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From the Bowling Green, (Ky.) Conner.
k POWERFUL DOCnSST.
Address of Hon. J. C. Breckruridgr.
To the People oj Kentucky :
By your representatives in the last Log
islature you conferred on me the com
mission of Senator in the Congress of the
United States. In March last, when niv
term of service began, the Union had been
dissolved by the withdrawal of seven
States, which the policy of coercion has
since increased to twelve States. At
that time a inaj >r:ty of the people of Ken
tucky still cherished the hope of a peace
fill reunion. Soon afterwards, when the
Government at Washington commenced
that series of usurpations which has now
left nothing ol the Federal Constitution,
and resolved on a war of subjugation
against the withdrawing States, to secure
union and brotherhood you determined
to take no part in the war, but to protect
your liberties oy a position of armed neu
trality. This decision was expressed by
a large majority of lire people at the elec
tion in May.
I had opposed this policy before the
election, but afterwards, in common with
the great mass of those with whom I had
acted, I acquiesced in your expressed will,
and have maintained it as the lixed atti
tude of Kentucky. In obedience as .1
supposed to your wishes, 1 proceeded to
Washington, and at the special session of
Congress in July spoke and voted against
the war policy of the Preidev.t and Con
gress; demanding in addition for Kentucky
ttie right to refuse not men only, but money
also to the war, for 1 would have blushed
to meet you with the confession that I
had puichased for your exemption from
the perils of the battle field, aud tbc shame
of waging war against your Southern
brethren by hiring others to do the work
you shrank from performing. Duriugtbat
memorable session a very small body of
Senators and Representatives, even be
neath the shadow of a military despotism,
resisted the usurpation of the Executive,
and with what degree f dignity and firm
ness. they willingly submit to the judg
ment of the world.
Their efforts were unavailing—yet tbey
may prove valuable hereafter as another
added to former examples of manly pro
test against the progress of tyrant'.
On my return to Keutucky at the close
of the late special session of Congress, it
was my purpose iinuiedi .tely to resign the
office of Senator. The verbal and written
remonstrances of many friends in different
parts of the State induced me to postpone
tbs execution of my purpose, but the time
has arrived to carry it iuto effect, accord
ingly I now and hereby return the trust
into your hands.
And in this connection, since the Gov
ernment at Washington has thrown a
drag net over the whole surface of society
to collect proof against individuals of con
nection with the Government ol the Con
federate States, and since a portion of the
Northern press has charged, that certain
private correspondence recently seized
at Philadelphia by the Federal authori
ties will convict me of political crimes,
I deem it due to you and to uiyselt to de
clare that I have not done or said any
thing inconsistent with the relations 1
have borne to the State and to the Fede
rai Government, or which could reflect a
stain upon the commission which I now
surrender.
I do not resign because I think 1 have
misrepresented you. On the contrary,
I believe that my votes and speeches in
the Senate have expressed your deliber
ate will as attested through the ballot box.
I resign because there is no place left
where a Southern Senator may si* in
council with the Senators of the North.—
In truth, there is no longer a Senate of
the United States within the meaning and
spirits of the Constitution.
The United States no longer exists.—
The Union i" dissolved. Fora time after
the withdrawal of the Southern States,
and while there is a hope the rupture
might be healed, it mighl be assumed that
the Union was not yet dissolved, and
such was the position of Kentucky, in de
clarlug her neutrality and offering her
mediation between the contending parties.
But time is now elapsed, and mighty
events have occurred which banish from
the minds of reasonable men all expocta
tion of restoring tbe Union. Coercion
has beeu tried and failed. The South has
mustered in the lield neatly as many corn
batants as the. North, and has been far more
victorious. The fields of Manassas and
Bethel, of Springfield and Lexington,
have marked w ith a terrible sauguiuary
line the division betw-een the old order
of things aud the new.
It is the light of Kentucky and her pecu
liar duty to recoguise these great facts
and to act on them. The constitutional
compact which created and upheld the
old Union is at an end. A large number
of the original and additoiial parties have
withdrawn from it. So large a nnmber
that its stipulations can no longer be exe
cuted, and under such circumstances no
court has ever decided a contract to be
binding between the remaining parties, or
attempted to enforce its execution. The
Constitution requires positively that each
State shall have at least one representa
tive iu Congress, but now twelve States
have none ; that gnch State sliali have two
Senators, but now twelve States have
none ; that ail duties, imposts and excises
shall be uniform throughout the United
States, but now iu more than one third ot
them none are or can be collected. Com
merce cannot be regulated between the
respective States. Uniform rules of natu
ralizatiou and bankruptcy cannot be
adopted. Post-offices and post-ioads, in
nearly hall the States have been given up,
and a preference is given to the ports of
one State over those ol another. Even
the election of a President has become
impossible. The Constitution is manda
tory on all tbe States to appoint electors,
and requires a majority of the latter to
elect; but more than one third of the
States refuse to appoint and hence no elec
tion can be made by the people. If the
election goes to the House of Kepresenla
tives the Constitution requires that at least
two thirds of the States shall he represen
ted in that body. The Constitution can
no longer bo amended, for it requires
three fourths of the States to concur and
more than one-third of the States have
withdrawn from the Confederacy. All
the safeguards provided by the States in
the instrument still farther to secure pub
lie and personal liberty have beeu des
troyed. Tbe three departments of tbe
Federal Government which were carefully
separated and their boundaries defined
have been merged iuto one, and the Preoi
dent, sustained by a great army, wields
unlimited power. The exemption of per
sons from arrest without judicial warrant,
the right of a citizen to have liis body
brought before a judge to determine the
legality of his imprisonment, the seemity
provided against searches aud seizures
without warrant of law, the sanctity of
the home, the trial by jury—the freedom
of speech and of the press—these and
every other precious right which ourfath
ere supposed they bed locked up iu the I
Constitution have been torn from it and
buried beneath the heel of military pow
er. The States made the Constitution,
placed rigid boundaries around that Gov
ernment and expressly reserved to them
selves all powers not delegated. 1 hey
did not delegate to the Federal Government
the power to destroy them—yet tne crea
ture has set itself above the creator. The
atrocious doctrine is announced by the
President and acted upon that the States
derive their power from the Federal Gov
ernment, and may be suppressed on any
pretence of military necessity. The gal
lant little State of Maryland lias been
utterly abolished. Missouri is engaged
in a heroic struggle to preserve her ex
istence and to throw off the horrors of mar
tial law, proclaimed by a subordinate
military commander. Every where the
civil has given way to the military pow
er. The fortresses of the country are
filled with victims seized without warrant
of law, and ignorant of the cause of their
imprisonment. The Legislators of States,
and other public officers are seized wbilo
iu the discharge of their official duties, ta-
tained, that the Government preferred
hostility to neutiality, and that Keutucky
must be compelled to support the Federal
Government in the war. Your wishes,
fellow citizens, had been spurned and yon
have been thrown into this vortex by the
Government at Washington, aided by
their Kentucky sympathizers.
