Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-30
UNION MEETING INKENTUCKY

UNION MEETING INKENTUCKY
Strong r. eaolutIOns and Plain Talk
tnE--Tho Negro Question HaMdleGl--
Bu1!ets for TrRitOrs--The Hoe for
White Men.
SPEECH BY COL. LEoNIDAs METcALYE.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazettel
CARLIsLE, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY.
April Ii, 1862.
AT a meeting of the Union men held in
Carlisle, Nicholas county, Ky, April IA,
the following preamble and resolutions
were offered by Colonel Leonidas Met
calfe and adopted, with but one dissenting
voice:
WHEREAs, Many persons have been gull
ty OF the highest crime that can be COM
mltted by man on earth, guilty of
treason against the best Government ever
invented by man, and have actually gone
forth from amongst US and Joined the ar
! mics of our enemies in time of war, and
| left here with the nvowed intention of re :
turning in a few weeks, to cut the throats
OF every Union man or ruu them across tho
Ohio river, and take their property and
others have taken Office in civil capacity
under the pretended Government Of the
enemy, and are thereby doing all their
cowardly souls would permit them TO do
against our glOrious:country:
Now, therefore, we resolve, that all such
persons shall never return and live in this
county, and We are resolved to use any
means whatever that ts required to prevent
their return, and will protect aud defend
any man or men that will drive them Off
OF use any other means to rid the country
or the world of such vipcrs
And all men who have been to the South
on real or pretending trading expeditions,
and did notion the armies of, or aid the
enemy, mast nevertheless, quit their trca-
sonHble talk, they must behave or share
the fate of other traitors. Symputhizing
with the enemy viii no longer 6e tolera-
ted. iil-tsis'f'F ID
Resolced, That any man who claims to
be n Union man, and ia cOlloguiug and
electiOneering with we'll known secession.
lists, and attempting to run for Office on
such grounds, We will treat as secessionists
and tools of traitors. ysi
W; 9; oDES, Chairman.
IL ~. GGunce,, Clerk. ..,5i s.
Col. Metcalfe spoke In favor Of the reso.
lutiOns, as follows:
Union men, loyal men, true men to your
country and her cause in the hour of peril,
let me warn you in time before the tyrants
foot is on yOurneck. lsn - Sc.
We, the people of Kentucky, have voted
three, times, and have chosen our position.
We have decided tkat we are part, and
willing part, of Tue United States. We
have exercised our great State right. No
tvraht dictated to you, that you should re.
main in the Union. No Congress or Leg
IslAture have ever said that you must and
shall remain In the Union where your faith
ers left you; but you have, after mature
deliberation, said through the polls, to
the sacred ashes of your fathers, that ,you
appreciate the heritage, and will perpetu-
ate it, defend 1t, die for it. But behold | a
real tyrant comes looming up in the South
ern horizon, but plainly, Enthusiastically says
to you, that Kentucky is necessary for
them, aud they will have it, nomatter what
you decide, or how you vote. Is that ty-
rauny? or is It submitting like honest
Democrats to the will of the people p
Sacred State rights iChere are you nolo?-
The forked-tOngued scoundrels tell you
that Lincoln hroaght on the war. Are
you idiots? Are you such consummate
fools that they can impose such stuff upon
| you? We're you SO lost to common sense
| as to bring on q war with them, TO prove
| fOs them that Kentucky was necessary for
them to have! No. you voted, and then
they invade your State, regardless of all
| their professions about State Rights, and
| At the same time that their hypOcritical
| leaders in the Sta'e are preaching peace,
gentle peace, the invader publishes to the
I world that theylintend to conquer you, CO.
cree you, subjugate you, or kill or drive
| you from your homes, and nUw in your
midst are set OF psTjured scoundrels who
hold office under this Government aud at
the same time in favor OF the South-in
| favor of the South doing what Why car!
Trying oAt all these threats. They sympR-
lthiZe with the enemy in time of war
What cord Of sympathy has been struck
Why, they wish and hope that your throats
may be cut, or you exiled from your eo1n-
try, and the invaders take possession.-
What else can they be sympathizing with
Tor tor3 Aud yetyoa permit these ayowed
traitors not only to live among you, but to
hold offices. Who Of you would have put
up with man that tsympathizes with Black
| Hawk or Santa Anna? Yet, neither OF
ithem ever attempted the sublugation OF
I Kentucky. You all know the advice given
| 10 celebrated pretended Union company,
/ by high official. when they refused TO take
the oath required of the Kentucky militia
He simply advised them openly of perjury.
| ''Oh take the oath boys Gays this Gym
ipathiEiug official, ''and cOnStrWe Il to sWit
4 gour otgn eOnseispees. They did; and
where are these pe1ured RcQundrels now
In the army of the so.Called Southern Com
federacy. They made their threats when
they LEFT here, that they would be back in
six weeksiat most, andWould cut the throat
! of every Union man here, or run him across
the Ohio river, but since they have found
that two can play at that game, some Of
them are attempting to sneak back and
claim the rights ofacitizens. Will you let
such thieves and would-be robbers come
amongst you againf mol moi Never lei