Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

out accusation, but by the order of Presi-
dent Lincoln, was seized at midnight, in his
own house and in the midst of is family,
was led through the streets Of Louisville,
as am informed, with his hands crossed
and pinioned before him, was carried out of
the State and district, and now lies prison
er in fortress in New York hsrbor. & thou
sand miles away. Do you think that any free
Legislature, ever assembled in Kentucky
since the days OF Charles Scott and Isaac
Shelby, until now, would have permitted
such spectacle TO dishonor the Slater No!
Follow-ci:izens, the Legislature could not
have been free
1 would speak Of these things with the
simple solemnity which their magnitude de
msnds, yet it is difficult to restrain the ex-
preston of just indignation, while We
smart under such enormities. Mr.. Lincoln
has thousands of soldiers on our soil, nearly
all from the North, and most of them for
eigners, whom he employs as his instru-
ments TO do these Ehings. But few Ken
tuckians have enlisted under his standard, for
we are not yet accustomed TO his peculiar
form of liberty
Twill not pursue the disgraceful subject.
Has Kentucky passed cut Of the control of her
own people, Shall hirelings Of the pen receEt-
" imported from the North, sitting in grand
security at the Capitol, force public opinion
to approve these usurpations, ard point out
victims? Shall Mr.. Lincoln, through his
German mereensries, imprison or exile the
children of the men who laid the foundations
of the Commonwealth, and compel our no
bic people to exhaust themselves in furnish
ing the money to destroy their own freedom?
Never, while Kentucky remains the Ken
lucky of oId-never, while thousands OF her
gallant sons have the viii and the nerve to
make the State sing TO the music of
their riaesl The Constitution of the
United States, which these invaders uneon-
stitutionaIly swear every citizen whom they
unconstitu tionally seize, to support, has
been wholly abolished. 1t is as much for
gotten as if 1t lay away back in the twi
light of history. The facts 1 have enumera-
ted show that the very rights most carefully
reserved by il TO States and to individuals,
have been most conspicuously violated. And
this destruction has been accomplished not
by the President alone, but by the Congress
also, and with the approval of the North
ern States and people. They have delibe.
rately made the contests constitutional strug-
gle between so many millions on one side and
SO many on the other-o1e party fighting
for subjugation, the Other in self-defense
and for independence. Whatever may be
the future relations of the two confedera-
cies, the idea of q restoration of the Union
under the old constitution is wholly vision
sry and deIusive. If the North should con
quer the South, (which it VIII perceive TO be
impossible after few hundred millions
more shall be expended and few hundred
thousand lives lost, the character of the
Government would be radically changed
1t would probably not take the fern even
of a mixed gov eminent, but would soon end
in military despotism- II must soon he
come apparent to all thoughtful men that
the last hope OF constitutional liberty lies
in the early recognition of these great
truths-in an honorable peace and friendly
intercourse
Z You declared your purpose not TO engage
F in the war TO subdue the South, and that
you would be neutral and mediate in the
interests of peace when an opportunity
should offer. This is the recorded viii Of
the State as expressed By the people But
those who assume to represent you have viO-
lated that will They have attempted to
burden you with enormous taxes to prose-
cute war you abhor, and to sustain gov
eminent which has trampIed under foot ev-
cry safeguard of Constitution which was
the only bona of your political connection
with it, while they have allowed that gov
eminent TO cut you off from the only ave-
nues of trade which would enable YOU 10
pay these taxes They have invited mill
tary force of that government TO take pos
session of the State, and practically super
cede the State Government, and they have
seen, with eomplaeeney. these foreign SOL
diers seize, imprisOn and pursue
hundreds of your fellow-eitizens -fugi-
tives, without erime-oVer the plains and
mountains of Kentucky. In word, they
have attempted, without consulting you,
and against your recorded wishes, to place
you in active hostility to your Southern
brethren, and to fix your political destiny
with the North
whatever may be the condition or
motives of the members at Frankfort,
hey have exceeded their authority No
legislative assembly or other body, other
han one elected By your Sovereign Voice
or that purpose, has the right, in this great
evolution, to determine, finally, your polit-
al future. The people, although taken
surprise, and almost unarmed, have risen
} vindicate their wishes and expel the
orthern invaders. The eagerness with
hieh their aid has been invoked by those
no have plunged the State into her present
nhappy condition, is the strongest proof of
cir conviction that but for the presence of
csc soldiers, the action of the Members at
rankfort would be repudiated by the peo-
e, when the Northern invaders shall be
4 Mt back across the Ohio river. When the
ate shan be relieved of all troops from
road, and the people of Kentucky, by q
II election, shall determine their destinys/
viii be the clear duty Of every citizen 70
quiesce or to retire from the State.
For those who, denied by the Legislature
protection dueto the humblest citizen,
We been delivered over to the tender mer-
8 of foreign mercenaries, and hunted like
rtridges on the mountains, what remains
Imprisonment, exile or resistance? As
Of them, 1 intend TO resist. L will
Did conflict with Kentuckisns, except in
L ,essary self-defense, but will unite with
: fellow-eilizens to resist the invaders
o have driven US from our homes. To