BY DAVID OVER. From the Louwille Journal, July 15.- SPEECH OF HON. JOSEPH HOLT, At Louisville, Ky., July 13th. "W'o have never witnessed a popular ovation to a public man that could have proved more gratifying to the recipieut than the demonstration at Masonic Temple, on Saturday evening last, on the occasion of tbe reception of the Hon. Joseph Holt. The Temple was c rowded with citizens of both sexes, who tuet spontaneously to do honor to the gallant Kentuckiau, who, as tbe citizen and Statesman, had the manliness, the courage and the patriotism to resist the iniquitous influence brought to bear upon him daring the late administration, bringing j ail his great ability and tbe mighty weight of his j influence to the support of the government whose j existence ho bad sworn to maintain. Mr. Holt was introduced to the audience by the j Hon. Henry Pirtle, in the following eloquent ' terras: MB. HOLT: YOU are welcome to Kentucky,your native State, you are welcome to Louisville. We are proud to shako the hand of a man who has been so faithful to his public trust—who has done honor to his State and honor to the nation. Out ol Congress (there we had true men) it did our hearts good to look towards two Kentuckians in the service of the great public, iu the trying times of last winter and spring ; Holt at Washing ington (where fraud and treachery raged all around) almost alone, with a firmness, a capability, aud a patriotism that challenged the attention and the judgment of Christendom ; and Anderson, left by himself, surrounded by enemies in the Bay of Charleston, whose tame shall live when the waves of ages shall have worn away tbe granite of Sum ter and it shall fall undistinguished in the sea. I know you feel yourself honored to have his name mentioned now. It was you who would have re lieved him, and helped him to maintain the banner of the Union. When you came to the relief of the country you infused lifo into the almost dying State ; treason commenced scattering from Washington, and the people ot th'S country began to hive confidence that the Executive branch of the Government was again true to tbem and the Constitution. Your administration ot the most important division of the Executive Department at the time, was under the most embarrassing circumstances ever seen in this country. Your ministry was short, and after harm irretrievable had come; States were marched •ut as ii they were uot States, but a helpless band e-oiLr the domiuation of a mob. and under the Iridic of the drum ahd fife ; but History will place 3 out name in houor when she writes of this epoch of demoralization, ot war, and the woes of war.— 0 may she soon be able to write for us a page of peace and Union 1 Mr. Holt then took the stand amid prolonged and deafening cheers, and spoke as follows : JTROOX PIRTLE : I beg ycu to be assured that I am most thankful for this dintiuguished and flat tering welcome, and for every one of the kind words which have fallen from your lips, as I am for the hearty response they have received.— Spoken by anybody and anywhere, these words would have been cherished by me, but spoken by yourself in and tbe presence and Jon behall of those in whose midst I commeuced the battle ot life, whose friendship I have ever labored to deserve, and in whose fortunes 1 have ever felt the liveliest sympathy, they are doubly grateful to my feelings. J take no ciedit to myself for loving and being faithful to such a government as this, or for utter ing, as 1 do, with every throb of my existence, a prayer for its preservation. In regard to my of ficial conduct, to which you have alluded with such earnest and generous commendatioa, I must say that no merit can bo accorded to me beyond that of having humbly but siucerely struggled to per form a public duty, amid embarressments which the world cau never fully know. In reviewing what is past, I have and shall ever have a bitter sorrow, that, while 1 was enabled to accomplish so little in behalf of oar betrayed and suffering coun try, others were enabled to accomplish so much against it. You do mo exceeding honor in as sociating me in your remembrance with tbe hro of Fort Sumpter. There is about his name an atmos phere of light that can never grow dim. Sur vounded with his little band, by battories of trea son and by infuriated thousands, of traitors, the tiros upon the alter of patriotism at which he min istered, only waxed the brighter for the gloom that enveloped him, ahd history will never forget that it was from tbt se fires that was kindled that confla gration that now blazes throughout the length and breadth of the land. Brave amongst the bravest, racorruptable and unconquerable in his loyalty, amid all the perplexities arid trials aud sore humili ations that beset him, be well deserves that exalted position iu the affections and confidence of the people that he now enjoys; and while none have had better opportunities of knowing this than my self, so I am snre that none could have a prouder joy in bearing testimony to it than I have to-night. FELLOW Cmxxxs: A few weeks since, in an other form, I ventured freely to express my views upou those tragic.events which have brought sor row in every hearthstone aud to every heart iu our distracted counLry, and it is not my purpose on this occasion to repeat these views, or to engage in any extended discussion of the questions then examined. It is not necessary that I should do so, since tbe argument is exhausted, and the poplar mind is perfectly familiar with it in all its bearings. 