The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02
The New Golgotha.

We trust that those who have been insist
ing that this terrible civil war might have
been averted by timely concessions and COM
promises on the part of the loyal States, will
not shut their eyes to the spectacle now pre-
sented by Kentucky. The State is the very
home of concession-the cradle Of compro-
mise. There has been no gathering Of com.
promisers in which her Unionists have not
been foremost, no device to fatter and pla--
cate treason, to which they have.notlent their
best energies. Up to this hour, though the
people of Kentucky have given overwhelming
Union majorities at three successive elections
they have done nothing further. Their atti,
tude has been that of neutrality between the
Federal Government and its rebel enemies;
their Governor refused with insult the Pres
ident's requisition for militia to defend the
Federal metropolis from Immediately threat
ened capture and the leading journal con,
demned the calling out of seventy-fve thou
sand men, even for three menths, to maintains
the Federal authority. In short, Kentucky
has pgrsned Cancellation, in Utter disregard
OF the dictates of loyalty and of patriotism
Her reward is invasion on both sides by the
Confederate forces, and the Inauguration of
q civil war destined to desolate her homes
and devastate her fields beyond all American.
example. Kentucky has for months shut her
ears to the call of duty she is compelled to
open them to the pressing requirements Of
internal safety She has persisted in neu.
trality so long as that would serve the ends
of rebellion; but those ends now exact her
positive aid, with the possession of her soil,
and she is summoned to fight or surrender.
ssThe South wants all her own territory, and
must have it." Such are the terms in which
a leading oracle of treason announces to her
that her soil is not her own nor yet the Ma
tion's, but belongs to a power unknown to
history or geography, but now seeking to ess
tablish itself on the ruins of the American
Union. AT the beck of this power, Kentucky,
after her months of earnest, assiduous effort
for Cancellation and peace, finds herself rent
BY faction, and on the eve of being deluged
with her own blood. She has served as a
screen for the rebels while they trampled out
the life of Tennessee; now they are ready to-
advance to the Ohio, and Kentucky's reite-
rated Unionism, her useful neutrality, are
treated with utter contempt "The South
wants all her own territory" What right
has Kentucky to call single acre her own
If she dare assert such right, let the roar Of
cannon, the rattle of small arms, awake her
from her delusion let the fash of sabres, the
glitter of bayonets unssal her dim eyes!-
Kentucky stands between the traitors actual
position and the realization of their mad
dreams of empire so let hor smoke and bleed
till their baseless visions have been trans
formed into sober realities Thus reason the
;iliohs Of Of 5s G.. pasis as tney mpel their
hungry hosts to invade her plenteous valleys,
and already ths wolves and vultures Of the
Alleghanies snuff the grateful odor of human
carnage arising from those valleys, so rudely
awakened from quiet and happiness to de,
moniac orgy of crime and wretchedness.
Will Kentucky be able to repel her invad-
ing foes? We fear not Immediately. They
are armed, drilled and embodied She, long
warned, is wholly unprepared. Her Cover. over
nor is black-hearted traitor; so is the com.
maNder Of her most formidable military or
ganization, The rGsuaFd usEdd 50 are most of
those who have for some years been her lead.
ing politicians. While wo-thirds of her yo,
tsrs are Unionists, it is quite probable that
majority of her fighters are Secessionists.-
Thousands of her Wild and reckless youth are
already enrolled In the armies of JEFF. Davis
while not FIVE hundred Of the natives of the
State have till now shouldered musket for
the Union. But her Unionists, as we'll as
their enemies, will have outside help; Ohio
and Indiana feel an interest in her attitude
as well as Virginia and Tennessee. Ken,
lucky is henceforth the arena of desperate
desolating strife, which we trust is not h
close until after the expulsion of the rebel
invaders and the vindicatinn of her tardy but
earnest devotion to the Union of our fathers.
-Ne,c York Tribune.