The Nevada journal., 1861-04-19

care little who gets this or that position. or
whether Col. Baker or the " California DEL
ga.ion" is uppermost in the affections of
the President. The great question is yet
to be solved, and they want TO know what
course the government proposes 10 solve
it. Mr.. Lincoln has warmed the Presiden-
tial seat but little more than forty days
| The time is short, but the people have spent
| forty days of anxiety, they would be glad
to find relieved, by some positive deciara-
ton from the President.
SENATOR CRITTEsDEN made great speech
before the Legislature of Kentucky on the
| 26th of March. He counsels Kentucky like
patriot to stand by the Union. He de-
clares the Union has never done that COM
monwealth wrong, and that she has no
cause for revolution. We quote few of
the closing paragraphs of the speech The
whole may be read in the Sacramento Union
of Monday:
The moment we are divided. what are we p
Before all the nations of the earth, Dur greatness
is given up. Is there any of you. any
whose heart swells with pride and love Of coun-
try, that would not mourn over the slightest di-
minuton Of the greatness of his country's pow
er. Wa experienced the haughtiness and super
ciliousness Of naughty nations prince when
were but "A feeble colony, l might Say invol-
we'd it revolution. Now your fla: carreis respect
and fear and love over sea and over land it is
everywhere nailed with the profoundest respect.
When you are compelled to blow from its folds
seven of the stars that now adorn it-whcu this
waning constellation shall show its diminished
head-what will become OF that respect, founded
in fear well as in love? What will become
that respect with which it was hailed TN Ter
IA peaceful Government? When you 60 abroad
now. and when to the question as to what you
are yoa answer you are an American, you are
treated instantly with more respect than even
the proud Englshman. OF all names it is that
by which would prefer to travel in Europe.
1t is your cUuntry's name that gives you this
stamp, this great power. 1t is that great coun-
try whose name never fails 10 prove shadow
Of protection over you.
l have rot pretended to sketch the sad history
Of these events, to relate them in their detail.
| have not attempted to discuss all the probable
consequences of abandoning or standing by the
Government of thu Union. l have simply sat
is led myself by saying that to join the new
Government would be nothing but speculation.
To stand fast where you are is to perform the
duty which is nearest you, and within your clear
conviction. That Is the course l have recon
mended. What have you done? Are You not
pledged to this core? What has old Ken
tuckys course been? You sent, some years ago,
a piece of Kentucky marble to be wrought up
into the structure OF that magnificent monument
to the F..th:r o his Country, now unfinished in
the city Of Washington. That was your tribute
to &c patriotism aud the great name of that
equaled man. What did you cause to be in
Scribcd upon in Let me remind you. Upon
the stone is engraved these words " Kentucky
was the first State to enter the Union after the
adoption of the present Constitution. an she
will be the last To leave it. This is the testi-
mony engraven by your own order. 1t is en-
graved upon the marble it stands part of the
great monument to the memory of Washington
where all the world may it, While Wash
N ston is adored as the founder of the Union
the founder Of his cnuntry-in that holy keep
ing is this mopum mt of recorded rock in which
you say you will be the last to leave the Union
Now, Mr.. Speaker and gentlemen, when you
have examined il every material point of view,
il Il c ,i;w of every material interest, this ques
ton to the policy and course OF Kentucky
ought to pursue; when you have found them all
let NE say that think your Judgment will find
IL
But suppose You did not arrive at that satisfac-
tory conclusion. is there not something in the
stability which marks the manhood of old Ken
tucky? Here she stands upon her own native
ground here she stands by that flag under
which she has often fought, and stands by that
Union that she has sworn t. maintain. Is there
not Il sentiment that you feel in your heart that
however politicians may reason, policy ought to
w ~ this matter. There is great d al even in
j. -
sense of fidelity and honor-a sense of patriot
ism.
Which of you if your child is to read in the
history of this period, if it be our sad fate that
our country is now to perish; and he is left to
read only the mournful history of its fall, how
would you rather it would stand in that history
that Kentucky, in the tumult of its revolution,
was led away-led away from her colors and
her Constitution, and joined in the sad expert
ment of Southern Cotton State Republic p
that she sundcred h.rself from the parent Gov
ernmeut, which was broken into fragm snts and
helped to form little governments which soon
consumed each other ?-or that old Kentucky
Has left, when the land had been swept by
cession and revolution, and nothing was left of
the Union. Kentucky alone was standing
upon the field which revolution had conquered
standing alone, like stalwart, uncOnquered
cd warrior, with the dag of his country in his
hand, stauding by the falling column-that the
last scene Of your ancestor should leave him
sitting, like Marius upon the ruins of Carthage,
mourning the melancholy and disgraceful fall
of his once glorious country? Where
would you rather your ancestor shauld be pre-
sented in history-as sliding of into revolution
and secession, making the experiment of the
new republic, or see him standing unconquered
and alone, with tho stars and stripes in bis
hand, or falling nobly and faithfully and de-
votedly with the Constitution of his country
A Practical JoKE.-On Sunday night,