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The Louisville Daily Courier, 1861-06-18

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never will raise m j arm I never will lend iny v-Vit-e I never will eucnurrgo while live the invasion uf the section to which f belong and the trampling iu the dust th sicrLd rights of that people Great c-hSer ujr - Fclliw-aUizsin (bis la no new opinion It D no-op'iilnii now broached for the first time it it uo offspring ef a treasou treasou-ubio - ubio treasou-ubio thought la ny ' heart or in your litaru but from iho time the first Uiinveotluu met in Kentucky up to lbs present moment it has been th -fixed sultfej prrinautut enduring policy of the Slme of Keutuclcy that wo would not lend au mm to the aubjugathiu o( our brethren of the SoiPh that wo would I'luintaiu a neutral position between the beligeruuta North and South and poising oursalvea uptfti our State soveroinnty we wouid say to oouli of them wehs-J no hdnd in bringing on this fratricidal war! aud wa intend to take no part in it whatever Allow mo to read to yon a few extracts in further elucidation of the reason by which I nin influenced in the course lhave takeif It muy b irksome to yon but I wish you to hear what hat been said on the question not only by our Legislature but hy those committees who bring out candi candidates - dates candidates hy those who indorse candidates and hy loots who make platforms for can candidate - didate candidate To all of that I cordially agree I am willing to stand upon them aud I do not Intend to back down and any they mean a different tiling from what the plain words import and from what wa all agreed they did mean at the time they were written - Cheers On the 8th of January a Convention met here iu tbe city of Louisville snd agreed in the image ol this resulmion: Berated That we deplore the existence of a Union to b held together by the sword with tsir to be enforced by steadlncermfe- It Is i-u sueli a tJiuiu as oar iulntu iu Minded suit nut worth prewnring 'Jhsert I say so CheeraJ I say to-night and I plant myself upou the aell aell-cvlduut - cvlduut aell-cvlduut fact that a Union of subjuga subjugated - ted subjugated provinces apun one side with haughty aud domineering masters upon tha other is not such a Union as all the aspirations of my heart have gone forth to Heaven to preserve It is nut a Union worth pro pro-carving - carving pro-carving Great applause But felluw-citiseu ufturwsrds thore was' n vote token in the State Legislature of Kentucky aud eightyaoven iu (unbar voted for and only sue against thl resolu resolution: - tion: resolution: Jleealred I monweaitKn Cfelt- Kentucky That this General As Assembly - sembly Assembly has hoard with profound recra r of tho resolutions recently sildrassed by tha Slate or New York Ohio Maine sal Massachusetts tendering inun and money to the President of Iho United Slatui to be need In eoendug eer tain soToraii'a iitates of the South into obedi obedience - ence obedience to the Federal Government ' Breoteed That this General Assembly re receive - ceive receive the lotions of tho Legislstares of New York Ohio Maine and Massachusetts aa ths ludicatiua uf a uurHise upon the part of the people or til so btste to further complicate ex existing - isting existing dilUcullies by forcing the people of tbe kotilo to liie extra jiity of submission pr rcslsc rcslsc-uuce - uuce rcslsc-uuce aad roarding It the Governor of the State of Kentucky is hereby requested to In Inform - form Inform the Executives of each of udd Slates teat It is tho upiuiou of tho Guueral Assembly that whenever tiiuanthorllia uf those States shall send armed force to the booth for tha pur purpose - pose purpose indicated lu said resolntlona the people of Kentucky uniting with thulr brethren of the South will aa one man resist such Inva Invasion - sion Invasion of the soil of (he bonth at 11 kaianiaaad to the lust extremity Cheer That was the opinion of the lower Honte of tlio Legislature seventy-eight men - a majority 1 of them (jnion man - against six Afterwards both branch branches - es branches passed a resolution which was approved by tlio Governor of tbo State in which they resolved that "We protest against the uaj of fore or coui coui-eion - eion coui-eion by tlio General Government against tlio scccdiug Statue os unwise and Inexpe Inexpedient - dient Inexpedient aud 'tending to the destruction of our common country" I agree to that Ido believe as God is my everlasting judge that thu ultuuipt to sutjjagate tho bouih only tends to tlio destruction of onr com common - mon common country snd believing it I would lot bo an honest nun uulosa I planted myself upon th it pladioroi which ths Legislature uiiauiuidiraly poesciL Ghccrs -Taking lucre niy position yon uader uader-stninl - stninl uader-stninl It 1 do not waul it to be mis misunderstood - understood misunderstood I am uo Secessionist I have a-gued eguisit it us boldly and firmly a any oi-icriiiiri living I bavu deprecated the evil uimqiicnc-s rcault-iigfrom it as much as any oihermiuiu tho Uuited Srates Where my niiinu hat been kuown or hoard of It bus been hvard of iu connection with my devotiou to tiis Uuion of three Statu and the perpetuity of the Government under hi-li wu live Applause I saw iho ctmf?WmsaaL Mil- na'r-iiiilsg dh last summer alter the Vr-aklag np "c f tliin Charleston Couvzution aud tho hriagiug up cf au flection cna mere sectional issue I saw there wa$ dinger aud in all huinnu probability a diissulullon uf the Union would ha the soiuequ'unj I went to Now York upon my uwn expenses aud there I uppinred before more then ten thoiisaud paoplu and in a speech in which I urged upon them with all this earnestness and zeal with which thuimport-iuCH of a subject of that kind was calculated to Inspire la my heart that they should unite - uo matter wnathrr the were for Breckinridge Doucls laying aside their preJilecttous - aauiost ity 4 that man whose elevst'on in all hnuuin pro'nliility wat to (under the this that bound u together as a common people sheers I saw it in tha f-r distance though the cloud may not have appeared larger than a man's hand It grew larger aud blacker uutil like a pall of darkness it overspread this entire laud and tha dis dis-rupiion - rupiion dis-rupiion or those lies feu been the inevita inevitable - ble inevitable euuseqiieiide resulting from thn plat platform - form platform upon which that man was sleeted to the Presidency of the U ulted States I did not think that was eutficiout to justify a dissolution I did not think there ought to be a dissolution ou aceonut of tbe dec dec-tim - tim dec-tim of Liuuuln and I so proclaimed it I thought and still think it wouid have bfun better for these men of tha South to have remained In Congress where they hml a inajurity aud eou'd have handcuff handcuffed - ed handcuffed Lincoln aud refused to have let him move ouc step no til he laid dowu a pro programme - gramme programme with a conservative policy by which these States could be kept together and this goveremenl upheld aud anslained They t nought differently and they had a rignt to think and act for themielv and they aid out - they separated and made government of their own Then the uostion como np what shall be done? iron thra tha attachment I had to tha Lars and stripes aud all tha glory that ciutilered arouud thorn wot such I odhar odhar-red - red odhar-red to thu hope they would give ns guar guar-autes - autes guar-autes aud that ultimately - acme time or otucr t'aeso Biaies would coma back and again wa would have a united people But you see how dlfl'arenUy thing have been carried ou I would like to present some farther consideration connected with this matter but theso things have been talked about enough already They are iu tha past V e mnst look at tiifogs aa they actually exist and act upon theoi as wise men atatemea patriot aud lookiugto tha good of our common country Tho eloquent fetter of Mr liolt to which 1 have bafore alluded abounding in glittering gwn gwn-eralitioa - eralitioa gwn-eralitioa forcible in soma respects By tho transposition of frets that give a meaning totally different from wliat the frets if accurately stated would eonvay to the mind makes an appeal to the State of Kentucky to join in the crusade against the Soul b and if uot aid in subjugating thorn assist in coercing them to come un under - der under ihe itandard of the stirs and strips Hi says : " lr called to press her soil (the soil of th-i South) they will not ruflle a flowsr of ht-r curd cut nor a blade of grass of her fields in uukiudne" that " their mission will be one of peace unless wicked snd blood-thirsty men shall uosbeoth the sword across their path" Ami lu Hiis conned inn ho proclaims that the Sou'll inis no right whatever to com complain - plain complain of the North aud that If