Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-22

Eeace Conference, Qeilk6TtQ an ADDRESS IN
Louisgille3in which be made strong appeal
for the Union and against secession-in the
course Of his address, lie used the following
langiage:
EFFECT OF SECESSION sSp THE pity OF KEN
TtdKE,
Under these heads, Mr. Guthrie remarked
The act of Louisiana in going out of the
Union was bold. There are now IN the valley
of the Mississippi ten million inhabitants, and
she has laid cat her scheme for taxing all their
outgoing and facoming trade for all coming.
time. In twenty years that valley Will have
twenty millions inhabitants, and in fifty years
more than hity millions; will they submit to
these exaetions?gTI SAY that act was a bold
thing, aud, Until these Questions are settled. I
am not for committing Kentucky to the South
erH Coniederaey, and until the free States say.
what they are going to-to ii The month of the
Mississippi river IS shnt TO them and their ex-
ports and tbeir imports are to be taxed
When We are naliing new alliances we ought
to inquire what are the conditions imposed
and the hazarIs incurred. If We join the
Southern seeding States, we shall be the first
point Of lsS,lilAieAt We and Tennessee will
have to bear .the bgunt Of the action for the
North will never consent to the surrender of
the mouth of the Mississippi We must {. u
slider all these things more earnestly than we
have set considered them. We have enjavei
safety in the Old L Lnion aud we have not been
oTerburdened with taxation suppose We Ill
vide on the slave line, We may have peace
We have heretofore lived we'll and peaceably
wi.h cur neigabors Of Ohio, Indiana aud III
nois for many years. True, they have taken
Of some Of our negroes, but VIC have raped
them on the knuckes for it and stood firm to
the Union. When We are border neighbors of
different Confederacies, if they take our ne
groes We viii retaliate by burning their towns,
and such scenes will occur as devastated Eng
land and Scotland for two or three centuries.
Il is "a fearful thing to contemplate, this in
auguration Of border war for ourselves and
our posterity.
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 prosperous border city
capitalists are careful and capital sensitive
places of in1es tlnent are sought as far into the
4 interior as poS5 ble. SO as to have outposts to
guard the possessions before foreign nation
can reach them. Suppose We join tile South,
One-half the goods sold here are manufactur-
ed north Of the 0hi0 river oar business men
make their commissions on Eastern manuac-
lures that coiae here but if we sccede the
Northern Confederation will lax these goods
as high as the British goods and this VIII give
the advantage to all The seaport towns of the
secediug South, aud break Us Of Louisville mp.
Our security is 10 stand in the Union firmly
and see how the thing vii! turn up. We now
command boih the Northtrn aud Southern
markets, aud can gain nothing by any change
/ What is the reatiou OF Kentucky and the
! Border States 10 the Southern Coufederacy?
tat the Peace Conference all the States had
been withiu the Union and represented here.
we might have demanded all onr guarantees
from Cousress, had we not been deserted by Il
controlling majprityol the Senate and House,
and thus compelled to stand alone in asserting
! our rights. e-mould have been 50 strong hat
il would Lave been impossible for Congress TO
resist, for We should have had then weight
. in The Free S;aleS that Individually we did
lot have, ! think the Gonffderated States
: too weak ofs,and alone, and that the Free
States are ready 10 grant everything required
10 make the Union perfect but wretched
party feeling has interferel with the patriotic
j eadeavers WHICH should have settled he contro-
versy and tue only way to reach ibese poliii-
ciaAs is tAinagh The people apd 1ihcy, vii
it. .i. o5a i.. -..ss..,r -r. .-.t. 80.
s5 bfa#
We bay had agi;aiiQn en }ugh, let rs 7ait
until August, when We Lave CoHsFessmen
AID a Legislature 20 eicct- Linc9n, u The
GleanwhlleaiFEoi going 70 make war op ths
! SS5ufbz; EppSfess siiJ net Lass fqrce 'a% he
I has Lo arIRy aud no. means -or authority 70
[ rJjse al4 army he CAN'T cuile ct the rcveERc
! Oh the eefap, Js5r he laws dp upi au+tlprize il,
! and cNen bis ogyn party in Congress id not
! fu}lish Oiep.i rRHls, or lnaney, OF auihoriz>
ahseo! eiit4l9f FefepFe in ssccoiiHg r. rs, 10
bring q: a civil war. Hiz hands were tied /;
! IL vas hotil 10 keep the peace and listen to
thc Eoier Il theyt mofiealt 4att ion.- vaeu cries
+ cat, "I.carr ma. blocd!' Il is interesting to
/ know why the F6fce 1;iif, ana th /, law for ne
collection Of the rcvehue were not passed
I The Democrats ;i1 Old line Wings of Con
! necticut hcld mes ings and 4, niahdesl peace
and IN Pthusytania also. both parties recon-
nendcd pacific measures in their conventions
and SO the Force Bill and 'oercive MEASURES
| were arrested aid postponed III n'deferenre to
| the popular sentiment for peace know
/ many men who voted for Lincoln who are for
! peace, and opposed to war as much as or
any other man in the land can be- Mr.. Lin
coin is an honest man from all learn; he
was not my candidate, and if God lets me live.
! l will never vote for a sectional Presidential
1 candidate; man mast be all for the Union,
and march nudcr the flag of the Union and
| for the Union, before he can get my vote
But Mr. Lincoln viii be restrained. even if he
were otherwise inclined, by the voice and will
Of The American people, ana there will be no
war unless they Disregard all law and Consti-
/ tuliou and are the most bloodthirsty wretches
/ in The world, which do not believe. Why
arm theIa and put the State to great expense?
/ There is going TO be no civil war the North
and the South are not going to fight each
other; we are not going to fight the seeding
States. and they are not going to attack US
! And why call Convention? There is no
good 10 grow out Of ii. There arc periods in
I the life OF individuals when God numbles them
/ 10 make them cohtfite, and there is in national
existence TOO time TO endure with patience,
aud now the lest salvation of the country de-
lnands tat We shall stand firmly by its flag
and take advantage Of events as they may oc-
cur in the future.
OFFICE SEEING IN THE SOUTHERN CoNFED-
ERAcY-0ne of ahe,mauy clerks who resigned
their Offices here from patriotic" motives, and
went to Montgomery toltenler their services
to the Southern Cenlederacy. has written to
his friends here that that Government is "no