Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-17
A Kentucky Peace Congressman Dressed
down by Prentice.

A late number Of the Louisville journal
gives the following notice of speech, made
in Kentucky, 10y one of those wolves in
Sleeps clothing. who clamor for peace, when
among Union men, and for war when among
traitors. There are many of these interesting
animals in CALIFORNIA;:
Hon. II, C. Burnett. Of the First District.
addressed meeting ot rank secessionists in
Christian county, near the Tennessee line.
on Thursday last. The stand, on which he
stoke. was decorated with two big Confed-
crate flags, and large number of little flags
hutterei from many of the bounets and coat
hppels in an audience of six or eight hum
drcd people His speech was as iuilamma-
tory. sediious, aud treasonable as ever fell
from the lips of keitt or Yancey He eulo-
gizrd south Carolina as a bright pattern of
hcroisru, and denounced Union men as Abe
Liucolus dogs. He urged the people to
make armed resistance, if necessary, TO the
collection Of the Government tax He said
the leaders of the Union party in Kentucky
were guilty of themost infamous hypocrisy
and treachery that had ever diSgraced the
readers of any party lie abused the United
States Government in the most ferocous
terms, and declared that all the affections OF
his heart were eentered in JEFF Davis's Gov
ernment, as he aptly styled it, which he said
was the only government on this continent
where human happiness and prosperity were
secure, where life liberty, and propertywere
protected, where perfect freedom of person
and speech was guaranteed to all men, and
where no mans rights were invaded. The
whole speech, which the long winded Sena-
tor Of the First District took near three hours
to deliver, abounded with similar atrocious
sentiments and fragrant mistatemeDts and
misrepresentation When he spoke of the
battle of Manassas. he expressed deep regret
that the army which bore the United States
flag was not annihilated. lie was very vio-
lent in denouucing the German population,
and said that he would be unwilling to live
in the Southern Coutederacy unless foreign
ers were forever excluded from its borders -
Now is 1T not passing strange that this Con-
gresham, who busters and raves like a bed
lanite against the Lincoln Government, as
he calls it, should go the Lincoln Congress
and pocket Lincoln gold ? Is it not strange
that this flaming secessionist has no scruples
whatever Of making his living off Lincoln 5
treasury? Why, the fellow is standing
monument of the astonishing clemency and
federation of the American Government,
which permits man like himself an alder
and abettor of treason and rebellion, and a
perpetrator of treason and rebellion, to sit
and speak in its councils, and to draw from
its Golfers large salary. collected into the
national treasury from the earnings of honest
and loyal citizens. There was never, there
is not now nation in the world, republic or
monarchy, except our own. which would toll
crate such monstrous conduct as this Our
own Government ought not to tolerate it.
Burnett has no more moral or legal right to
touch one dollar of the money of the long
suffering people, whom he denounces as Abe
Lincoln's dogs and whose ruin and disgrace
he laOored to bring about, than his coadiu-
tors in treason, jeff Davis and Beauregard
Let lii go to that Confederacy, which he
eXtols as the most humane and free upon the
earth, and which the unanimous voice of the
world brands as the most tyrannical in the
history of despotism There he may console
himself with the reflection that no one can
retort 10y calling him Il dog, for he is