Tbe pretended reason for the military
occupation of the State, founded on the
occupation of Columbus by Confederate
troops, isuncandid and false. For besides
tbe lact tliat the invasion of Kentucky was
a foregone conclusion at Washington,
and that camps of soldiers were under
arms in our midst to invade Tennessee, it
is notorious that Gen. Grant left Cairo to
seize Paducah befoie the occupation of
Columbus, while iu taking tbe latter place
the Confederate troops anticipated the
Federal troops by less than an hour.—
For further proof of the insincerity
of the false clamor about the invasion
from Tennessee, the Confederate cotmnan
der announced to your authorities that lie
occupied Columbus purely in self defense,
and stood ready any moment to withdraw
To say that the Washington Government
had a right to invade tiie State, is to say
that you had no right to be neutral ; and
to submit to the invasion from a power
which has effaced every vestige of
the Constitution, would be to bow iu the
dust ami surrender to a simple despotism.
It is not necessary to say much about
the Legislature. A majority of them, in
stead of protecting the lights and persons
of the citizens, have either voluntarily or
under duress been engaged is sustaining
the usurpations of the Federal Government
in passing bills of pains and penalties to
ken beyond the limits ot their respective j simultaneously with the Federal forces.—
States and imprisoned in the forts of the
Fedeial Government. A subservient Con
gress ratifies the usurpations of the Presi
dent, and proceeds to complete the des-
auction ot the Constitution. History will
; declare that the annals of legislation do
j not contain laws so itifarnous as those en-
I acted at the last session. They sweep
! away every vistige of public and personal
j liberty, while they confiscate the property
j of a nation containing ten millions of peo-
i pie. Iu the House of Representatives it
was declared that the ttomli should be rc
| duccd to “abject submission,'’ or their in
! stitutions be overthrown. In the Senate,
j it was said that if necessary the South
should be depopulated, anl repeopled
| from the North, and an eminent Senator
i expressed a desire that the President
| should be made a dictator. This was su
perfluous, since they had alieady clothed
j him with dictatorial powers. In the midst
! of these proceedings no plea for the Con
stitution is listened to iu the North ; here
i and there a few heroic voices are feebly
j heard protesting against the progress of
j despotism, but fer the most part beyond
i military lines, mobs and anarchy rule the
■ hour. The great mass of the Northern
i people seem anxious to sunder every safe
| guard <>f freedom ; they eagerly offer to
the Government what no European mon
j oreb would dare to demand. The Presi-
| dent and his Generals are unable to pick
j up the liberties of the people as rapidly
I as they are thrown at their feet. The
j world will view with amazement this sud-
! den and total overthrow of a Constitution
which, if respected, might have been tbe
The case of tbe gentleman jnst mention
ed, is an example of many others, and it
meets every element in a definition of des
potiain. If it should occur in England it
would be righted, or it would ovetfurn the
British Empire. He is a citizen and a na
tive of Keutuck}’. As a member of the
Legislature, Speaker of the House, Rep
resentative in Congress from the Ash
land District, aud tbe Governor of the
State, you have known, trusted and hon
ored him during a public service of a quar
ter of a century. He is eminent for liis
ability, his amiable character and his
blameless life. Yet this man, without in
dictment, without warrant, without accusa
tion, but by tbe order of President Lin
coln, w'as seized at midnight, in liis ow n
house aud iu the midst of his own family,
was led through the Streets of Louisville,
as I am informed, with his hands crossed
and pinioned beiore L:tn, was carried out
of tbe State and district, and now lies a
prisoner in a fortress iu New York harbor,
a thousand miles away. Does you tbiuk
that any Iree Legislature ever assembled
in Kentucky since tbe days of Charles
Scott and Isaac Shelby, until now, would
have permitted such a spectacle to dishon
or the State ? No ! Fellow-citizens, the
Legislature could not have been free !