1 will, however, with your permission, submit a few brief observations upon the absorbing topics of the day, and it I do so with an earnestness unit emphasis due alike to the sincerity of my convic tions and to the magnitude ol the interests invol ved, it is trusted that none will be offended, not even those who may most widely differ from mo. Could one, an entire stranger to our histo ry, now look down apOQ the South and see there a hundred or a hundred and fifty thous and men maiching in hosiuo ufi*y; threatening the capture of the Capitol, and the dismember uient of the territory of the Republic ; and uuld be look again and see that this army is marshalled and directed by officers receutly oc cupying distinguished places in the civil aud military service of the country, and further, ihat.tbe States from wbioh this army has been drawn appear to be one vast, seething cauldron of ferocious passion, be would very naturally conclude that the Government of the United States had committed some great orime against ite people, and that this uprising was in resis* t&uce to wrong and outrages which had been borne until their endurance was no longer pos sible. And yet, no eenohtsion could be furth er from the truth than this. The Government of the United States bag been faithful to all its constitutional obligations. For eighty years it has maintained the national honor at Hume aud abroad, and by its prowess, its wis dom and its justice has given to the title of an American ottiaeu an elevation among the m* lions of the earth wbioh the citizens of no republic have enjoyed since Roma was mistress of the world. Under its administration the A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c---Terms: One Dollar ind Fifty Cents in Advance. national domain has stretched away ti the Pa- i cifio, and that constellation which announced : our birth as a people has expanded from tliir- j teen to thirty four stars, all, until recently, j moving, uudisttirbed and undintmed iu their orbs of light aud grandeur. The rights of j no State have been invaded; no mau's property has been despoiled, no rnau's liberty abridge!, no man's lifo oppressively jeopardized by the aetion of this Government. Under it- benign ! influences the riils of public and priv.it.: pros- ' perity have swelled intu rivulets, and from riv ulets into rivers ever brimming iu their fullness, and everywhere, aud at ail periods of its his tory, its ministrations have fallen as geutly on the people of the United States as do the dews 1 of a summer's night ou the fliwers and grass of the gardens of the fields. Whence, then, this revolutionary outbreak? Wbeuoe the secret spring of this gigautte con spiracy, which like some huge boa, hid com pletely coiled itself around the limbs and body of the Republic, before a single hod was lilt-; ed to resht it? Strange aud .uJetd startling as the announcement must appear when it ; falls upon the ears of the next generation, tne national tragedy iu whose shadows we stand to-night, has coma upou us because, in No veuiber last, John 0. breckiundge was not elected Piesidcot of the United States, and Abraham Lincoln was. This is the whole sto ry. And 1 would pray now to kuow on what was John 0. Breckinridge fed that he has ' growa so great, that a republic founded by Washington sod cemented by the best blood that Le ever coursed iu human veius, is to be overthrown because forsooth lie cannot be its i Pr.sileut? Did he beeu cboseu, we well know j that wo should not have heard of tliL nt/n --' lion, for the lever with wuiuh it is being moved would have been wanting to the bauds of the conspirators. Even after his defeat, could it j have been guaranteed, beyond all prcsuven ture, that Jeffetson Davis or souie other kiu -1 dred spirit would bo the successor of Mr. Liu coin, 1 presume we hazard nothing in u-eum ■ trig that this atrocious movement against the j Government would uot have been set on foot. So uiucti lor the principle involved in it. This great crime, then, with which we are graps i pling, sprang from that "sin by which the aa- I gies fell''—au uumastend and profligate am- I bition—au ambition that "would rather reign in bell tb.n serve iu heaven"—that vrouid rather rule supremely over u shattered frag ment of the Republic than run the chance of sharing with others in the honors of the whole. The conspirators of the South read iu the election of Mr. Lincolu a deolarutiuu that the Democratic party had been prostrated, if uot finally destroyed, by tbe selfish intrigues and corruptions of its loaders; they road, too, that the vicious, emaciated