The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-07


alarmed at these proofs of purpose to force Kentucky
into the war, began assemble in great meetings
and to demand loudly the promised neutrality The Wash
ngon goverr nent however, and its abettors in Ken
lucky osng their schemes 10 be ripe for execution,
resolved to have what they called "actse loyalty"
Abous this time tho leg stature met and the then
rapidly The camps were avowed to federal
camps. The gans which had been clandestrcly and
illegally introduced, now called out 10 maintain "aove
loyalty" Federal officers began TO swarm among u.s.
Every appliance &C corruption, every aluremont Of
bition was brought into pay.
Presently federal army was In possession Of large
portions OF the STATE and the conspiracy stood fully re-
Neaea, while tho people, whose only error had been their
generous oredulity, stood thoroughly betrayed u IS
known be- citizens OF Louisville, of all pares that ST
before that meeting Of tho legislature member Of the
Washington Cabinet said to prominent citizen OF Ken
tny that the position OF the State should not be main
tanned, that the government preferred hostility TO
tray and that kentucky must he compelled to support
the federal government in the Your wishes, fellow
citizens, had been spurned and you have been thrown
into this vortex by the government ut Washington aided
by their Kentucky sympathizers.
Tho pretended reason for the military occupation OF tho
Stato founded on the occupation Of Columbus by Con-
fedeghte troops is uncandid and false For, besides the
fact that the invasion Of Kentucky forcgonc
cluson at Washington and that camps of soldiers were
under arms In midst 10 invade tennessee, ii noo
rious that General Grant ef, Cairo to seize Paducah
before the occupation Of Columbus, while in taking the
latter place the Confederate troops anticipated the edc
raj troops by less than hour. For further proof Of
the nsncery Of the false camor about the invasion
from Tennessee the Confederate commander announced
your authorities that he occupied Columbus purely in
SELF defence and stood ready at any moment to withdraw
Washington government had right to invade the state,
is to say that had right to be neutral and to sub
NIT to the invasion from power which has ehacod every
vesgc Of the constitution would be TO bow IN tho dust
and surrender to a simple despotism.
II IS not necessary 70 gay much about e legislature
persons OF the citizens have either voluntarily or under
duress been engaged in sustaining tie usrations OF tho
federal government in passing bills OF pains and penal
ties to terribly spirited people into scrvude In dcpriv
ing the Governor OF his just constitutional authority ard
in abdicating their share Of the government by for
IN n federal
session Of the State, well loowing rs they did that
this military force would superscde the State govern
ment. OF that body nearly one-iourth have re
tired because Of the military occupation Of the
State, and the seizure, Imprisonment, pursuit and
of the State by that military force The voice Of these
members longer be heard in the councils Of tho
State their votes be taken The Legislature il thus
TO say the least OF IT,, mutlatcd department Ct tho
State government.
1t is true that there remains sufficient number for
quorum; but they freeY For when the federal 60
military possession of State its Legs
aturc must conform to the will OF the military chief or
be suppress sed, we have recently in the Of
Missouri, whose State government was dispersed and
martial law proclaimed and still later in the ease o. Ma
ryland, when thirty eight members Of the Legislature
seized and imprisoned the mere sus
pcion OF Intending to legislate at variance with
the with the will Of the military government
ment We cannet therefore, know that the public reso
carations OF their active will because VIC have the
strongest to believe that, not in accordance
with the will If the government at Washington they
would the fate Of tho Legislatures of Missouri and
Maryland On the other hand, VIC know that these
solutions and laws are in conflict with their public
pledge, and with the expectations Of the people,
1t is more charitable to belive that the members ut
Frankfort, majority Of them, actuated by fear
Of military rather than by perverse design to violate
the will OF their constituents and degrade the State to
tho condition which IL is attempted to bring down Mis-
senr,hen this view viii be found in attendant events
The resolutions they adopted the 8th Of september,
sanctoning the entrance of General Andesons forces
accompanied by declaring that person should
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of his political opinions Yet, the very day, believe,
that these resolutions passed the agents Of the federal
government seized the printing establishment Of the
Louisville Courier the only offence OF whose proprietor
that he criticized with freedom the usurpatons Of
tho government at Washington At the same time and
since citizens of Kentucky have been imprisoned
compelled to fly from their homes end families, against
opinions either unfrendly to Mr.. Lncons government
or friendly to neutrality. 1t is impossible to suppose
that free kentucky Legislature, in view Of recent
proceedings in other States, would have turned
this State to the Possessions of federal military
force or betrayed Tie psope by throwing ting State into
CATION or consented to the Suppression of the press or
Suffered, without outcfy that would have pierced the
sk.es, tile ndignities and ouraees which have been in
nctcd upon the people by federal soldiers. Fellow
citizens, you have to do now, not with this fragment
Of legislature, with its treason bills and tax bills
federal desposm and its woeiu neglect of every right
OF the Kentucky citizen; but you have TO deal with
power which resle cis neither constitution laws, and
which, If successful will reduce you to the condition Of
PROSTATE and bleeding Maryland General andersen, the
military dictator of Kentucky. in of his
proclamaens that he will arrest who does act
write speak in OPPOSITION to Mr. Lncon's government.
