Year: 1863

out of tho Union Just as tennessee dad,
and Just as disastrously, too.


A Kentucky Unionist on the Proc.
oIej a4lnL lamatiOn. r. ssol Is 81.
Col. Leonidas Metcalf. native slave
holder of Kentucky, who has been doing
service in the army, and who is good spe


cimen of the Unconditional Unionists Of
the Border States, has written an able and
spicy letter to the Cincinnati Gazette, in
which he takes strong ground in favor OF
the Proclamation OF Freedom as the on
ly means Of subduing the South. f9f t


In alluding to the statement which has
0een industrously circulated by the Demo-
cratic press, that the army was against the
Proclamation. he says = aah ls
This is gross Misrepresentation, and
does great injustice to our brave boys in
the field, nine ont of ten of whom are in
favor of the proclamation. as well as o
large majority Of the Union men OF Ken
lucky. 1t is a necessity so plain to every
patriot that it does not need argument.


! With regard to the war tax, and the
fact that the war for slavery is gradually
becoming war against slavery. he says:


The war tax that they have made neces-
sary is very tyranical. They do not wish
to see that it is one Of the consequences Of
the war they brought on. We did not
want the war nor its taxes; we must de-
fend. They can stop in twenty -fonr hours.
They have made the issue, and would wan
tonly push on the contest. Nothing else
would satisfy them but the champions in
the ring. and see which was the strongest
which should conquer: which should per-
ish. Both cannot exist--one must die
Which will we perpetuate--Slavery or the
Union? The life of the nation is tremb-
ling in the scale, and oh! how tyranical it
is to throw on, Of the opposite scale one
of its most important eights-Slavery.
The nation is sinking down. lown. down,
deep into the sea Of ruin. with ponder
Gus weight upon its vitals, and that very
incnbus telling you all the while that the
life of the nation it is its full intent to take.
That incubus is slavery. Yet how tyrani-
cal it is for the nation to throw off that
weight in selfdcfensc. and ascend again to
the realms OF ether. and breathe again, live
again. The second Christian era has be-
gun. They publish it to the world that
they will tear down the old house, and out
of the TIMERS build new one. whose
chief cornerstone shall be human SLAYER y;
and not content with black Slavery. but
the gallows is erected and the chains forg-
ed for all white men who will not worship
their Moloch. Twenty-Five millions ol
freemen are required to bow. thy will be
done. These. cormorants cannot be glu;t-
ed. They now demand the whole Govern
ment as the price Of peace. At first they
only wanted the Cotton and Slave States
separated from the mudsills. Now the
word is. restore to the minority who at
tempted the overthrow. the whole concern.


He concludes his letter as follows:


The strongest sinew they have in this
war is the negro who feeds them while
they rob and murder us. Take from them
that strength and turn it to our help.
and let it assist to raise our nation a.
bove the schemes Of traitors and achieve
their own liberty. They have set the cx-
ample Of revolt and insurrection, and can.
not complain if it comes home TO them
/ have heard men ask. evil you have mig
gers in our army" / would ask those
touch if they would not as soon
have negro to stop bullets as their own
sweet carcass. Will you have the nigger
among us? Well. who is advocating the
re-opening of the African slave trade to
bring them AMONG rs any more, and don't
want to get rid OF what we have got. We
have got our eyes open at last. We see
that they are too costly luxury. 80 Z


Already thousand million has been
spent by each side. and thousand million
will not pay the destruction. which is q
thousand dollars head for every slave
owner in the whole United States. And,
moro awful yet. four hundred thousand OF
our own race have been slaughtered or
died of disease in this unrighteous war
Our Congress has spent great part of its
time, since we have been natinn,i in
wrangling over that question. Has not
time abundantly proven that we cannot
have It and peace too? The ovcrbearing
tendency instiiled into us by the usages of
the institution, banishes the very idea Of
liberty. peace and progress. Instead O.
its being Gods institution. tits His rod of
punishment-a thorn. fostering sting
Now is the time to rid the world Of this
bane of peace. Let us not fasten upon the
innocent unborn this fruitful theme of IN
justice. strife and murder. Leave not a
vestigc Of the curse. The knell of slavery
was rung in the boom of the deep toned
cannon intended for the destruction of
Fort Sumter; but. like the boomerang in
the bands Of the unskillful thrower, re-
bounds with killing blow. The roar re-
verberates and spreads until all iGhisten-
dom heeds the warming. 4 asisaoiL' ads


The conclusion of his letter is worthy
the most serious consideration Of the North
crh people. May It not be. after all. hat
the great cause Of our want of f,succcss in
putting down the rebellion is our, unwii-
lingucss to interfers with slavery.ssas 80
+ The words of Col. Metcalf who has been
q STAKEHOLDER himself. and who is fully ac-
cuaintsd with the workings Of the institu-
ton. msrit careful consideration. g a.
The abolitionists of New England have
made such fanatical clanaor ON account of
slavery that tho people have become dis !
gusted, and. perhaps. have not given it
that calm and unprejudiced attention
which they should have done. Public o.