aud spavined bobby of the slavery agitation, on which they had so ofteu rode into power, could no longer carry beyond a given geograpuical line of our tci- aud that in truth this factious and trea sonable agitation, en which so many of them had gtowu great by debauching and denation alizing tbe uiind of the people naturally gen erous aud patriotic, had run its acourse, and hence, that from the national disgust lor this deniagogutiug and from bs inexorable law of population, that the tiiue had come when all those who had no other political capital than this would have to prepare for retirement to i private life, so far at least as the highest offi ces of the country were coucarued. Under ; the influence of these grim discouragements tuey resolved to consummate at once—what our political history shows to have been with tbeoi a long cherished purpose— the dismeui l hermeut of the Government. They said to themselves. "Since we cau no longer monop olize the great offices of the Republic as we have been accustomed to do, we will destroy ' it aud build upou its ruius au empire that shall i he all our owu, and whose spoils neither the North nor the East nor the West shall share with us." Deplorable and humiliating us this certainly is, it is hut a rehcaual of the sad, sad story of the past. We had, iudeod, sup posed that under our Christian civilization we bad reached a point iu human progress, when a republic could exist without haviug its life j sought by its own offspring, but the Catalines lof the .South have proved that we were luuta- I keu. Let uo man imagine that because tins 1 rebellion has been made by ineu renowned iu | our civil and military history, that it is there ! fore the less guilty or the less courageously tJ be resisted. It is nresisolv this class of UHU I who have subverted the beat goverumeuts that j have ever existed. The purest spirits that have lived iu the tide of times, the noblest institutions that have arisen to bless our race, have (ouud thoso in whom they had most eou j tided and whom they had most honored, men ' wicked enough, either secretly to betray them | : unto death, or openly to seek their overthrow hy lawless violence. The Republic of En gland had its Monk; the republic of Frauoe bad its Bonaparte; the republic of Home had its Ctßiar and its Oataiine, aud the Saviour of the world had ilia Judas Iseariot. it cannot be necessary that I should declare to you, for you know them well, who tbey are whose part riuidal swords are now unsheathed ugainst the Republic of the United States. Tueir names are tnseribed upou a scroll of iufamy thai can never perish. The most distinguished of them were educated by the charity of the Govern* ment ou which thy are now making war.— For long years tbey were fed from its table, and clothed from UJ wardrobe, aud had their biows garlanded by its honors. loey are the uugrateiai sons of a fond mother who dandled them upon her knee, who lavished up JQ them the gashing love of her ujble and Jev.dad na ture, and who uuitaied them iron (be very bosom of her life; aud oow, ia the treueied excesses of a licentious and baffled ambition, tbey are stabbing at that bosom with the fero city with which the tiger springs upon his prey. BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, AUG. 80. [B6l. The President of the Uuited States is heroi cally and patriotically struggling to baffle the mvcbiDatious of these most wicked men. 1 have unbounded gratification in knowing that he has the courage to look traitors in the face, and that, in discharging the duties of his great office, he takes no counsel of his fears. lie is entitled to the zealous support of the whole country, and, uuy I not add without offence, that he will receive tbe support of all wh justly appreciate tbe boundless blessings of our free institutions? If this rebellion succeeds it will involve r.G oessarily the destruction of our nationality, the division of our territory, the permanent dis ruption of the republic. It must rapidly dry up the sources of our material prosperity, and year by year wo shall grow more and more impoverished, more and more revolutionary, en- j fcebiod and debased. Kacb returning ejection f will bring with it gvounis for new civil coto- ! motions, and traitors, prepared to strike at the country 'bat has rejected their claims to pow er, will spring up on every side. Disunion oooe begun will go on and on iudefiuitsly, aud under the influence of tbe fatal doctrioo of soce-sioo, not only will States cecedo Irom States, but counties will seced# from States 1 also, and towos aud cities from counties, until uuiversal anarchy will be consuuitutted iu oacb individual who can make good his posi tion by force of ai ms, olaiming the right to defy tbe power of the Government. Thus we should have brought baok to us the days of the robber Barons with their molted Cistl -s and tuaiailderi ig retainers. This uoetri' 1 w'\ u analyzed is dimply a -declaration ihaißO j:lr - teal town shell over be cu.pl ... .u. x,i.cutitig too laws or upholding t-m government into whose