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HUNTINGDON, PA.
Thursday afternootr, July 18, 1861
COL. HOLT'S ADDRESS.—WO give in
to-day's Globe, the powerful address of
Col. HOLT of Kentucky. We want
every man in the county to read it.
TiE POLITICIANS AT WORK.-WO
see by the Journal (0 American of this
morning, that tho Chairman of the
Republican County Committee has is
sued a call for the election of delegates
on the 10th of Anguest, to meet in
County Convention in Huntingdon, on
the 13th of August, for the purpose of
putting in nomination' a ticket for the
ensuing General Election. We bad
hoped for some arrangement by which
party strife in this county could have
been avoided this fall, but it appears
the patriot politicians of the Opposition
party are determined to force the 1100- ,
pie into another political fight While
the real patriots of all parties are in
the battle field fighting the battles of
the country. It was a great mistake
that in recruiting for the companies
- Which left this county, that the few
political office-seekers who are now
trying to disturb the harmony of our
people, had not been forced into the
ranks and marched down South—and
if shot down, the loss to the country
would not have been very serious.
8051ETMNG NEW.-IVIIA.T DOES IT
!LEAN?—In the call for an " Uncondi
tional Union Bejiublican County Con
vention", we find the following:
~ The voters of the Unconditional
Union Republican Party, and all
others unqualifiedly in favor of the
policy of the Administration of Abra
ham Lincoln—of a vigorous and un
compromising prosecution of the pres
ent war until the authority of the
PRESIDENT of the United States is
established and obeyed in every portion
of our country."
Will the Chairman of tho U. U. R
C. C. explain?
litra RETURNING VOLUNTEERS.—The
term of enlistment of the brave boys
who first rushed to the aid of the Gov
ernment, and saved Washington from
falling into the hands of the Rebels,
will expire in a few days. Many Reg
iments will disband, but a majority of
the men will re-enlist for the war after
they visit their family and friends for
a few days. Perhaps it may be neces
sary to detain for a month longer many
of the three month's Regiments after
their term expires. If Gen. Scott asks
them to remain, we feel very confident
not a man will refuse. When our boys
do come home they should have a pro
per reception, and we have no doubt
they will receive IL-
Our ladies have this week for
warded to .our three years " boys"
some 56 under-shirts, a number of pairs
of Stockings; &e:: They are now em
ployed making upfelothing for the ar
my hospital:
sor Some thirty new recruits for
the 2d Rog. Pa. Reserve Volunteers,
are now in' town in charge of Major
•Dare, waiting - orders to join their Reg
iment. They are all able bodied men,
and look as if they would work well
in harness.
Stir Prof. Coyle and Miss L. Day,
'are on a visit to Hollidaysburg. On
Tuesday, the hero of Fort Sumpter,
Maj. Anderson, who was also in town
on a visit, called on the party at their
hotel, and after passing a short time
in a pleasant conversation, bid them a
friendly farewell and retired, leaving
with the landlord a gold coin for rilliss
Day. Miss D. intends to have finger
rings made of the coin and the name
of Maj. Anderson engraved upon them.
THE NEWS.
WAstitseroN, -July 17.—Gen. Mc-
Dowell's army commenced a forward
movement yesterday afternoon. He
has now fifty full regiments of volun
teers, sent from this point, numbering
quite a thousand men each. This is
exclusive of regulars, 2,500 of whom
have already joined him,, with 1,000
more, including 600 marines, two full
batteries of light artillery, &c., yet to
be transferred to his command. The
grand corps d' armee will, doubtless,
number about seventy-five thousand
men. •
The Republican of this morning says
the general Movement was in the di
rection of Fairfax Court House, to
which it is no great march from the
right of Gen. 3lcDowell's lino, though
it is fourteen miles front the' extreme
left.
The army, it is supposed, would halt
for the night this side of Fairfax Court
House, which the rebels will probably
take occasion to vacate, and resume
their mamh in the morning. They
took with them three days' rations.—
Four mounted batteries of eight seige
guns and several squadrons of cavalry
are in the column, which consists main
ly of infantry.
