Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-12-14
THE BORDER STATES QUESTION IN NUT



The Louisville Journdi OF the 9th, devotes
column to denunciation Of Messrs. Anderson,
Smith, CLAY, and Randall, of Kentucky, for
yo.ing for Speaker Colfax, characterizing those
gentlemen as con verts 10 abolitionism, DC.
Nv a parity OF reasoning it would be fIr more
proper 10 characterize The Journal itself As a
convert to secessionism: as the cause for the
sake OF which it vehemently denounces these
unconditional Unionists-the cause of the pre-
ssryation of slayery-is now neither more nor
less than the cause of the rebellion. While
slavery continues TO De a power, the rebellion
will continue to he unsurpassed. Slavery can
only be restored to its former condition in the
State lfor which the JoatnGi labors) by the sue.
cess OF the rebellion.
The ,Joarnol cannot be SO blind not to
realize the truth of this axiom. Not twen-
teth part of the people of Kentucky (who
remain there, not having run Oft to the reb-
els,) are interested pecuniarily In the insti-
tuition; nor are one fourth of that twentieth
-,---' es that their pecuniarY interest should
weigh TO any extent Whatever against the in Z.
terests of the great mass of the loyal people
Of the State.
Granted that thu Journal cannot see that its
devotion to the. cause of the perpetuation OF
sisvery In Kentucky amounts to neither more
nor lees than devotion TO that which if sue.
success. TO the utter ruin and expatriation Of
all the States Uniouists, shareholders as we'll
nna slave holders. its persistence in its pres
ent positions must necessarily rapidly strip il.
Of the confidence of all who deem the main.
nsnce of the Union Of greater public i'm.
Yo.taI &c than the perpetuation of the priv.
a. g,s and social Ell advantages of slavehold.
lrc, which sic now, in eight cases out of
every ter, only sought to be enioved by the
disloyal. Wine aeplorng the fact that the
Louisville J0Wrs0l should thus l,bor 10 bolster
up he mainstay OF the rebellion. we take it for
granted that its jereTniads and demonstrations
by tuIn Will have 10 effec- Whatever upon
those Kentucky representatives, who sec the
occurrences OF the times i'll common sense
high.
In common with the mass OF the Union N m
hers from Mary land, Missouri, and SirgiI Ia,
they stand firmly b. Inc interests OF ma Unioa-
lists OF their respective States, which are to he
utterly otliteratei II siayery's war against the
legitimate rights, iibeI lies and opportunities of
American citizenship shall triumph the
main question in issue in their case is whether
every man iii the border States who NAV not
be slaveholGing s.cessionIst, shall hereafter
continue 10 enjoy ali the rights they possessed
before tie war began and also the additional
advantages OF rapid development of every con-
Ceiyab'e intellectual, agricultural, nlanufac-
turing, nd other industrial resource OF those
States, as the corresponding resources OF the
non-slaveholding States have been developed
or whether the future OF those classes Of their
commitments shall become by The successful
defence OF the rebeilions msinstay-elavery-
bnt the spor, Of system OF government based
Oh South Carolina ideas Of the rights of the
tailoring white man and the interests Of the
5 ale, rendered ten fold more disastrous to the
community at large by the Unrestrained graft.
Acation Of the hatred and revenge OF secession.
Ism against all border States men of every de-
gree, who, in the course of the wa, have taken
ground against rebellion.