practical uduitniatratiuo such a principle has been introduced, could no more contiuue j to exist than a mm could iivc with AD angrcJ j cobra iu his bosom. If you would know what are the legitimate fruits of accession, look at Virgiuia an jeot by inheritance; independence of that be j uiticcut Government on whose treasury and j bouors they have grown strong and illustrious, j When a man commits a robbery ou the high way, or a murder in tbe daik, be thereby de clares his independence of the laws under which be lives, aud of tbe society of wbioh he is a member. Should he when arraigDe d avow aud justify the offeuoe, he thereby be comes the advocate of tbe independence he has thus declared; and, if he /eai-ts by force of arms the officer, when daggiug bun to the pris on, the penitentiary, or tbe gallows, he is thereby lighting lav thi indspeudeooe be lias thus denial ed auo udvooated: and such is the condition of the conspirators of the South at this moment. It is no longer a question of Southern rights, which havo never beeu vio lated, nor of seourity of Southern institutions, which wc know perteetly well hav-c never beeu 1 interfered* with by ibo General Government, i but it is purely with us a q testiou ot uatioual ; existence. In tneetiug witu this terrible issue i which rebellion has made up with the loyal men ot tbe country, we stand upon ground iufiuitely ' above all party lines and party platforms — i ground as sublime as that on which our fathers ! stood when they fought the battles of the Revolution. lam for throwing into the eon- test thus forced upon us all the material and moral resources atuil euergies of the Dation, in ! order that the struggle may be brief and as j little sanguinary as possible It is hoped that we .shall soon see in tho field half a million of patriotic voluutoers, inarching iu columns which will be perfectly irresistable, and, borne in their hands—for no purpose of conquest or subjugation, but of protection only— we may expect within nine month* to see the stars and snipes Soaring in every t-outhem breeze and hear goiflg up, wild as the storui the oxultaut shout of that emancipated people over their deliverauce from the revolutionary terror and despotism, by which they ore now tormented i and oppressed. The war conducted on audi a scale will uot cost exceeding four or five hundred millions of doll-us; and none tiecd be startled at the vani ties- of this expenditure. The debt thus crea ted will press bub slightly upon us; it will he paid aud gladly paid by posterity, who will make tbe best burgaiu which has been uiide since the world begun, if they can s-cure to themselves in its integrity aud blesaiQgs such a goveronieui as this, at uuh a cost. Rut if iu this anticipation we are doomed to disappoint iii:uts; if tho people of the United S'ates have already become so degenerate—uiay 1 uot say so craven—iu the presence of their foes as to surrender up this Republic to bo dismembered and subverted by the traitors wbo have reared tbe standard of lovolt agaii.-t it, then I trust the volume of American iii-tiry wlii be closed and s-.UJCU up for vr, r.d t thusO who sbcit survive ibis national b urn Hi a'ion will take uot > tt.ouiSuitc*. vjuii. oiuer name—some name having no relation to the pist no r<-latiou to our great ancestors, uo relation to those monu ments and battle-fields which commemorate alike their heroism their locality and their glory. Rut with tbe curled lip of scorn wo are told by ths disuniouist*, that in tbus supporting a Republican adiuinistratiou iu its eudeavjrs to uphold the constitution and laws, we are "sub misaiouists," aud when they have prououuoed this word, they suppose they have imputed to us the sum of all buuiao abasement. Well, let it be confessed; we are" sobmissionists," and weak and spiritless as it uiy oo deemed by souis, wo glory in the position we occupy. For ex ample; the law says "Thou saaitpot steß;" we submit to this law, and would uot for tbe world's worth, rob our neighbor of bis forts, his arsenals, bis hospital stores, or anything that is his. Indeed, so impressed arc we with the obligations of this law. that we would no more think of plundering from our ueighbor half a milliou of dollars because found in one of his unprotected uiiuts, than we would think of filching a purse from his pocket in a crow ded thoroughfare. Write us dowo, therefore, "submissionists.' 