1 would speak of these things with the
simple solemnity which their magnitude de
mands, yet it is difficult to restrain the
expression of a just indignation, while we
smart under such enormities. Mr. Liucoln
has thousands of soldiers on our soil,
nearly all from the North, aud most
of them foreigners, whom he employs
as his instruments to do these tbiugs. But
lew Kentuckians Lave enlisted under his
standard, for we aie not yet accustomed
terrify a spirited people into servitude, in i to his peculiar form of liberty,
depriving the Governor of his just consti- j I will not pursue the disgraceful subject,
tutioual authority, and in abdicating their j Has Kentucky passed out of the control
share of tlie Government by formally in- j ot her own people ? Shall hirelings of tbe
viting a Federal military force to take j pen recently imported from tiie North, sit
possession of the State, well knowing as j ting in grand security at the Capitol,
they did that this military force would su- force public opinion to approve these usur
percede the State Government. Of that pations, and point out victims l Shall
boa? nearly one fourth have retired be-j Mr. Lincoln, through his German mercena-
cause of the military occupation of the. j ries, imprison or exile tbe children of the
State, and the seizure, imprisonment, pur- ; men who laid the foundations of the Coin
suit an exile of many of the most eminent ! mouwealth, aud compel our noble people
and patriotic eitizeus ot the State by that j to exhaust themselves iu furnishing the
military foice. The voice of these mem-i money to destroy their own freedom ?—
bers can no longer be heard in the coun- j Never, ivhile Kentucky remains tbe Ken-
oils of the State, nor their votes be taken, i tucky of old—never while thousands ot
her gallant sons have the will and nerve to
make the State sing to the music of their
rilies ! The Constitution of the United
States, which these invaders unconstitu
tionally swear every citizen whom they uu-
constittially seize, to support, has been
wholly abolished. It is as much forgotten
Tiie Legislature is thus, to say the least
of it, a mutilated department of the State
Government. It is true rbat there remains
a sufficient number for a quorum, but are
they free ? For when the Federal Gov
ernment takes military possession of a
State its Legislature must conform to the
But this you and I know—that his con
duct will be controlled by pure motives
Your fellow-citizen,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.
Bowling Green, Ky„ Oct. 8, 1661,
Premonitory Miivtmrais.
If the rulers at the North are wise, or
even observant, [says the Richmond En
quirer.j they cannot fail to see the up
heaving of the masses against the suicidal
policy of Abolition leaders, temporarily in
power, have forced upon tliir people- A
general peace movement bas commenced,
formidable enough to command respect,
—tor in several States full tickets for
State officers, pledged in favor of a
peaceful adjustment of existing diffi
culties, have beon placed in the field
and they promise to demonstrate, through
the ballot-box, the existence of a minority
sufficiently large to command the respect
of the piudent politicians. The signs of
the times are unmistakable encouraging to
the Southern cause. Below will be found
the notice of a public meeting recently held
New York—at which speeches ot a very
significant character were made—as giveu
by one of the Abolition organs of that
city. The meaning of these, and of cor
responding movements, are apparent:
It appears that a deputation was sent
to the Mayor on a previous occasion, to de
mand, in tbe name of those out of work,
employment and money, ou the ground,
it was argued, that it is the duty of the
government and community to guarantee
to the working men the means by which
they can maintain their existence. This
formed the subject ol the discussion for
the evening. Mr. Mitchel reported the
result of the deputation, which was to the
effect that his honor the Mayor Lad very
courteously assured the committee that be
was willing to recommend their proposition
to the common Council for consideration.
This w T as considered by no means satisfac
tory, in-as much as speedy and instant
action was required, by furnishing em
ployment on the public works.
Resolutions were passed to the effect
that a modification and regulation of those
laws which affect tbe working classes is
required, and the emancipation of labor
from capital
^aattreru iltcorfitr.
vj
M ILL EL) GEVILLE:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1861.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
OK MISSISSIPPI.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
OF GEORGIA.
For CONGRESS—FOURTH DISTRICT.
Hon. A. H. KENAN of Baldwin.
Electoral Ticket.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE I
DAVID IRWIN, of Cobb.
THOMAS E. LLOYD, of Chatham.
district electors:
I.—J- L. HARRIS, of Glynn.
—ARTHUR HOOD, of Randolph.
9-—J. L. WIMBERLY, of Stewart.
4.—ED. McGEHEE, of Houston.
f>.—I. P. GARVIN, of Richmond.
6.—ISIIAM I ANNIN, of Morgan.
"•—O. C. GIBSON, of Spalding.
S-—JOHN RAY', of Coweta.
9. —H. W. CANNON, of Rabun.
10. —H. F. PRICE, of Cass.
ly'Ihe election of President and Vice-Presi
dent, and for Members of Congress, will be held on
the first Wednesday in November.
military chief or be suppressed, as we have i as if it lay away back in tbe twilight of
recently seen iu the case of Missouri, whose j history. The f acts I have enumerated
show that the very rights most carefully
reserved bv it to States and to individuals,
| boast aud safeguard of the United States , State Government was dispersed and mar
for many generations. When the bistori- j tial law proclaimed, and still later, in the
an comes to investigate tbe cause of this * case of Maryland, when thirty-eight mem
result, he will record the fact that no de- j bers of tbe Legislature were seized and
partment of the Federal Government lias j imprisoned on tiie mere suspicion of intend-
ever exhibited a case of aggression by the j to legislate at variance with tho will of I Congress also, alul with the approval of the
Southern States upon theii Noitliern as-! the military Government. We cannot, j Northern States and people. They have
have beeu most conspicuously violated.
And this destruction lias been accomplish
ed not by the President alone, but by the
sociates, and lie will trace the dismember
ment to the ignorance or the disregard
noon tbe part of the latter, of the true
principals of a confederacy, to long con
tinued and flagarant violations of the Con
stitution, to avrrice, fanaticism and gener
al corruption. Against all these usurpa
tions 1 protested your name in the pres
ence of their authors, and at the seat of
their power. I protested in vain, and
never again will I meot in conucil with
the usurpers.
