Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-22
peiivered at Lou,.vill0, syarerA 1o.

. Inc i4SUtSYiIIa JoHrRGt OF tile lSln
Inst, contains full report of a speech
delivered by the Hon. JaBes Guthrie
in that city, On the 18th inst, by invi-
.tation,, ca the State of the Country. II
is a strong appeal tor the Union and
against Secce$si0a. After speaking OF
the divisions ia the Democratic party
to which lie attributed tho election Of
Mr.. Lincoln, and showing that the policy
of the leas!eys in the Secession move
,ncnt at the South, was 20 legislate III
secret, and to withhold from the people
the privilege Of voting upon their Or
dinaneee, he referred to the Peace Con
ference, the action OF which, he said,
was satisfactory to the Border Slave
States, and granted all The guarantees
Necessary TO the interests Of, Or that
could be rightfnlly claimed by the
South. Upon tie effect Of Secession
and the duty Of kentucky. Mr.. Guthrie
remari; ed:
The ait Of louisiana ia going cut Of
The Union w:,s bold There are now in
the valley Of the Mississippi ten millions
inhabitants, and she has laid out her
scheme for taxing all their outgoing
and incoming trade for all coming time.
IN twenty years that valley will have
twenty nillous Inhabitants, and in fifty
years more than. fifty millions. VIII they
submit to these cxactions? I say that
act was a bold thing. and, Until these
questions are settled, am not for com
nitting Kentucky to the Southern Con-
federacy, and until the Free States say
Ehatt they are going to do II the mouth
of the Mississippi river is shut to them
and their exports and their imports are
to Ee taxed When VIC are making new
alliances VIC ought to inquire what are
the conditions imposed and the hazards
incurred. tive join the Southern Sc
cedins States, We shall LIE the first point
Of assailmcnt; We ard Tennessee will
have to bear The Lrunt OF, the action,
for the North will never consent to the
surrender ofthe mouth ofthe Mississippi.
We must conaider all these things more
earnestly than We have yet considered
them We have enjoyed safety in the
old Union and We have not been over
hurdcned with taxation. Suppose We di
vide on the slave l;ne, We may have
peace: We have heretofore lived well and
peaceably with our neishbors Of Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois for many years.
True, they have taken off some OF our
negroes, but We have raped them on
the knuckles for it aud stood firm to the
Union. When We are border neighbors
Of different Confederacies, if they take
cur negroes we will retaliate by burning
their towns, and such scenes will occur
az devastated England and Scotland for
two or three centuries. It is q fearful
thing to contemplate, this Inauguration
of a border war for ourselves and our
posterity. ia
Let us contemplate the POSITION of this
great and growing city Of louisville, If
it should be located on the border of a
hostile nation. There never was pros
porous border city; capitalists are care
full and capital sensitive; places of in
yestment are sought as far into the inte-
rior as possible, SO as to have oetposts
to guard Ike possessions before foreign
naticn can reach them, Suppose VIC
join TIE Soutil One-half tic goods sold
here are manufactured north Of the Ohio
river; our business men make their COM
missions on Eastern manufactures that
come here; but if we seccde the North
ern Confederation Will tax these goods
as high as the British goods, and this
will give the advantage to all the sea
Fort towns of the seeding South, and
break US of Louisville up. Our security
is to stand in the Union firmly and see
how the thing will turn up. Ne now
mand both the .%ortbern and South
ern markets, ard can gain nothing by
any change.
What is the relation Of Kentucky and
the Border States to the Southern Con
federacy? If at the Peace Conference
all the States had been within the
Union and represented here, We might
have demanded all our guarantees from
Congress, had we not been deserted by
a controlling majority of the Senate and
House and thus compelled to stand
alone in asserting our rights We would
have been so strong that it woutd have
been impossible for Congress to resist,
for we should have had then a weight
in the Free States that individually we
did not have. | think the Confederated
States too weak to stand alone, and that
the Free States are ready to grant eve
rything required TO make the Union
perfect; but wretcled party feeling has
interfered with the patriotic endeavors
which should have settled the contro-
yersy and the only way to reach these
politicians is through the people and
they will do it,
[ do not think it necessary to call a
Convention in Kentucky. Are we pre-
pared to 60 out until we know what
kind of Constitution we are going un-
der; to what kind Of feast we have
Teen invited, and until We see the pro-
crcss of taxation we shall be subjected
to? Wedonot want to stand with the bay
onets of the foe at our breasts, and have
nothing to do but.to act as the gaurd Of
cur allies. Some friend thinks that a
Convention should be called. l don't
think so. If it is called Kentucky will
vote it down. The farming interest of
the State viii be opposed to tive OF
Louisville are not all of Kentucky-the
farmers now have Northen market for
their beeyes and provisions, and as the
Southern Confederacy does not tax
these articles at all, the farmers have
both Northern and Southern market;
if we join the 'ssuth the North will i'm
pose taxes to protect their-- Northwest,
lecause We have gore out. The farmers
Of Kentucky understand this, know
where the market for their cattle and
produce is; in the Union they have
them 10th, North and South, but we
lose the Northern trade if VIC go to a
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