there if any ground for complaint if the South will ev ever - er ever give the North a chance it can get every guarantcu asked for the entire protection of the peculiar property which lias given rise to this angry and bitter controversy Nuir my friend allow me a few mo morn - rn morn mils lv examine this subject '1 he South in the cnjoruioul uf nil their rights! Is there no cause for complaint? ' Faliow Faliow-c'lixuns - c'lixuns Faliow-c'lixuns the South has four thousand mil mil-liO'is - liO'is mil-liO'is of (lolbirs in sl-ive proricny and the North h-iS uot ono rent The Smith has an income Irom that property uf three hundred millions of dollar a jsar The NorJi bus indirectly a large lutcrsst hut directly n-t a eulii-u-y eeui Iu the North It is it s-iiliiiteut lu the South it Usu affair of lift- or d--a-h The loaiituLiou is lucorj bo'utcl with every fibre of the body pol hie Vi'iien the DccUration uf ludupsu-il-ucu wat prcduimo-J to the world on the ever memo: able Fourth of July 1778 errry SLnlj of the old thirinmi 1ml J slave When 1 1m C-jusi itntiuu uf t'usUuiltsd Steles wut mode lu 17V7 every State in till Union held xlavci except one nml that w-is Matssikiu cti Thai L'onstitution tolerated Hie Aliicuu tfeve trade for twcuiy years duriug which time tho Norm hrouqhl Atricnn shtrus here sold tliem to tho South aud received tue money for them Fiuduig slave labor as not p-oliteble to them they sold th'ir slaves Sonth sud soon thereafter Com Com-meuced - meuced Com-meuced a savage wavihra agdnst slavery in all of ti:e States iu wblcu it existed - Thsy made tliis an objection to tho ad admit - mit admit ion of Missouri aa a member oi this

in reassuring their loyalty that the con pi rotors who bad set this rcvnlnllon on f-ot took the alarm While affecting to desplss those States as not rufllvle-itly in intensified - tensified intensified in tbrir drymlnn to A:ricau ser servitude - vitude servitude they well knew they could never succeed iu their treasonable enterprise without their support Hence it was re resolved - solved resolved to precipitate a collision of arm with the Federal authorities in th hope Hist under tb paolo and exasperation tn tn-eld - eld tn-eld ont to the commencement of civil war tho B inter StatM following their natural ymi-atblaa would array themsolvca aznlnst tha Government Tort 8nmtcr occupied hy a feebte garrison and girdled hv powerful if not impregnable batteries afforded convenient moans for accomplish accomplishing - ing accomplishing their purpose aud for testing also their favorite theory that blood wn need needed - ed needed to cement the naw confederacy Its provisions were exhausted and tha request mad by tho President in ths interest of peace and humanity for tho privilege of replanialiiog its stores had been refused Tha Confederate authorities wore aware for the gallant aommaoder of the Fort had to declared to them that in two day a capitulation from starvation must taka place A peacefM surrender however would not have subserved their aim They sought the clash of arms and tha-ef-ftision of blood at aa instrumentality for impressing tho Bord-r States and they ought the humiliation of ths Government and th dishonor cf tho flag at a miens of giving prestige to their own eansa The reenlt la known Without th slightest provocation s heavy cannonade was open opened - ed opened upon the Fort and born by Its help helpless - less helpless garrison for hours without reply" Now I desire to make you a brief and candid statement supported by th facts aa i record in relation tothla ona word which la burly (toted In tha extract ( hare rwd you Tim remember Lincoln waa in inaugurated - augurated inaugurated on tho 4lh of kareb - Ou the fith ot Much the Confederated Govsra Govsra-ment - ment Govsra-ment sent its Commission era to the city of Washington with full authority to make peace and prevent the effusion of blood upon any turns that were honora honorable - ble honorable to both sections They had an lu for formal - mal formal interview through aa intermediary Judge Campbell with Mr Be ward Sec Secretary - retary Secretary of State and their letter waa presented on th 11th of March Judge Campbell reported that Indications were manifested of a peaceable adjust adjustment - ment adjustment Telegraphic dispatches were sent her announcing tha? tha troops would ba withdrawn from Fort Sumter and neeived with high gratification by tha people: Mr Holt says that for one entire month it they exist upon matter I do not think' there ia seemed to bs th purpose of the AdminLs AdminLs-io - io AdminLs-io withdraw those troops and rely peaceable solution of tho diflleol diflleol-tfei - tfei diflleol-tfei in which we were involved and the effect of th policy waa to apparent upon ths Border States that thaso people ia Sonth Carolina precipitated the attack up upon - on upon Fort Sumter Instead of waiting a few more days for lu evacuation Thli letter of the commissioners as I have laid waa written oa tha 13th of March Judge Campbell then whom a more honorable man does not live states that every in inducement - ducement inducement waa held out to him for these commissioners to remain aad they did re main until it wat ascertained about the first of April that an immense armament waa prepared at Naw York to go Sonth These akipa started oa th 5th fith and 7th of April from New York and other Northern porta to go down to Fort Vbseo agree i npoa the part of th Commissioners and Mr Seward through Judge Campbell that if there should be a commencement of hostilities during ths pendency of communications the Commissioners should ba apprised of it Instead of apprising the Commission Commissioners - ers Commissioners of the fret tho Administration sent a (racial messenger to tha Governor of South Carolina aud on the 8th of April late iu tho afternoon the Governor of 8outh Carolina was informed of tha fret that they lutended to succor Fort Sumter The ueratge waa: "W intend to carry In provisions peaceably if we can bnt ir we cannot do it peaceably w will carry it In r force" Iu th natural course o' things esc vessels ought to have boon there oa that evening but a storm came up and they ware kept ia the olfiog They did nut got there quit so toon tis they antlci antlci-' - ' antlci-' i for tbs authorities th Govern mfcut at That gave time for tha am to correspond with Montgomery and they delayed and post postponed - poned postponed aay attack sod finally before any attack wat made a proposition waa tout to Mqj r Andaraon calculated to prevent the effusion of blood President Davis ays: "Even thun under all the provocation incident to tho contemptuous refusal to listen to our Commissioners and ths tor tortuous - tuous tortuous courae of the Government of the Uni United - ted United States I was sincerely anxious to avoid tbs eilWoa of blood anil dim-ted s pro pro-iosal - iosal pro-iosal to be made to tno commander of Fort -unitor who had avoa-cd hliusoll to be nearly out of provisions that we would abstain from directing our fire on Fort Sumter if he would promise not to opeu fire ou our forces unirss first attacked This proiiostl Was refused aud the eonclu eonclu-iou - iou eonclu-iou wat reached that the design of the United States was to place tha beaelgiug force at Charleston between the almnli'ane almnli'ane-ousTlre - ousTlre almnli'ane-ousTlre of th fleet and the fo-t There remained therefore no altern-div but to direct that the fort should bo at one re reduced" - duced" reduced" The Southern State through their re- oi pro propolicy - policy propolicy You have seou it in the telegraphic reports Th proposal waa refilled It Doing the do do-rign - rign do-rign of Anderson to place tho besetging force of the South under the simultaneous fire of the fort aad fleet Th vessels were outside tb harbor and tha question with tbe Southern troops was whether they should wait until these vaaaola came In and receive tho fire from both They ohooa not to do it Cheers Which I ask brought it on? Are not Lincoln and Seward and tbe whole of that miserable cabal responsible for It ? Did not these men after falsifying their word that they would withdraw their troops and holding out the idea of with- drawing toe troop for a whol month ae " g to Mr Holt precipitate ike con conflict - flict conflict ? Cheer - And then they have the lmpndeuce to proclaim through Mr Holt to the people of Kentucky that the whole affair was brought on hy the people of Sonth Carolina for the purpose of drawing ont tha Border Slave State Groat ap ap-dauae1 - dauae1 ap-dauae1 Why did ho not withdraw to roops T Tho Administration saw its party was to ba divided Tbey received letters from tb e radical wing saying that a mild policy would split toe party in twain ana then guided by toe low cunning which has been wcnllariy characteristic of Sawnrd all his ids they resolved to