1 ' Again: the law "Thou shalt not swear falsely;" we submit to this hw, and while in the civil or military service of tbe country, with an oatb to support the Constitu tion of the United States resting upon our consciences, we would not for any earthly con sideration, engage in the foimation or execu tion of a conspiracy to subvert that very con stitu'ioD, aud wiih it the government to which it has given birth. Write us down therefore agaio "submtssionivts." Yet again: When a Ptefideut has beou elected in strict accordance with tbe forms and spirit of the constitution, and has been regularly instilled into office,and is honestly striving to discharge his duty by auatchiug riie republic from the jaws ot a gi gantic treason which threatens to crush it; we care not what his uaiue may le or what the designation of bis p iitioul party, or what ihe platform on which be stood during tho Presi dcutiß canvass:, we believe we fulfil in sight of earth and benv n our highest obligations to our country, in giving to Litu r.ti earnest and loyal support iu the struggle iu which he is engaged. Nor are we at all disturbed by the flippy! ! tauut that iu thus submitting to the authority ' of our government, we arc necessairly cowards. i We know whence this tauut comes, and we estimate it at its value. We hold that there is a higher courage in the performance of duty than in the commission of crime. The tiger of ! the jungle and the cannibal ot the South Sea IsUuds have that eouiagc iu which the revolu tionists of the day make their especial boast; \ the angels of Gad and the spirits of just men made perfect have had, and have that courage which submits io the laws. Lucifer was a uon submi-sionist, and the first secessionist of whom history has giveu us any account, aud the chains which he wears fitly express the fate | due to all who openly defy the laws of their [ Creator and of their country. He rebelled j because the Almighty would not yield to him j the throue of Heavcu; the principle of the Southern rebellion is the same. Indeed, in this submission to the laws is found the chief disiiuction between good men and devils. A good mau obeys the laws of truth, of hoDesty, of morality, and ail those laws which have been enacted by competent authority for the govero- I ment aud protection of the country in which 1 iic lives: . devil obeys only hi? o.wu lcrocious j aud profligate passions The priuoiplo on I which this rebellion proceeds, thai laws have | ui taeuiselves no sanctions, no binding force ! upou the conscience, and that every nun, nndor the prompting ot interest or passion or caprice, may at will, and honorably, too, strike at the government that shelters him, is one of uiter demoralization, and should be tiodden out, as you w<>uld tiead out a spark (hat has fallen !on the root ol your dweiiiug. Its unchecked prevalence would resolve society into chaos, i and leave you without the sligbtest # guarniee for life, liberty, or property. It is timo that, in their majesty, the people of the United States should tuako known to the world that this government, its dignity and power, is something more thau a moot court, aod that the citizm who makes war upon it is a traitor, in not only theory but in fct, and should have ineted out to hiin a traitor's doom. The coun try wants no bloody sacrifices, but it must and will have peace, coat what it may. Before closing, 1 desire to say a few words on the relations of Kentucky to the pending | rebellion; and, as we arc all Kentuckians here together to-night, and as all this is purely a family mutter, which concerns the honor of us ail. 1 hope we uiy he permitted to speak to ] each other upon it with entire freedom. I shall not detain you with observations on the hostile and defiant position assumed by the Governor of your State. In his reply to tbe requisition made upon h ui for volunteers un der the proclamation of the President, he has, in my judguieut, written and tioisbed his own history, his epitaph included, aud it is proba ble that in future the world will little concern itself as to what he may propose to do or at to whit he may propose not to do. That response has made for Kentucky a record that has already brought a blush to tbe cheek of many of her sous, aud is destined to bring it to the cheek of many more iu the years which j are to come. It is a sbanoe, indeed crying j shame, that a State with so illustrious a past should Lave written for her by her own chief magistrate a page ol history so utterly humili ating as this, liut your Legislature have des teruiirjfld that during tbe present unhappy war, the attitude of the State shall ho that of strict ' neutrality, and it is upon this determination ! that I w! b respectfully, hut frankly to com* meut. As h> motives which governed tbe L. were doubtless patriotic and con servative, the conclusion arrived at cannot he condemned as dishonorable, still, in view of the manifest duty of the State and of possible results, 1 canuot but regard it as mistaken aud false, and one which may have fatal conse quenoes. Strictly aud legally speaking, Ken tuekey must go out of tbe Union before she can te neutral. Witlftu it she is neoessarily either faithful to the government of the Uni ted States, or she is disloyal to it. If this crutch of neutrality upou which her well-mean iug bit ill-judging politicians ure hairing, can find any middle ground on which to rest, it has escaped my researches though 1 bavo diligent ly sought it. Neutrality, in the sense of those who uow use tbe term, however patriotically designed is, in effect, hut a snake in the grass of rebellion, aud those who haudle it, will sooner or later fuel its fangs. Said one who ; spake as uiau never spoke "he who is not with ! us is against us," ami of none of the conflicts j which have arisen between meu or between | nation*, could this be more truthfully said, j than of that iu which we are now involved.