CINCINNATTI, July 1.7.—0 n Friday
night a detachment of three companies
of Col. Woodroffs second Kentuckey
regiment attacked 500 rebels between
Mad river and Barbonsville on the Kan
awha, comp] e tely routine' ° them. Ten
or twelve rebels were killed and a
number wounded. The Kentuckians
had but one killed. Gen Cox's brigade,
destined to operate against the rebels
under ex-Gov.. Wise, was rapidly mov
ing up the Kanawha.
Brilliant Reception of tho Hon. Jo
seph Holt, at Louisville, Ky.
HIS ADDRESS
[Front the Louisville Journal, July 16.)
We have never witnessed a popular
ovation to a public man that could
have proved more gratifying to the re
eipient than the demonstration at Ma
sonic Temple, on Saturday evening
last, on the occasion of the reception
of the Hon. Joseph - Holt. The Tem
ple was crowded with citizens of both
sexes, who met spontaneously to do
honor to the gallant Kentuckian, who,
as the citizen and Statesman, had the
manliness, the courage and the patriot
ism to resist the iniquitous influence
brought to bear upon him during the
late administration, bringing all his
great ability and the mighty weight
of his influence to tho support of the
government whose existence ho bad
sworn to maintain.
Mr. Holt was introduced to the aud
ience by the Hon. Henry Pirtle, in the
following eloquent terms :
.31r. Holt : You are welcome to Ken
tucky, your native State, you are wel
come to Louisville. We are proud to
shake 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 of Congress (there we had true
men) it did our hearts good to look to
wards two Kentuckians in the service
of the great public, in the trying times
of last winter and spring; Bolt at
Washington (where fraud and treach
ery- raged all around) almost alone,
with a firmness, a capability, and a
patriotisni that challenged the atten
tion and the judgment of Christendom;
and Anderson, left by. himself, sur
rounded by enemies in the Bay of
Charleston,whose fame shall live when
the waves of ages shall have worn
away the granite of Sumpter 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 relieved him,
and helped him to maintain the ban
ner of the Union.
When you came to the relief of the
country you infused life into the al
most dying State; treason commenced
scattering from Washington, and the
people of this country began to have
confidence that the Executive branch
of the Government was again true to
them and the Constitution. Your ad
ministration of the most important di
vision of the Executive Department at
the time, was under the most embar
rassing circumstances ever seen in this
country. Your ministry was short,
and after harm irretrievable had come ;
States were marched out as if they
were not States, but a helpless band
under the dominion of a mob, and un
der the frolic of the drum and fife; but
History will place your name in honor
when she writes of this epoch of de
moralization, of win•, and the woes of
war. 0 may she soon ho able to write
for us a page of peace and Union !
Mr. Holt then took the stand amid
prolonged and deafening cheers, and
spoke as follows a -
Judge Pirtle : I beg you to be assured
that I fun most thankful for this dis
tinguished and flattering welcome, and
for every one of tho kind words which
have just fallen from your lips, as I am
for the hearty response they have re
ceived. Spoken by any body and any
where, these words would have been
cherished by me, but spoken by your
self and in the presence and on behalf
of those in whose midst I commenced
the battle of life, whose friendship I
have ever labored to deserve, and in
whose fortunes I have ever felt the
liveliest sympathy, they are doubly
grateful to my feelings. I take no
credit to myself for loving and being
faithful to such a government as this,
or for, uttering, as I do, with every
throb of my existence, a prayer for its
preservation. In regard to my official
conduct, to which you have alluded
with such earnest and generous com
mendation, I must say that no merit
can be accorded to me beyond that of
having humbly but sincerely struggled
to pefform a public duty, amid embar
rassments which the world :..an never
fully know. In reviewing what is
past, I have and shall ever have a bit
ter sorrow, that, while I was enabled
to accomplish so little in behalf of our
betrayed and suffering country, others
were enabled to accomplish so much
against it. You do me exceeding honor
in associating me in your remembrance
with the hero of Fort Sumpter. There
is about his name an atmosphere of
light that can nevergrow dim. Sur
rounded with his little band, by bat
teries of treason and by infuriated
thousands of traitors, the fires upon
the altar of patriotism at which be
ministered, only waxed the brighter
for the gloom that enveloped him, and
history will never forgot that it was
from these fires that was kindled that
conflagration that now blazes through
out the length and breadth of the land.
