Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-30
For the Daily Patriot.
Questions for Kentuckfans, either
---- Curious or HOneal. or both.


Questions for Kentuckfans, either
Curious or Honest, or both.
lst. What has become of the Fighting
letter. that Gen. Leslie Combs wrote to the
meek Greedy some eight months ago? 3D..
End. Would the General know that letter
Bird. What has become OF the declaration,
and as might have been thought, threat of Mr..
Crittenden in the United States Senate about
the time of Gen. Combs's Fighting letter" to
Greedy, that if his (Crittenden's) proposition
of Compromise or something equivalent was
not accepted by the North, that Kentucky
wonld be in the vortex of Secession in six
4th. What has become of CD. Prentice's
opinion, that Lincoln was .'fOol or guilty
hotspur ~ Am, 80 ,,,., s.l
5th. Is the same Prentice now iavoring the
war of that same "fooln or equity hetspur T' ;
! 9th. What has become of the letter of Robt.
j. Breckenridge to Seward, ins1 $50, charging
that he would by the conduct he was then
pursuing dissolve the. Union, and imploring
him and his followers to desist before ever
''the golden bowl was broken and the silver
cord was loosened, y and in conclusion de-
claring that Kentucky would STAND or fall
with her sisters of the South fss.s III ssft go
9TH. Is this the same Breckenridge that in
the June No. of his Quarterly shows the
North the @solema necessity of waging war
upon that same, South, points out Q path
through East Tennessee to the Kentuckians
that are to come under Sumter Anderson ssss
!. 9Th. Does this imperiotis and dogmatical
"preacherD, after planning and tencoura ging
invasion and war upon Tennesseans, the kim
dred of Kentucky, enter his pulpit as usual
and affect the ministry of that religion that
says, Blessed are the Peace-makersY,,, 1sr,s
9Th. What has become of the EARNED or
unarmed neutrality of Kentucky o. .s.sga
!. 10th. Does Prentice believe that 1t is dis
union completed" according to the STOOL" OF
guilty hotspur iss ..-il,' 49, i. 49, sss
Ilth. Is there any fool in Kentucky that
believes the Union of free consent ofsthe
States made by the. fathers is still nndisr
solved9 ssH1i lss4am s-''sssa4 10 49, -is''i
l2th. Have hot eleven States withdrawn
p
their consent I? sa.ia''-' s-s'-la 'ea iia'is
18Th. viii you assist with men or. money
in coercing consent? .,,,,.-.,, ls...,1,.,i- ssE'
18th. Can you coerce US without,extermir
mating or sabjugating u.s. - ,ses,sa - :. 20 h.
{. 18th. Do you wish to do either Q SO 5ss'a
= 10th. If you subjugate us, will you have
your Union az the fathers made IT. of equal
States, or will some members thereof zbe,
States and others Provinces S.-isa, ~ Ia s..s
Ia. How long. when you shall have made
such a new mongrel Union, will il be- It'll the
North will think Kentucky has acted the foot !
about something, as you now think oflns,
and SO rednee you too to q Prorincef -, %
!. 18th. IF the Southern Confederaey were
and the'wario over, how long would !,
1 be before Kentucky would knock for ad-
to us9 ssifis sisfaafisssi sst ~
= TofaciItste answer to come Of the above, !.
he writer subjoins the following Quotations
ouchiBg the Independence of the States and I
he right to coerce, - To coerce States is one
If the msddest projects that was ever deyis-
ID. The States eansneyer lose their, powers
I'LL the, whole people o.. America are robbed
Of their liberties. These must 20 together,
the States as well "a Individuals ars' boand'
by these laws; but the. laws of eongressre
to q certain sphere, end when they.
depart from. CHS sphere they. sfes 10 longer
supreme or binding. A law of-0ougren 70.
coeroe. . sovereign ststs Into sab1ission