— j Neutrality necessarily implies indifference. lsKentueky indifferent to the issues of this contest? lias she no compact with her sister States to ke< p, no plighted faith to uphold, no renown to sustain, no gloiy to wiu? lias she no horror of that crime of cri.tes now being commuted against us by that stupendous re bellion which has arisen like a tempest cloud in the South? We rejoice fe know that she is still a member of this Union, and as such she has tbe sums interest iu resistiug this rebellion, that each limb of tLe body has in resisting a poignard whose point is aimed at the heart.— It is her bouse that is on Are, has she DO inter est iu extinguishing the conflagration? Will she stand aloof and announce herself neutral i between the raging flames and tbe brave men j who are periling their lives to subdue t.|em ? J Hundreds of thousands of citizens of other : States—men of culture and character, of thought and of toil; men who have a deep stake iu life, and an intense appreciation of its duties aud responsibilities; who know the worth of this blessed gcerurucut of ours, and do not prizs even their owu blood above it— I sty, hundreds of thousands of such men have left their homes, their workshops, their offices, their couutiog houses, and th>ir fields, ud arc now rallying about our flag, freely offering their all to sostaiu it, aud, since the days that crusading Eoglaud threw its hosts upon the embattled j i plains of Asia uo deeper or more earnest or gran- j der spirit has stirred the souls of men, than that which uow sways those mighty masses whose gleaming banners are destined ere long j to nuke bright again the earth aud sky of the distraoted South. Cau Kentucky look upon this sublime spectacle of patriotism unmoved, aud then say to herself: "I will speud ueither blood nor treasure, hut I will shrink away while the b&tilc rages, and after it has been fought and wou, 1 will return to the camp, well as sured that if I canuot claim the laurels, 1 will at least enjoy the blessings of the victory? Is that all that remains of her chivalry?— of the chivalry of the land of the Shelbys, the John | sons, the Aliens, the Glays, tbe Adairs, and tbe Davisses? Is there a Keniuckian within the sound of tny voice to-night, who can bear the anguishod cry of his country, as she wres tles aud writhes in the folds of this gigantic treusou, and then lay himself down upon bis i pillow with this thought of neutrality, without tending that he has something in bis bosom ' which stings him worse than would an adder? Have we, within the brief period of eighty ysars, descended so far from the mountain heights ou which our fathers stood, that already, in our degeneracy, wo proclaim our blood too precious, our treasure too valuable to be de voted to tbe preservation of such a government as this? They fought through a seven years war with tbe greatest power ou earth for the hope, the bare hope of betug able to found this .Republic, and now tb* 1 it is no longer a hope nor an experiment, but "a glorious reality, which has excited tbe admit attoo and the horn j age of tbe nations, aud has covered us with blessings, as "the waters cover the channels of the sea," have we, their oiiildren, no years of toil, of sacrifice, and of battle, even, if need be, to give to save it from absolute de i stiuction at the bauds of men, who, steeped in ! guilt, are perpetrating agaiust us and human!* t - , VOL. U, I ) ei ty a crime, for vtLicli, I veril ' . blackest page of the history ! <\ darkest period furnishes oop be possible that in the history of people we have already renehe degeneraoy so low, that tbe work o r • v ,>:i and Franklin, of Adams aud J-E Hancock snd Heory, is to be overly b, the morally begritnmed aud pigtnied coi. tors who arc now tugging at its foundations' Ii would be the overturuiug of the Ande* uy tbe miserable reptiles tbat are crawliog in tc.o sands at their base Hut our neutral fellow-cttizeos io the teu derness of tbeir hearts say; "This effusion of blood sickens us." Then do all io your power to bting it to an end. Let tbe whole streDgtb of this Commonwealth be put forth in support of the Government, in order that the war may be terminated by a prompt suppression of tbe rebellion. The longer the struggle continue, iba fiercer will be its spirit, and the more fears ful the wiste of life attending if. You there fore oooly aggravate the calamity you deplore, by standing aloof from the combat. But again they say, "we caunot fight our brethren." Indeed! But your brethren cau fight you and wi'h a good will to. Wickedly and wantonly have they commenced this war against you and your institutions, and ferociously are they ptosecuting it. They tuke no account of the fact that the uB3icre with which tbey hope their swords will ere long be clogged, iun-t bo the tnass'iore of tbeir brethren. However much we may bow our heals to the confession, it is nevertheless true that every free people that have existed have been obliged at one period or other of their history, to fight for their liberties against traitors witbiD their owu bosoms, and that people who bave not the greatness of soul thus to fight, cannot lmg continue to be free, nor do they deserve to be so. There is uot and there cannot ba any nen trai ground for a loyal people between tbuir own government aud those who at the bead of armies are menacing its destruction. Your inaction is not neutrality, though yoa may de lude yourselves with the belief that it is so.