
pieces, while other people gives a
quarter"
Yet it is these three. cent abolition
yankees, who have brought upon us
our terrible afflctiors, and inetead
of showing any repentance, any re-
pugnance at the awful destruction Of
life and property going on hourly and
daily. they seem to glory IN the hor.
rors they have inflicted upon the coun-
try, and are steadily applying the or
iginal stimulus, for fear cessasicn oil