Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-25
The crisis IN Kentucky.

The Crisis m Kentucky.
The position of Kentucky will be decided in
few days. The Confederates are making every
effort to carry her out of the Union, and the re-
suit will depend, in a great measure, upon the
CELEBRITY and promptness of the action of the
Federal Government. Already large body of
secession troops have been thrown into the State,
and Governor MoRroS received a dispatch on
Saturday evening that General BUcKSER was at
Elizabethtown, short distance below Louisville,
on the Nashville road, with seven thousand men,
marching upon Mildough's Hill, with view of
occupying it. This is an important strategic
point, and if the Confederates succeed in getting
possession of it. there will be danger of success
full march upon Louisville General BucKSER is
an able man, an accomplished military officer
bold, ambitious, and energetic. His proclama-
ton, which will be found in the telegraph column,
is artful appeal to the people of Kentucky.
We have no doubt be has been preparing for
some time to force Kentucky into the Southern
Confederacy by the movement he has undertaken,
and his late position as commander of the State
Guard. has aided him materially. There is i'm
mnent danger that he ma, succeed.
The people of Kentucky, generally, undoubt-
eddy sympathize with the Confederates and long
ere this they would have united their destiny
with them was it not the fear of making Ken
lucky battle field and enact the terrible scenes
which are now transpiring in Virginia and Mis-.
souri,. A bold and vigorous movement on the
part of the Confederate forces will give them the
military possession of Kentucky This done
they would probably establish provisional gov
eminent and at once declare Kentucky out of
the Union. General ANDERSON teegraphed Gov
ernor MORTON for aid and it was promptly re-
sponded to by sending all the available forces in
the State to his assistance. There is large
Union force at Paducah, and within few days
General ANDERSON will have additional reinforce
ments to the extent of the ability of Indiana to
furnish them. The only hope of saving Ken
lucky to the Union and prevent her from being a
barrier to the march of the Union forces south
ward is by Immediately giving ample aid to Gen
eneral ANDERSON. A few days delay may give
advantages to the Confederates that will take
months to overcome, if at all. The possession
the Confederates not only in the men and
material aid she can furnish them, but the
moral effect it would have abroad upon the
destnies of the Southern Confectionery. We
have no doubt but it would determine their re-
cognition at once by foreign powers. 1t will thus
be seen that the most vigorous efforts will be put
forth by the SeceSsionists to secure this great
prize-as important movement MS has yet been
undertaken by the DAVIS Confederacy, and to
counteract which viii require the exercise of all
the energy aud resources of the Northwestern
States. There are now fifty thousand western
troops in Virginia and Maryland who should be
in the " est. The Eastern States should GER
tanly be able to furnish troops enough to protect
Washington, and to overcome the rebels upon the
Atlantic side of the Aileghenes, without asking
assistance from the West. The Northwestern
States are called upon to repossess Missouri clean
out the Mississippi and now they have the Ken
lucky rebellion upon their hanus. New York
and the New England States fall far behind their
duty in this crisis To put down the great rebel
lion promptly and successfully, we know of no
bearing arms, and put them and all the money
resources of the country at the disposal of the
Government. To show the dangerous position
of affairs in Kentucky, we copy the following
from the Louisville Journal of Saturday:
We would on no account create unnecessary
alarm. but. If it is true, presume it is. that
the Confederate forces are approaching this side
of Bowling Green and even in the neighborhood
of Eizabethtown, the fact should, like the peal of
an earthquake, rouse our whole people to a sense
of their great and immediate danger
But does it have this effect? We cannot see
that it does No action of our people seems 70
give evidence of the slightest sense of danger.
They are pursuing their daily avocation with as
much apparent unconcern if all peril were
Thousand miles or thousand years away. Ii
seems as if they supposed that to appear uncon-
scious of the presence or approach of peril were
the strongest security against it.
We almost feel, fellow-citizens. like saving
that your bearing in the face of mortal danger is
scarce better than that of madmen. II we would
save ourselves it must be by action and not by
inaction We must woodwork early work
late. work all the time. We ought to hold pub
lie meeting at once, and have concert of action,
guided by the wise counsels of the military au-
thorities among Every man without respect
to age, and every weapon without respect to age,
should come forth. 1t is a mystery to US that
mems minds be for moment upon other
matters when perhaps the life OF our city and the
lives of our families are at stake. 73
Shall this day close and the Sabbath come
without our having prepared for this great ext
gency by an organization embracing the whole
male population of Louisville2 We never per-
formed day OF military service in our lives, but
we will be among the first of our citizen soldiery
enrolling themselves for the conflict. IL there