The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-26

one OF us would come along, and whichev-
! eI IL might be, your name would be on the
STONE; But we loved the spot, and I know
YOU II love IT none the less when you see
me same quiet sunlight ingef and play
among the grass that grows over your
Laura grave. l know you will go often
alone there, and my spirit will be with you
then, and whisper among the v.aving
branches, 1 am not lost, but gone hetore.6
The Suppressed Volcano I'm Ken.
tucky.
| Kentucky was recently at the threshold
of a rebellion, inaugurated by her State
Executive against the Government Of the
United States. Governor Bramletta had
ance to the enrolment Of the blacks, and
pledging the support of the whole power Of
the State. When we reflect that IT,. Lead
ing feature of the whole secession plo: was
that, by forcing collision of arms between
the State and National authorities. the
states could, one after another, be rrecipi.
tated into rebellion, we may calcutta what
was expected of this precipitation. and we
shall see the extreme probability OF the cur
rent statements of a coincident plan of the
Confederates to invade Kentucky, and Of a
correspondence between the two. AL
Governor Bramlette could not but have
known that such collision as he was about
TO invoke, has been the inauguration Of re-
bellion in every State that has been carried
into secession. and he cannot escape the re-
sponsibility for this rrelneditatiOn. War
once precipitated between the State author
ties and the United States, Confederate CO.
operation was matter of course. and he
cannot escape the responsibility for the in
.ent, From what is known Of the immi-
hence OF this attempt, to doubt a corres-
pOnding Confederate plan to invade Ken
lucky, would be to make the impro bable
superstition that secession faction in Ken
lucky We're about TO plunge into a war with
the United States without Confederate aid.
They who choose may defend Gov. Bram-
lettes loyalty at the expense of his intel
lect, by affirming that he could not have
considered the inevitable consequences Of
the violence he invoked; but others less
reticent have declared the plan of opera
tions which was to follow, and by which
they fondly hoped TO make kentuck strike
a fatal blow to the Union cause If the
Governor has been reserved in speech as to
the nlteriOr course. tLeutenant-ti Governor
Jacobs has not. The communications of
the Army Of the West. being through Ken
lucky, were 20 be seized. The stoppage of
its supplies would force il to fall back to
The Ohio river. The rebel army would fol-
Low. and kentucky would be united TO her
Southern sisters.
The nature ofsecessionism is dest ruction.
We expect that the secession faction would
bring civil war into Kentucky if they could.
But now shall the people Of that State mea-
| sure the per.idy OF officers elected as Union
men, who have premeditated a rebellion
which, If it had gained any great headway.
would have made Kentucky the battlefield
OF two great armies, and turned its culti-
| waited fields and well stocked farms into q
scene of devastation. Kentucky has es-
capped this swift destruction because on the
| brink OF 1t the plotters become convinced
that the temper of the people Of Kentucky
was such that the attempt would be dam
gerous, and that the result was rather more
likely to be their own ruin ard Punishment
or execution, than the ruin ofthe State.
The occasion has shown that there is q
loyalty in Kentucky entirely different from
that lip-service to the Union which fur
nlshes facilities to treacherv: that there is a
popular power there which is not willing
70 rum the State to save slavery from the
burdens Of the war. When the rea. Union
own strength, and shall slough off that
treachery which pretenGs Unionism
there, while it finds its affinity in Cop
perheadism in the other States. then
they will control the State. The peril they
have just escaped, is enough to impress
upon them the danger of the policy Of elect
ing to power those whose ,Unionism comes
nearest Secessionism. For this. and for
all other honest reasons, ii would be wrong
to cover up the case through " ich she has
just passed, or to pretend that officers gull
ty OF this intention, are trustworthy Union
men, because on the eve Of execution thew
have qnailed before the moral power Of the
true men Of Kentucky N
AS TO the plot and plan Of operation. they
are such as only madmen, or men who as
an alternative would be content with the
destruction of their own State, could enter.
tain: Can any sane man suppose that an
undisciplined insurrectiOn in Kentucky
would seriously disturb the army in Ten
nessee? Or that the State would not be
overrun by the fresh swarm that the NORTH
ern hive would pour out upon such an oc-
casion? The greater the Roadway gained
BY such an insurrection, the greater the
obstruction 1t would bring upon the State.
East Tennessee and Eastern Virginia, but
It would not affect the ultimate result
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