And now fellow citizens, I am sure you
will pardon me if I add a few words in
reference to the condition of our State
and my own course. Tbe Constitution
of tbe United States has been destroyed,
! and by no act of Kentucky. The power
i she delegated iu that instrument to the
Federal Government had vested to her, and
any exercise of power over her by that
Government without her consent is usurpa
tion. Jn the wreck of the Federal sys
tem, she exists as an independent com
monwealth, with the right to choose her
own destiny. She may join the North,
she may join the South. She may poise
herself on her own centre and he neu
tral. Iu every form by which you could
give direct expression to your will, you
declared for neutrality. A large majori
ty of the people at the May and August
elections voted for the neutrality and
peace ol Kentucky. The press, the pub
lic speakers, tiie candidates with the ex
ceptions in favor of the Government at
Washington, so rare as not to need men
tion, planted themselves ou this position.
You voted for it aud you meant it. You
were promised it and you expected it.—
The minority acquiesced iu good faith and
at home and abroad this was recognized
as the fixed position of the State. It v'as
taken at the beginning of hostilities and
it is but reasonable to infer that every
subsequent act of outrage by the Washing
ton Government has confirmed your origin
al purpose. Look now at the condition of
Kentucky, and see how your expectations
have been realized, how these promises
have been redeemed !
First, by the aid of some citizens of the
State, arms belonging to tbe whole people
were illegally and secretly introduced by
order of j he President ami distributed to
one class of our people upon tbe false
pretense that they’ needed them for protec
tion against their own fellow citizens.—
This was the first violation.
Next, Federal military officers begun to
recruit soldiers and establish camps in our
midst, Federal money was lavishly expen
ded iu the Lope to demoralize and corrupt
the people. A studied system of decep
tion was practiced as long as possible on
the people. l or a time it was denied
that they were Federal camps, and it was
said that they ivere merely voluntary as
setnblies of Kentuckians for their own
protection and that of the .State. These
monstrous falshoods have since been free
ly exposed. This was the second violation
Previous to these events, the State
was in a condition of tranquility and
peace. No indications existed anywhere
therefore, know that tbe public resolutions, \ deliberately made tbe contest a coustitu-
or pretended laws of the tw o bodies, are j tionalstruggle between somauy millions on
one side and so many on tbe other—one
party fighting for subjugation, tbe other
iu self defense and for independence.—
Whatever may be tbe future relations of
the two confederacies, the idea of a restor
ation of the Union under the old constitu
tion, is wholly visionary aud delusive. If
tbe North should conquer tbe South,
(which it will perceive to be impossible
after a few hundred millions more shall be
expended and a few bundled thousand
the declarations of their active will, be
cause we Lave the strongest reason to be
lieve that, if not in accordance with the
will of the Government at Washington,
they would meet the fate of the Legisla
ture of Missouri and Maryland. On the
other hand, we know that these resolutions
and laws are iu conflict with thir public
pledges and with the expectations of tbe
people. It is more charitable to believe
that the members of Frankfort, or a nta
jority of them, are actuated by a fear of
military force, rather tliau by a perverse
design to violate the will of their constitu
ents aud degrade the State of the condition
to which it is attempted to bring down
Missouri and Maryland. If anything
were wanting to strengthen this view, it
would be found iu attendant events. 'Flic
resolutions they adopted ou the 8th Sep
teraber, sanctioning the entrance of Gen.
Anderson’s forces, were accompanied by
one declaring that no person should be
touched iu bis life, liberty or property on
account of his political opinions. Yet on
the very day', I believe that these resoltt
tion passed, the agents ol the Federal
Government seized the printing establish
ment of the Louisville Courier, the only j attempted to burden you with enormous
offence of whose proprietors was that they ! taxes to prosecute a war you abhor, and
criticised with freedom tbe usurpations of ; to sustain a Government which has tram-
the Government at Washington. At tliej pled under foot every safeguard of a Con-
same time, and ever since, citizens ol Ken- j stituiiou which was the only bond of your
tucky have been imprisoned or compelled i political connection with it, while they
to fly from their Louies aud families, j have allowed the Government to cut you
against whom there was no accusation but j off from the only avenues of trade which
would enable you to pay these taxes.—
They have invited a military force of that
Government to tako possession of the
State, and practically snpercoed the
State Government, anil they have seen,
with complacency', these foreign soldiers
seize, imprison and pursue hundreds of
your fellow citizens—fugitives, without a
crime—over the plains aud mountains of
Kentucky. Iu a word, they have attempt
ed, without consulting you, and agaiust
your recorded w ishes, toplace you iu active
hostility to your Southern brethren, and
to fix your political destiny with the
North.
Whatever inav be tbe condition or mo
STATE AID—COL. KENAN.
We but seldom if ever notice anonymous com-
uiuiiiciitiuns, but wts c'diuiot rcfisin from noticing
r _.._ , further tbaMhe community | one that appeared iu tbe Journal ,V Messenger of
is in duty bound to guarantee the welfare , * ast wee ^’ signed “Pulaski, that makes au irrele-
of each of its individual members, aud : ' ant attack upon Col. Kenan relative to his ideas
that certain social rights and guarantees oi ^ lfUL ‘ P°* ic T- ^he writer would invoke the pri-
are due to the workingmen, which they do j' at “ mterests of tiie citizens interested in the Ma-
not enjoy. A woikiugmen’s union has j c0 " Brunswick Rail Road, and thereby influ-
been attempted on a socialistic basis ; enee t * ie;r v °tesagainst Col. K. because he was
and it is asserted that in eight wards—the w ^ lie a legislator, opposed to State aid. The ques-
Seventli, Tenth, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, tKm before the voters of the Fourth District, is not
Eighteenth, Tweeutieth and Twenty-sec- what are the local interests of Georgia, or the opin-
ond—the socialistic ward clubs have beeu ions of this man or that man, upon those ques'ions,
organized. J but what are the interests of the Confederate
"TU 7* : States, aud whether if elected. Col. K. has the abil-
C ry of Alarm : I .ie Chicago I noune , itv and ca p ac j t y tu ren( j„ r efficient services to his
begin to fear that the liebels may pay j country. Unhesitatingly we answer he has, and that
that regions a visit. We Lope its fears, it would be to the advantage of the District to re-
may be more than turn him. ..s fai as w-e are concerned, we would
be pleased to see all of the old members re-elected
far as practicable. Local influences and preju-
wliicli seem reasonable
realized.
