Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-15
From the New York World, Peb. l9. ]
Driving Out the West.


That the Tribune and its followers for year,
pursued the policy of insulting the Southern
States ss O means TO the disruption OF th.
Union we presume no candid student of our re-
cent history will deny. The prominence which
they acoeded to the most obscure Abolitiopis
meetings In the free States, the lofty Language
of laudation with which they chronioled The
efforts of the Garrisons and the PhiIipses, the
Stephen Fosters and the Fred Douglasses, 10
enlist the passions of the Northern people
against the institutions of the South, are mere
matters of record.
/ 1t hardly needed dhe course OF the Tribune
since the war began to make thoughtful and
honest men perceive that zeal and permanent
political divorce between the free States and
the slave, at no matter what cost to the vel.
fare and the glory of the American race, was
the dearest and deepest object of that journal,
The enven0med pertinacity of the TTibune's
efforts &c drive the fret army of the Union on
it's destruction at Bull Run; the incessaut Ia
bors of the same journal to discredit General
Mcclellan and foil all his plans of campaign
against Richmond; the howl of delight with
which IL hailed the cruel and useless massacre
Of our troops at Fredericksburg, and its latest
performances in behalf of William Cornell
Jewett and foreign arbitratlon-these arc all
30 plainly parts of one deliberate and concerted
plan to make hopeless the rupture which they
had previously tolled to make Inevitable, that Il
is hardly worth while to dwell upon any Of
them In detail or 10 enlarge upon the spirit
and tendency OF the whole. With all their
weight of mischief done; and ell heir embry.
onic certainties of further mischief vet to
come, these things are, however, of the past
But the success which has crowned the Tyi-
bune's schemes Of a Icisaion by latitude seems
to have emboldened these enemies Of the ma
tion to attempt new session by longitude of
the country which has suffered them 60 fatten
upon their meat of malignity. They are striy.
ing now to brOwbeat and provoke the great
West into revolution and rebellion. They lose
no opportunity OF parading pretended demon.
stratlons at the West Of hostility to New En-.
gland. They invent all manner of terms of
sectional opprobrium for western men who dare
TO love the Union and to plead for the prinoi-
pies which can alone insure it's perpetuity.
The latest development Of this new form Of
sectional animosity appears In the Tribune OF
yesterday morning. Under the gentle and at
tractlve name Of Kentucky Insolence," the
Tribune publishes column Of the most yiru.
lent abuse of the heroic State of Henry Claw
and Robert Anderson ; the grost and powerful
State which holds in its right hand the KEYS of
the Ohio, and In its left hand the KEYS Of the
Mississippi.
The ostensible motive OF this outburst.
which might well seem insane did not the mast
reveal in it method of evil far removed from
madness, Is the passage by the Legislature Of
Kentucky, with but one dissenting voice, of a
report and resolution recommending that the
President be requested 10 rescind his order dia.
missing from the Federal service Colonel Nc
Henry, Of Kentucky, for refusing to allow his
regiment to harbor fugitive slaves 10 the loyal
State Of Kentucky.
These fugitives the Tribune, with the cant of
its party, describes as " Kentucky loyalists,n
and 1t thereby, of course, implies that every
slaveholder in Kentucky who risks his life and
his property 10 defense Of the Union against tho
slaveholding Confedercay is a "traitor" (" and a
rebel" OF the Legislature of the State
itself this organ OF dieunion dares thus to
speak
"Wbat wo do think it necessary to say is
that the report of the committee is filled with
the rankess secession heresies, and that the
Kentucky Legislature by adopting It puts itself
the fundamental doctrines of rebellion. The
evidence of this is brief enough to be quoted.
The committee says:
harboring q runaway slave, with the intention
of preventing the owner from oblaioing DOS
session OF such runaway, shall, on conviction,
be confined in the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than twenty years
The committee are Of opinion that Col.
McHenr7 would have rendered himself amen
able TO the penalties Of this law had he me-
vented the owner OF fugitive slave from re-
claiming him in his camp. HUss HE duty 10
respect and obey the Constitution and Latos Of L,s
own State, BY delivering up fugitive slaves TO
their owners, instead Of risking the infcdon Of
the penalties of q violated law"
We give this extract in full that our readers
may zee 10 what extravaganoes Of indecency o
journal may be driven by the passion Of o pre-.
purpose. Respect for the consiitu-
tion and laws of State" has become synony-
NOUS in the cstechism Of the Tribune and its