Bravo amongst the bravest, incorrup
table and unconquerable in his loyalty,
amid all the perplexities and trials and
sore humiliations that beset him, he
well deserves that exalted position in
the affectiOns and confidence of the
people that he now enjoys; and while
none have had better opportunities of
knowing this than myself, so I am sure
that none could-have a prouder joy in
bearing testimony to it than I have to
night.
Fellow Citizens : A few weeks since,
in another form, I ventured freely to
express my views upon those tragic
events which have brought sorrow in
every hearthstone and to every heart
in our. distracted country, and it is not
my purpose on this occasion to repeat
these views, or to engage in any ex
tended discussion of the questions then
examined. It is not necessary that I
should do so, since the argument is
exhausted, and the popular mind is
perfectly familiar with it in all its bear
ings. I will, however, with your per
mission, submit a fo AT brief observations
upon the absorbing topics of the day,
and if I do so with an earnestness and
emphasis duo alike to the sincerity of
my convictions and to the magnitude
of the interests involved, it is trusted
that none will be offended, not oven
those who may most widely differ from
me.
Could one', an entire stranger to our
history, now look down upon the South
and see there a hundred or a hundred
and fifty thousand men marching in
hostile array, threatening the capture
of the Capital, and the dismemberment
of the territory of the Republic; and .
could he look again and see that this ar
myis marshalled and directed by officers
recently occupying distinguished places
in the civil and military service of the
country, and further, that the States
from which this army has been drawn
appear to be one vast, seething cauldron
of ferocious passion, he would very
naturally conclude that the Govern
ment of the United States had commit
ted some great crime against its peo
ple, and that this uprising was in re
sistance to wrongs and outrages which
had been borne until their endurance
was no longer possible. And yet, nu
conclusion could be further from the
truth than this. The Government of
the United States has been faithful
to all its constitutional obligations.
For eighty years it has maintained the
national honor at home and abroad, and
by its prowess, its wisdom. and its jus
tice has given to the title of an Amer
ican citizen an elevation among the
nations of the earth which the citizens
of no republic has enjoyed since Rome
was mistress of the world. Under its
administration the national domain
has stretched away to the Pacific, and
that constellation which announced
our birth as a people has expanded
from thirteen to thirty-four stars, all,
until recently, moving, undisturbed
and undimmed in their orbs of light
and grandeur. The rights of no State
have been invaded; no man's property
has been despoiled, no man's liberty
abridged, no man's life oppressively
jeopardized by the action of this Gov
ernment. Under its benign influences
the rills of public and private prosper
ity have swelled into rivulets, and
from rivulets into rivers ever brimming
iu their fullness, and everywhere, and
at all periods of its history, its minis
trations have fallen as gently on the
people of the United States as do the
dews of a summer's night on the flowers
and grass of the gardens and fields.