bring on a aoll aion in order to nnite the North and they have succeeded They wore willing in order to sava a party to destroy a great nation Cheer Well fallow-citizens Mr Holt goes on a littla further aud soya: "In the midst of to moot active and extensive worilka pre preparations - parations preparations lu tha South tho announcement was made by th Secretary of War of the ecedi-d State end echoed with tannts and insolent bravadoes by the Southern proas that Washington City was to be in invaded - vaded invaded and captured and that toe flag of tho Con fed irate States wonid toon float over th dome ef to Capitol Soon thereafter there followed an invitation to all th world embracing necessarily tb outcasts and desperadoes of every sea - to accept letter! ot marque and reprisal to prey upon tha rich and naproteoiol commerce of too United States In view of tksse events and threaten ing what waa the duty of the Chief Mag Magistrate - istrate Magistrate of toe Republic'" He answora his own quoation: "That with heroic fidelity to kia (Jouilltatloual obligations ho threw himself on the loyalty of his country" and issued his proclamation for war - Tbo seal or toe Hon Ex-8cratery has her brought forward aoma strange rea rea-ona - ona rea-ona for ilia war policy of Mr Llncola The announcement as lioehoosca to call It of the Secretary of War of too Seceded dial waa made in o ipcec-h delivered on the 13to of April after Hi naval armament luuUieen sent from New York to succor Fart Sumter In a few day afterwards Mr Stephens in a speech he made disavowed any anst' intention Tha pcacoabl dispo dispo-alilon - alilon dispo-alilon - of the seceded State was clearly distinctly and emphatically avowed by tlio commissioners tent to Washington to sat sat-tls - tls sat-tls all difficulties The War Proclamation of Mr Lincoln was Issued ou toe 15th of April auil hod been the subject or a Cabinet deliberation and ontaido consultation at all know especially with Seuator Donglaa before the 1'JlU of ApriL Yet this is ro rolled - lled rolled on os one of the reasona for tola proc laaiaUnn Tbe other reason the invitation to privateers ia still more remarkable The Coufederaw Congress did not moot until the 39th of April and there waa no law authorising privateers naiilolttr that date and ihe geaifeiuan mnst bars alluded to mere newspaper threats that such would be adopted Yet he place the ecu invitation to privateer aa on causa cf toe heroic conduct of tbe President in isanelng the proclamation Ho (Mr Holt) dwells much upon th seizure of th property of the United Sateii Now follew-cUizsu when Suuto Carolina seceded (which action I condemn aa much si any man) Mijor Anderson wns lu Fort Moultrie There was an in formal uudnra amliug between President Bat-ban au and South - Carolina that Lore should Ira no change In th status uf she pc rt - Yet m tbo duad hour of night cannon are spiked and Andersoa

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CP EX-GOV 3!C?kESSA DELIVrIiBb AT THE COURT HOUSE IN LOllfiVILLE Oo the Evening ef the ljh Jnne 1831 rmrociArarczu-T srrotriD rxrrasir'ria tii UllUl ILL UUliSIliS SI GML C SrMMIIX1 On taking the ataud Mr Morchsad was greeted with' loud aud continued chet-riig Ho raid: JV!oa-CUteiu:-I thank yon lor tbe cor cor-dial - dial cor-dial greeting which I have receive:!: yuur LancD hut I ant not vjia enough to rup rup-pota - pota rup-pota for a monicut that i: is intended ss a mere pt-rFonnl compliment to myimlf hut rtginl it rithi-r oa n manifestation of that deep and pervading interest in tlio all-an-aorhing anl-Jcct which now cc-grueati pub public - lic public ntteqjl'-n Tbo sad ucd raetirnrul condition of enr beloved country demands uli the prudence moderation wisdom and true mid genu genuine - ine genuine patriotism widen can be broiigii to bear upcir o great a subject Would to God I could tielievo tlint tbe gloom in which we1 nro enveloped dark as it is is not lu the luture to become darker and more appalling I coulu but hops for tbo good of our comniou country Jit were otherwise - that tno wide dilH-rence among ounolvn as to tha course Kentucky should pursue did not exist Knowing this lilifercnce - of opinion I hug leave to add that it is the fortborest thing from my intention to suy one word that can or ought to wound tho feelings or tonch the sunsibiliiics of toy individual who may be opposed to me iq sentiment I have convictions of my own Sincere honest solemn convictions that I woud tie ywiu h r lis too bwu-ii-v t-jut millions of applsudlcg voices could heap upon me Ghters Neither the taunts nor the sneer tbo detractions nor the slander of those who chooso to uae them against mu can weaken these conviction or drive me from that coarse which my judgment should dioiat to ms to be the course of patriotism of honor and of duty to my country Continued Applause I might my friends have sought peace and quiet by retiring front the pohiical arena aud keeping my opinion hid Is baa never been tha course lirat boa charac characterized - terized characterized me throughout my post lilo and I sin too old now to conceal oypions for the take of a littla qniut and repose whi-u I believe my country it in Imminent peril - ' Applause It has been said by some of thos with' whom I have hitherto ueted that my opin opinion - ion opinion cau easily be understood that my es estate - tate estate is lu tire South that ml my property is there and that it was but natural that I should have strong sympathies mid partial partialities - ities partialities and feuilng towards that country which gave protection to nearly all the property I owned upon eirth That may )0 Ido owu property in the South for twouty-five years my destiny lias been cast there ' You ore at liberty to draw your own eon eon-elusion - elusion eon-elusion us to whatinfiuiuieaeircnicsianees like these are calculated to have upon such opinions as I entertain In a fetter recently published from the pen of ono of the most eloquent and dis distinguished - tinguished distinguished of Kentucky's tuns the Hon Jos Holt alter aptaklug of the ciinlieca ciinlieca-tion - tion ciinlieca-tion of debts by uia Southern States be addi: " To these confiscations will proba probably - bly probably succeed soon those of feeds aud ne negroes - groes negroes owned by tno oilixmis id loyal males aud iudeed tlio apprehension of this step is olreLdy sadly disturbing the fidelity of son-resident proprietors Fortunately howcvc-T infirmity of Cilili springing from aueli a cause is not likely to he conta contagions" - gions" contagions" Now I havsAdmltted to you ray friends that I had property in the South Mow far that baa influenced my course I leave you upon a candid review of all my past con conduct - duct conduct to suy for yourselves If uiy oxaiu oxaiu-I - I oxaiu-I ie is not likely to be "contagious" uli that I have to ask is that after weighing all considenttloas of this kind against the ar arguments - guments arguments I thrill adduce to yn you will tay la your owu hearts whether those ar arguments - guments arguments are entitled to any weight aud consideration It is well known that -whilst this occa occasion - sion occasion movement was going on I t-o:iu up against It inaniully not ouly hers but in tho State of Mississippi win: re my procrty was aud I was appealed to by a very isrzo Dumber of Urn citizens of i lie cily ol New Orleans for my views in relation t-i this movement I wrote a latter portraying all he i-ounuqveuucs which are now being re realized - alized realized from tno lnoi'cinsut uuddh'it teller was spread broadcast crer the South 1: I could have becq lnfiueuscd at ail by coiurderaiiou!i such n are Imputed to ''those who live iu loyal Stales aud own -roperty In ihe seceded duti-a of this i-on-edurauy" would 1 have pururd a course of that kpid ! Not on'y to : after liny had seceded 'after they hud mrt at Montgom Montgomery - ery Montgomery aud formed u permanent constitution for the seven Cuultdrr-de Suit' I mill thought sud tbe deep sexlety of my heart was that they should be brought back un under - der under the glorious stars aud stripes of tins great republic in whose prosperity in whose i-xpunaion iu whosa permanent and enduring glory 1 felt as deep aud abiding Interest os auy man that ever lived upou the face of Uia earth Applause The last thus I addressed you from this stand appealed to you to support the Union' to stand by tha Coiistiiutiun aud to bear aloft th stars and stripes to seek those rights and guarantees to which we were justly entitled for our saieiy and security aud with eight slave 8 lutes bound togatuer by such guarantees thought the ilmo would come when tho seven sceodcd States might ba induced alter passion had tub-tided aud alter teeing that we ware perfectly protected under that bsuncr arouud which so many glori glorious - ous glorious memories