American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-05-30
against her. We have many men in our
midst who feel differently, but they are
not Kentuckians

midst who feel differently, but they are
not Kentuckians.
The grand effort of servile press in
our midst is now being directed 10 the
work of making il appear that the south
ern people are inferior in all respects to
The northern. This is a new doctrine in
Kentucky. The men who advance it are
generally of northern birth. As Ken
tuckian | spErn the Yankee dogma.
These hireIing papers and imported min
ions are constantly representing the
southern people as deluded. ignorant.
and the deceived dupes of demagogues
and polhouse politicians, The allegation
is false. The intelligence Of lie southern
people has been amply vindicated in eve
~ period OF our country's history. There
is no question that they are infinitely
farther removed from the Influence of
| demagogues than the people of the North
are. They have never been subject to
those popular uphea wings and fanaIfcisms
that have constantly shaken the North.
If there is any spot on this broad earth
where demagogueism is indigenous. it is
certainly to be found in the Northern
States. Fourerism, Fanny-W rightism.
\ bolitionism in all its hues Of yellow,
red and black. Spirituali~m. Free Love
ism. Mormonism. Know Nothingism, and
every crazy extravaganza that ever
sprung from the hotbed Of fanaticism,
meanness and folly. have in these North
ern States grown and flouriShed Ike giant
mushrooms upon dunghiIl, and fu~ni>h-
ed rich repast for demagogues and clap
trap preachers for 10 these manv years.
| shrink with horror as l would from the
touch of Shiny serpent. when | contem-
plate the probability Of all this progeny
of hateful things being transplanted from
New England into Kentucky.
Mr. Sumner, Of Massachusetts,, has lust
presented to the Senate petition seven
hundred feet long, signed by fifteen thou
sand women, for the abolition of slavery.
! Congress has Just passed an act abolish
ing slavery in the district of Columbia, by
an overwhelming majority. Lincoln has
signed the bill, and it is now law
Sumner, with Congress at his heels. de-
cIares this to be the first instalment Of
series Of kindred measures about 10 be
adopted. We are told in the face of such
/ glaring facts as these. that the abolition
party at the North is weak and cannot
hurt US. Fremont already holds domin-
ion over I of Kentucky. The border slave
states ale all now under the heel Of
that party. and nothing but hard fighting
will save the other slave States from the
same fate Southern men who will not
open their eyes to facts will not listen to
argument In theory, this is a war of
the Government; but. in fact. il is war
Of northern men against southern men.
If the North conqners. the men of the
North will rule the men of the South with
a rod of iron from generation to genera
ton. Kentucky will share the fate of the
South in this respect. She is fated to
bow down to a northern master if the
North succeeds in this war. Already
Ohio and Massachusetts men are strut
ting about in our midst. proudly debating
to Kentuckians what they shall do and
what thay shall not dc. They impudent-
~ tell Kentuckians what roads they shall
travel, what they are permitted to carry
10 market, what they shall say and what
they shall not say, how far they will per
NIT one neighbor TO visit another and
how Kentuckians shall behave them
selves" Alas for poor Kentucky. Our
children and children's children will look
back with wonder and establishment at
this period of her history. She sits qui
city down while the. grandest struggle for
the right Of self-government that was ever
Witnessed upon the face of the earth is
going on. and. spell~bound by the clap
trap cry of Union" raised by the cum
ming mortimer suffers himself to be bound
hand and foot. while she is despoied of
her freedom.
Surely this western Sampson has been
mesmerized by some Yankee DeGIah.
who has shorn him of his locks Does
any one imagine that the last generation
of Kentuckians would have permitted the
nobest sons of Kentucky to be torn from
her bosom, and incarcerated' in a Boston
dungeon, there to stay at the will and
pleasure OF an abolition despot Does
not every one know that such an out
race practiced upon Kentuckians in the