Whence, then, this reVolutionary out
break? Whence the secret spring of this
gigantic conspiracy, which liko some
huge boa, had completely coiled itself
around the jimbs and body of the Re
public, befirre a single hand was lifted
to resist it? Strange and indeed start
ling as the announcement must appear
when it falls upon the ears of the next
generation, the national tragedy in
whose shadows we stand to-night, has
come upon us because, in November
last, John C. Breekinridgo was not
elected President of the United States,
and Abraham Lincoln was. This is the
whole story. And I would pray now
to know on what was John C. Breck
inridge fed that he has grown so great,
' that a republic founded by Washington
and cemented by the best blood that
has ever coursed in hinnan wind, is to
be over-thrown because forsooth he
cannot be its President?. Had he been
chosen, we well know that we should
not have heard of this rebellion, for
the lever with which it is being moved
would have been wanting to the hands
of the conspirators. Even after his
defeat, could it have been guaranteed,
beyond all peradventure, that Jeffer
son Davis or some other kindred spirit
would be the successor of Mr.. Lincoln,
I presume we hazard nothing in assum
ing that this atrocious movement
against the Government- would-not
have been set on foot. So much for
the principle involved in it. This
great crime, then, with which we are
grappling, sprang from that "sin by
which theangles felt "—an unmastered
and profligate ambition—an ambition
that " would rather reign in hell than
serve in heaven "—that would rather
rule supremely over a shattered frag
ment of the Republic than run the
chance of sharing with others the hon
ors of the whole.
The conspirators of the South read
in the election of Mr. Lincoln a decla
ration that the Democratic party had
been prostrated, if not finally destroyed,
by the selfish intrigues and corruptions
of its leaders; they read, too, that the
vicious, emaciated, and spavined hobby
of the slavery agitation, on which they
had so often rode into power, could no
longer carry them beyond a given geo
graphical line of our territory, and
that in truth this factious and treasona
ble agitation, on which so many of them
had grown great by debauching and
denationalizing the mind of the people
naturally generous and patriotic, had
run its ca-gse, and hence, that from
the natiiiffl disgust for this dema
gogueing and from the inexorable law
of population ; that the time had come
when all those who had no other polit
ical capital than this, would have to
prepare for retirement to private life,
so thr at least as the highest offices of
the country were concerned. Under
the influence of these grim discourage
ments they resolved to consummate at
once—what our political history shows
to have been with them a long cher
ished purpose—the dismemberment of
the Government. -They said to them
selves : " Since we can no longer mo.
nopolize the great offices of the Repub
lic as we have been accustomed to do,
we will destroy it and build upon its
ruins an empire that shall be all our
own,- and whose spoils neither the
North nor the East nor the West shall
share with us" Deplorable and hu
miliating as this certainly is, it is but
a rehearsal of the sad, sad story of the
past. We had, indeed, supposed that
under our Christian civilization we had
reached a point in human progress,
' when a republic could exist without '
having its life sought by its own off
spring ; but the Catalines of the South
havo proved that wo were mistaken.
Let no man imagine that because this
rebellion has been made by men re
nowned in our civil and military his
tory-, that it is therefore the less guilty
or the less courageously to be resisted.
It is precisely this class of men who
have subverted the best governments
that have ever existed. The purest
spirits that havo lived in the tide of
times, the noblest institutions that have
arisen to bless our race, have found
among those in whom they had most
confided and whom they had most hon
ored, men wicked enough, either se
cretly to betray them unto death, or
openly to seek their overthrow by law
less violence. The republic of England
had its Monk; the republic of Franco
had its Bonaparte; the republic of
Mato had its ctesar and its Catalina
and tlio• Savior of the world had its
Judas Iscariot. It cannot be necessary
that I should declare to you, for you
know them well, who they are whose
parricidal swords are now unsheathed
against the Republie of the United
States. Their navies are inscribed
upon a scroll of infinny that can never
perish. The most distinguished of
them were educated by the charity of
the Government ou which they are
now making war. For long years
they were fed from its table, and
clothed from its wardrobe, and had
their brows garlanded by its honors.—
They are the ungrateful sons of a fond
mother who dandled theta upon her
knee, who lavished upon them the
gashing love of her noble and devoted
nature, and•who nurtured them from
the very bosom of her life; and now,
in the frenzied excesses of a licentious
and baffled ambition, they arc stabbing
at that bosom with the ferocity with
which the tiger springs upon his prey.
