M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-05-01

lear, let hlm assemble all VINO are OF
the same opinion with himself and try
! !; we will put Switches into the
hands OF enough loyal men to switch
them into Canada. The interpreta
ton is, say, that the party now in
power, at least, have come to the con.
clusion that the border States are MOI
loyal. know that is the opinion Of
some Of them. Bot am sorry, indeed
that the sldent or his Cabinet con.
cur in that opinion, t indeed they do.
1t is not correct; ay, believe ne,
sir, it is not correct. Sir, if all this
radical proposed legislation springs
out Of that conviction, dismiss it at
once. Itell You that ycu can preserve
tie Constitution, and that there will
be no Union without it. Preserve it
ard Kentucky will occupy her place
an obedent sister in the Union, cir.
cling round the Federal conter, singing
the celestial song OF inseparab!e liberty
and Union until the harmony of the
spheres itsel shall cease. The love OF
Kenlucky for the Union was born with
her and cannct be eradicated. Not
even such men as the gentleman from
Pennsylvania to whom ! have alluded,
(Mr. HIcKMAN,) can drive her ont OF
TINS Union OF make her cease 10 love
it. Her soldiers have fought side by
side with yours everywhere for the
preservation of liberty. The inhabit-
ants of northern Ohio who are daily
sending petitions beseeching Congress
to arm our negroes and encourage
them to rise in servile revolt upon
their white brethren in the South, il
they will look upon their own soil,
may see the whitened bones Of Ken.
tucby soldiers who sacrificed their
lives for the protection OF Ohio homes.
Mr.. RIDDLE. | wish merely to say
that Ohio has sent forty thousand ar
med soldiers to defend Kentucky, and
they arc there now. b.
Mr.. WADswoRTH. Mr. Chairman, !
thank noble Ohio for her Rssistancel
But, sir, they came not there for the
purpose of tramhling under foot the
Constitution. served with five
Thousand Of them in Kentucky. /
mingled as a private with the soldiers
in the ranks. ] mingled also freely
with the officers, l know the soldiers
Of Ohio, and they do not entertain the
sentiments OF the gentleman who in
terrupted me. They are not for wag-
ing a war for the determination of
slavery. They do not believe there is
an irrepressible conflict that this
Union cannot be secure while slavery
exists in any part of it. They believe
that their fathers and our fathers were
wise and good men, aud that the sys-
tenn Of Government which our fathers
established is good enou b for them.
They believe that if in olden times,
when the sons Of Kentucky fought in
defence Of Ohio homes, that the peo.
pc of that day could live together in
peace and fraternity, Cltb negro STA,
Gerry IN the Union, their children can
do the same, if they are not degener,
ate sons OF worthy sires.
/ was trying when thus interrupted
to convince gentlemen, if they had
any belief or faith in me or in my tes-
timony, that they ought to dispbuse
tLeir minds of the belief, if such an
impression rests upou them, that Fed
eral bayonets are required to keep
Kentucky. in the Union, that it re.
quires a Federal policy, looking, by
Federal patronage and influence, 10
the gradual emancipation Of slavery in
that State. They ought to dismiss
such impressions from their minds at
once, because to retain them wonld
not only be a gross injustice to us, but
result most disastrously. We are
powerless here upon, this tax bill, or
upon anything else. We depend alone
upon the regard which gentlemen
have for the Constitution, to preserve
at once Federal supremacy and the re,
served rights Of the States, each in
their spheres. Ifthey are Of the opin-
ion that slavery ia Kentucky is incom.
patible with the preservation of the
Union, Gas many Of them are, Iknow,
from their declarations made upon
this Aoor,) and that "fear" only Keeps
Kentucky loyal, tilen they Will never
cease to aeitate for Federal interfer
ence. The President is an honest and
a p triotic man, He has been teaset
and pressed by the radical anti slavery
men, to whom he looks for much o
his support until he has been compelled
to offer what he supppses q compro
mise between extreme aboftiouists 0
the North and Unionists Of the South
! Let us admit that logically We ma,
infer from the message that genera
oonfisoatiouo of property general eman
! cipation or abolition. degradation G