The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1863-01-16
From the Richmond Va. Examiner, Jan 4th
Ex-Governor Morehead's Speech
in England.

We have before us, in the Liverpool
Mercury, Of the 18th of October, full
report of the speech delivered there on
the 9th of October last, by Ex.Gover-
nor Morehead, of Kentucky, to tho
Southern Club. We have heretofore
published from this speech its disclos-
ure of the interview between Mr.. Lin
coin, then President elect, and Messrs.
Morehead, Rivcs, Guthrie and others.
Nothing has appeared more damaging
TO LincOln's fame as an honorable man
than the statement Of that colloquy,
rs related by Gov. Morehead. The
portion of the speech preceding and
introducing that statement, we copy
below 1t places Seward by the side
of his chief in his deep humiliation and
disgrace:
The Hon. Mr.. Morehead, who was
received with applause, said: Mr.. Chair.
man and gentlemen, hope that it will
not be expected that | shall make q
set speech upon this occasion, for |
shall rather engage in col.oquil phrases
in detail OF such events as have trans
p rcd under my own observation, cas-
ually aIluding TO other matters in which
| AZ least feel II deep and abiding inter,
est. | think it not improper to say on
this occusiOn, that ! was not an origi.
nal SecessiOnlst. | was u Union man.
| desireu--and | speak now after to-
tai and entire change OF feeling on that
subject, what | know to have been the
sentiments ol my hearL-l WAS sincere
ly and honestly IN favor Of a perpetu.
alton OF the Union and of the ConSti-
tuition which our fathers gave ue; ! de-
sired to see that Constitution strictly
observed; desired TO see its principles
carried out, colding to the original
intention OF the trainers had been
brought up from infancy with love
and venCration for, and devotion to tho
Union; aud as | grew into manhood
and looked 1T tho magnificent country
before me, embracing every variety Of
climate, and saw it marching forward
under a Constitution and form of
government which ! was taught to be-.
lieve was the best in the world, | felt
an honest low OF prime and eXhl:ation
in saying
This is my own, my native land"
And | desired and prayed that that
Constitution might be perpetuated, and
that we might live unitod-one people.
(Hear, hoar) When Il sectional party
was organized, based upon geograph-
ical line, deoply y and distinctly marked,
and one great section, by means Of a
minority OF tho people, claimed to ex'
clude another entire section from all
participation whatever in their com
mon government, and when they seiz.
ed the reins of that common govern.
ment and throw it into an act Of hos,
tiiity against the social institutions OF
an entire section, | confess that it was
the most painful and trying event OF
my life. struggled against hope, and
endeavored to avert that which my
own sound Judgment told Inc was al.
most inevitable | was in Mississippi
when it secedod-my property is there;
| was iu Louisiana shortly afterwards,
in Tennessee, in one portion OF North
Carolina, and in Georgia.
My efforts during the entire pero
were to arrest, if possible, the attempt
to Sc, cr the Union, and to try within
the Constitution to obtain such guar
antees as would etfectually y secure The
rights and interests Of the Southern
section. With that view, when the
Legislature of Kentucky, in my alb
sence, elected me unanimously to go as
one of the delegates to the Peace Con-
ference, accepted tho offer and went
to the city of Washington, hoping, as
our old mother State of Virginia had
made the call, and as the slavchoIding
States that then remained in the Union
would send delegates, and perhaps
those in the North would also seno
delegates, that we might be able to OBJ
tain such guarantees as would avert
at least, a iraticidal war.
We failed in that. Every offer that