The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-07-20
JOSEPH HOLT.

Veteran Democrats viii remember the
speech made at the Democratic National
Convention of 1910, by Joseph Holt, then
young lawyer of Mississippi. but native.
We believe, of Kentucky, which he now
claims as his home. He was called into the
Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan on the flight of
the thieves, and performed the most respon-
sible duties under circumstances of great
difficulty, with decided Vigor and ability.
Mr.. Holt has just written omWashing-
ton, where he now lives in retirement, a let
ter to his Kentucky fellow-citizens, which
is model of patriotic energy and manly
directness. It is the first manifesto we
have seen from a Southern Democrat,
which strikes directly at the heart of trea-
son, and gives it no show of quarter. 1t
vindicates the right of the Federal Execu-
| tive to send troops into or through any
State, to suppress rebellion, and Pebukes,
lunsparingly, the neutral position assumed
by the half-hearted Unionists of Kentucky.
1t shows that the crimes and outrages of
the Rebels are such as no Government
could afford to overlook, ond that their pre-
tense that they "want to be let alone'' is
swindling and absurd. Just consider this
most truthful passage:
"When an instruction was apprehended
few weeks since in Maryland, the Massa-
chusetts regiment at once offered their SER
vices to suppress it. These volunteers
have been denounced by the press of the
South as 'knaves and vagrants,' 'the dregs
and offscourings of TIE populace.' who
would rather fitch a handkerchief than
fight an enemy in manly combat yet we
know here that their discipline and bearing
are most admirable, and, presume, it may
be safely affirmed that larger amount of
social position, culture, fortune, and eleya
ton of character has never been found in
so large an army in any age or country. If
they go to the South it will be as friends
and protectors, to relieve the Union senti-
ment of the seeded States from the cruel
domination by which it is oppressed and 81
fenced, to unfusl the Stars and Stripes in the
midst of those who long to look upon them,
and to restore the flag that bears them to
the forts and arsenals from which disloyal
hands have torn it. Their mission will be
one of peace, unless wicked and blood
thirsty men shall unsheath the sword across
their pathway.
eft is in vain for the revolutionists to ex
claim that this is 'subjugation.' It is so,
precisely in the sense in which you and 1
and all law-abiding citizens are subiugated.
| hO PCoRlO "a IuC OOuLu oIO Jul DECtuLCuS
and while we obey the laws enacted by our
joint authority, and keep a compact to which
we are all parties, we only ask that they
shall be required to do the same. We be-
lieve that their safety demands this; we
know that ours does. We impose no bur-
den which we ourselves do not bear; we
claim 10 privilege or blessing which our
brethren of the South shall not equally
share. Their country is our country. and
ours is theirs; and that unity both of coun
try and of government which the provi-
dence of God and the compacts of men
have created, we could not ourselves, with
out self-immolation, destroy, nor can we
permit it to be destroyed by others.''
20 that such pretended disciples of
Henry Clay as A. H. Stuart, George E.
Badger, G. M. Conrad, Albert Pike, John
Bell, and a legion more, were compelled to
confront and respond to these truthful
words before the deceived, beguiled, mad
dened Southern masses! But no! They
stifle all expressions of Union sentiment
throughout the insurgent States, or only
answer them with the tar-pot, the revolver,
and the rope. But the time a0U come in
which such noble utterances will be heard
and needed Patience!-N. Y. Tribune.