clustered to come bock and that wo would bo once more a great and nuited country Did that look os though I was influenced by the low and ullry conaideralioua which or imputed by dr Holt to those who own property la the seceded Slates aud live in what ar called the loyal States of this Confederacy f As s member of tbe Peace Coufurentaj I wont to Washington City and there I ex exerted - erted exerted every iutluuuce I could possibly bring to bear not only in tho Convention by the coarse I took there but in couver couver-aatioi' - aatioi' couver-aatioi' and in exerting my energies in doors aud ont of duors to procure those guanteta that I deemed essentially nectssary for thu security of our dearest rights Tiro Black Republican Congress spurned the guarantees wo asked They rejected with contumely every proposition the people of the South presumed and the clive branch which John J Crittenden of Kentucky extended fragrant with the hopes of every patriot la the land was spit uuon aud swept from the holla or Congress Norihern men stood np in that Peace Con Conference - ference Conference and said sooner than give one sol solitary - itary solitary guarantee and chnnge tue Constitu Constitution - tion Constitution of the United States from what it now is either by tha crossing of a f or the dot dotting - ting dotting of an t they would stc this Union broken In ten thousand atoms Yon rs than to judge whotber the whole coarse I have panned with reference to these vexed questions has resulted from tho ignoble inolivus imputed to those who have an ''infirmity or faith" upon subjects of that uulure or whether it lias proceeded from entirely different spring of action Though there be many who look upou gold as the uni universal - versal universal solvent I trust the word patriotism may never lose its iiguififtince aud llie lhilh in tbo possibility of looking at groat aueslloiis of Slate save through the petty mirations of household ufliiir may never be entirely extinguished in the human heart ly those who judge the motives of others iroin no higher s-aiiil point I believe follow citizens If there iq a community upon the face of the earth where property is thoroughly protected wiiere theie is a high degree of conserva conservatism - tism conservatism iu this respect it is iu the Slate of Misriraipi AppIsuscJ Why Stephen A Douglas wlio after si undine up lor the South si he did made a speech ut Indian Indianapolis - apolis Indianapolis (he isdeudhnd guui- suilm-iifc he to his iirniit I snv nothing ag-tinsL him) sdvoca tlngthc cocrsion of tlinduuih whipping tin-in into subjugation there was ns a mut mutter - ter mutter of course a deep biller aud universal eulliocut of ho-jlilny to him throughout llut country and though in my own neigh neighborhood - borhood neighborhood within four milii of my props ty 1 e owns a plain atlou and trie hunured and fifty negroes not on w ord was breath breathed - ed breathed that his right title an i interust in that property should be aifooted hy the c-inrae be took in relation to the huljng-itiou ol ilia: people Tremendous upplacs - There is uo couutry so far as my uhsurvo uhsurvo-tiou - tiou uhsurvo-tiou and t-xperieut'o goes that is more thoroughly cunsaivalive than the S-atcs South with whteli I urn familiar But Itd-low-eitizsns I dismiss ibis unpleasant and iuniateii-il subject ai-dpr cvvd at (-uci: to ho inur imporiaet qurstion as to Ihe du duty - ty duty and policy of Kentucky in the pni it terrible crisis Iu thtcividedstaieof pub public - lic public opiuiuu all parties as I nmteiMaiid have acquiesced lu the only policy wnit-h cau bs adopted that of a strict aud im impartial - partial impartial neutrality J am lor that ApplauirJ Wc have agreed that the Governor o tbe mate was right un-Jctriahly right iu reusing men to make war against our hrcuu su uf the rtouli Great appltuseJ There has been Inti one upiuiou in Kentucky - I mean as to th great mass of Kanliickiau - upou this tub jecl: - we would never do It upon eanbi Continued applause 1 am tor that I

looked on it as the pulladinin of onr liber liber-h - h liber-h cave gloried iu itistnrs an-l srip-r and I lisve gazed npnn the magnificent do domain - main domain extending irom the Atlantic to Hid Pacific from the Gulf of Mcxi-ro to lira frozen regions of the North presentin'' in its area every variety of'dluuM soil aud I nave nut a proud exultation prliii'lnt up in my heart that this was my own n:y imivu land Anplanso1 But what is the ques question - tion question now? Theso States have gone out Do you believe they cau be whipped into obe obedience? - dience? obedience? Voice "never" I have been ulwrabli! unwnveri'K'inrpcist- to do or die in the cause in which" they are embarked Enthusistiic spplauncJ As sore us you are uow lit ing limy never cau bo con conquered - quered conquered Ckuurs And fellow-citizens they onght nut to-be conquered - Contin Continued - ued Continued chc ring This is tbe platform npon which I was uucu-d a member of th Bor Border - der Border Slave State Convention If tho pur purpose - pose purpose of Mr Lincoln waa ascertained to bs iheinbjugnliuu oi the Sonth Kentucky should ups heath the sword and uuite her rt 'allay with her brethren of the South Cheers My friends the question is not Union or disunion If that was the question all my heart every sympathy every emotion of my nature would rise up at one lu favor of ihe Union It la not the question The question is in the pn-sent state of case srey - - ' - - - - brinj this union ana mako them paL haughty masters in an unwilling Union ? - (Voices "No never I") Let me tell you in the language of Senator DongL-i before hto Indianapolis speech " War It disunion war ia a filial aaa eternal sejwrstlon aud the mau who to liar pmseeuilag this war though he may have Union in his heart to a disuuiouisL" Applause When I was in Congress declaiming again at fhe passage of the Wilinot Froviao 1 asid to ihe' AooVlWilr of the North when they ipaks of disunion snd ridiculed the ides "liow dariryatt-niK-ttiat way when yoa ar doing more than all other men to bring ns to tbe very verge cf that dreadful calamity You are the real dto dto-uiiiuntota" - uiiiuntota" dto-uiiiuntota" Yea my frienua they who are for pro ecu ting this war are fhe real dto dto-unlonista - unlonista dto-unlonista They- are for making a final and everlasting separation between tbo North -end tho South are for making wide gull between the two sections which ran never be bridged hereafter If the North to spending more than s' million of dollars a day to carry ou this war IIow lius it affected ut? AU busi business - ness business and every branch of Industry la'prus la'prus-trated - trated la'prus-trated You bar no other trade than frith tha BouJi You make your steam en engines - gines engines lure acd thsy are carried Month Y un do not tell one of them to tha North The Booth la the market tor the mule that are raised In Kentucky and from liencs all ouc pork aud bread- (tuffegu Are you for subjugating your cut Miners to aiy noihiu'pcjf your breth brethren - ren brethren in the Bon n? When they have over-' run the South - when they liars desolated the land - hut uot conquered its peopto - no they cm never duuiat - cheers - than I (appose in the opiulon oi Mr Holt Mr' Lincoln will be "a g roarer man than thb' Father of hia Country " Cheers and ap-' plausc I believe it to th true policy of the country to withdraw all troops irom Soutliarn soiL 1 would not giro one dol dollar - lar dollar ill were In Congress to prosecute this war Applause 1 would not give ono ono-man - man ono-man to go into the 8ou:b to tread down tbair righia aad what they coLCcive to be llieir liberty and to crush oat tbe proud spirit of as nobio a race of people as live upou tho face of thn rarth Cheers If I could bring this Union back to wiiatit was - I do not profess to have moro bravery - than ia common to nil Ken-in--kiaut psrhups I liar not to average amount of it bnt I would willing willingly - ly willingly lay dowu my life aud lft my head roil from my shuuiden on this plulfoim to have tha Union aa onr l uaera made It with lira fraternal feelings than existing Applause That is uot tee qnrisiauii how however - ever however The question is one of cuurcuu or' wiubjugatlou Tha qn--eiioa is oue of mb mb-duiug - duiug mb-duiug the people ol the fiauth - -tho ques question - tion question Is one of muipliiig ou the liicht uni privileges of freemen of ovcrruuiili g tho couutry devastating the laud aud briug briug-ing - ing briug-ing on a happy aud prosperous people all lbs horrors ot civil war and iu the oud to "proclaim liberty to tho captive" in tbe language ot Mr Seward and according to the theory which he drew' from John tjuincy Adams to tuk a black Republic of the South 1 do hut wautiliut country emqueod and ruined aud to bo made ihcT auuject of a cruet