Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-05


eareors thtr Consstntien and fill true allegiance
bear to lis Government SC long as I am citizen
thereof.
The Court said: The Court receives with the |
veest satisfaction your remuneration OF allegiance
to the United States and your declaration that you
will bear true allegiance to the Confederate States.
You left the United States when the Consti-
tuition established by our forefat9ers ceased
to have existence within its limits. Iou
are welcome to the Confederate States where it
exists in fullest yigOr and most effective operation
The Court gives expression TO the confident be-
lief that the day is not distant when Kentucky, the
theatre of your distinguished usefulness as jurlst,
Kentucky, unclaimed and Free will, by her unblas-
ed suffrages in the exercise of her highest right
cast off the despotism of Northern usurpers, and es
tablish herself as one of the members of the Con-
federate States.
After which the Court adjourned.
We are persuaded that there have occurred but
few scenes more interesting than the one above de-
scribed. To be appreciated properly, the reader
should bear in mind that Judge Monroe had been
Tor some forty years aurist of great eminence had
presided in the District Court of the United States
for Kentucky for more than twenty years with
great credit to himself and most benefcisly to the
pubie-that he had been driven forth from his long
cherished home by the most ybominable tyranny
that the world has known, and that he is now on
his way to the State of Virginia, where he was
born and whose konored soil holds the sacred ashes
of dozen generations of his ancestors The whole
scene was pathetic and imposing IN the highest de
gree and all present together with the Court were
seen to be deeply affected.
twas a scene worthy to form of the most
imposing and captivating pages in the history of the
Confederaey of the South. A dramatic historian,
like MACAULAY, would illustrate and adorn the pro-
gress of this great revolution with the picture pre-,
scented by that venerable jurist just escaped from
the bloodhounds of the despot, who had driven him
from State in which he had lived the light Of the
law irreproachable as man, beloved by his cons
panions honored by his profession, and venerable
in years, voluntarily and proudly abjuring Rlle~
glance which no longer returned to him the rights
of citizen, but made him an obsequious slave, and
with all the dignity of one thus honored and re-
spected and conscious of his rectitude, appearing
in that presence, and with the pure eloquence of
truth Offering the remaining years of his life to the
service of the new Government, which had arisen
as the successor of the old Union it was in its
purer and brighter days. By this act, the genera;
bic Judge, now seventy years old, does not retire
from the responsibilities and duties Of citizen but
transfers them from the DespOtIsm of the North TO
the Confederscy of the South. Having two sons
and two graudsons in the service of the Confederate
States, he expresses himself ready to assume his
citizenship these States, struggling for their
independence, which includes not only his civil du>
ties, but every obligation that may devolve upon any
other citizen to defend his country against the in
vaders and to chastise them into justice.
It was a worthy of the painters pencil and
the historians pen and cannot fail to impress every
one with its imposing dignity.