The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-07-24

BB-Fellow citi4ens of Kentucky, in a
few days you will be called upon to vote
for members of the State Legislature. The
election is an important one. Your mate
rial interests, the safety of your families,
and the honor of the old Common wealth are
involved in the issue The emissaries of
Davis have deceived you. You must aban-
don your neutrality and support the Union
without any conditions whatever. In many
counties along the river, where this paper
is read and circulated, men are candidates
for the Legislature on what are called
States Rights tickets" Be not deceived.
This is only another name for secession, and
the interests of Kentucky in the hands of
such men will be jeopardized. IF elected,
they will use their influence to bind your
State " hand and foot, and cast it into the
outer darkness of Disunion." Listen to the
Paducah Herald, the principal organ of
treason on the Southern Ohio:
6 Let us make the fight for the Legisla-
ture. Let it be done upon the fair issue of
Secession, or No Secession-to remain with
the Abolition North, or join the South--to
remain Slave State, or abolish Slavery.
Let rs be honest We all mean Secession.
Magofin means it. Breckenridge means it.
Powell means it. Burnett means it. We
all mean it. Then why not say so, and
come out and advocate it openly and hon.
estly ~
Scrutinize the character of the men pre-
scented for your SURFACES, and vote for no
man who is not for the Union and the Con-
stitution, as they are, without conditions or
restrictions. You achieved brilliant vic
tory in June, but at this election, more
weighty interests are at stake. The Legis-
drag Kentucky out OF the Union. 1t is
| your duty to elect true men and thereby
save your State from the desolating effects
of civil war. The time is short. Remem-
Der that every traitor is at work. Will you
Union men-be less jealous for the main
tainance of the Government than they are
for its destruction? viii you rot devote
the next ten days to your country, and see
to it that your neighbors are enlightened
upon this issue Be up aud doing. Ken
lucky should have Legislature of uncon-
ditionaI Union men, who will stand by the
Administration in this struggle with trea-
son. As your neigbbors and friends, we
are inherited in your welfare, and are watch
ing with anxiety the action of the traitors,
who, from Magofin, down to the editor of
the hand-bill published at Paducah,
are using their utmost endeaVors
to involve your State in civil strife.
The temporary reveFses of our Union troops
will stimulate your enemies to fresh efforts,
for your destruction. They have powerful
allies in Tennessee, who, regardless of your
safety, are endesvoring to precipitate civil
war in your midst Says the Memphis APP
peal of the goth inst. kentucky must b
redeemed from her thraEdom, by hard fighting
seith Southern 5ayonets, such as is now pro-
rug you' ana at the hands OF your Southern
brethren, and the secessionists in your own
MIDST, are the instruments with which the
Southern Confederacy intends to subiugate
you. While the Government has carefully
Fefrained from sending troops upon your
SOIL, the Memphis papers openly avow the
determination of the rebels to put you
down F" by hard fighting, with Southern
Oayonetsb and reduce yout now prosper
Gus and happy State to the condition of
down-trodden Missouri. (" The time has
arrived when you must choose between the
tyranny of secessionists, and the protection
OF the Government. Let no man be deceiv-
cd as to the ultimate termination of this
conflict Sooner or later the Government
viii crush out its enemies, and if Kentucky
70 iound on the side of the rebellion, she
"iii De among the first to feel the weight
OF the Federal arm; she may experience
the heaviest blasts --of the storm, before
which, the last vestige of this insurrection
viii disappear. We speak as to wise men, |
judge ye what we say"