From a last number of that paper, we :dices forawLfiTat leasa shouid’be'laid aside, and
copy the follo wing : j voters raising themselves up to the true issues in-
We are not prophets of evil; but suppose wived,
that Fremont is beaten at Lexington by the I r^- A n esteemed'frkiZ^Uh whom in tormer
large a. my that lie is to encounter, what | days ofparty l1ivision it WM our good forta ne to
are the first and most obvious consequen- 'agree politically, has written a letter since the elec
ces of the defeat ? St Louis falls almost . til)n> lanient ing theresult, and expressing his opin-
witbout a struggle into the enemy a hands, ions freeiy . Ameagother thi he saj3> ^ have
ami we oi tins Mate wil be compelled to beeu for a , time sora , ieVed at Ul8 tone 0l
occupy ourselves with tiie defence of our
VJ ., i ,, , ; tiie old Recorder about men aud things,—men more
own sou. \Y ill any one tell us now we are .. ,, •
... , ,, . especially. Jakuigthis passage in connexion
to make head against any consideraule in- j , , tI , ,
j. f • r J a* t ■ x with other parts of the letf-: . the writer evident v
vadug forces acting from bt. Louis as the
base of operation ? There are not
j means to say that we have been too decorous and
i i . \ ,i i , . /» , , , ,i c ,,. ... . . ’ j formal in our method of dealing personally with
lives lost,) t lie character ot the government probably than fifty imlitaiy companies in', . , , y . J
■ j -. ,. i, , . , c ., , c . • • i , m , J i those to whom we are opposed m elections,
would be radically changed. It would prob- ; the State with full ranks, and perhaps not ^
that half number armed. There is not a
ably not take the form of a mixed govern
ment, but would soon end iu a military des
potism. It must soon become apparent to
all thoughtful men that the last Lope of
constitutional liberty lies in the early
recognition of these great truths—in an
honorable peace and friendly intercourse.
\ ou declared your purpose not to en
gage iu the war to subdue the South, aud
that you would be neutral and mediate in
the interests of peace when au opportuni
ty should offer. This is the recorded
will of the State as expressed by tbe peo
ple. But those who assume to represent
you have violated that will. They have
We beg to assure our friend, whose exception
we take in great kindness, that we have always
preserved au attitude of respect, even though we
j might severely criticise the acts of our opponents :
I nor can we be induced to depart from this rule,
| which we believe is founded ou both principle and
policy ; as by observing it we refrain from sacri-
j fieing our own self esteem, whilo at the same time
of holding opinions cither unfriendly to
Mr. Lincoln’s Government or friendly to
neutrality. It is impossible to suppose
that a free Kentucky Legislature, in view
of recent proceedings in other States,
would have turned this State over to the
possession of a military force, or betrayed
the people by throwing the State into the
arms of Mr. Lincoln, to be used for South-
subjugation, or consented to tbe suppres
sion of the press, or suffered, without
an outcry that would have pierced the
skies, the indignities and outrages which
have been inflicted upon the people by
Fedeial Soldiors.
to
battery' of artillery, a ball caitridge, nor
a-cavalry carbine in the State, unless at
Cairo; there are not five hundred mus
kets ot which an enemy should be afraid ;
there is not a tent, there is no camp equip-
page, there is not a baggage wagon. The
land is barren of everything save meu,
aud they have no training nor organize j "! best support our cIailDS to that of the public-
tion. AY bat, then, would' prevent tlic i " e r9teruur flienii to au ,n3lanc0 uf Ue kmd iD
march of a column from St. Louis to Cen- ! ^ late Gubernatorial canvass, where we examin-
traiiia, the destruction of the Illinois ! cJ tl*oingemons efforts of Gov. Brown to secure fa-
Central Railroad, and the cutting off of i vor t,ie l ,ul) fi c > * u what we considered a very
our forces in and around Cairo? What, in- j un <fff, r m6ed and inexcusable manner, since he an-
deeil would prevent the burning of Pen- .’Jounced himself a candidate for re-election. In
ria, Pekin, Quiney, and Ilock Island by j l»e>forniiug this duty, we did not spare what we
steamboat expeditions l Or what means J believed to be bis errors, which we exposed frank-
cuuld we adopted to make Springfield and i ly« and it may be with some degree of warmth ; yet
Chicago safe ! ; we carefully avoided personalities, and said noth
ing to otTeud him as a man, though he had descen
ded from his high position and made himself ob
noxious. As long as we may continue to publish
a paper, the rule thus laid down will influence oui
lative assembly' or other body, other than
one elected by your sovereign voice for
that purpose, has the right, in this great
revolution, to determine, finally, your po
litical future. The people, although taken
by surprise, and almost unarmed, have ris
en to vindicate their wishes and expel
their Northern invaders. The eagerness
with which their aid has been invoked by
those who have plunged the State iuto her
Fellow-citizens, you have to do
not with this fragment of a Legislature j tives of the members at Frankfort, they
with its treason bills aud tax bills, with have exceeded their authority. No legis-
its woful suhservieucy' to every demand
of the Federal despotism, and its woful
neglect of every right of the Kentucky
citizen ; but you have to deal with a pow
er which respects neither constitutions
nor laws, and which if successful, will re
iluce you to the condition ot prostrate ami
bleeding Maryland. Gen. Anderson, the
military dictator of Kentucky, announces,
iu one of liis proclamations, that he will
arrest no one who does not act, write or i present unhappy condition, is the strong
speak in opposition to Mr. Lincoln’s Gov- j es I pi'oot ol tLeir conviction that but lor
eminent. It would have completed tho! l he presence ot these soldiers, the
idea if he had added, or think iu opposi- j action of tiie members at Frankfort would
tion to it. Look at the condition of our' be repudiated by tiie people, when the
State under the rule of our new protectors. | Northern invaders shall be sent back
They have suppressed the freedom of across the Ohio river. When the States
speech and of the press. They seize peo j be relieved ol all troops from abroad, and
pie by military force upon mere suspicion, j Lie people ol Kentucky, b d ' a fair election,
f internal disorder. But now the people aud impose upon them oaths unknown to j shall determine their destiny, it will be
becoming alarmed at these proofs of a j the laws. Other citizens, they imprison the clear duty of every citizen to acquisce
purpose to force Kentucky iuto the war without warrant, and carry them out of ’
begun to assemble in great mass meetings | the State so that tho writ of habeas corpus
and to demand loudly the promised neu | can not reach them. Every day, foreign
trality. 1 he Washington Government ! armed bands are making seizures among
the people.
