Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-01


YoUNG BRowN and Judge BULLOCK. The peo
pie of Indiana and the people of Kentucky are
neighbors, and are closely identified by the double
tie of consanguinity and common interests To
show the spirit which anmates the loyal citizens
of Kentucky, give in brief the speech of Hon.
JAMES GUTHRIE to, and the resolutions adopted
by the meeting:
MR.. GUTHRIE's SPEECH.
Events press upon us with haste, and we scarce
ly know what is to come next When Mr.. Lin
coin elected President, we all felt that the
remedy for a sectional President was in the Union
and under the Constitution. We knew we had
Senate against him, and hoped that We had the
House against him; and there would have been if
all men had stood at their posts as Kentucky has
stood. But certain States chose to take the rem
edy into then own hands, and dissolve their con-
nection with the Union South Carolina first, and
then seven other States followed. They have
organized separate government, and one exer-
cising governmental authority. Louisville spoke
early, decidedly and firmly against sectional
party in the Union and under the Constitution.
We had Legislature called; we have had
Peace Conference at Washington, and both failed;
the result of the deliberations of both Houses of
Congress failed to find remedy for secession.
The Peace Conference at Washington was equally
unsuccessful in solving the dangerous question.
Mr. Lincoln was naugurated. He gave us his
inaugural. Ii was construed az an inaugural OF
peace and as an inaugural of war. His chosen
friends did not know how to take it, and his OPP
ponents were divided as to its meaning. sus-
pected it, for, like the serpent, it spoke with
forked tongue. Cheers Then the troops were
TO be withdrawn from Fort Sumter, and then not,
but were to be furnished with supplies only.
Now in the action of the Southern Confeder
a,,If Nf NJ. plu fhaf frfa ~ h.atl
parties find excuses for them but when it was
the peace of the country, and the saving it from
war and bloodshed, then there should have been
no interference of etiquette to prevent such
dreadful calamity. Kentucky spoke as her states
men have always spoken. of conclation peace, ,har
mony, and final settlement But war has been
inaugurated Fort Sumter has fallen. The
President has issued a proclamation calling for
$4,000 men but he has not told US what he was
going to do with theml
Is he gong to retake Fort Sumter Is he
going to defend Fort Pickens If SO, why does
he congregate them at Washington
was at Washington when Lincoln came, and
it was like beleaguered city. We heard sounds
of martial music, the tramp of armed men, and
the roll of artillery. And now Lincoln wants
| $4,000 men, where every other President has
lived like American citizen, as we have lived
and walked, in perfect security among his fellow
citizens. We learn from the telegraph that State
after State is rendering men and money. Is the
party now in possession of the government go
ing to conquer the seven seeding States, aud
hold them as subjugated provinces If they
are, Lincoln should, like an honest man, have
told us in his inaugural, and some say he Is an
honest man.
In all these free States sending men and money
we hear no voice of peace, and after his legions
have drowned the South in carnage is there to be
no peace What is the end of all wars-peace !
| No free people were ever conquered until they
were exterminated. Why shall not the people of
America have peace before, rather than after war,
when its deSolating influence has blighted the
! land 7 | want Kentucky to take her stand tor
peace, cheers, and appeal to that still, small
voice in the North crying for peace. There are
religious men from habit, education and from pro-
! fession whose hearts, when Kentucky calls for
peace, will be reached, and whose voice will
reach the powers that be, and we will have peace.
| What spectacle present. a people that
have prospered beyond example in the records of
time free and self f-gOverned, without oppression,
! without taxation to be felt, and now going TO cut
each others throats and why Because Presl-
dents Lincoln and Davis couldn't settle the etl-
! quette upon which the troops were to be with
drawn from Fort Sumter.
| Kentucky is State IN this matter, on the bor-
der of the Ohio, with six seven hundred miles
oil coast bordering upon ONO lhuiaha ana I'M
nois-States with whom we have ever lived in
peace anu goo9 ieIloMsuP; !" u'.'e IN. M qu'''e
WIN sie' anu uie isS S,S ao % S,av ,ber hands
We n"'e "eAeu 'l,o DVu'i ~ o''! Wv"
i1r We ad sre1S stahe III tills I. e ,,n
'uey nave nor. we pe%i ml'i' Sill ~ p - 30
anu nave ho' Oeeli nedIe eei'eu w. Snli ~ ~
hearAehed 10 IN tne uih oI arms nele Sis - pe
on her own soil, fighting with neither section
ours VIII be heard by millions oil people oil the
] free states, who VIII hearken 10 Us ana say
why should there DE S'rlie between Us anu