dospotism Applause Let us say to the people of luu North poisiug ourselves upon Uia broad piiucipir of neutrality " you are r ti: :i war was brought on by Mr LleWlT TTrnjeirpirwov-BM 1- f I ri 1 by Bjiilu Carolina There is at least a matter of doubt about it Sec IT this iuui ter Ciiuuot ba settled ia a reasonable war Kentucky stauds in the position of a mediator now but if you are determined to ruiu and tqjague the South hi ihe lan- Siage of the platform upou which I stand oiitucky oagut to tuiaiieaah thu a word oud throw away the scabbard" Coutiuu Coutiuu-yi - yi Coutiuu-yi aad enthusiastic applaaia Reported Expressly tor tho LoafevUls Courier POLICE COURT GEORGE TV JOHNSTON Jveam Moxdzy June 17 Bailkd Out - Geo Smith who waa committed to tho Workhouse on the 3d last was bailed ont to-day Bczxcxubjsxd - 0uL O'Hcrn wss sur-' rendered by hto security and took a teak in CspL Holme's coach tor's trip to the Cavr Dizoxoxxly - James Ridge was arrested Charged with being dUarderly aud mis mistreating - treating mistreating shone Bail iu 8100 lor three niootha Sdspdctod Felox - John Grant alias Alien alias Atchison amd a half dose uyare alias waa presented to the Court as a suspected felon This it supposed to bathe man Grant who soma lime' since was concerned in running off several ne negroes - groes negroes from this place though there was not proof tnfllcieut to sustain the suppey aillon The proof howsver showed that he wae a man of suspicions character and he wss required to give bail lu 5900 for six uioulha Anusixe his Family - Wm Crosgrova was arrested charged with being druuk disorderly and abusing hto family Bail in 5300 for three months - care Abusing his Wire - John Bnrz was ar arrested - rested arrested charged with abusing his wife al although - though although his wife hod him arretted Saturday ' Blie aaid this morning thnt he was a goad 1 bus'iand and he waa discharged ClIAKGZ or IlmnWAT RuBBKilT - Thos Ridge Jerry Ridge and Geo Billing were arrestad on the charge of bigbwny robbery having stopped Frank Giau ou the public street of Louisville and taking from him 50 by forco Glass with a party of Ger Germans - mans Germans were engaged for a serenade about four weeks ago aud oa they were return returning - ing returning home about one o'clock when in Biuchwtown the parlies accused bounced ou the puny and commenced beating them with alubs knocking three of them down and taking 80 from Glass bv forco After they had aliippad threo of the party they seized Gian and demanded hfz money when he palled out one dollar and handed It to them they then said tha: was not all and must hava th rest whon he giv them another dolhu t hi did not anil them aud then demanded the rest threatening to kill him if ha did nut hand it np which he did and they gut in ail 5S from Gloss The charge aa to Billinga waa dismissed and be Introduced as a witness aud hto tedlmany ub-tiutlated that of the Ger German - man German Glass Bail was required of the two Ridge in 5G0U web to answer at the Cir Cir-culi - culi Cir-culi Court Felost - Alfred Finley was arrested charged with stealing a bucket whip aud an oilcloth coat from U Has sun Tue (ins (ins-oner - oner (ins-oner waa recognized to go before the grand Jury Grand Jeer - The Grand Jury were in session to-duyund retimed tivruiY -seven indictment against various pereon for misdemeanors when they adjourned un until - til until to-urairow week Dui'kx and DisonnsKTY - Jm Akin wss arrested charged with being drunk and disorderly Bail in 530U lor three mD'lis Jo Lewis t in e was presented on tho same charge lit was sent to tue card fqf six months iu dubul: of 5A 0 bill ' Joe TulboU aud Anu Talbott were ar arretted - retted arretted for bciud diuuk dilurderly and fighting From the tcsliinouv of ibe offi officers - cers officers Anu must be a pretty good lighter They were both discharged A fljucstion for Krigndfer General Lovell 11 Rouaacau Near the Fair Ghovni-s 1 Jefferson County June 14 iSoi i EJilort iMtitrille Courier: An i'nc:iui( i'nc:iui(-meatof - meatof i'nc:iui(-meatof two companies uf Lincoln Homo Guar Js armed with tho Linculif Diuekeis was held at tbe FairGroundaon yesterday Tho show wai concluded liy the Lieutqprins of one of the coinjisufei Lu'irking tho Dusrh Captain down lilackiuE hit d disarming him The Gapinm ol' thu oiht-r company was forcibly duraimcd by hia mru and both Cnphi'ii Iramlid mho butch butcher's - er's butcher's wagons and huuh'd to Bui rhei loan Th qmo'ion to will Gin Rousseau try those men by thsarticl -a t w ir A BUBBCRIBES

VOLUME 32 SPECIAL DISPATCHES From Western Virginia Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Caiettc Gkavtox Sandfly Night Juno 10 - There Is a graduil cd-icontratioa of fores in the dirccrion of Phillippi Tbe Fiur tcenth Ohio returned there from Buck Buck-hannon - hannon Buck-hannon -There is a report of a fight at Buekhan Buekhan-non - non Buekhan-non with considerable loss to tbe Rebel but It is nut -authenticated It came via Clarksburg A numhor-nf rilled cannon hare arrived from Ohio with a large amount of ammu ammunition - nition ammunition A portion or these (itopIlM were immediately sent to rhilUppl Eu field rifles arrived for the flank companies of nhlo regiment- ' CepkBeulism is back from Washington he! - Ohio regiments rB and he is gone to night to Phillippi fearing here at dusk The rebel made no attack on Piedmont Tbe Indiana Zouaves are all at Cumberland again and communication is open There are some apprehensions there from rebels dispersed ut Romney withre-enforerments iroiu the direction uf Ilarprr'i Ferry There is unnsual activity at headquar headquarters - ters headquarters and towards Cheat river Scouts are out in every direction and are constantly reporting The rebels are known to ba occupying Iluttonville and Beverly A scouting par party - ty party isont to-night looking after a mall fores of rebels said to be In the neighbor neighborhood - hood neighborhood Tbe remains of Opt Crawford shot by the sentry at Phillippi ore here to-night under escort for Ohio Col Kelley la greatly Improved Ha was sitting np to day Several arrests of spies and suspected parlies were made to-day '"A COUip iny-or-eavatinr h 5rijjnuwwI reported as organised for self-defense The rebels at Cheat Mountain Gap are under command ef General Jackson for formerly - merly formerly Judge at Parkersburg Porterfield ie (till among them In some capacity Ac Accounts - counts Accounts of their strength vary greatly but none put It under three thousand ' t - - " LATHB ' Gbattox 13 b'clock M A messenger just In from Pklllippi so soli - li soli ounese that our scenti have discovered the rebels marching toward Phillippi and that they expect sod attack in the morn morning - ing morning The report la hardly credited though Aha information la positive Specie! Dlapatoh to tbs Cincinnati Gazette Wasximotox June 18 Several regiments passed into Virginia during last night - The Govennnout ie concentrating a large number of troop here In anticipation of utadiaeceof the rebels Reinforcements have been con constantly - stantly constantly arriving at Fairfiix yesterday and to-day and the probability la that a large force will he concentrated there by to tomorrow - morrow tomorrow A train ef cars pasted out fifteen miles from Alexandria to day on tho Loudoun Hoilroad and discovered an attempt to born the rebuilt bridges Ou of the sol soldiers - diers soldiers was shot by a rebel picket and killed The macula was captured - Surprise was manifested that the pirates arrived at New York without being hung at tbe yard arms according to tbe rale in such Cure There la to he big news from Fortress Monroe unit -week- I bad the pleasure last evening of witnessing tho bombard bombardment - ment bombardment of Sewall'i Point with rifled cannon from Rip lisps Baltimore is in a critical condition It it believed martial flaw wlil be proclaimed to tomorrow - morrow tomorrow Th Secessionists there are rav- fhe flunous Naw York Irish Regiment left Arlington Height this afternoon in wagon lor Fairfax Court House They were under way in twenty minutes after the order was given and loll frill of enthu enthusiasm - siasm enthusiasm and with a lair prospect of bavin g a light to-night The Retreats cf the Rebel Army - Uccnpalion of Leesburg by Our Troops - 40000 U I Soldier Now on Virginia Moil -CerrssuoodK: ef th i Clao'nnatl ConmtrrWL Washixoton Juue 18 Information vonclied CoL Heruialemau's head quarters in Alexandria this morning that urere were movemente at tee Rebel camp at Manassas Junction yesterday in indicating - dicating indicating ii t-cilion to retreat from that point A largo number of wsgons were ooncentmling'iunl troops engaip d in park parking - ing parking np It i believed in inihlary circles that they will fisil back on Uauueaaa Gap twenty uilles west of the Juncliou The