The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat, under the head of “Our Sister States of the South,” says:

This is a common style of speech just now, and quite ad captandum. We should like to see some of the sisterly affection reciprocated. They deserted us in spite of our petitions. We did not feel the hatred and distrust of the Union that inspired them. Our judgment was, that our rights could be better secured in the Union. We had some interest in the Union beyond the loyalty which every good citizen should feel for established forms and habits – of political action, and which should not be disregarded for light and transient causes. We had “sister” States of the North our next neighbors; tens of thousands of them of our own blood. They were our personal and political friends. We had an interest in their friendship, for domestic peace on both sides ; we judged, and judged correctly, that this breaking up of the Government would lead to war, and that our soil, here on the border, would again be the dark and bloody land. We had always stood by them in the Union, in defense of a common interest, and had a right to expect some regard for our interest and our position. Has any regard whatever been shown?