New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-25
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That the chief of q real government should
le-delbefstey, shamelessy, atrociously-is
not unhappily, impossible nor unprecedented;
and we have no right TO be amazed when tho
autocrat of IN Oligarchic conspiracy against his
couatry aud the Rights Of Man is seen TO stoop
TO the base resort of more legitimate despots.
Yet the dignity which pertains to sovereign
authority is such that even sham ruler ought
to refrain from dealing in ialsehoods that all
the outside world will readily detect, ana only
his own blinded, swindIed dupes can be e1-
uected to swallow. That Jefferson Davis, in
his Message which we herewith publish, has
defed this obvious rule, let these undeniable
truths establish;
The State of Kentucky had been for some
years under Democratic rule when the Slave
holders Rebellion was inaugurated, as her
vote for Buchanan and Breckenridge and the
and Powell and Breckinridge as L. S. Senators,
suffice 10 establish. True, her last Electoral
Vote was cast for Bell and Everett, but only
through the division Of her Democracy between
Douglas and Breckenridge. That her Govern
or, her l.. S. Senators, and in fact her State
Officials generally, were secret if not open
sympathizers with Jeff. and his rebellion, their
disoyal pretense of neutrality and Gov. Ma
eoflin's insulting, defiant response to President
LincOlns call for Militia TO enforce the laws
and maintain the Union, abundantly attest.
Not Unionst soldier set foot on the soil of
Kentucky prior to her State Election last
August. Even those Kentuckians who volun-
TERED in the face of the Governors protest,
to fight for the Republic, were, with sqeam-
shness hat we cannot affect TO admire, en-
cauped and drilled in Indiana, 50 as to give
no pretext for ofiense to the dislOyal State
authorities. Meantime, those authorities,
through Gems. Buckner and johnson, we're or
ganizng State Guard" in which all who
wished well to the Rebellion were enlisted.
who were either Unionists or indf-
icrent were drawn into this Guard" and
thus gradually nodded by surrounding influences
to the uses of treason.
Such were the circumstance under which
Kentucky held her State Election last August
Just long enough after the battle of Bull Run
TO have its effect most intensely felt. The
% State Guard" was in full operation, but rot
)ne Union regiment on the soil of Kentucky,
With the power Of the State in the hands of
NagofliD, Breckenridge, Buckner, Burnet d
Co., and with Virginia, Tennessee, and the
worst part of Missouri In good part inclosing
Ter borders. Yet the result--as all the world
an overwhelming Union victory.
Nine Of the ten Members Of Congress chosen
IRE Internationally for the Union, with about
hree-fourths OF the Members freshly elected to
he Legislature; aud that Legislature, 70
'hosen, by an unprecedented majority, has, in
pte of The jnsldlous wiles and desperate
'ilorts Of the Secession Governor, put the
State straight On the Union tack, squelching |
iagoffn's pretended neutrality, directing the
and payment of the heavy War
Tax imposed by Congress, and calling out
ientucky's proportion Of the Halt Million
'olunteers directed by Congress TO be raised |
or the defense Of The Union cause. Such are
he notorious, unienlable facts, IN the face of
Which JEFF. ordered the invasion of Kentucky |
y bis brgands who are now subjecting her
0 all tie horrors aud miseries of desolating