Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-09
Governor Magofan's War
, MesnaRe.

views--Or those which he puts forth as
such--rise to consequence which otherwise
they could never attain. In his message, de-
livered the day before yesterday, at the
opening Of the called session Of the Kentucky
Legislature, the Governor does not hesitate
to plsce himself before the nation and the
people of Kentucky in the light of a ram
pant Secessionist, fully Instructed in all the
fallacies which his leaders desire to be re-
ceived as truths, and unhesitatingly giving
his official sanction to them in form fully
as exaggerated as they appear in the least re-
liable of their organs.
HE CHARGES THE ADMINISTRATION WITH HAv-
ING BROKEN ITS PROMISES, AND INAUGU-
RATED CIVIL WAR.
Since your recent.adjournment events of
the most startling character have followed
in rapid succession. The comparative uuiet
in which the public mind was then lulled by
the semi-ofioial announcement of a pacific
policy on the part of the Federal Admins
tration has been broken, and the patriotic
hope for peaceful solution of our political
complications, inspired by the proposed me.
diatorisl interposition OF the border slave
States, has been disappointed by the sudden
development of an evidently pre- determined
purpose Of the President and his supporters,
the attempted execution of which has not
only sealed the separation of the States, but
has involved the country in civil war, and
If not successfully resisted, will prove fatal
to the liberties Of the people.
HE ALLEGES THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS UsURPEp
POWERS THAT DO NOT BELONG TO HIM.
Powers not conferred by the Constitution
have been usurped by the President of the
United States; a standing army of gigantic
| proportions, gathered exclusively from one
section, and mad with sectional hate, is being
rapidly organized without authority of law;
the Federal Capital has become a military
camp, and martial law practically reigns in
| the District of Columbia; the Southern coast
is blockaded by the armed vessels of the
Federal Navy, and the commerce of our
! Western ltivers is arrested by the interpo-
sition of military force; large bodies of armed
| men are collected in military posts along the
line of our northern frontier, impeding the
lawful trade, and menacing the safety Of our
peaceful citizens; in word, the President of
| the United States has, without the advice or
sanction of either branch of Congress, de.
| clared war of subjugation or determination
against the people Of ten or more sovereign
| States and is, with extraordinary energy,
| gathering his strength for the unnatural con-
flict. You are now called upon, standing in
the presence of violated Constitution,
subverted Government, and broken Union,
to adopt such measures as, in your wisdom,
may be demanded for the honor of the Com,
monwealth, and the safety of the people.
he DESCRIBES The PROGRESS AND EXTENT OF
THE SECESSION MOVEMENT.
Seven States of the late American Union,
for causes unnecessary now to discuss have
severed their relations with the Government
of the United States, and established new
Confederacy. That Government is now
fully organized in all its departments, and
seems to receive the cordial and undivided
allegiance of the entire population within
! its limits. The State of Virginia has for
mally asserted her independence, and entered
into an alliance with the "Confederate
States" looking to an early admission to
full and equal membership. The States of
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas
| will, undoubtedly, at the earliest Practicable
moment, establish similar relations.
In Missouri, Maryland and Delaware,
strong public sentiment favors like step,
and the subject is now receiving the thought
full attention of the people and authorities of
those States. The deliberate action of ten
| sovereign Stats, moving in the capacity of
| political governments, and sustained by the
approving voice of millions of American
freemen, has been treated by the President
as an insurrection of disorderly citizens,
which he proposes to quell without the sane
tion or CO operation Of the legislative branch
of the Government. He has, in the prose
cution of that unholy purpose, called out the
militia of the States, amounting in the ag
| gregate to one hundred and fifty. eight
| thousand men, to be enlisted for periods
varying from three months to three years;
| and this gigantic army, exceeding in pro-
portions any military force ever before Or
ganized upon this continent, is in rapid
process of organization, at daily cost to the
Government of over $750,000. h
he SETS FORTH HIS OWN DIsoBEDIENcE AND
THAT OF THE GOVERNORS OF OTHER SOUTH
ERN STATES TO THE FEDERAL REQUIsITIoN.
A call was made upon me for four regi-
ments of militia, the quota assigned to Ken
lucky, of this army. promptly responded
| to the Secretary of War, that Kentucky had
no troops to furnish for the wicked purpose
of subduing her sister Southern States. /
have thus as far as lay in power, entered
| the public protest of Kentucky against this
unnatural measure, and against her assump-
tion of any part of the enormous debt now
being contracted. Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri have each
emphatically refused to contribute any por-
zion of the quota demanded of them. Mary
land has not yet responded to the call by the
tender of single regiment. But the non
slaveholding States, without an exception,
have, with unwonted alacrity, exceeding any
zeal heretofore exhibited by them, responded
to the call, and sent forth their troops.
Moreover, an united public sentiment in the
Northern States seems to sustain all these
extraordinary usurpations of the President
with degree of enthusiasm amounting to
the frenzy of patriotism.
BE DECLARES THE UNION DISSOLVED, THE CON-
FEDERACY FACT, AND THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES TO sUBDUE IT.
In view of these events, it is idle longer
to refuse 70 recognize the fact that the late
American Union is dissolved; that ten slave
holding States are now politically united in
a separate and Independent Government
and that war exists between those States SO
combined and the non-slAveholding States,
acting under the United States Government.
The aVowed purpose of the United States
Government is to compel the allegiance of
the people Of the seeded States, and enforce
the supremacy ofits jurisdiction throughout
their limits. The achievement of this end
involves the armed invasion of the seeded
States and the unlimited slaughter of their
citizens. The sole object of the Confederate
States, as authoritatiyely announced, is TO
maintain their Independence and govern
themselves. The condition of peace, as
ayowed by the President Of the United
States is the overthrow Of the Confederate
States Government, and the reduction of the
| people Of the South to unTesisting submis-
sion to the United States Government, ad-
ministered upon principles of the political
| platform adopted by the nominating con-
| vention at Chicago. The Confederate States
make no other condition 70 the cessation Of
hostilities than ito be let alone" ~
BE INQUIRIES WHAT KENTUCKY SHOULD DO?
| What attitude should Kentucky occupy in
this deplorable eonfiet2 Shall she continue
her alliance with the Northern States, ad-
here to the United States Government, and
assume her portion of the enormous war debt
being ineurTedf Shall she declare her own