Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1861-07-13
THE BORDER SLAVE STATES.
ADDRESS or THE
CONVENTION HELD IN FRANKFORT, Ky,
MAY17.

ADDRESS or THE
CONVENTION HELD IN FRANKFORT, Ky,
MAY ~.
10 tie People ofMe Uaited STATES.
FELIow CuRESs:-Ihe delegates to a Con-
vention Of the Border Slave States, assembled in
the city Of Frankfort desire TO address you in re-
lation to the present condition Of the country
None of us have ever expected to live to see
the spectacle now exhibited incur distracted land
The cry to arms resounds throughout our borders,
and in few short weeks we have seen oil over the
land the marshang Of troops ready for the conflict.
The pursuits Of peace are neglected and aban-
doned, and the fell spirit Of war has seized almost
every heart, until even gentle and tender woman
Yields to tho fierce impulse and encourages the
strife, and the maternal eye scarce gathers tear
as the son seizes his arms and rushcs toward the
field Of carnage and Of death,
II this warlke spirit-this terrible onorgy-were
displayed in preparing to meet the legions Of an
invading enemy our hearts would exult in the ex-
hibtion Of the martial spirit Of our countymen;
but Mas the cOmbatants are descendants Of sires
who stood side by side in the day Of BATTLE to
maintain the independence Of our country, and in
A. AHA. oo,A,ot huotho, Ia IN c,ll h, tho
,he apP.oushnls 'on'i''' ''o'"O' 10 w a'' " '"'
hana o' oro'"c''
Can we hope IN this day Of ierce passion, that
our voice, crying for peace will be heardi VIII
any pottrature Of the horrors Of civil war that we
can give, have my influence with those who are
rushing mady on to destroy each otheri We
fear not StatesWhich should have been with us
and whose vocp vonld have increased the notency
Of our demands for peace, have been seized viii
the prevailing madness and have rushed to arm,
h tha o,5, Will bova
@ sa' H Oau,o % d", I hon NC mon % sholl hoSoH ,h h
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p'0uu'oe' -.
All the slave States except Tour arc arraycd 4
hostility to the General Government and are de
manding that tho confederation which they hav
formed shall be recognized as a separate soverelg
nation The process by which they have attemp'
} ed to form themselves into distinct nation ha
been, for each State by itself to declare all cOnne
!. tion with the General Government terminated
' and then unite in forming confederation anon
themselves. :.
Our present purpose does not require us to dl
cuss the propriety oil the acts oil these States y
: it may be proper for us to say, that they lind
= warrant in any known principle OF our Cover
ment and no justification in the facts eIlstlT
when they seeded,
While these States claim that their sovereign
as nation shall be recognized, and have collect'
armies to make good their claim, the Governme
Of the United States insists that the ordinances
secession are utterly void, and that the Uonstlt
ton and laws Of the United States are still IN ior
within the seeded states Just as they are win
any OF the other states and to MAINTAIN TINS POI
ton armies are rapidly gathering on the borders
Sc the seeded States 49,.
llthere could 6o any intervention b., which
n ,x shedding Of blood and the desoatlon oil civil
" could be avoided the practical good sense oil
American people might discover some mode ol
justinIg the difficulties, winch would 90 alke nc
srable and beneficial 70 eotn the contenalng &: P