II would have completed the idea If he had added
think in opposition TO it. Look at the condition OF
State under the rule Of our new protectors They have
suppressed the freedom Ct speech and &c the press They
seize people by military force ufon suspicion ana
impose OH them oaths unknown 70 the Laws. Other oiti
zcns they imprison without warrant and carry them
Of the state that the writ Of habeas corpus Cannot
reach them.
Every day foreign armed bands making seizures
among the people. Hundreds q citizens old and Young
venerable magistrates, whose lives have been dstn
gshed by The love Of the people, have been compelled
ly from their homes aud families escape mpr sonmcnt
and exile the hands Of northern and German soldiers
under the orders Of Mr. Lincoln and his military subord
mates While yet holding important political trust,
conded by Kentucky was compelled TO leave my home
and family, or suffer Imprisonment AID exile. If it Is
is that would have welcomed an arrest 20 be
followed by Judge and jury; but yoa wei know that
would have been TRANSPORTED beyond the state to Ian
guish federal fortress during the pleasure OF the
oppressor Witness the fate OF Morchead and his Ken
lucky associates in their distant and gloomy prso6.
The Of the gentleman just mentioned is an
example Of many others, and it meets every Gle
ment in definition Of despotism. II it should oc.
in England it would be righted, it would
overturn the British empire He is citizen and
native Of Kentucky As member Of the Legisla
gress from the Ashland district, and Governor Of
the state you have known trusted and honorcd him,
eminent for his ability, his amabe character and his
blameless life. Yet this man. without indictment. with
warrant, without accusation, but by the order Of
President Lincoln seized at midnight in his own
house, and in the midst Of his family was led through
the streets OF Louisville as | informed, with his
hands crossed and pnicned before hmwas carried out
of the State nnd district, and lies prisoner in q
tress in New York harbor thousand miles away. TO
you think that any free legislature assembled in
Kentucky the days Of Charles Scott and Isaac Shell
by, until would have permitted sch spectacle to
d.shonor the State? No fellow citizens, the Legisa.
ture could not have been free
would speak Of these things with the simple soernni;y
which their magnitude demands yet is difficult
strain the expression Of just indignation willie smart
under such enormitics Mr.. Lincoln has thousands Of
soldiers soil nearly all from the North, and
of thcm foreigners whom he employs ~ his instruments
to DO these things But few Kcntuckians have enlisted
under his standard for not yet accustomed to
lis peculiar 70. m OF liberty.
I will not pursue the disgracesul subject. Has Ken.
lucky passed Of the control OF her people? Shall
hirongs Of the pen, recently imported from the North
sitting in grand security at the Capitol, force public
opinion approve these usrpations and point vic
tmsg Shall Mr.. Lincoln, through his German mercena
rlcs, imprson or exile the children Of the who laid
the foundations OF the Commonwealth and compel our
noble people to exhaust themselves furnishing the
money 10 destroy their freedomS Never while Ken
lucky remains the Kentucky OF old-nevcr while thou
sands OF her gallant hive the will and the nerve 10
make the State sing TO the music Of their rifles
The constitution OF the United States, which these in
vaders uncons utonaly swear every citizen whom they
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