Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-11-29
THE SENTINEL.
From the Notwithstanding Courier.1
Confederate Convention i'm Kentucky.
RussELLvl1LE, Ky, Oct. 20, 1867.

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ties in the State, assembled at Odd Fellows
Hall, in the city of Russellyille, on Tuesday,
October 49, 1861, for the purpose of confer
ring together in reference to the situation of
the country, and the steps to be taken to bet
ter preserve domestic tranquility and protect
the rights of person and property in the State
of Kentucky.
On motion Of Col. George w. Johnson, of
Scott county, Hon. H. Q. Burnett, OF Trigg
county, was chosen temporary chairman Of
the Conference.
About thirty five counties were represented
at the meeting
George W. Johnson from the Select Com
mittee, reported the following resolutions,
which were, without debate, unanimously
adopted by the Conference.
RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, The majority of the Legislature
OF Kentucky have violated their most solemn
pledges made before the election and deceived
and betrayed the people; have abandoned the
position Of neutrality assumed by themselves
and the people, and invited into the State the
organized armies Of Lincoln; have abdicated
the government in favor of the military des-
potism which they have placed around them
selves, but cannotcontroi have abandoned
the duty of shielding the citizen with their
protection p; haTestbEown uron FQr people and
the State the horrors and ravages of war, iu-
stead of attempting to preserve the peace, and
have voted men and money for the war waged
by the North for the destruction of our con-
stitutional rights; have violated the express
words of the Constitution by borrowing five
millions of money for the support of the war
without vote of the people have permitted
the arrest and Imprisonment of our citizens,
and transferred the constitutional pre-. ogatiyes
of the executive to military commission Of
partisans; hayescen the writ of habeas corpus
suspended without an effort for its preserva-
ton, and permitted our people to be driven in
exile from their homes have subjected our
property to conGscaton, and our persons to
confinement in the penitentiary as felons, be-
cause we may choose to take part in a contest
for civil liberty and constitutional govern
ment, against sectional majority waging war
against the people and institutions of fifteen
independent States of the old Federal Union,
and have done all these things deliberately
against the warnings and vetoes of the Gov
ernor, and the solemn remonstrance of the
minority i'll the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives therefore be il
ResolUed, That the unconstitutional edicts
of factious majority of Legislature thus
false to their pledges, their interests, are not
law, and that such government is unworthy
OF the support of brave and free people, and
we therefore denounce their unconstitutional
acts and usurpations, and bid defiance both
to the Federal and State governments
ReSot0ed That, abandoned and betrayed as
we have been by the Linconite majority of the
Legislature of Kentucky, and prescribed by
the abolition party, who have usurpcd the
Federal government and broken down the
Constitution of the Federal Union, and being
as yet no part of the Southern Coniederacy,
and therefore altogether without the protec-
ton of law, the people have, by the laws OF
God and the express letter of the Constitution
of Kentucky, Eat all times an inalienable and
lndeteasi5le right to alter, reform, or abolish
their government, in such manner as they
may think proper" and in the language Of
the same Constitution we declare, chat alb
solute and arbitrary power over the lives
liberty, and property of freemen exists no.
where in republic '-not even in the largest
majority.
Resolved, That we hereby declare tnat tnC
majority of the Legislature by their acts
have abandoned, betrayed, and abdcated The
government, aud that the people have now
right to a fair representation of their will
aud that the Governor be, and is hereby in.
vited to convene Legislature to meet outside
the lines of the lincoln army, to be composed
of such members rs are now elected and may
attend, or new members to be chosen by the
people.
And, Whereas, We have reason to believe
that the Governor is unable to convene the
Legislature outside the lines of the Lincoln
army, therefore,
ReSotred, That we recommend a convention,
to be chosen, elected, or appointed in any
manner now possible by the people of the
several counties of the State, to meet at Rus
spllvillp n N fho 18Th nf 4
commend to them the passage Of an ordinance
severing forever our connection with the
Federal government, and to adopt such mea-
sures, either by the adoption of a provisional
government or otherwise, rs in their iudg-
ment viii give full and ample protection to
the citizens in their persons and property,
and secure to them the blessings of constitu-
tional government.
Resolved, That we recommend to the people
in every county where they have the power to
do so, to organize at once a County Guard of
at least one hundred men, to be armed by the
people in every county, and mounted if pos.
sible, to be paid as Confederate troops and
subject also to the rules and regulations O
the Confederate States, aud to the orders o
the Commanding General.
ReSotUed, That we will never pay one CEN
of the unconstitutional loan of five millions o
dollars, obtained by the Legislature from thu
banks for the prosecution Of this war, insli
tuted for the coercion and suhjugation of tn,
slaveholding States, and that we will resis
by force of arms Unnecessary, the collection by
the sherifls of all taxes intended to be pait
over TO the Lincoln party in the Legislature
and that We denounce as enemies to thei
country all those who may advocate the pay
ment of the same to the sherills for the pur
pose aforesaid.
ResolDed, That Robert Mckee, John c
Breckenridge, Humphrey Marshall, Geo. W
Ewing, ii. w. Bruce, C.. ID. Hodge, William
Preston G.. w. Johnston, Blanton Duncan
and P. b. Thompson, be, and they are hereby
appointed committee to carry out the abov,
resolutions.
RAILROAD COMMUNICATION Between BALTI
MORE AND WASHINGTON. Government will re
commend to Congress to lend its credit for
short time TO the construction of a new rail
road between Baltimore and Washington
upon the condition that il carry passenger.
and freight at stipulated rates greatly below
those charged by the Baltimore and Ohio
road, and will also ask for means to accom-.
plish the projects, fully determined on, Of
new sidings and more double track from
Washington TO Annapolis, and of railroad
from the navy yard TO Georgetown, through
Pennsylvania avenue and across the Potomac
upon the Acqueduct bridge.-N Y. Tribune
A New YORKER DlscoURAGISa EMIGRATION.
Mr. Roche, the editor of the New York Phenir
has arrived in Dublin He gives a deplorablt