The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-09-11

had been received of the death Of JEFF Davis. |
At this afternoon our forces we're in posses |
sion of the Cross Roads.
The steam tug r. B. Forbes arrived at the
Navy Yard this afternoon. Her captain, lst
and I'd mates boa,swain and carpenter were
Immediately arrested by order of the Navy De-
partment. and put in double irons. The charge
against them has not transpired, but it is be-
lieved their arrest has grown out Of their reck-
less conduct from the time the boat left Bos-
TOM
A respectable gentleman who recently ar
rived at Washington from North Carolina says
the Union prospects in that State are most en-
couraging. The acting Governor is q reliable
Unionist. Secret leagues of loyalty exist in
every county and are rapidly gaining strength.
A provisional State government will be put
into operation in q few months. Two full brig
AIDES of loyalists are enrolled, and leagues
made, with extended arrangements. There was
an election of members of Congress from every
district, and four were known to be elected on
the 2lst of August.
Congress is contradicted by other authority.
1t is stated that since the engagement at
Hatteras the North Carolina troops have been
Withdrawn from Virginia, many refusing to
continue in the Confederate employment.
Large numbers of the people are reported to
have taken the oath of allegiance at Fort Hat
teras
| By dispatches from Frankfort, KY, Sept. 2
we are in receipt Of Gov MagofEn's message to
the newly elected legislature. The message
says Kentucky has right to assume a neutral
position; that she had no agency in fostering
a sectional party in the free States, and did no,
approve the separate action and secession OF
the Southern States at the time. Until recent.
ly Kentucky IS neutrality has not been seriously
aggressed by either belligerent power. Law.
less raids have been suffered on both sides
private property seized, commerce interrupted
and our trade destroyed. These wrongs have
been borne with patience, and repara:ion OBJ
tanned when possible, but a military Federal
force has been organized, equipped and en-
camped in the central portion of Kentucky
without consultation with the State authorities
but a short time before The assembling of
Legislature fresh from the people, If the PEG
pie of Kentucky desire more troops let then
be obtained under the Constitution of Ken
lucky.
i After discussing our national difficulties, ht
says Kentuckians have meant to await tn,
exhaustion Of all civil remedies before they
will even consider the question of assumin,
new external relations; but have never un
derstood that they will tamely submit to uncon
stitutiOnal aggress:ons now that they renOunc,
their sympathy with the people of their az
grieved sister States, nor that they will approve
of a war to subjugate the South. Still less Cal
l construe any of their votes as meaning tina
they will prosecute coercive war against the
Southern brethren. They meant only tina
they have still some hope of restoration ant
perpetnation of the Union, and until that hop,
is blasted, they will not alter their existing re
lations. Their final decision will be law to me
and will execute every constitutional act O
their representatives as vigilanty and faithfully
as though it originated with myself
The Governor says that in no thought, wore
or act has he thwarted the lawful purpose o
the people of Kentucky. and cites instances o
his adherence thereto
He denOunces the Presidents war proclama
ton of April 18th as illegal, and therefore b,
gave peremptory refusal to the demand fo
Kentucky troops.
He cites subsequent acts of the administra
tion Ha Savs ha canpof ~; vo thor, onv .,rx -
sanction. The Governor protests against III
President usurpatiOn, against the further pros
ecutiOn Of The war, against Kentucky's bein,
made the camping ground or pathway Cor tn
movement Of forces by either belligerents, rec
ommends the General Assembly to pass resolu
tons requiring both belligerents to keep Of
our soil and respect Kentucky's neutrality
He says: my respect for State rights ant
State sovereignty will make me bow in respect
full submission to the majority of the people 81
long as am a citizen of Kentucky"
The New York Democratic State Convention
held its session at Syracuse, N. T., Sept 9Th
A long series of resolutions were offered favor
ably expressing love for the Union, determine
ton to vigorously prosecute the war, for al
honorable peace for all sections, and genera
detestatiOn of the Republican party and it
principles.
The following is among the resolutions:
Resolved, That The Democracy of this Stat,
will sustain no war nor countenance any peac.
tending to the separation of these States, ant
they will regard any attempt to pervert thi
war into war for the emancipation of thu
slaves as fatal to all the hopes of the restora
ton of the Union
In the afternoon session, d. B. Ogden made
patriotic appeal to the Democracy to rally
round the Stars and Stripes in support of the
Union. He said the rebellion must be pu
down or the government under which we have
lived FOR eighty years will be put down. HI
would have This rebellion crushed out, aud
then would guarantee the South all Constitu
tional rights. Immense applause and cheers
greeted these sentiments
A long discussion ensued on the resolutions
which were taken up separately. The whole
series of resolutions were ultimately adopted
and loud cheers given for the platform.
| R. Floyd Jones was nominated by acclama
zion for Secretary Of State; Geo. F. ComstocL
Tor Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Judge
Scott for Comptroller; Francis KEENAN, wa:
nominated for Attorney General, but declined
and Lyman Tremaine was nominated in bis
stead. Francis c. Bronck for Treasurer; j. B
Lord for Canal Commissioner for the long term