Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-08

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Tennessee's Blockade Of the Mississippi
Kentucky NavIsntion and Kentucky
Driven by Tennessee from the
mississippi River.
The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says:
We have of late thought it our duty to
speak strongly and to speak repeatedly of
the high. handed outrage committed by the
authorities Of Tennessee in destroying the
whole of Kentucky's navigation and COM
merce upon the Mississippi. A good many
of our people, scarcely able to conceive that
Tennessee would be guilty of offering Ken
lucky such a gross aud crying insult, and
practicing toward her such a gross, mon
strous, and intolerable wrong, have seemed
TO suppose that there must be some mistake
in the matter. They have thought it very
possible, that, although Tennessee, for no
cause that they knew or could conjecture,
had seized and chained to the Memphis wharf
one of the largest and finest of all the
steamboats, in the Louisville and New Or
leans trade, she must have had some special
reason for the act, a reason that would not
necessarily apply to the other boats of our
State.
But no such lsttering thought is to be per-
mitted to remaini in the minds of any portion
of our people. The Tennesseeans wax bold
in their usurpation. They seek not to dis
guise what they are doing to Kentucky.
They avow it and defy consequences. We
learn from the last Memphis papers, that, on
Saturday last, a large number Of Southern
boat owners, in compliance with a published
call, met at the Memphis Chamber of Com.
merce to determine upon O general policy
to be pursued in relation to the navigation
and of the Mississippi. The meet
ing was organized, and Captain Freligh thus
stated the object of it:
Circumstances have occurred within a
few days that have caused the stoppage of
several boats at our levee; and arrangements
have been made, or are trying to be made,
by which these and a large number of other
boats are intended TO be put into our trade,
to participate in the advantages which should
accrue only to approved Southern men, to
the advantage of citizens of these States.
There is no doubt, in view of the laws re-
garding the coasting trade of the United
States, that some action will be taken in this
matter by the Confederate States.
"Apart from this, NoEGhoIu owners take
the money made here, and that in gold,
from our limits to those in which our
enemies prevail. .
There is among us a feeling of sympathy
with Missouri and Kentucky; but, unfor-
~tunately, they are under the heels of the
oppIessor, and l I'm afraid they will long
remain so. There are men there who are
not true to the South; and these men geek
to enter our waters to make money off of
our necessities, to crowd our interests to the
wall, make our money, and, turning it into
gold, take itGwhere the owners live.
II take it then that the object of this
meeting is to make arrangements, temporary
arrangements, to nip in the bud any ar
rangement made whereby Northern. owned
boats may participate in the trade of the
Southern States.p lnt La.t -I
Captain Freligh, at the close of his speech,
moved the appointment of a committee to
draft a preamble and resolutions in favor Of
the purpose thus explained by him, and the
motion passed without q dissenting voice.
The committee retired, and, after a time,
returned and presented the following resolu-
tons with a preamble too long to be copied
by US:
"ResolUsd: That we recommend to the
Memphis military authority that they permit
no boat owned by Northern men or by
Northern sympathizeTs to run on Southern
waters, within the limits of their control.
"ResoLVed; That no transfer of boats shall
be permitted, calculated to battle the aims for
the furtheranee of which this meeting is held,
viz: To secure to Southern men the carry
ing trade of the South, and diminish the
danger of spiesand the presence Of internal
foes. 20
"ResolVed: That we memorable the Con-
grees of the Confederate States to pass a law
similar in its provisions to the United States
+, coastinR law, in order to protect navigation
on the Mississippi as it is protected on the
Atlantic coast. .rr -
"ResoIVsdi That we In no way object to
opening our waters to friends of the South
I wherever born or raised; but that n one
sailing, renting, for carrying purposes, any
one boat TO be used on Southern waters shall,
ere permitted to engage in such business, be
required to take an oath OF allegiance to the
Confederate States of the South.
"ResOtVed; That no boat, not owned within
the limits of the Southern Oonfederaoy,
should be permitted to sail on SoutheiI
waters in the pursuit of local and coasting
business.
"Resolved: That as Tennessee is not yet
one of the Confederate States, but soon to be
30, that we memorable the Commanding
General of this State, Major General Pillow,
to act in advance with the views herein
stated, 30 far as he has power TO do So"
1t was certainly very unnecessary that the
meeting should memorabilia General Pillow
TO lay an embargo to prevent any steamboats,
coming by Memphis, for that strutting Gem
eral had adopted the policy already. They
but asked him to do what his own high
handed act first suggested to them. Aud
here we see the avowal Of Tennessee's policy
OhoAA ~ "a 0tAlCog AnNl1uAuk hCuIUCkIa
situated above Tennessee upon the great
Western waters. No boat not owned within
the limits of the Southern C~onfederaoy e J,
be permitted TO navigate the MississiSpi on.
posite Tennessee and no person IS to be
suffered to participate in the commerce Of
! the river without taking an oath of ale.
glance to the Confederate Statesl This ID
monstrous. Even the oalmest men among
us, we presume, can scarcely contemplate il
without feeling their hearts burn and quiVeK
with indignation.
What Kentucky will do, We undertake
not TO say. She will herself decide how 10
act and then she will act. In the mean
while, isn't it the most preposterous thing
on earth, that Tennessee, while throttling
Kentucky navigation and commerce upon
the Mississippi, should affect 10 be dreadfully
shocked and wrathful at the thought OF
Kentucky's ceasing 70 send bacon and -four
10 her upon the Nashville Railroad.
IRisB PmRs-We understand that Mayor
Baugh has had sixty-four Irish Pixies manu-
factured for q company TO be formed shortly
in our midst. The IriBh Pike is a formidable
weapon, about ten feet long, the end like I
bayonet with q hook, enabling the holdel
tOl push IL against an adversary with eAec
or to hook and cut severely.
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