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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: [AR-CIVIL-WAR] January 25, 1861 Van Buren Press
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:23:35 -0700


January 25, 1861

The extract below is taken from an editorial of the Arkansas State Gazette. The suggestion it conveys is worthy of the serious consideration of our people at this important crisis:

"Arkansas is not in a situation, geographically, nor in a condition, pecunaiarily for separate secession from the Union. Her interests are linked almost indissolubly with her adjoining neighbors. Her money interests is with Louisiana, and the good book says, "where the treasure is there will the heart be also." But in the event Arkansas seceede from the Union a war on her western frontier is inevitable. Abolition enemies of the South will hiss the Indians upon us. Murderers, incendiaries and robbers will look upon the opportunity as the best that has offered during a lifetime for the indulgence of their hellish passions. Formal parties, for the purpose of murder and robbery, will be organized in Kansas and the Indian Territory, and be precipitated upon the Western portion of the state. Besides it need be a matter of no surprise to see the Eastern portion of the State infested with free-booters, and freshwater pirates in the Mississippi. Occupied with these difficulties, and !
charged with the administration of a separate Government, it will not be strange if Arkansas need the assistance of her neighboring states or Republics, as the case may be. The question is where must she look for such aid? None of the gulf states will be able to render it, nor they will not be more than able to defend themselves. If they are not compelled to call upon the State North of them for assistance, it will be a fortunate circumstance. Then, if Arkansas needs assistance, she must look to the state of Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, for it. So that, while our money interests binds us to the State of Louisiana, the interest we have in friends to save our state from being run over and devastated by savages and worse than savages, is the states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri."


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