Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-23
The stare or Feelins in Ksutaeky.
Yesterdays Louisville Courier observes:

ItelSIQhy . AfUulhNilb GotfNcf OuttINtSs
of the original thirteen States, by which
the Constitution was adopted and the Union
formed, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia
and virtually North Carolina, have resumed
the powers delegated by them TO the Fed
eraf Government in the Constitution, and
withdrawn from the Union based on that
instrument
Is there Union, then, when the Consti-
tuition is destroyed and the Government
subyerted by portion of the States Of
which IL was composed2 aH 5gT7
3 No State is longer bound by the Federal
Constitution, or owes obedience TO the acts
of the Federal Administration. tta
And yet Kentuckians are told that they
constitute the forlorn hope of the Union, and
are appealed TO to rally under the ''stars and
stripes and do homage to the American
eagle p EI.-,... s-.5o ~. s.}t
If the Union exists, can 1t be maintained
by placing the State in position of antag-
onism to the Federal Administration II
If the Union exists, can It be maintained
through disobedience to the requirements
and mandates Of the Federal authorities
{. If the Union exists, Kentucky is still in
that Union, and it is her duty to furnish the
militia demanded by the PRESIDENT
i And yet the organs of submission would
arm Kentucky to the teeth and tell her to
bid defiance to the Government at WASH
ipgton, while swelling the Golfers of that
Government with the contributions of her
sonsl
They applaud the Governor, who, in the
name of the Commonwealth, fatty refused
to respond to the requisition of the Ad .
ministration for militia to 'enforce the
LAVISH
mol no Kentuckiansl you are not the
'forlorn hope of the Unionr r You once
occupied that position; but the influence of
the journal and of its political associates
silenced your voice and paralyzed your
arms. They succeeded in preventing you
from utteriDg one word or striking one
blow for the Union, when its fate was trem-
bling in the balance. Aye, they deceived
you with empty promises, delusive hopes,
and SO seduced you into q course of action
that struck down the hands of the real
| friends of the Union, and encouraged to re-
newed efforts those whose bad fellowship"
and "broken faith" and per6dious disregard
of all the obligations imposed on them by
the sacred compact which bound the States
together, were breaking up, and forever, a
Confederacy which our patriot fathers fondly
hoped would be perpetual.
The time has past. ..
The Union, around which clustered rich
memories of the past, fond recollections, the
hopes and the affections of millions, is nc
morel
1t is gone, destroyed by the people and
the States of the North; but its fall might
possibly have been averted, possibly post
poned, but for the refusal of the border
slave States to take such action as the ext
gencies of the dreadful crisis required: LEI
those who counseled the policy adopted,
and controlled the action taken, by these
/ States, during the last six months, remem.
ber, that upon their heads rests a fearful
responsibility for the terrible consequences
which they have SO much contributed to
bring upon the country.
Yesterdays Louisville Journal remarks:
Every body knows what kindly and broth.
erly feeling exists now between the people
of Kentucky on the one part, and the peo-
pie of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois on the
other. In their social and business inter
course, they do not recognize or remember
the State lines that run between them Blu
we again appeal to our friends, as we ap
pealed to them on Friday, to consider wha
would be the condition of the people O
Kentucky, if our State were now to enrol
herself member of the Southern Confed
eracy, and thus assume and adopt that Con
federacy's formal declaration of war agains
the United States.
Assuredly we of Kentucky, no matter how
great might be our regard for our neighbors
could not expect to have aught else thar
war with Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, afte
declaring war against them. 1questiouablI
weshould fight them gallantly, but we SHOULD
meet forces equal to ourselves in courage ant
five times equal to us in numbers. Tht
bloody strife would come in one month, i
not in one week, after we and they SHOULD
be of different and warning nations. AnC
we should stand alone, for the Southern
States, invaded from the North, would havt
their hands full at home, or in Virginia, o.
at Washington. And such war as WI
should have would be without recorded
parallel upon this continent.
Only those can form any adequate ideI
of it who are familiar with the historic
of civil wars, or have travelled over tn
blackened and desolated theaters of them
If in May or June we were to adopt tn
Southern Confederacy's declaration Of wa
against the United States, thus pointing tn
sword, the bayoDet, the rifle, and the cannon
against our neighbors across the river, the
in July or August their shore would be mad
desolate, whilst they would pour in upon u
like locust swarms along our seven hundre
miles of border, and not city or villsg
would remain unsacked, not a house un
robbed, not field unravaged, not flock O
heard unstolen, not a family of women an
children undriven from their homes.