— With this rebellion confronting you, wbeu you refuse to co operate actively with your gov* eminent in subduing it, you thereby condemn the government and assume towards it an at" tuude of antagonism. Yonr inaction is a vir tual endorsement of the rebellion, and if yoa do not thereby give to the rebels precisely that "aid and comfort" spoken of in tbe Constitution you certainly afford them a mOBt powerful eu-. conragement aud support. That they regard your present positiou as frieodly to tbeui, is proved by the fact, that, in a recent enactment of tbe Confederate Congress confiscating tbe debts due from their own citizens to those of loyal States, the debts due to the people of Kentucky are expressly excepted, is ibis not significant? Does it leave any room for doubt tbat ibe Confederate Congress supposo they have discovered ur.dor the guise of your neu" trality a lurking sympathy jfor their cause which entitles you to be treated as fiieuds if not as active allic#? Pat iotio as was the pur pose of her apprehensive statesmen in placing her in tbe anomalous position she now occupies, it cannot be denied that Kentucky by her present altitude is exerting a potent influence m strengthening the rebellion, aud is therefore false alike to her loyality and to iier fame. You may rest assured that this estimate of your neu trality is entertained by the true men of (he country io ail tho Sates which are now sustaining the Government. Within the last few week- how many of those gallaut volunteers, who have ielt borne and kindred and all tbat is dear to them, tQi are now under a Southern sun, exposing themselves to death from disease and to death from battle, and are accounting tbeic lives as nothing effort they are miking for the de liverance of your Government and theirs; how many of them have said tome in sadness and in longing, "Will uot Kentucky help me?" How my soul would have leaped could i have answer ed promptly, confidently, exulting!/, "'yes, she win." But when I thought of this neutrality, my heart sank within me, and I did not and I could not look those brava men in the face. And vet I ; could not answer "no." I could not not crush myself to the earth under tbe self-abasement of such a reply. I therefore sai t—and may my coun try sustain me—"l hope,l trust, I pray, nay, I believe, Kentucky wilt yet do her duty." It this Government is to be destroyed, ask your selves ; are yon willing it shall be recorded in his tory that Keutucky stood by in the greatness of her streugth and lifted not a hand to stay the c&t astrope i 1/ it is to be saved—as 1 verily believe it is—are you willing it shall be written that in the immeasurable glory which must attend the achieve ments, Kentucky had no part ? I will only add, if Kentucky wishes the waters of her beautiful Ohio to be dyed in blood ; if she wishes her harvest fields, now waiving in their abundance, to ho trampled beneath the threshings of tha tempest j if she wishes the homes where her loved ones are now gathered in peace, invaded by the prescriptive iury of a military despotism, spairing neither life nor property ; if she wishes the streets of her towns aud cities grown with grass i aud the steamboats of her rivers to lie rottening at j her wharves, thun let her joiu the Southern Cou i tederacy. But if she would have the bright waters iof that river (low on in their gladness; if she j would have her harvests peace!ully gathered to her j garners ; if she would have the lullabies of her j cradles aud the songs of her homes uninvaded by | the cries and terrors of battle ; if she would have | the streets of towns and cities again filled with the ! hum and throngs of busy trade, and her rivers arid I their shores once more vocal with the steamer's j whistle—tbat authem of a free .and prosperous com merce—tuen let her stand by the stars and stripes, and do her duty and her whole duty as a member of this Uuiou. Let her brave people say to tha i'lesident of the United States, "You are our Uhiuf Magistrate; the government you have i charge aud are striving to savu from dishonor ana dismemberment is our government; your cause is indeed our cause; your battles are our battles make room lor us therefore in the ranks of your armies, that your triumph may be our triumph also." Even as with the Father of us all I would plead lor Salvation, so my countrymen, as upon my ver keea, would I plead with you for the lile, of on great and benificont institut ions. But it the trr