iusurgenta ore reported to be grent grent-' - ' grent-' suffering lrom want uf water and medi medicines - cines medicines Advices were -received to-day at the War Department announcing that Col Stone's Brigade consisting uf oue thou thousand - sand thousand District Militia tire New York Ninth Pennsylvania First Maine First Now Hampshire Fira' and some artillery and cavalry yesterday created the Potomac at Edward's Ferry and marched aud occupied Leesburg fire miles distant without meet meeting - ing meeting acy resistance Leesburg ie the tei luluua of the Alexandria Hampshire aud Loudoun Railroad audits occupation opens a direct communication between the Fed Fed-eial - eial Fed-eial forces now advancing into Virginia frym Harper's Ferry and tue army in and about Washington It renders the posi position - tion position at tbo rubeli at Maaasaaa Junction untenable Tha entire secession force at Harper' Fsrry doubtless retreated to Winchester Geu Scott received news of the occupa occupation - tion occupation of Harper's Ferry by advance guard of Geu Pstlersun's army last night The Federal troops also crossed at Point uf Rooks in strong force At this moment at least forty thousand Union troop art on Virginia soil on a trategotlc Luo from Alexandria to Har Harper's - per's Harper's Ferry Military authorities pro pronoun - noun pronoun es tho secession cause in Northern Virginia already loot and consider It al almost - most almost certain that tbe rebels will gradually allow themselves to bo pushed back to James river without making any decisive Id It now looks ss though Gen But Butler's - ler's Butler's promise to have the stars and stripes floating over Richmond on the 30th prox would do made good Tha Third Michigan Regiment arrived hero this evening The Tint and Second Ohio and Second and Third Connecticut Regiments proceeded across tbo Potomac yesterd-iy Tha former are now encamped two miles from Long Bridge on the Alex Alexandria - andria Alexandria road No signs of forward move movement - ment movement of tho other side From Jefferson City - Occupation of the Capital - Particular of tho Landing - Gor Jackson's Move meats fipcelal Dispatch to the St Louis Republican Jcrxnsox Crrr June IS The steamers J C Swon and let-la ar arrived - rived arrived hern between two and three o'clock this afternoon haring on board five oom oom-panles - panles oom-panles of CoL Blair's isgimunt one compa company - ny company of regulars sad one company of artil artillery - lery artillery Tbe regular lauded first and Imme Immediately - diately Immediately took possession of th heights near tho renltsatimry and a part of Colonel Blair's-regiment marched to th Capitol took possession of the building and hoist hoisted - ed hoisted the national flog Tho balance of tbe troops remained on tha boots with thy ar artillery - tillery artillery Tha Istan wai immediately dispatched to the steamer A McDowell which has been lying up about two mile above here on lire opposite side This boat was brought down mod placed alongside tbe 8won and will probably be kejit hi the service The steamer Sam Gaty is here heavily loaded for above but is not allowed to proceed until the Government boats take the lead no foaistaaoe whatever was offered to tho Federal fbreeand but littla excitement prevailed The Penitentiary and other places were searched for contraband good hut little or nothing was found Governor Jackson and hit friends left for Doonvillu on the White I load day be before - fore before yesterday Capt Kelly's company left yesterday afternoon on the railroad burning the bridges behind them The Affair at Bethel Special Dispatch to Niihrills Union a American Richmond J one 13 - Mugrudrr received flag of truce frum the enemy asking per tell n ian Scccurionist prlKonora for mission to bui ly grunted civilii armed men was decline A Mugruder soya iu hi offieinl report of the engagement that the- enemy's force comisled of threo thousand five hundred troops and the ConteUcrate force of thir thirteen - teen thirteen hundred troojra Our loss is one killed and seven wouuded Dr Richnrds Lincoln's private physi physician - cian physician was arrested ut Manser us as a iy Thirteen prisoners of war arrived iu Richmond to-day Benatou Rat aud Rbqi-istud to Reaiox - A meeting at Dover Del lint requested Senator Bayard to resign his position s United Buttes Senator on tbe ground that his sentiments -were opposed to those of the people of Delaware late report f om Alexandria says that the rtbsls who retreated from Rom Romney - ney Romney were re-enforced and returned to the town compelling our troop to retire having behind them several stacks of mua ketfc - r tJ Ijtulnille Gold ' Aw Manvfaciory -MaMSirmtowrdoortelm third

dous applause By this whole i of Lincoln movement upon th psrt by bis fidlur to do what ha had promised by - bia open vlo vlo-atlon - atlon vlo-atlon of nia Constitutional obligation and utter disregard for all the ob obligations - ligations obligations even of a private cltizsn by a course of policy that hna brought thu country into almost lrretrivabla ruin Mr Holt says in effect that he lias made him- elf annorior to "the Father of his Coun-' try" Cheers' and laughter Listen to want he says I want you to ray it Abra Abraham - ham Abraham Lincoln to to be compared with too glorious Washington a name wherever heard by freemen will he reverenced and worshipped forever Voice "No no" and applause He quotes from (me of Cicero's orations against CutuTpic whure ho speaks of tho credit due to liimtolTfor htfrlughnin-i mtit mtit-hi - hi mtit-hi conspiracy-in which he says If toe glory of him who founded Rome waa great' now mack greater should bo that of him who had laved It frum overthrow after it had grown to ho mistress of the world" And so ha contends if the glory of Wash Washington - ington Washington was great (and this to true only in inference) for having founded this Govern Government - ment Government how- much greater wlil be tha glory of Abraham Lincoln after subduing the Sonth Laughter aud cheers Bnt fellow-citizens Mr HoR aeema to think that the vigorous measures of Mr Lincoln may appear to bo open to criti criticism - cism criticism "in some of their -details to those who have yet to learn that not only lira war like ptace its laws but lias also it privileges and duties " and he adds "what "whatever - ever "whatever of severity or oven of Irregularity may hare arisen will find it juatilioation in the pressure of the terrible necessity under which tlio Administration has been called to act" I confers that I have ycl to learn that onr Constitution reads differently in time ot war from what it docs in peace ortha war has auy privileges or duues prohibited by that aacred iiulrament Tho plea of necessity to the tyrant' plea whenever and wherever human liberty has baen trodden nnder foot - Lot ni ae whether or -not Mr' Lincoln has acted according to the laws ho has worn ho would carryout according to th Constitution ho bound himself in ibq sight of heaven to defend and protect He hid the right under the law perhaps matter of doubt with some - to call out the militia to suppress combination! too pow powerful - erful powerful to b put dowu by th ordinary Judicial proceedings - When I ad admit - mit admit that I admit the fullest extent and the hugest drgre of power ho had u:der tbs Constitution of th United State to act in the premise Yet he rails out troops for threo years without author authority - ity authority of law He calls out regiments to bs added to the regular army without authori authority - ty authority of law Ho makes Major-Generals Brig Brigadier - adier Brigadier General Guioucia and Msj r in the regular service' without the authority of law He calls out two kuodred and fifty thousand men - without authority of law and In plain palpable opeu violation ot the Consultation Why my friuud in reading those books ofkintoiy which it waa neeesatiry I should read waa prepara preparation - tion preparation for my proftwsion I find that Charlra L claimed the right to (uls troops aa an incident to hit power to declare war sad without tb authority of IVrlinmuut he raised live thouraud uiea - For this' and other asanniptinna of despotic power he' lost his head James tho if claimed -tbo same power and raised thirty thousand soldiers Hs was driven from the throne of Eigland in the great revolution of l&Sff and hi son-iu-law William of Orange invited to taita his place but a bill of rights was exacted one article -of which Met that Pariiemsnt- alone should have the power lu raise amt nrr" - -That provision lu Uw English bill of rights to now apartofouroigauieiaw tiie Consti Constitution - tution Constitution of tha United Status yet in violation of this plain and palpable provision of the Uonstiluiion Mr Liueola mis gone on and raised armies made officers