Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-08
What was Decided by the h Kentucky
Elections---what Demands are TO
be made of Tennessee.
From the Louisville Democrat, August 9Th.

FROM LOUISVILLE democrat August OH
Yesterday decided the question of the DO
siIion of Ksntucky. What the result is, is
slready anticipated; what party has triumph
ed is known even before the issue was made
and yet it involved questions in which the
life of every child had an interest and a part
A hundred years hence the vote of Kentucky
ia this crisis will be held up as an example
for patriotism, or pointed to as a warning
We hold and occupy position that is pecu-
liar and unparalleled. As there never was
such a nation as the United States peculiar
in theory and action, contradiction and yet
perfect unity. States acting independent in
the sphere of their authority, and yet subject
To Federal law that bound them all tOgeth-
er, there never was a State which was place
in so peculiar position as Kentucky Out of
the whole Union. she alone has acted with a
due regard to each side, taking part with nei-
Their in aggression. Yet il Is not to be under
stood that Kentucky is or ever has been dis
loyal to the Union. She rests upon her arms.
But she is prepared, when Legislature fresh
from the people is gathered. to correct some
errors that have sprung up. Tennessee will
have to account for l, 100 muskPts and six
pieces of cannon, stOnlen from Kentucky and
never returned. Notwithstanding the demand
of our Governor. Tennessee will have to
give some account of the marching of squads
over Kentucky soil TO seize "deserters"-that
u. hSuluChldHs WIN nave lett CduD DOOne.
Camp TrOusdale and other camps, and re-
turned home.
We must know by what right Cumberland
Gap is seized, cutting the State of Kentucky
off from East Tennessee; and, in a word, why
it is that the Southern border of Kentucky is
bristling with hostile bayOnets, until we seem
TO be enclosed by line of fire? Tennessee
is a hostile State-we have to use the eX-
preston, although common cant has spoiled
Zee W. hau haan
her in sympathy and feeling; and yet, in the
midst of this, while Kentucky has preserved
the strictest regard Tor her, she gathers her
armies, as serpent coils to strike. and We
have only to hope that the rattle will precede
the blow.
While common gratitude ought to make
Tennessee careful and particular especially
more so than the United States fOrces,iyet the
Governor of Kentucky has found it necessa-
~ to send three or four several times TO Ten
nessee-Once to prevent them from seizing
Columbus, when they were equipped and in
marching order, and once and the last time
10 demand or petition for the return of Ken
lucky arms, which request has not yet been
answered
We do not believe that Tennessee has any
desire to violate any position assumed by
Kentucky, but the position, seemingly based
upon good authority. that our Governor
that our two Senators are almost as far gone
into Secession as the most ultra South Caro-
linian that ever favored notification, is
enough to lead them to believe. that We, so
far from considering these invasiOns as an
offense, regard them as q favor. We believe
that all that is necessary is to declare our
position. Tennessee will never strike if she
is once convinced, as the vote of yesterday
will convince her, that the neutrality of
Kentucky is inviolste.
We do not believe that we have any right
to appeal to arms, except to resist aggres-
sion. When Kentucky declares her position,
by the vote OF her Legislature, We believe
that the Southern side will abide by it, as the
Union States always have. Some persons
consider the position Of the State as unwOr-
thy of her. a SecessiOnist and a Black Re
publican, or what is the same thing, one of
these bogus UniOnists, are each dissatisfied
with our position. We have been Endorsed,
and are preuder of being a Kentuckian now
than ever, and prOuder still to know and feel
that we are loyal to that Government whose
flag still floats in the unbrOken silence of an
Arctic winter, on DR.. Rane's ship the Ad-
vance, as it has swept .every northern sea +,
and been an insignia of protection to the
oppressed of all nations throughout the
world.