Year: 1860

How KENTUCKY STANDs.-The defeat of Mr..
Breckinridge in his native State by MAORI
ty of ten thousand votes, established the fact
of Kentucky's devotion to the Union. Great
minds always leave their imprint on the
country which honors them. So Kentucky
Clay, always foremost to save when the Union
was in danger. But Kentucky, Maryland,
Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia, are bound
to the Union by ties of interest as well as
glory. As border States, in the event of a
dismemberment of the Union and the newt
able sequence of a civil war, they would have
to stand all the brunt of the battle tEev
would be shield and fortress of protection
to the States now so earnest in their efforts
to throw off the Federal Government. They
fully appreciate the hardships and peculiari-
ties of their position; and hence there is lit
tie danger but that each of the States above
named, will, upon calm reflection, adopt a
line of policy similar to that which is enun-
ciated in the subjoined resolutions, adopted by
a. ldi &c CuloH meetIHS recently Helu aL Lex
ington, Kentucky, the home of Henry Clay,
and presided over by his son, Thomas H.
Clay


Resolred, BY the people of Fayette county in Con-
vention assembled irrespective of party that Kentucky


in addition to the great national considerations which
attach her with unnchng fidelity to the Union. has a
peculiar and local interest in its preservation which
not felt by the Southern States that situated with the
gulf side of them and tier of slave States upon
the other Kentucky occupying central position in the
Confederacy is Shut out from intercourse with the world
except through the surrounding States She is therefore
dependent upon the Union for the right of expectation
and Importation for the right of ngres and eress and
being exposed for seven hundred miles free State
border she is dependent upon the Union for security


the possession her slaves and for the protection of her
people from civil That in opinion, the perlna
nent continuance of slavery in Kentucky depends upon


the continuance of the Unon and the ultimate peaceful
and profitable existence slavery the Southern States
depends upon the continuance of the barrier which the
border slave States afford them against northern
aggression In view of these great interests Kentucky
is compelled to maintain the Union and she appeals to
the South brave and ciyarous people, stand by
the Union, the only hope for great national pros
perity and the preservation peace of Southern
sttutions.


Resolred That the election of Abraham Lincoln to
the Presidency of the United States much as we shall
deplore the event, affords cause for dissolution of
the Union That is he is elected according to the Consti
tuition of the United States he will be- when inaugurat
ed rightfully its President and should be maintained
such by all true and loyal citizens of all sections


Res0ired, That under the Federal Constitution the
States possess right either to secee from the Union
to nullfy law of Congress constitutonally elected


Resolred, That far as depends upon lis, will
stand by support and uphold the Unon against all at
tack, from without within, and against all urdism
whether at the North or South"