and supported them and made provisions for a three years' war when Congrats Itself can make no appropriation for a period longer than two years at ona Hma He Las Suite all this and Mr Holt any it to "oue of tue privileges of war" Laughter and cheers Yet for uclM'privil"gM'' many a tyrant's get" many a tyrant' tl the fest of an indignant head ha roll people ChecH1 ' lias gi blockaded the porta of tha United Bathe hoi Where In th namd of Liberty I ask dors ho derive his amhoritv to do that When it waa rumored that Jackson Intended to blockade Charleston Mr Webster said be opposed it in advance General Jackson onght to be resist t-d and by tha potency of bis nemo and th influ influence - ence influence he exerted in the United States Gen Jackson mad no inch attempt and waited until Conferee mat and passed the Force Bill which waa limited to two-years 'Cheers ' He ha not only Interfered with the com common - mon common betweon tno loyal State themselves but with the commerce between the differ different - ent different pons of the tamo State and now be threatens to corns here and blockade this railroad He may as Weil uy to stop wsg wsgons - ons wsgons that go out of Louisville with provto provto-Enthnstostie - Enthnstostie provto-Enthnstostie applause He in interferes - terferes interferes with the Fustofltoe A gentleman has a letter sent to him with nine thousand dollars in it with the stamp of th United States upon it Tha Postmaster refitera to deliver It I do not blame him aa he wae acting under inatrncllona That latter la sent ou to the dead letter office although the gen gentleman - tleman gentleman to whom it was addressed here of offered - fered offered to put any number of United States stamps upon it Bat all these outrages Mr Holt consider privileges attaching to tha state of ifar that Lincoln lias without authority of Congress brought upon the eoantry Rut feilow-citizena a little fiirthor The Constitution says Congress may pass laws to authorise the President'to put down in in-nrrectioea - nrrectioea in-nrrectioea and combinations too power powerful - ful powerful tub put down by judicial proceedings bnt the militia to to do iL Disregarding the idea of a militia he raises a regular army and In violation of th prevision which aavs they most be called for by tlio State authority ho pistes hto army in Bt Louis for the purpose of over overpowering - powering overpowering the people of that Slate A volc"MUaoari it all right the will com out yet" and cheers for Missouri Do Em suppose we would submit to tbs tend tend-g - g tend-g of troops here In violation of tho Con Constitution - stitution Constitution - inbmit to having troops intro introduced - duced introduced here in our midst to overawe and ubdne the tacky? er" and Immense cheering bnt foUow-clliiens he has gone yet flirther in hto overthrow of tho groat bui' wark of American liberty He has in hit person undertaken to suspend that writ which is called th Second Mscns Charter rana the hubrit of English liberty to auspen eorptu with which the liberty of esory cit cit-sen - sen cit-sen ot the Uuited Btste to indissolubly intertwined Look at his course In Mainland He npon his own voluntary will su-pand that wilt The Chief Justice of the United Biatct is issues - sues issues hto writ to bring the individual held In custody before him The answer to that the writ to auspeiided by the President Bach at least 1 the effort ut tha answer Its mondute to disobeyed by the authority of Mr LUcotn The Chief Justice of tbe Uni United - ted United States refers to the Constitution which is explicit ou th subject Mr Lincoln lu defiance of the oath he hat taken to sup support - port support the Constitution says he wlil suspend tlio writ and Mr Holt anya it is "ouo or the privileges of war" Cnreral I cannot made a convert to any doctrine of that kiud Why I remember very well I hat that great writ was among the principles of Uoeny extorted Irom King John by the barons of England In the Hurd ycir of the reign of CharlT the petition of right wat ptesrd hut the judgteheld that It did uot apply to a care wife the iinprlroiiiuent was by order of the King In the sixteenth veiror liia lelsn tbis wa- repealed aud It was ftartiisr- pro provided - vided provided under thu penally of £000 last uo man should be rumored beyond the Juris diction of tho Coort But delays in the execution of the writ still left the liberty of tbe clliicn iu some degree unprotected wlieo tho act or 81st Charles I waa passed which has uot inappropriately been calitd the second Magus Charter of English lib ortv VVe have incorporated this bulwark of liberty in our ConstiiaUun yet this I disregarded aud persona are taken to tb city of Baltimore and for fear they

foOUIS VILLE : TUESDAY nouns JlTt IS SPECIAL NOTICE- "To our Subscribers Correspondents and Exchanges in the Southern Confederacy ' As nil letters papers Ac from the Con Confederate - federate Confederate 6tales are now forwarded to the Dead Letter Office at Washington without being distributed here we have to request our friends correspondents and exchanges in that section to direct ererylhing to' ns tc - ' t " Louisville Cocbikx Nashville Terra" Valuable Campaign Dcsment! All EXTRA COURIER! We bars issued an EXTRA COUR ' IEG containing tighten tulumni of matter which should be placed before the people 1 duriug the pending canrass It contains: 1 President Jefferson Davis's Message to the Confederal Congress 8 Ex Guv Charles B Morehead's pow pow-' - ' pow-' cr'ul lotu-r 8 Tho Baltimore habeas corpus Deeisloa of Chief Justice Taney 4 Daniel v' hater on the president's power to cn'j l y f-r-e against the States an-l the I'rttfd iV right to lileekade ports 5 Thu Ji-g'shiture of Kentucky pro pro-teals - teals pro-teals against the attempt by the 7edTcril Government to coerce the Confederate Btutes I 8 A voice from Henry Clay 7 J udire Nicholas on Martial Law b UesUTutiiu adopted by the Union 8tate Conv-Ltiou held in Louisville on the blh Uiur oil JonurylbCl- - U Address or Iks Uaion State Central Committee of Kentucky to the people of the Commonwealth 10 Resolutions adopted by tha South Southern - ern Southern Rights men at Louisville 1 Geu Sam Houston's position - his speech to the people ol Houston Texas - The EXTRA wQl he furnished to parties or elnba wishing to alienists It et the low price of (1 50 per hundred copies or where as many as on thousand are order ed that number will be supplied for 510 Tito cash must in all cases accompany the order 1 Horatio W Bruce- - 1 Southern Rights candidate in the Seventh ' Congressional District will address bis follow-citizens at tha following times and places to-wlt : - Tuesday June IS at PleaanrevilleIIanry county 'Wednesday June 19 at Johns on town Jefferson county ' Messrs Bruce mad Mallory CANDIDATES TOR CONGRESS Will sddruss their fcllow-eltlzens at the follow lag time srd places : riea-tirurille Tuesday Jane 18 Johnson town Jaiferson county Wednesday JanalD Pa bile Speaking H 7 Sim rail and W S Pryor will ad ad-Sress - Sress ad-Sress the citizens of Henry county at Emi Eminence - nence Eminence Monday next and at Frankllntoo on Drennon'a RidgeTnesday next Speaking to commence at 3 o'clock P M Cost or th Wab - The enormous in indebtedness - debtedness indebtedness upon the national and Stale governments by the present war may well excite the deepest eoacera The World of Triday says: " Congress may ss wall maks np 111 mind at once lor a funded debt sneh as th a torn torn-try - try torn-try utter yrt sow But this ought not real really - ly really to excite any very deep concern At tbs time of the first call for troops the government owed about one hundred mil millions - lions millions Allowing two hundred millions for - which is s very large estimate - snd Uftv millions to cover all peacs d- Sells we shail have a national debt Of three hundred and fifty tutilitmt" i- - Won't Go it Txuse Years - Nearly two thousand of the'three foontba Ohio volun volunteers - teers volunteers loft Camp Dennison near Cincinnati for their home They refrise to enlist for three years A riot occurred in the Camp on Saturday and one mu was shot- end several wounded The rioters were drank No Mom Quisran - The Philadelphia druggists isfuse to sell quinine to Louis Louisville - ville Louisville merslieut They ere afraid It will he sold to the Southern people What hu humane - mane humane people there are in the North lion Natuakiel Gkxxnb Fhkdlktoh an old prominent citizen of Cincinnati (father of Hon Gao H PaxsuToa) de deceased - ceased deceased In Cincinnati on Batnrday the 16tk lust after a lingering illness He wee born In Savannah Go in 1795 ' i KTMr Geo W 8am m era a bank clerk who during his aqjourn In Augusts Ga give Information to tha enemy recently vamosed to escape arrest on the charge ef treason He is Hopping at a hotel in this city