Year: 1861

We give the following extracts from our South |
ern exchanges to show the state of feeling in
Kentucky and Tennessee. The Nashville Union
of the l7th says:


SEcrssiox-There is no longer a question of
secession to be wrangled about by men who, |
though one in heart, yet differed about words.
The Constitutional Government of the United
States is this day at end by usurpation of the
tyrants who hold Their councils in the White
House. We owed allegiance TO the Constitution,
not to the man in whose safe keeping it has been
temporarily confided. Tennessee and her citizens
owe no obedience 10 usurpation. Loyalty to our
State, TO rights, our own interest, makes it
our bounden duty to resist the tyiants mandates
who dares command US to do an unlawful or un-
constitutional act.


Tennessee is to-day, by the act of the Presi
dent and his Cabinet absolvej from all allegi
ance TO the government OF the tyrants who have
usurped powers which belong neither to them nor
to the Congress OF the United States, nor to both
combined Ours is government of the people
Our fathers were too je lOus OF Their liberty; they
had paid too high price for it ever TO confer
upon u SINGLE man the WAT m king poweg, and
still less the power OF making upon the peo
pie OF the severe. .gn States which compose the
Union.


The late Congress, Black Republican as it was,





of the South, dared not do the deed Their
coward hearts quailed before the storm of public
indignation which awaited such an act of
usurpation that which single man, n the
madness of the hour, has dared TO perpetrate.
His viii be accursed so long as liberty has
a votary on earth.


TREAsoS.-The Federal Court commenced its
session in this city yesterday--Judge Humph-
reys presiding In his charge to the grand jury.
the judge maintained the ground that Lincoln's
proclamation unconstitutional !. that the
Governor should disregard his requistion upon
this State for volunteers to coerce the seeded
States and that the jury should find true bills
for treason. He also maintained the ground that
in the present collision between the North and the
South there Is such thing as treason. and that
parties taken on the one the other side should
be held as prisoners and not as traitors. We trust
the Judge will furnish this charge for publication
The resolutions last nj Sht Indicate an earnest
ness of purpose not easily mistaken. The citl-
zens of Nashville at one of the largest meetings
ever convened at the Court house, have declared
| for immeiiate action without reference u what
other States may do, and such is believed to be
/ the general voice of the whole State. Tennes
see feels fully competent to determine for herself
what position she will take in the present crisis
She hopes that every other Southern State will be
prepared to adopt boldly, fearlessly and immedi-
aieiy tle only wise ALTERNATIVE now lelt. but let
Others do as they may, she has made up her mind
for veal or for woe, to share the fortunes of her
sister States, against whom this perfdious war
has been waged.


The Louisville Courier of the same date says:


No. The enterprise announced in the procla-
nation of the President, has assumed the as
pect of war for the overrunning and subjuga-
ton of the seeded States'-it is a war for the
enslsvement of the people of the South-it is a
conflict which untes the slave States in com
mon cause'-it is an act of armed, unauthorized
and unprovoked aggression (Which people wor-
thy of liberty would be prompt and fearless to
resist''-and the time has come when Kentucky
"ought, without counting the cost, to take up
arms with the other saveholding States to main.
tain her sovereignty, to defend the rights of her
citizens, and to preserve their liberties!





If the Union is yet intact, if the Government
of the United States still exists, and if we form
a part of that Union and owe allegiance to thai
Government, then the action of Governor Ma
Coffin in refusing compliance With the roquisitior