The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-05-01
Union Meeting in Kentucky!
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Strong Resolutions and Plain Talking
THE NEoRo o QUESTION HANDLED
Speech by Col. LeOhidas Metcalfo.
Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.1
CARLISLE, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY, I
EH.. April Ia, 1862,

but one dissenting yoicei
WHEREAS, Many persons have booh guilty
of tho highest crimo that cun be committed by
man on earth, guilty Of treason against the
best Government ever invented by man, and
have actually went forth from amongst us and
joined the armies of our enemies in time Of
, war, and left here with the avowed intention
of returning in few weeks, and cut the throats
Of every Union man, or run them across the
Ohio river, and take their property; and
others have taken Office in civil capacity un e.
der the pretended Government Of the enemy,
and are thereby doing all their eowardy 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 arc resolved to use any means
whatever that are required to prevent their
return, and will protect and defend any man
or mon that win drive them off, or use any
other means to rid the country or the world
Of such vipers.
And all men who have been to the South on
real or pretended trading expeditions, and did
not join the armies of, or aid the enemy, must
nevertheless quit their reasonable TALK they
must behave, or share the fate of other trait
ors. Sympathizing with the enemy will no
longer be tolerated.
Res olved, That any man who claims to be
Union man, and is colloguing and election
ooring with well-known Secessionists, and at
tempting to run for Office on such grounds, we
will treat as Secessionists and tools of traitors
W. c. 0DEN, Chairman.
M. NJ. GAUSoE, Clerk.
Col. Metcalfe spoke in favor of the resolu-
tions as follows:
Union men, loyal men, true men 10 your
country and her cause in the hour of peril, let
mo warn you in time before the tyrant's foot
is on your neck.
We, the people of Kentucky, have voted
three times, and have chosen our position. We
have decided that We are part, and willing
part, Of the United States. We have ex-
ercised our great STATE RIGHT. No
tyraut dictated to you that you should remain
in the Union. No Congress or Legislature
has ever said that you must and shall remain
in the Union where your fathers left you; but
you have, after mature deliberation, said
through the polls, to the sacred ashes of your
fsthers, that you appreciate the heritage, and
will perpctuate it, defend IL, die for it. But
behold real tyrsnt comes Ioor,in g up in the
southern horizon, and plainly, unmistakably
says to yOu that Kentucky is necessary for
them, and they will have it, no matter what
you decide, or how you vote. is that tyranny!
or is II submitting like honest democrats to the
will of the peOpleg SAcREO STATE RlGHrs,
WHERE ARE you aow? The forked- d-tongued
scoundrels tell you that Lincoln brought on
this war. Are you idiots Are you such con-
s1mmate fools that they can impose such stuff
on you? Were you so lost to common sense
as to bring on war with them, to prove to
them that Kentucky was necessary for them
to haye7 No; you voted, and then they in
vade your State, regardless Of all their pro-
fessions about State Rights, and at the same
time that their fypoertieal leaders in the
State are preaching peace, gentle peace, the
invaders publish to the world that they intend
to conquer you, eoeree you, subjugate you, or
kill or drive you from your homes; and now in
your midst are a set of perjured scoundrcs who
hold Office under the Government, and at tho
same time are in favor Of the South--in favor
Of the South doing what? Why, carrying ont
all these threats. They sympathi1e with the
enemy in time of war. What cord Of syInpa-
thy has been struck? Why, they wish aHd
hope that your throats may bo cut, or you ex-
lied from your country, and the invaders to
take possession. What else can they be sym
pathizing with or for? And yet you permit
these avowed traitors not only to live among
you, but to hold Offices Who Of you would
have put up with man that sympathized with
Black Hawk or Santa Anna? Yet, neither of
them ever attempted the subjugation Of Ken
lucky. You all know the advice given to a
celebrated pretended Union company, by a
high official when they refused to take the
oath Required Of the Kentucky militia. lie
simply advised them openly TO perjury. ooh!
take the oath, boys" says this sYmpathizing
official, "and coNsTRUE 1T TO SUIT YoTR OWN
eoNscIENcEs." They did; and whore are
these peEjured scoundrels now? In the army
of the sO-caIled Southern Coniederacy. They
made their threats when they left here, that
they would be back in six weeks at most and
would cut the throat Of every Union man here,
or run him across the Ohio riYerj but since
they have found that two can play at that
game, some of them are attempting TO sneak
back and claim the rights of citizens Win
you letsuch thieves and would-be robbers come
amOngstyou again? sGoi mol Never let them
make the second traeNN In plain English,
shoot the traitors upon Nht. 1T is right
they are justly entitled to. Our Constitution
and laws arc for the protection Of loyal citi-
zsns, and not for the protection of our enemies
in time Of war.
An old villain, in neighboring county, went
OF with company of others last summer TO
the Southern confederacy, after doing all the
harm he could here, and he has also son now
a captain in the Southern army, and a son-in-
law that was there, but has sneaked back
among the Lincolnites here, and is now pris-
ouer. Well, the aforesaid old scoundrel was a
member of our Legislature, and arrived at
Frankfort, and did actually take his seat in
tho Legislature unmolested, and is now at
homo and permitted to remain there unds-
turbed, and military Union gentlemen, un-
derstand, telegraphed TO the forces near his
residence not to disturb him. Ohl his crime
and conviction are so sure thing, that 1t is
not worth while for the people to take him in
hand, and il seems also that his treason is so
plain that the officials think il not worth whilo
TO bother themselves about him in these busy
times,--HE Ii HAS MONEY.
U.C.'s are you asleep, and are you willing to
sleep with such copperheads, in biting distance
of your are you willing to have such seed