Year: 1861

Use which the Constitution has beer
Iodden DOWN. Are they to subjugate th,
buthern States, and make them conquered


oyiRcesP think know something o.
Iat people--somewhat of the daring, in
hpid, and determined spirit with which
Icy have gone into this matter, and l sol
hnly declare that l do not believe thqt


the power of the North, strengthened


d cemented as it is by the fanatical el.
pent against slavery, can never conquer
lem. by no means under estimate the
Iavery of the North. I know that they
e brsye-that they will fight calamity
lat they have the prestige of the stars
id stripes on their side--and that in all
IIspeets they have greater resources but


people imbued with one spirit, as the
Aople of the South now are, lighting as
icy feel they are fighting, for all that is
cred TO them on earth, can never be con-
Isred.


Mr.. Burke in his speech on conciliation
ith America, truly says that where sla-
ry exists in any part Of the world,
hose who are free are by far the most
oud and jealous of their freedom. Free
I'm is to them not only an enjoyment, but
kind of rank and privilege. They are
luch more strongly, and with higher
I'd more stubborn spirit, attached to lib


sy. In such people the haushtiness


domination combines with the spirit of
sedom, fortifes and renders it invinci
e. But if conquered, what then? The
ganization of the General Government
mot be maintained without the co-ope-
ton OF the States. Can you compel this
r-operation2 When you have conquered
Duisiana, or any other seeding State,
n you compel her to elect Senators and
representatives., and if not, what would be
r position? IF the object of embodying


army of two hundred and fifty thousand
9n is not to subjugate the South, what is
for? Is it to recover few worthless
rts or to wreak the vengeance engen-
,red by sectional hatredP Is an ocean Of
ood to be shed and the gulf between the
,ctions to be so deepened and widened as
, be forever impassable, in order to dc
hat we can do as we'll now? But for this
orrible condition of things, there would
ave been eight slaveholding States seek
redress within the Union and under
10 Constitution. But four more have
one out, and four only, including Della
are, are left, with the iron heel of militia
coercion on two of them. Under these
circumstances, what ought Kentucky tc
o? My solemn ceeviction is, that the
rst and most important thing is to dis
,rd all past party feuds and agree to be
nited on one common platform. IF there
G those who think that Kentucky ought
o withdraw and unite her destiny with
he South at once, and take her share Of
he responsibility and danger of the step
hey ought to remember that the people
lone can decide such question, and thai
nder existing circumstances it is almost
+ not absolutely, certain, that it would
i've rise to civil war among ourselves. On
he other hand, the people of the State
ave decided, by large majority, thai
ientucky shall, during unnatural war
maintain strict and impartial neutrality
md stand prepared to enforce it against
,ither beligerent who shall violate it,
he refusal of the Governor to furnish
roops to fight our brethren of the South
as been almost unanimously approved
nd both parties seem now to agree to the
ommon platform of neutrality.


During my absence from the State,
as nominated, and, with elevemother gen
emen, elected by the people of Kentucky


delegate to the Border Slave State Con
ention. l was not in the State during
ne period of the stirring and startling
vents which have covered the whole coun


y with pail of darkness. and have had
opportunity of expressing my opinion,
oon them. Finding, however, an ad


'ess from gentlemen composing the Cen


al Committee of the party which elected


e, approving in strong and decided terms


action of the Governor in refusing thu


lota of troops demanded by Mr.. Lincoln


I'd stating what should be the presen


1sition of Kentucky, | am willing to en-


orse that address, and in my action a
elegate conform to the policy there indi
ated. l especially and cordially agre
the following extract from that address


What the future duty of Kentucky ma,
oe, we Of course cannot with certaint
foresee, but if the enterprise announces
in the proclamation of the Presiden
should at any time hereafter assume tn
aspect of war for the overrunning an
subiugation of the seeding States, thfoug
the full assertion therein Of the nations
jurisdiction by standing military fOres
we do not hesitate to say that Kentuck
should promptly unsheath her sword j
behalf what will then become the commo
cause. Such an event, ii it should occur
of which we confess there does not appea
to us to be rational probability, coul
have but one meaning meaning whic
a people jealous Of their liberty would b
keen to detect, and which people worth
of liberty would be prompt and fearless t
resist. When Kentucky detects thi
meaning in the action of the Government
she ought, without counting the cost,
take up arms at once against the Govern
ment Until she does detect this mean
ing, she ought to hold herself independen
of both sides, and compel both sides