Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-06-20
PRESCOTT, j OURNAL
How t0 Care a Great Evil.


Mr.. Crit'ent.u. in HE regent patriotic
speech, alirGed To the peculiar Difficult
ties Of Kentucky as border state
forming a past of the burden line '.e
tween freedom and slavery. There il NJ
doub' Hardship in this situation. and it
Is already breeding trouble among the
rebels: the cst"n planters regard the
"5order slave states rs valuable. chiefly
because thew form convenient fl citing
ground. while their people make good
soldiers and ars a safe barrier between
1.-THE North" and the cotton states. This
Is the sciSie an.i mean use 10 which Da-
VS. AMI his co:ton-Irlanting fellow con
-piratnrs devoted tie "hurler states"
from the beginning of the reheIliou.-
Accomplish dsuuion. and Virgins. Ky.
tennessee .nd Missouri woald lie there
after, in war. The bloody BATTLEFIELD Of
con;enj:ng sn"ial systems; and III peace,
territory where il would he impossible
for residents 10 keen slaves. hut where
the cottcn-l,anttr would be free t" hunt
his runaway cIa,tsis with blondhounds.
This is n; = tempting prospect. L, Is
ar lass pea an than the condition OF
these states IL the Union. But whv
-hnai! there bs AIRY unploa>antnc-s p
Why sh,u,l wa have :. b.rlar states in
II. csu.rs Of the Unionr Why is i,
fllat tbs terms " North" and 81 South,
ave long had significance so singular.
poliiicdl meaning which East and West
save never had Is there no cure f,r
this Are We destined To perpoiuate
the ahsuriit! of having = b"r!er" in
,h" middle Of our couatry, AZ well as Oh
lis frontier
All this ridiculous and misehieyous
cant Of sectiunailsm is the fruit of the
slave tystcm. Do away with slavery
in Kentucky. and what will remain to
mark that state and separate il frjn
Ohio q. sbor,ler state! Nothing
No one over thinks Of calling Ohio, or
Illinois, or Indiana, or Pennsylvania
''bIr.ier staie'--tbev are free; the mo
ment Kentucky and Virginia are free
they also will cease to be border siates
and sect, nalism will leave them out
of lis list.
Al,esdy. in these two years of war,
the area aclu!ed in the term South
has been greatly diminished. " hen
men now speak of '.lhe South they no
longer include Mar, land, or X n,ucky,
or Missouri They scarcely mean 10
count in Tennessee or Virginia. .The
South" has losi, in the sight of the
wOtid, in these two wears. territory rs
great rs al France, IL is slowly reced-
ing; it mnst ,ntiuua TO fill back until il
fails intn the Gulf Of M,x;cO-fur that
which called .'the S.,uth'-thnse treach-
erous arist.crals who first rallied under
this sectional titIe-wiIl when we cstb-
,a5iIsh peace. have lett forever tho land
thew yercd with their crimes.
Aud sO, too, of the term ''border
states" We hope before long To see Tins
among the obsolete political phrases, for
the meaning of which the rising genera
ton Will have TO refer to old roliIica
text. books and addresses. II is hard
lot, say Keniuckians, to be border
stste. Very true: we hope they will not
long be in llIAt condition; the moment
Kentucky is ril Of slavery, that ,nolnen;
chs will cease 10 be ''border state
that rnnment all the bardships IF that
condition will Lave her At the word
liberty, the devel WHO has too long exed
her will a, ; and we shall no long, r fad
adherence between COUSINS and brothers
spenkug the same language, eating
bread grown in the same fields, hoIi ng
To the same is,ih, divided IN residence
oriy bv stream which il Ia rs two min
ntes to cruss, and which in dry season
full grown man cnn wade.