The Death cf Col. WashlRglou,
A letter in tbc Ciuciuatti Commercial,
gives the following, as the circumstances
of the death of Col. Washington, late of
Mount Vernon :
Ou Friday afternoon about four o’clock
a small scouting party was sent out
to reconnoitre on tho right branch of
Elkwater, which flows some miles upon
our right. They had not left the outer
picket post fifteen minutes, when a party
of seven rebel horsemen approached them.
The commander of the rebels rode ieis
urely a few paces in front of his escort, and
seemed totally unaware of any danger.—
Our scouts waited until the party come
within short range, when, from some inex
plicable reason, the coining paity took
the alarm, and suddenly turned their
horses heads to retreat. As they did so,
however the Federal party fired, and the
officer, who iu the retreat was iu the rear,
conduct, however much some of our friends, more
excitable perhaps, yet equally honest, may com
plain of our moderation. If we err at all in (his
respect, wo hope never to be betrayed into the op
posite extreme.
L# 1 ' While advocating the reenactment of the
Stay law by the Legislature, a writer in the South
ern Confederacy, who signs himself “A Crtditor, 1 '
proposes to amend it so as to li prcte.ut suits foi
the recovery of debts while the war lasts." A strong
reason he assigns, hut w e hope ho has been mism*
formed as to the facts ou which it is based. Ti e
present Stay law will expire by its own limitati- n
ou the first of December next, and all judgments
previously obtained may be then pressed into exe
cution against defendants. The editors of tbe Con,
federaey no doubt hold a resonsible name for the
following allegation of “A Creditor” :
Y'our readers are aware that a citizen ofFnlton
fell from the saddle. His escort fled, Ieav- | '? Vil » 5 ? ia -. caQ be as
• , , , , \ 7 well sued as if he were at home with his family,
tug their commander wounded and dying | The officer serves process by simply leaving a copy
upon the roadside. The Federal party ran j of it at the defendant’s “most notorious place of
however, and its abettors in Kentucky,
supposing their schemes to be ripe for
execution now r solved to Lave what they
called “active loyality.” About this time
tho Legislature met and the drama then
moved rapidly on. 1 he camps were avow
ed to be Fedeial camps. The guns which
had beeu elandestinly and illegally intro
duced, now called out to maintain “active
loyality.” Federal officers began to swarm
among us. Every appliance of corruption,
every allurement of ambition was brought
into play. Presently a Federal army was in
possession of large portions of the State and
the conspiracy stood fully revealed, while
the people, whose only error had been
their generous credulity, stood thorough
ly betrayed. It is known to citizens of
Louisville, of all parties, that just before
that meeting of the Legislature, a member
of tbe Washington Cabinet, said to a
prominent citizen of Kentucky, that the
position of the ^tato shoyld not be wain-
Hundreds of citizens, old and
young, venerable magistrates, whose lives
have been distinguished by the love of the
people, have been compelled to fly from
thir homes and families to escape imprison
ment and exile at the hands of Northern
and German soldiers under the orders of
Mr. Lincoln and liis military subordinates.
While yet holding au important political
trust confided by Kentucky, I was com
pelled to leave uiy home and family or suf
fer imprisonment and exile. If it is asked
why 1 did not meet the arrest and seek a
trial, my answer is, that I would have
welcomed an arrest to be followed by a
judge aud jury ; but you well know that 1
could not have secured these constitution
al rights. 1 would have been transported
beyond tho State, to languish iu some
Federal fortress during the pleasure of the
oppressor. Witness the fate of Moreh’ead
and his Kentucky associates iu their dis
tant and gloomy prison.
or to retire from the State
For those who denied by the Legisla
ture the protection due to tho humblest cit
izen, have been delivered over to tbe ten
der mercies of foreign mercenaries, and
bunted like partridges on the mountains,
what remains but imprisonment, exile or re
sistance? As one of them, I intended to re
sist. 1 will avoid conflict with Kentucki
ans, except in self-defense, but I will unite
with tny fellow-citizens to resist the iuva
ders who have driveu us from our homes.
