Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-09-26
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Ground-swell In Kentucky R,..
Meetings have heen and are being heiS
Parts Vi hentucky The Louisville Conrio.E sFious
tans accounts OF meetings held in Hart .. Con-
Boone CaIc~ay, ana Bath counties, and at Picnkn
at all of which there patriotic ichmOnd
immense enthusiastic gatherings of the rona made
buttons passed reatirming the neutrality Of K %nd res
denounclng the war and declaring its nncon nentucky
ty as well as the tax levid to support if
mond the meeting was addressed by several az Rlch
OF o1stlnction and by Mr. Breckinridge Fronae
speech we make the following extracts rom big
" He commenced by aluding to his nositio.
Senate OF the United States last winter and tbo te
lions OF Southern men to procure some puarnt exer
Southern rights, and stated that he personaTn Tor
that Jefferson Davis and Robert Toombs ivy At9oRs
most distinguished men now in the Southern C Vi The
racy, avowed their willingness to acuuesce in Loniee
ton of the resolutions offered by Mr. CrittorJ adOp
which every party in Kentucky at that period s5 and
the least that kentucky would accept. Was
He referred to the fact that all parties in Ko...,
approved of Gov. Magofin's refusal to furniSb cky
for the Federal Administration to carry on the wy, S
The Southern Rights and peace party still adbo %a5~
that position and it was the utmost desire of 70
that it should not be departed from. He andad nta
ing terms to the unconstitutional end tyranniroI ~ e
the Federal Administration in arresng privato as
men and ladies, in almost endless numbers in ou'@
ner engaged IN military pursuits and incarceratn I
in dungeons lar from home and without etnS T tIea
know on what ground they were deprived Liberty 'n
The truth was that Mr.. Lincoln had openly vio,.,
almost every leading principle of the Federal Conatl
ton. V
Mr.. B. then spoke of the direct tax and Tariff.
guraed by Congress and insisted that KeDucsy lua
not to pay any portion of the direct tax-frst hou
she had no hand in inauguratng or carving on L-T
sent war; secondly, because the tax Was levied IN M
the interest on debt unconsttutiOnay created why
authority OF Congress in support of an army and n
unconstitutonay raised. He said that LARGE no;y
Of this tax ordered to be collected off Of The S
in the Southern Contederacy which every person kro
never would be DONE and in addition to what nut"
ordered to be collected of of Kentucky she wopI b
to pay her share of what could not be coerced from b
Southern States.
He said that he believed underneath this cry If a.
Federal Administration that the present war was y
sustain the Union and the Constitution there was
deeply laid plan among the leaders of the RepubFr
party to destroy Southern Institutions not only cv1
but politica-not only State lines were to be obr9
ted but the peculiar institutions to be DESTROYED
He had in the Senate, lately charged this upon the Po
publican party, and quoted the remarks of at oos,
three members of the Senate having that tendency i
not member of that party could be induced oavov
the contrary.
we luVlt6 aCteuIiou Especially 10 TIE closing para,
graph and the last sentence 1t discoses an important
and significant fact, not generally known and must have
an overwhelming influence on the people of the South
and do much towards changing public opinion in Ken.
lucky. We copy the following resolutions from among
those passed by the vast assembage addressed by Mr.
Breckenridge, as sample of those adopted by the meet
ings in the other counties. The language is changed
but the lofty spirit and the great principles in
voIved in these embodied in and characterzng all
the rest
ReSoUed That regard the quarterg of Federal roop
on soil immediate Inauguration of in Our
midst, and inconsistent with honest neutrality what
might be the disposition of the people Kentucky
wards such troops, mind for moment sup
pose that the Border States of the Southern Conedev
Tennessee and others, will quietly look at the extended
preparationsSof their invasion.
ReS0tUed That deny the constitutional power and
right OF the General Government to levy and collect
from Kentucky, and demand soldiers of her to carry
war of coercion 1t intended by the fathers
the Republic that the Union should be held together by
power OF physical force and the shed ding of blood
ReSOlued, That we earnestly and solemnly appeal TO
the members of the legislature, who about
semble in Frankfort not to the payment Ken
tuckys portion Of the direct tax and protest against the
occupation of her soil by troops under the GOveen,
North South and to every honorable in te
power to have them removed and thus maintain Kentucky
neutrality and above all, her peace.