Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-21
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE
CEN TRIAL COMMITTEE.
Il. 3. AM
W. HY SMITH.
G. K. WINSTON.
G. n. FoGG.
S. J.. FINLEY.
For Senator from Davidson County.
GEN. WASHINGTON BARROW.
The UniOnists i'm Kentucky Armed e
make War on their Brethren.

The UntOniSts I'm Kentucky Armed TO
make War on IheiF Brethren.
The Louisville Courier concludes lengthy and
animated article with the following significant and
important paragraphs. II will be seen that the Black
Republicans of that State have received arms, with
which TO make war upon their brethren and thus
10 inaugurate interrecne strife among that gallant
and chivalrous people. The bloody tyrants of the
North are not satisfied to invade our beautiful South
ern homes with their rufianly soldiery, but de-
termned that fratricidal strife shall commence.
Thank God Tennesseans were aroused in time
TO sense of their bloody and infamous designs,
and will henceforth guard every pass on their
frontiers TO resist with condign punishment
the traitors who attempt to transport any arms for
any other purpose than the defence of Tennessee
and Southern rights. Where is the boosted free
dom Of the United States, where the constitutional
rights of their people: Are they trampled down?
A tyrsnt and usurper is permitted to crush
the most sacred rights Of freemen 70 deprive the
militia of arms the use of which is guaranteed by
the Constitution and necessary to the existence of
freedom, and to place arms in the hands alone of
minions and myrmidons? What man, with one
spark of patriotism in his heart can hesitate about
his course in view of such facts! The Courier says:
A secret organization has been formed through
out the States, the members Of which are sworn TO
fight on the side of Lincoln in his war on the States
of the South. and are expected to embrue their
hands IN the blood of kentuckians If the people OF
the State should determine as they will determine,
70 unite their political destiny with the Confederate
States even their material destiny united with
these States.
The neootdtions of the cozspirators nth Lincoln
Bastard AtiQd. hare been successful; and arms by the
thousand are noso in the STATE and daily be ng received
by the friends Of the North here from the AdginStrd
ton.
This ia no idle surmise. 1t is fact Companies
of home guards in Paris and elsewhere have driven
every Southern man from their rank and are
armed by those who intend, unless successfully re
aisted to reduce Kentucky 20 the position Of Mary
land and Missouri.
Five thousand or ten thousand stand of arms for
the Abolitionists IN Kentucky reached Cincinnati
about the 10th inst, and portions of them were
shipped here on the 18th and others sent to Nays
vile, Paris, Lexington, and Georgetown
The guns shipped on the Kentucky Central Rail
road reached Paris at one O'Clock on the morning
of the 18th, and were at once taken charge of by
those waiting for them there and wagons were in
readiness 90 carry them to Georgetown and else
where
The object of this movement is 10 begin civil war
in Kentucky.
The minority, armed, paid, and fed by the usurp-
ers at Washington, 10 undertake TO coerce the
majority into submission to those who have 'sus-
pended " the Constitution, subvertiDg the Gev-
ernment and are building up consolidated despot-
ism instead of Confederated Republic.
This minority is TO be backed up by the rufians
Lincoln has mustered into service; and Il the ma
juritv should be driven to invite the Southern
troops to their assistance against these domestic
traitors and their foreign masters, it be well
derstood how Kentucky will indeed be made the
battle ground of conDendinG nations.
Let the consequences rest on the heads ,Gs
blight and curse dark and tirrible Of those who
are inviting the assistance Of the North to subugate
their own neighbOrs and fellow-citizens.