The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-07-04
How to Cure Great Evil,

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Mr.. Crittenden, in his recent patriotic
speech, alluded to the peculiar difficult
lies of Kentucky as h" border State -
forming a part of the border line
between freedom and slavery. There is
no doubt hardship in this situation,
and it is already breeding trouble among
the Rebels the cotton planters regard
The " border slave States as valuable
chiefly because they form convenient
fighting ground, while their people make
good soldiers and are safe barrier
between " the North and the cotton
states. This is the servie and mean use
to which Davis and his cotton-planting
fellow conspiraors dcvo ed the g border
States " from the beginning of the
rebellion Accomplish disunion, and
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Missouri would be thereafter, in war,
the bloody battlefield of contcuding
social systems ; and in peace, territory
where it would be impossible for resi-
dents to keep slaves, but where the CO.
on-planter would be free to hunt his
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This is not tempting prospect. 1t
is far less pleasant than The condition of
these States in the Union. But why
should there be any unpleasantncss -
Why should we have 8 border States -
in the center of the Union Why is it
thai the terms " North " and " South :"
have long had significance so singular,
a political meaning which East and West
never had Is there no cure for this
Arc we destined to perpetuate the
absurdity of having 6 border - in the
middle of our country, as we'll as on the
frontier
All this ridiculous and miscIlievous
cant of sectionaisn is the fruit of the
slave system. DO away with slavery in
Kentucky, and what will remain to mark
that State and seperate it from Ohio as
border State - Nothing. No one
ever thinks of calling Ohio or Illinois,
or Indiana, or Pennsylvania a " border
: ate they are free the moment
Kentucky and Virginia are free they also
will cease to be border 5 ates-and Sec
tionalism will leave them out of its list.
Already, in these two years of war,
the area included in the term d" South "
has been greatly diminished. When
men row speak of /" the South they
no long include Mary land, Or Kentucky
or Missouri. They scarcely mean to
count in Tennessee or Virginia. The
South has lost, in the sight of the
world, in thee two years, territory as
great as all France. 1t is slowly rece-
ding; it must continue to fall bacl;
until it falls into the Gulf of Mexico
for that which called I" the South -
those trcachcrous arts ocrats who first
rallied under this sectional ii lc-will,
when we re-establish peace, have left
forever the land they vexed with their
crimes.
And so, too, Of the term border
Safes" We hope before long to see
this among the obsolete political phrases,
for the meaning of which the rising gem
Grafton will have to refer to old political
textbooks and addresses. 1t is hard
lot, say Kentuckians, to- be border
State. Very true: we hope they will
not long be in that condition; the
moment Kentucky Is rid of slavery,
that moment she will cease to be "bor-
der State that moment all the hard
ships of that condition will leave her
At the word liberty, the devil wEo has
SO long vexed her will fly +; and we shall
no longer find difference be ween cous-
ins or brothers, speaking the same Ian
guage, eating bread grown in the same
fields, holding to the same faith, divided
in residence only by stream which it
takes only two minutes to cross, and
which in dry season full grown man
can wade ~ Y T. Post