we are Informed W W W Fenny late Union candidate for State Senate in Franklin and Ander Anderson - son Anderson counties died suddenly' of billions cholic on Saturday - £&Ths Federal on Batnrday seized all the ammunition in the gun store of II E Dlrnick St Louis They ware afraid tha rebels would get It Candidate for Senator In answer to calls mads oa ms through tha public press and repeatedly by privataeltisens I have alter much reflection concluded to an announce - nounce announce myself as a candidate for the Berate In the district eomposed of the conn ties of Owen Caroll snd Trimble A P GROVER May flt 1801 - marflAwtc pr8t Bland's advertisement Money loanod on diamonds Ac Office on Mai ketatraot between Third snd Fourth ' Tbkuidib Massacus ix Nsw Zkalahd - From the Honolulu Commends! Advertiser we loam that Captain Winslow who bad just arrived at that port from New Zealand reported a terrible maueaere of the foreign population by the hostile natives eouth of Auckland Lost October a peace was con concluded - cluded concluded It appears however Akat some time in January the natives came down from the mountains in largo numbers and suppressed a settlement near Auck Auckland - land Auckland butchering about eight hundred and iifty inhabitant The most horrid ac account - count account are received as to the cruellies per perpetrated - petrated perpetrated on that occasion The Govern Government - ment Government had only about two thousand troops in the island These would proved more tliau a mau-h for any force that the Indiana conld bring into the field but the latter are accustomed to retreat into tha thick nine brakes which rover the mountains of tlio int-rior Aside from those natural de defences - fences defences the natives are athletic and brave while they have dcked up no inconsldf ta table - ble table knowledge from their contact with tha white settlers Their forect camps have been found to lie fortified with much skill in the selection rf grouud and oilier means of defence They are acquainted wltk the uae of firearm and obtain powder from foreigners touching st the island DuEAort'L Tbaoedt - The following pitiful tragedy occurred In this city on Wednesday We suppress the name and the meet out of respect tor the feelings' of the bereaved l srcnl On Sunday evening s fine healthy licj between eight and niuo month old was pul to bed by his mother in the same room wlicra two other cliildrcu were slewing in a crib The mother re remained - mained remained nuing in au adjoining chamber and not bearing auy cry aupppatd that all the children were sound asleep Her hus husband - band husband who hail gone to church returned about uiuo o'clock and a couple of hours alter arns preparing to retire for the night weut into tn room where theebii theebii-diud - diud theebii-diud were The mother looking into the lied did not see the child Sue exclaimed Hint it must be on the floor and made -hasty search But it was not to be louud Couuuuiug the search the child was at length discovered suspended by tbe cliiu between the side of the bed and the chim chimney - ney chimney board There was a small spate left betwe- n the bed and the wall and It scums that the child liark-g rolled oil the bed hud been caught hy Uie chin on one side with the head reeling against the firebenrd ou the oilit-r Our readers can imagine the to ling of tho unhappy parents at tnis dreadful accident Buck au occurrence though rare has been known to have taken pile on one or two occasion - Montreal Jiereld

Confederacy Hey brought their doctrine Into Ihe scliool-house they carried it into the pulist it was mingled with their nrayer- 'hey made it a teat of Church fel fellowship: - lowship: fellowship: hey introduced ifeinto Lcgisfe tive balls and into tbe National Council and finally it culminated in the election at a purely sectional candidate to the Preair deney on the ground Hint all tbe Territo Territory - ry Territory liouiii b-iong exclusively to the North - that freedom was the normal condition of each and erory ono of them and nolther Congress nor tho people ef the Territories Ltd a rVht to -Interfere and say that slave slavery - ry slavery might go there or slaveholders migut take ti-irt'proptrty there 1 may not speak to you Vilie Fugitive Slave Law and the passugr of Personal Liberty Bills I need not tell you that tan millions of dollars worth orproperty nrt snnually stolen from the si-ctiou to which we belong and car carried - ried carried away by organised bands from the North I went honestly and sincerely to tbe Washington Peace Congress with a view or getting rusrantcM widen I thought indis indispensably - pensably indispensably necessary for- our saeuiity and safety I did not go there to qnlal apprehen apprehensions - sions apprehensions that "existed to soma extent'' among a few men who were wiki and rabid but went there aa I-thought in obedience to the universal lentlment thronghont tha State of Kentucky sud other man were ont-there irom other slave State of this Union not to ask but to demand those e unreal era and that construction of tha Constitution which onr fathers gave it at the time it was first made Cheers To how you fellow-citizens that I am not exaggerating this thing or even giving it a tinge of color to which the facia hi the case do not entitle it I her yon will excuse - me for a moment while I read o you not what I would lay Which you x-Ut toko with some grains of al-Liveai-V bnt what one of the moot intense Cniun men of tea Stnto of- Ksusaliy: iu aid - ua a who is said to be In ftvor of co coercion - ercion coercion tho Rev Robt J Breckinridge who has written a phamphlet upon the Union - shall I read it? (Vetoes "read" "read") Mr H then read: "If any ona will compare the unques unquestionable - tionable unquestionable right of tha owners of slaves se secured - cured secured by tho Fsdsral Constitution to have them dsllrered to them in the State to which they may escape with what has oc occurred - curred occurred during many past years with refer reference - ence reference to ths fair ana sincere enforcement of this right infrny Northern State where it enforcement has been attempted - or with the average aggregate conduct of the whole North upon the subject ho will bo struck with astonishment In proportion as he gate a complete idea of what the border altve States hsvo suffered and of the de demoralized - moralized demoralized condition of opinion at tha North on tha whole ashJoot and of to utter wickedness of tbe organized robbery which-has been systematically carried on Mirk - tbe Constitution ol tho nation ex expressly - pressly expressly requires the rendition of slaves when they escape Then observe that along the border common to Ohio and Kentucky slaves have boon systeniatically enticed from their owner by organized ncloties in Ohio and carried off by ar arrangements - rangements arrangements so extensive so complete and s effectual that along the eutire border between those 8tstes two or Hire coun counties - ties counties deep slavery is totally insecure in Kentucky Along the frontier of all the ether border slave States similar system at organized plunder has boon in active operation To what extent the system mnetrates the interior regions of th slave Itates it la difficult to aay but it is known hat omltsarlea irom tha North have syste systematically - matically systematically -pervaded th entire South in every imaginable diagnisa achuolintater pettier sgunt quack preacher labourer - everythin - making known- to tho slaves tin rouies and methods of escape and In Instilling - stilling Instilling Into their minds principles that re result - sult result iu house-burning poisoning murder aud rape if escape u Impossible What success has attended these diabolical pro pro-ceediaga - ceediaga pro-ceediaga with regard to the whole nnmber of sluveo stolen we have no better means of knowing than tho published statement of journals that advocate the robbery: sod alter allowing for much boas Ling on their part prompted by very obvious res so us tho number can hardly bo set lower than a yearly average of ten thousand slaves - worth little abort of ten millions of dol dollars - - lars - dollars - for some years past Nor must it lie forgot ton tluit although Urge sums of money are - - contributed ' by fanatics thronghont the North to the yearly suja port ot these oeratioui yet the immedi immediate - ate immediate agents of the work nuke it very profi profitable - table profitable We and many hundred persons have personal knowledge of a case which occurred a few years go in Knntncky iu which betweeu fifty and sixty might men wore attempted to be run nil at one time i'nii Lcximrion and surrounding region iif'VUiic'f tho fob of the white vraouiMr and lender ol the company vorfeA accor

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