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A Group of Historical Facts, Show
ing the Existence Of Conspiracy
Against the Government in the
Northern States
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.

Correspondence OF lle CINCINNATI Gazette.
zaI.t CYNTHIANA, KY. Sept. 10.
On the Both day of August, 1862, the
Legislature and Governor of Kentucky
fed from the capital of the State to Lou
isville, where the Legislature again con-
vened, and sat about ten days thereafter,
and then adjourned to meet at Frank
fort on the ID day of Janury, 1863. Dur
ing the spring session of that body in
1862, a series of resolutions from the
Committee on Federal Relations were
reported and passed, defining the status
of Kentucky, and pledging all of the re-
sources of the commonwealth to the sup
preston of the rebellion. That the State
was to be invaded during the summer of
1862 was well known, and to the end of
providing for onr defense, the Govern
ment sent troops from Indiana, Ohio and
Michigan TO Kentucky previous to the
time that the Governor and Legislature
took leave of absence from Frankfort.
The troops that were sent here were
newly-raised regiments. and in the battle
near Richmond, Ky, were defeated by
the rebels under Gen. Kirby Smith, on
the 18th of August, 1862 ars,r
The rebel army Immediately afterward
occupied the interior and southern DOR
tious of the State, and threatened Louis.
vile and Cincinnati. Up to the time of
the departure of the Legislature from
Frankfort, not one word had been said
since the spring session about Federal
relations. Indeed, the resolutions on
that subject passed at that session COW
cred the whole duty and obligations of
the State, and left nothing further for
loyal men to say.
About the 25th day of September,
1862, the rebel General Bragg issued an
address from Camp Dick Robinson to the
citizens of Kentucky and the Northwest,
urging them to rally to his standard and
free themselves from the Lincoln tyranny.
That there were a great many disloyal
men in Kentucky who were waiting for
an opportunity to join the rebels. was
well known, and General Bragg had good
reason to call on them to Join his stan
dard by giving them an assurance that
he would be able to permanently hold
Kentucky and make it part of the
Southern Confederacy. His army .un-
der General Smith had been victorious
at Richmond in august, and he had
marched without molestation into the
interior of the State with fifty thousand
veterans from Tennessee.
after severe loss and frequent defeats,
had been compelled to abandon the
James river.
General Pope's army had been thor
oughly used up, and Washington was left
so exposed that serious apprehensions
were felt that the rebels would be able
by vigorous dash to take and hold it.
To the most courageous men the FEEDER
al cause looked gloomy enough, while to
the timid and those who were vibrating
between duty and disloyafty, it looked
desperate. To the latter class the circu.
lar of General Bragg was opportune,
and certainly had its effect, for the mo-
ment that the kentucky. Legislature as
sembled at the Capital in January, 1868
the chairman of the Committee on Fed
eral Relations introduced series of res
olutions denouncing the action and poll
cv of the Federal Government in many
| things that had been done prior to the
spring session of 1862, as well as after
ward-the whole concluding with a reso
luton asking for the assembling of {
Convention of Delegates to meet a
Louisville; the Delegates to be sen
! from Kentucky and the Northwestern
States, to prescribe terms of peace be
tween the United States and the South
ern Confederacy. Shortly after Genera
Bragg issued his address, several mel
who occupied eminent political position
in Kentucky and in the Northwestern
States, who he'd previously professed t
be in favor of the vigorous prosecutio
of the war against the rebels, immed
ately changed front, charged that th
war on the part of the United State
was an abolition war, and declare
themselves in favor of Withholding mean
for its further prosecution. Conspicl
GUS amongst those were Harney, Chai
man of the Committee on Federal r.
lations in the Kentucky House
Representatives Nat Wolf, a men
ber of same Committee; Voorhees, an
Hendricks, OF Indiana; Richardson ar
Storey, of Illinois; Vallandigham, Pc
dleton and others, of Ohio. The fac
relied upon, the arguments used al
. means of bringing about the resu
d which they desired, were singularly co
nate to those used by the champions
the scheme in the Kentucky Legislatur
Harney, Wolf s. Co having failed
r their project in the, House of Represe
:, tatives, aud finding that their obieC
L were fully understood, although artfu
,s q concealed under string of metaphysit
e. propositions, shortly afterwards pull
off their disguise and declared the
: selves to be Tor no more men and
more money to aid the United States
overthrowing the rebellion. Precis
the stand that Breckihridge and Burn
q q of Kentucky, and Valandigham
- Ohio, had taken in the Federal Cohgr
at the extra session in 1861. Breek
: ridge, Immediately after the adjournm
IS of that session of Congress, went wit
the rebel lines, and accepted the ct
rs mission of brigadier-general in Il
!" army. Burnett went into the rebel 5
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