The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-07-11

True Blue UNION SPEECH IN KENTUCKY LEGIs-
overwhelmingly is in hopeful condition. She
Is Dlackguarded and ridiculed by South Carolina
and other seeded States in the most OUTRAGEOUS
manner. \ counter spirit is of course raised.
As the Memphis Committee Of Safety has declared
the circulation of the Louisville Journal a nui-
sance, and prohibited its delivery from the Post
ofhce, several kentucky papers have joined in a
loud cry tor cutting of the Memphis mails.
This Is an advance step for Kentucky Unionists.
Again Home Guards pledged TO sustain the Stars
ana stripes anc 70 suppress secession sentiments,
have been organized. and arms put in their hands
by the Federal Government.
Ihe Union feeling Is spunky and defiant, like
that OF Nestern Virginia and East Tennessee,
where Andy JOhnsOn's voice Is vet ringing for
the Union. 1t is believed that Prentice and others
have been advocating strict neutrality because it
would be lmpdlitlc, in the present condition of
the CnIon men. 70 20 iarther-but as soon as the
Union hands are strengthened they Will be for
lighting the Secession monster. As an evidence
OF the growing bOldness of Kentucky Unionists,
the patriotic speech of Senator Rosseau in the
Legislature, on the Odd, Is a powerful proof.
Senator RosseII favored the loval support OF the
Government because the Government had never
committed any wrong upon Kentucky, and was
not responsible for the fears Of ScccssiOnists. He
was disguised with the cant about fraternal blood,
when the South Carolinians had done their best
To murder a kentuckian. He could tell gentle
Llrn lhdI hentlcky would 20 out IN blood. lie
could not be dragged out, he must be taken out
by lawful means or be taken out dead. The duty
OF kentucky was 70 protect the Federal Govern
ment until the sufferings under that Government
Were too grevious to be borne. He said revolution
was the only remedy, and yet the revolutionists
among US are III Il minority and claim 10 dictate
terms to the majority who are loyal to the Union.
He deprecated the efforts 70 sectiOnaliZe this con-
trOversy and iniame the Southern by untOunded
charges of agaressiOns and usurpation. These
appeals 10 pTejIdices affect neither our interests
nor honor, and he wanted some reason, why the
Government should be destroyed.
AFFAIRS IN EAST TENNEssEE-UNIoS MEx ARGUS
ISG.-ParSon Brownlow, Senator Andy Johnson,
Emerson Etheriige, Thomas \. r. Nelson, and u
host of others, are doing yeoman's service in
keeping East Tennessee free from the faint of Sc
cession. The position of parties there are the
same as in Western Virginia. and must work out
the same results. which is 10 ignore the balance
of the State and assume that the State authorities
have abandoned their functions, and organize a
Provisional Government, elect a Governor and
members of Congress, and 20 ahead. The State
authorities are n direct conflict with the citizens
of every county in the eastern section of the
State. Governor Harris has lately attempted to
ordering all volunteer companies not ready for
immediate service to return their arms 70 him at
Nashville. But the Union men understand the
game, and will declare themselves ready for ser
vice, while they will refuse To be marched against
the General Government. \ Louisiana soldier
in Tennessee gives indirect testimony to the Uni
on sentiment in Eastern Tennessee, which he
calls abolitiOnism. He has lately explored the
region of the State west of the Cumberland noun
tains, and writes to the New Orleans Crescent
that few persons in the State know how tho
roughly it is abolitioned. He says The sim
ple-minded mountain men, owning no slaves,
know nothing of the slavery, nor do they care
10 know. They have never suffered from the
treachery or ab0litionism; they have lived all their
lives under a Government that they believed the
hest and greatest on earth their abolition neigh
bors tell them that that Government is still the
Government of Washington, Jefferson and Jack
son, and they quite naturally hold as enemies the
men who would destroy it or replace it by an
other"