Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-10-04
THE NEW GOLGOTHA.

| that this terrible civil war might have been
| avetted by timely concession aad compromise
on the part of the loyal States will not shut
their eyes to the spectacle now presented by
KENTUCKY. That State is the very home of
Concession, tie cradle of Compromise There
has been no gathering of compromisers in
which her Uniouists bave not been foremost,
no device TO fatter and placate Treason, to
which they have nos lent their best energies.
Up 70 this houF, though the people of Ken
tuaky have given overwhelming Union lnajorls
ties at three successive elections, they have
done nothing further. Their attitude has been
that Of neutrality between the Federal Gov
eminent and its rebel enemies; their Governor
refused Ri.h insult the Presidents reqnisition
for Militia TO defend the Federal Metropolis
from immedia tely threatened capture; and their
leading journal condemned the calling out of
segenfyvfve thousand men, even for three
mouths, to maintain the Federal authority
In short, Kentucky has pursued concllialion
10 utter disregard Of the dictates of loyalty
and OF patriotism. Her reward is invasion on
both sides by the Confederate forces and the
Inauguration of civil war destined to desor
late Der homes and de2astate her fields beyond
all American example. Kentucky has for
moDths shut her ears to tine call OF duty; she
Is compelled to open them to the pressing re-
quifeueEis of internal SAFETY She has per-
sisted in neutrality so long "a that would serve
the ends Of rebellion; bnt those ends now ex~
act. ber positive aid, with the possession of her
soil, and she is summoned TO ght or surren.-
DER 'THE SOUTH Wanfs ALL her oWn terri
tO1y, and must haze, it,'' such are the terms
10 which leading oracle of treason announces
to her that he: soil is not her own nor yet the
Nations, but belongs to power unknown TO
History or Geography, but Dow seeking to cs,
tabiisa itself on the ruins of the American
U1Ion. At tho beck of this power, Kentucky,
after her months of earnest, assiduous effort
for conciiation and peace I'm Is he's IL rent in
faction and on the eve OF being deluged with
her own blood. She has served as a screen
for the Rebels while they trampled out the
life Of East Tennessee; nov they are ready to
advance to the 0hioi aud keaiueky's xeitera-
ted UniUnism, ber useful neutrality, are treat,
ed with utter contempt. "The South wants
all her own territory:" what right has Ken,
ineky to call single acre her owDl # she
dare assert such right. let the roar of cannon,
the rattle of small -srms, awake her from her
deluslon; let the fash of sabers, the glitter
OF bayOnets, unseal her dim ewes. Kentucky
stands between the traitors actual position
and the realization of their mad dreams of
empire; so let her smoke end Lleed :ill their
baseless visions have been transformed iolo
sober resities Thus reason the miniens of
JEFF Davis, as they impel their hungry hosts,
invade her plenteous vsllies, and already the
wolves aud vultures of the AllegheuIes sunff
the grateful odor of human carnage arising
from those valleys, 20 rudely awakened from
quiet aud happiness to a demoniac orgs of
crime and wreichedness
Will Kentucky be able to repel her in
vadiDg foes? We fear not Immediately. They
are armed, drilled, aud embodied; she, long
warned, is wholly unpreplred. Her Governor
is blackhearted traitor; SO is the commander
Of her most formidable military organization,
the estate Guard" so are most of ,bose who
have for some years been her leading politi-
clans. While two-thirds of her voters a:e
Unio0ists, it is quite probable that msjnrity
of her fighters are Secessionists. Thousands
Of her Wild and reckless youth are already en-
rolled 10 the armies Of jeff Davis, while not
five hundred natives of the State have till now
shouldered musket for the Union But her
Unionists, as we'll as their enemies, will 5ave
outside help; Ohio aud Indiana feel an inter-
est in her attitude as well as Virginia ard
Tennessee. Kentucky is honceforth the arena
of desperate. desolating strife, which we
trust is not to close until after the expulsion
of her Rebel invaders aud the viudcation of
her tardy but earnest devotion to ths Union
Of our fathers.-.N Y. Tribune.