Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-19
From the Ioulsville Courier, July le.h.

The Plot TO <ub5ug1te Kentucky.
The Cincinnati Gazdse urges each of the
| States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to have
a column OF 1O, 600 men in readiness to marcel
into Kentucky whenever the Union men
here ask for help to crush out the Secession.
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When we remember that months ago,
| Committee of Lineolnites from this city visit
ed indianapolis and asked the Black Republi
| can Governor of that State to send soldiers
here, this is. at this time, painfully and alarm.
ingly significant
We tell the people of Kentucky that there
is widespread and carefully prepared
scheme on foot among the friends of the Ad-
minlstration there and elsewhere to bring the
war TO their own doors and subjugate them
at the point OF the bayonet to an aecursed
| despotism, such as lords il over Maryland
| and until recently held undisputed sway in
| Missouri. 6. zt
If any one wants to know what thet min
ions OF tyranny have done in Maryland. and
what they will do here should this internal
conspiracy succeed, we invite their atten-
ton to the following extracts from a letter
from Baltimore to the New York Ereemaa's
Journal and Cdtholie R.gister. The writer who
is indorsed by that Northern paper as ga dis
tingCished gentleman and noble patriot, -
says:
Maryland is, and has been treated by Mr..
Abraham Lincoln and his satellites as a con-
que-sd prOOinee.
The right OF habeas corpus exists here no
more.
Trial by jury is denied US.
The right of keeping and bearing arms is
taken away. t4-
The right to security Of person and property
is gone
The right of self-goverhment is at an end
The right of free speech is lost.
Our constitutional rights and privileges
all the immunities that distinguish free men
from slaves, being thus wantonly overturned
our Chief City robbed of the best govern
ment it ever had, to be reduced again to the
control of the Plug Uglies-do you wonder
that the Federal power which thus despoils
and degrades us, Is most heartily hated? that
the Union feeling is dying out? that the peo-
pie of Baltimore and Maryland are but BIZ
ding their time to shake of the CALLING yoke
of Federal usurpstion and tyranny?
Since Mr.. Lincoln has taken to such bad
courses. and is every day invading our do
mestic privacy, stealing our property, rif1ing
our travelling trunks, lingering our letters
and tearing them open, trampliDg on the laws
of Maryland, and the Constitution which he
bound himself by oath to support, we regard
bin and his agents in these lawless proceed
ings as rebels. traitors and outlaws.
The Gazate says:
At the first outbreak of this, upon the call
of the Union men of Kentucky for help
against invasion, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
should each have a column of 10000 men
ready to enter Kentucky at aday's notiee,and
drive back the war from her soil, and with
her aid carry it into Africa. These troops
should be armed and equipped, and with tents
and means of transportation, ready to march
at the word, and competent to move independ-
ent of railroads, the dependence on which
has SO retarded the operations of our army in
Western Virginia. The large appropriation
of our Legislature for troops for the defense
of Ohio, contemplated this contingency but
we fear that SO many of these troops have
been diverted to Virginia that the provision
for our own safety is not equal to what the |
law contemplated. This deficiency can be |
soon supplied and it is now time that preps- |
ration should be directed to this particular |
In this city we have a strong military force |
under the name of Home Guards /
md Militia of the Reserve, and portion of /
t well armed. The reason for its formation |
las not before been so imperative it is |
low. and anything which is lacking for its /
complete organization and equipment for ser 1
rice should be supplied at once.
And the Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday, |
having probably been informed of the plot, /
Urges the organization of regiments of their |
home guards for immediate service .'in aid of /
he gallant Union men of Kentucky" II
avs:
1t may be well, however, to improve the
occasion to suggest the propriety OF the i'm
Mediate regimental organization of our home
guards, and of the preparation of large
upply of ammunition. While avoiding pu.
Unanimous alarms, be prepared for all posi-
BE emergencies. Cincinnati will not hear
he firing of hostile gun in this war. But
We may be called upon to aid the gallant
Union men of Kentucky.