To this course we are impelled by the
highest senso of duty and tho irresistible
instincts of manhood. To defend your
bi thrigbt and mine, which is more pre
cions than domestic ease, or property, ot
life, I exchange, with proud satisfaction,
a term of six years in the Senate of the
United States, for the inusket of a soldier.
This letter is written at the first moment
since my expulsion from home, that 1
could place tny feet upon the soil of Ken-
tacky. 1 have not beeu able to see or
communicate with my friend and col
league, Gov. Powell, nor do I know what
course he will thick it proper to take."-*
up to the wounded man, and found him
partially raised upon one hand, attempt
ing to grasp liis pistol. As they approach
ed, the dying man smiled faintly, and
said, “How are you boys ? give me some
water.” One of tbe party placed his can
teen to the soldier’s lips, but they were
already cold in death.
A litter was made, and tho body car
ried to headquarters, when an examina
tion of liis person was made. Judge, if| to " n ’ "L e rc Cornwallis surrendered the British
abode.’’ This done, the suit is legally commenc
ed. aud progreses as if the party had been at hone*
and were present in Court. I know instances
where plaintiffs have takeu advantage of the
absence of defendants, and run fraudulent, paid-
off notes and accounts iuto judgments the
defendants in Virginia knowing nothing of tbe
suits agaiust them, until their rights were 'conclud
ed by the judgment—and you are aware that a
judgment is conclusive.
l!T The 80th anniversary of the baitle of Y'ork-
you can, of the surprise excited when up
on his clothing was found the name of
John A. Washington ! Four halls had
passed through his body, two entering
either lung, and auy one inflicting a mor
tal wound. A flag of truce was sent the
next morning to the rebels offering to re
turn the body and all the Colonel’s effects.
It was met by Lieut. Col. Stark, of Lou
isiana, who was coming to our camp to
demand the tody. When told that Col.
Washington was dead, Col. Stark was
very deeply affected, and for some mo
ments was unable to speak at all. He
finally said : “Col. Washington’s temerity
killed him. lie was was advised not to
go where he did, but was ou bis first ex
pedition, and was extremely anxious to
distinguish himself.” Col. Washington was
attached to the staff of Gen. Lee as engin
eer.
As soon as cold weather introduces tbe
“packing season” there will be terrible
^laughter of Texas beeves, as twenty
thousand head of them are to be salte'd
down in Western Louisiana and East Tex
as to fill a government contract for beef.—
This mighty herd will make near sixty
t o isand barrels of beef, we suppose—
enough to ration a number of soldiers, and
their bides enough leather to solo many
army shoes.
forces to the combined armies of the United States
aud France, was celebrated by a large military pa
rade at Richmond, on the liffh inst. Gen. Magrn-
der with a large force, including Col. T. K. R.
Cobb’s Legion, and several Georgia Regiments,
besides Virginia and North Carolina troops, now
occupies the old battle ground, ready and anxious
to give Lincoln's men auotber Manassas affair.
Threats and preparations from Fortress Monroe
audits vicinity seem to indicate a blush in that
quarter, though the Federals linger slowly as if
they dreaded the experiment It is possible that
a bloody scene will soon be witnessed thereabout,
the issue of which will he glorious to our cause.
CW‘ Congress has provided by act of August liO.
1861, that where auy citizen of the Confederate
States has been deprived of his slaves or other
property by the United States Soldiers, he may file
the evidence of such loss, taken and certified be
fore a magistrate, in the State Department, to be
preserved for use as occasion may require. When
a treaty of peace shall bo concluded, fall compen
sation by the United States for ail such outrages
will have to be made, and the object of the law is
to enable persons to avail themselves of the proof
which can be made while the facts have just trans
pired, and the witnesses are convenient. We
think the law is well calculated to answer the
ends of justice; aud persons having claims cf
that nature should at once reduce them to proper
form, to abide the issue of negotiation at the epd
of the war.
EF’ When, in 1846, war was declared by t' a e
United States against Mexico, Mr. Thomas Cor
win, a Whig Representative in Congress p 0
Ohio, declared that were he a Mexican Ip
welcome our soldiers with bloody bands to Lo-vu
able graves.” This remark was freely quoted hi
the Democrats, to make the Whigs responsib /
because it was uttered by a Whig leader. Wb e
there was a great deal of fury in the expression, b
really amouutsd to nothing, except to break do*
the Whig party, a few members of which voted
against appropriations to carry on the war, and
among them Mr. Corwin was foremost. He
then a fanatic in disguise, bat has since thrown off
the mask.
This same gentleman is now the Minister of the
United States near the Government of Mexico, arid
has lately succeeded in obtaining permission f ur
the passage of Lincoln's troops through Mexican
territory into the Confederate States, over the bor
ders of Texas, with the hope of crippling us in thy
quarter. By this act. Mexico has violated ber neu
trality, and will have to account for it in the fatu- e
and Mr. Corwin has rendered himself doubiv hat*’
ful to the South.
GP Many years ago, Mouticelio, the residence
of Mr. Jefferson, was purchased by Capt. Levy 0 f
the U. S. Navy. That gentleman'being an alien
enemy, the property is forfeited to the Confederate
States uader the Sequestration act of Congress
for which the proper steps have been taken at fii-h.
mond. Mr. Auguste Belmont of New York, the
resident partner of the House of Rothchild. A Co
of Europe, also loses 5i!0 hogsheads of exce'len-
tobacco, worth $250,060. Several other Northern
meu. owning large tracts of land weilstocked with
slaves, are proceeded against, under the act,
Virginia where the officers are diligently at work
paying back tbe enemy after their own example of
confiscation. It is said that in New Orleans the
va.ue ot Bank stock, real estate and merchandise
belonging to “alien enemies” is not less than
812,000,000. Lincoln’s Congress took the initia-
live to crush the rebels, and the iatter in seif-de
fence have completely turned the tables.
