The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-16

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KILLED.
FLAG-sAIP HARTFoRD. Edward E.
Jennings, seaman, from Massachusetts.
RICHMOND George Alluslrum. ordi-
nary seaman, Thomas Fleritv, seaman.
ONmpA--Siephen II. Randall, seaman.
P1NoLA.--William II. Thomas quarter
gunner; Thomas Graham, landsman.
ScIoro.--Augustite Ellsworth, ordina-
~ seaman.--7.
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How 10 Ee.ist the GuerrtIIaa.
a stern necessity is on us-oue Of life
or death-and it has been forced upon us
most causelessly and wantonly by those
whom we were willing, yes more than
willing, to treat as neighbors and kins-
men. We must resist these reckless and
wicked guerrilla expeditions boldly and
promptly, If we would protect our lives,
our families and our homes. The ie-
marks of the Louisville journal are so
opposite that we copy them without mod
ification
The present murderous raid into Ken
lucky should arouse The whole body of
her loyal people. We cannot, in view of
the character Of our foes and the deviish
spirit that evidentlynow possesses them.
regard any portion Of this Commonwealth
as safe from the d6solating consequences
Of rebel conspracies We have heard,
and we have reason TO believe, that, even
in our city and throughout what are
deemed the most quiet and loyal portions
of our State, there are secret and OATH
| bound organizations of rebels, sending
and receiving and entertaining spies con
tinually, keeping arms carefully secreted,
plotting together how and when and
where to strike the most effective blows
against the Government aud its support
ers, and ready to take scyerally their as
signed places whenever in the opinion Of
their leaders the time for bloody action
shall have come. Therefore all Of our
friends, who, from their geographical po-
sition and the delusive stiffness around
them, have been unaccustomed TO think
themselves the most safe, should organize
and prepare to meet secret organization
and preparation. But there arc through
out tie State many places and very eX-
tensive ones in which the danger is UNI
derstood, because the number of the
rebels embOldens them aud renders them
less careful TO conceal their designs, and
because even now their fierce spirit breaks
often forth in Outrages of every descrip-
ton. In all such places our friends should
at once go TO work for their own protec-
tiOu. Where il is practicable, they should
do this under the direction of the u. s.
military authorities, and, where it is not
they should do it in cooperation with
each other. Every loyal man in Ken
lucky able TO bear arms should now be
Union soldier in the army or at home. If
a soldier at home, he should understand
where to offer his services at the first sig
! nal that they are needed. And the regu-
lar guards protecting the people in the
rebel districts should, we have no doubt
be forthwith and greatly strengthened
Thousands of loyal Kentuckians are now
going nightly to their beds apprehensive
of deadly assaults upon themselves and
their families before morning, and even
the light OF day brings TO them little
feeling Of security.
We have once or twice suggested, and
we take the liberty Of suggesting again,
that all persons under the slightest rea-
sonable suspicion of being reasonable
in their intentions or feelings should be
disarmed with perhaps proper compen-
sation, and their arms placed in the
hands of loyal men who have none. To
be disarmed is penalty which every
man should pay for being suspected by
his loyal neighbors in such frightfuJ
times as these, when, TO wait for positive
! proof might perhaps involve the most
fearful ruin and devastation.
We should be very sorry indeed if
aught we have here said were TO be taken
by any person in Kentucky as reason
or an excuse for not volunteering in the
service of the Federal Government in re-
! Spouse to the call that has been made for
more troops from this State The fact
that there is danger Of rebel raids and
| instructions in Kentucky, although a
strong and imperative reason why all her
! loyal men who stay at home should Ne
! prepared % do whatever they can in that
| position for the protection of their own
and the public safety, is no reason or
| shadow Of reason why they should re-
main at home instead Of going PROMPTLY
! into the Federal service, for. upon the
! vigilance of the Federal eye and the
strength Of the Federal arm, we can all
! best rely for the security we need Deep
! lY and earnestly devoted to having our
State saved from guerilla spoliations and
| devastatious, we would that every able
/ bodied son Of hers between the spec %
! flied ages were now enlisted as a FEEDER
| al soldier, for nobody need fear that the
| Government it the troops are furnished
it, will not guard every portion Of Ken
lucky against all kinds Of warfare, rcgu-
/ lar and Irregular The Governmentfully
| appreciates the dangers that exist in our
| State aud the importance Of protecting
/ her, and surely all must sec that she can
| be protected with incomparably more elf
] cheney by the Government having all
| the necessary means al command, than
by isolated individuals or companies on
| bands scattered throughout The State, all
/ intent upon the interests Of their respect
/ i've neighborhoods and having no co-op-
GRAFTON, or at best a very imperfect one,
with each other.
The general truth that we would i'm
/ press upon the minds of the loyal men
! Of Kentucky, is that in all events and
? contingencies they can best defend their
/ homes by enrolling themselves as SOL
diers Of the Union, but that IL extraor-
binary circumstances imporatiyely forbid
their enrolment they should, as solid ers
at home, do their utmost, by organiza-
ton and otherwise to avert the perils
with which our people are threatened
WuEBE ARE TIE CEowst--An old far
mer tells as thatitis a singular fact that
there are few or no crows now, i'm the