Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-06-20
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THURSDAY, JUNE 90, 1861.
KRNTUCKY,-THE UNION.


Unionists of that State, has occasioned
feeling of satisfaction in the North; such as
has not lately been experienced by our loyal
and iberty-loving people. But this satisfac-
ton has been quickened into bright and
lurid flame of enthusiasm by the letter of
Joseph Holt, the popular Post Master Cen
eral who was called to the Cabinet by Mr..
Buchanan in his great strait" to protect
him against the thieves and harpies with
which he was then surrounded.
There are none of our readers who will not
remember the change that so suddenly mani
tested itself in the councils of the nation
when Holt, and Dix, and Gen. Scott were
admitted into the presence of the President TO
aid BIN as far as possible in bringing back
to his hands the reins of government which
had 50 long been usurped and handled exclu-
siveIy by Floyd, Cobb & Co.
In the management of the Post Office De-
partment and in his course in the Cabinet,
MIR. Holt gave universal satisfaction to all
true lovers of the National Union, and to all
such as held a preference for plain, strait
forward honesty, over treacEery and deceit
But in our admiration of the honest, and APP
parently incorruptible man! who seemed
then, for time, to stand " faithful among
the faithless," we did not see the glow and the
fire of that pure patriotism in Dir. Holt, which
we now see, as exhibited in the letter which
we here refer to, and which has just appear
ed in the Louisville Journal.
In this letter Mr. Holt shows himself worthy
of the best blood of the best DAYS NJ the old
"bloodv ground ~ We regret tnat We can
not. with cur space to-day, give entire this
best appeal to Kentucky honor, and Ken
lucky patriotism that has occurred since the
DAYS when her time-honored statesmen incul-
Gated Union sentiments as the only true base
OF the liberty OF our nation. Let US, there
fore, cont, Mt ourselves with few extracts.
Is not this wholesome passage for the times
2 They have noted the course of public aft
girs to LITTLE advantage who suppose that the
election Of Lincoln was the real ground OF
the revolutionary outbreak that has occurred
The roots of the revolution may be traced
back for more than a quarter OF century,
and an unh0ly lust for power is the soil out
of which it sprang. A prominent member OF
the band of agitators declared in one OF his
speeches at Charleston, last November or
December, thar they had been occupied for
20 years in the work of severlng South Caro-
lima from the Union. When Gen. jackson
crushed Modification, he said it would revive
again under the form of the Slavery a9lta-
ton. and we have lived to see his prediction
verified Indeed, that agitation, during the
last Is or % wears, has been almost the entire
stock in trade of Southern pohucIans. Inc
Southern people, known to be generous IN
their impulses as they are chlvairIc, were not
wrought into a frenzy OF passion by the IN
temncrate words OF few fanatic ADohtlonlsts;
for these words. if left to themselves, would
have fallen to the ground as pebbles into the
sea. and would have been heard OF no more
Rrt II was the echo Of these words, repeated
with axaoreratons for the thOusandth time
by Southern politicians, in the halls OF Con
oress aud in the drlberatyc and popular as
seablu.., and through the press OF the South,
thai pr0duced the evaporation which has
proved so potent lever in the hands OF the
conspirators. The cloud was fully charged
and the Juggling revOlulonls's who held the
wires and could at will direct Its l9htnin2s
apneared at Charleston, broke up the Dem
ocratic Convention assembled to nominate d
candidate Ter the Presidency. and thus secur-
ed the election Of Mr.. Lincoln. Having thus
rendered this certain, they at once set to
work to brinr the popular mind of the South
to the point of determining in advance that
the election OF Republican President would
be Der s. cause for dissolution OF the Union
They were but too successful, and to tins re-
suIt the inactiOn and indeCislOn OF the Border
States deplorably contributed. When the
election of Mr. Lincoln was announced, there
was rejoicing in the streets OF Charleston, anu
doubtless. at other points in the South; tor II
was believed by the conspirators that this had
brought tide in the current OF their machln'
alton which would bear them on to victory
The drama of Secession was now open, and
State af.er State rapidly rushed out OF the
Union, and their members withdrew from
Congress. The revolution was pressed on
with this hot haste in order that no time should
he allowed for reaction in the Northern
mind, or for any adjustment OF the Slavery
issue by the action OF Congress or OF the State
Legislatures,
Would that we could see other lumlnou
lights of the Kentucky of to-day giving utter
ance to like honest sentiments. And VI
would, too that a 1.-THE Of the truth OF tn
following could enter into the minds Of tn
deIuded southrons who think that our advanc
ing armies are to be to them the march OF de
stroyers and avengers.
In speaking OF the situation of affairs at tn
close of the last session of Congress and of tn
time when Mr.. Llncoln entered upon his 9th
cial duties, Mr.. Holt says:
In view of these events and threatening:
What was the duty of the Chief Magistrate G
the Republic He might have taken co1n
sci of the revolutionists and trembled unde
Ahn;r rnenaces he might. upon the fall 9