UF Among the military classes heretofore, a
principle of honor was recognized, and the strictest
integrity was demanded, as essential to maintain
the profession of arms above all scandal, and to
give it pre-eminence in the estimation of the world.
When a soldier pledged his honor, he pledged his
life for the fulfilment.
But in this Y’aukee war upon the South, all the
former landmarks of honor have been wiped out,
One instance will be given at this time which
brands with infamy those w ho connived at the
crime. It is known that the Southern banks hare
had all their notes engraved at the North, where
the plates still remain, aud from which genuine
impressions can be obtained. These have been
issued in great quantities by the engravers for a
trifling or perhaps without consideration, and de
livered to the Northern soldiers, to be filled up
with counterfeit names and passed in the South, as
the progress of the grand army may permit. A lot
of these impressions ou the Bank of Camden,
South Carolina, was found amoDg the captured
baggage of the enemy at the battle of Chkcama-
coinico where Coi. Wright of the Third Georgia
Regiment routed the Federals with loss of stores,
arms, tents, Ac. If McClellan is in earnest lo
prevent all thieving in his army, he ought to have
every man shot w ho shall , ngage in this vile coun
terfeiting practice. It is a stain ou the military
life, and none but a Y’ankee freebooter could have
devised the scheme. We have heard of no Geor
gia Banks ou which this fraud has been attempted
thus far ; but it would do no barm to keep a bright
lookout for the Xorthern enterprise !
UF A Baltimore paper states that the tract of
land on which the battle of Manassas was fought,
is owned by a Northern man who, in the event of
supporting his titles by the subjngation of the
South, intends building a large Hotei on the spot,
for the entertainment of visitors who may be drawa
from curiosity to examine the field aud gather
relics. This w av of speculating in chickens be-
'ore they arc hatched, is quite a favorite plan with
the shrewd Y'ankees who never lose sight of tbe
;dol they worship—the eveslasting dime—whether
in peace or war, in victory or defeat. The sensa
tion mongers form a large class at the North, and
their success in the Barnum game, in the Tom
Ihuinb and woolly horse exhibitions, to sav noth
ing ot the Mermaid and Joyce Heath class of im
postures, has imparted a universal itching to Yan
kee palms, to commit some moral, though it mav
he legal fraud.
THE GOOD CAUSE.
A correspondent, “Visitor,” informs the Macs*
Telegraph that during the week of the late Superi
or Court of Wilkinson county, the Rev. Mr. War
ren, in behalf of the Georgia Hospital Association,
addressed the citizens at Irwinton, aud ihen re
marks:
“After the conclusion of Mr. Warren's address,
our friend Coi. YY il iam Napier of Midway was
called on, who responded in a speech, which f»r
genuine, native eloquence and effectiveness, I have
rarely heard excelled. Some of his passages were
absolutely thriiling and evinced tbe highest genius
tor popular speaking. He portrayed with most
glaring eloquence tho justness of our cause, tud
stirred every patriotic heart to a higher apprecia
tion of his duty to the country. CoL Napier is an
orator of nature, and I hope he will employ his tine
intellect in canvassing the State in behalf of onr
volunteers. By charging a small amount for ad
mittance he could defray his expenses, and appro
priate the balance to the relief of the soldiers. I
hope he will adopt the suggestion, and employ his
talent as a popular orator in so nobie a cause.”
IF* The address of Mr. Breckinridge to the peo
ple of Kentucky deserves a careful perusai, as it is
a strong paper, aud presents some original views,
showing that the Constitution of the United States
is void, from the fact that it is now utterly imprac-
'icable to comply with its provisions to sustain a
Government, and therefore the Government pre
tending to adhere to it, is itself a nullity in law,
though a great despotism in fact. Mr. Breckin
ridge and several distinguished Kentuckians have
arrived at Richmond, “fugitives without a crime.
UF In our paper to-day will be found several
tables showing the financial condition of the State,
from the Comptroller General's annual Report also
a list of Georgia Regiments in the service oi the
Confederate States. Other portions oi this docu
ment will be given, when we obtain it contplot®
from the press. The people have ever found in
Mr. Trweatt an officer of unsnrpassed vigilance
aud fidelity.
CF The Confederates taken at Manassas
prisoners of war, and since confined in YVashicg-
ton City, have been released by the Lincoln bo’ ■
ernmeut, on their taking an oath not to engag'
further iu the present struggle. They of cotm*-
return to their hemes under this painful disability
For the Southern Recorder.
Col. Kenan.
Messrs. Editors: YVe are pleased to see that tL<-
peopie of the Fourth Congressional District
with great unanimity, recommended Col. KZSS- >
and regret that any opposition has been brought
into the field. There seem to be a few discontent
ed spirits who love to rule, and who yielding
prejudice,and unfounded alarms about State “•
and other local measures, (which have been bapP-
ly exploded) have assailed the ciaims of Col. ®
an to re-election; but we are all for him iu •
quarter, and feel confident of success.
JONES-
Messrs■ Editors : As the meeting of the Geu^’-
Assembly is near at baud, its organization is T - •
* iu«r im
properly attracting’ public attention. A ^
through your columns to renu nd Senators o ^
election to tho Senate of C.ol. Johx Biuli • - ^
Clark, and to suggest him as a most suitao-e
competent person to bo the presiding officer
that branch of the Legislature. ^
Col. Billups is courteous, possesses talents ^
the highest order, and experienced : and * lt ^
intending to disparage others, be is the “
that position. There are many, very many, *
concur in that opinion- A CIT- Zfc * ’