The President of the United States is
heroically and patriotically struggling
to baffle the machinations of these most
wicked men. I have unbounded grat
ification 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. He is entitled to the zealous
support of the whole country, and,
may I not add without offence, that
he will receive the support of all who
justly appreciate the boundless bles
sings of our free institutions
If this rebellion' succeeds it will in
volve necessarily the destruction of
our nationality, the division of our ter
ritory the pernianent disruption of the
republic. It must rapidly dry up the
sources of our material prosperity, and
year by year we shall grow more and
more impoverished, more and more
revolutionary, enfeebled and debased.
Each returning election hill bring
with it grounds for new civil confine,-
dons, and traitors, prepared to strike
at the country that has rejected their
claims to poiver, will spring up on
every side. Disunion once begun will
go on and on indefinitely, and under
the influence of the fatal doctrine of
secession, not only will States secede
from States, but counties will secede
front States alsq, and towns and cities
from counties, 4ntil universal anarchy
will be consumhsated in each individ
ual who can make good his position
by force of arms, claiming the right to
defy the power.of the Government.—
Thus we should have brought back to
us the days of,fhe robber Barons-with
their molted castles and marauding
retainers. This doctrine when ana
lyzed is simply a declaration that no
physical force .4mll ever.he employed
in executing the laws or upholding the
government, mid a government into
whose practica administration such a
principle has been introduced. could
no more continue to exist than a man
could live with; an angered cobra in
his bosom. If you would know what
are the legitimate fruits of secession,
look at Virginia and Tennessee, which
have so lately given themselves up to
the embrace of this monster. There
the schools are'deserted : the courts of
justice closed; public and private cred
it destroyed : commerce annihilated ;
debts repudiated; confiscations and
spoliations
‘ everywhere prevailing ;
every cheek blanched with fear, and
every heart frozen with despair; and
all over that desolated land the hand
of infuriated passion and crime is wa
ving, with a vulture4,tcream for blood,
the sword of civil wfirr. And this is
the Pandemonium which some would
have transferred to Kentucky.
But I am net here to discuss this
proposition to-night. rwiSh:solemnly
to declare before you And the world,
that I am for this Union without con
ditions, ono and• indiVisible, now and
forever. I am for its preservation at
any and every cost of blood and treas
ure against all its assailants. I know
no neutrality between my country and
its foes, whether they be foreign or
domestic; no neutrality between that
glorious flag which now floats over us,
and tile ingrates and traitors who
would trample it in the dust. My
prayer is for victory, complete, endur
ing and overwhelming, to the armies
of the republic over all its enemies. I
am against any and every compromis,o
that may be proposed to be made tin
der the guns of the rebels, while at
the same time, I am decidedly in fa
vor of affording every reasonable
guarantee for the safety of Southern
institutions, which the honest convic
tions of the people—not the conspira
tors—of the South may demand, when
ever they shall lay down their sons, but
not until then. The arbitrament of the
sword has been defiantly thrust into
the face of the Government and coun
try, and there is no honorable escape
from it. All guarantees and all at
tempts at adjustment by amendments
to the Constitution aro now scornfully
rejected, and the leaders of the rebel
lion openly proclaim that they are
fighting fordndependenee. In this
contemptuous rejection of guarantees.
and in this avowal of the objects of
the rebellion now so audaciously made,
we have a complete exposure of that
fraud which through the slavery agi
tation has been practised upon the
public credulity for the last fifteen or
twenty years. In the light of this
revelation, we feel as ono awakened
from the suffocating tortures of a
nightmare, and realize what a baseless
dream our apprehensions have been,
and of what a traitorous swindle we
have been made the victims. They
are fighting for their independence !
Independence of what? Independence
of those laws which they themselves
have aided in enacting; independence
of that Constitution which their fath
ers framed and to which they are par
ties and subject by inheritance; inde
pendence of that beneficent Govern
ment on whose treasury and honors
they have grown strong and illustri
ous. When a man commits a robbery
on the highway, or a murder in the
dark, ho thereby declares his indopen
donee of the laws under which he lives,
and of the society of which ho is a
member. Should he when arraigned
avow and justify the offence, he there
by becomes the advocate of the indo
' penitence he has thus declared; and, if
he resists by force of arms the officer,
when dragging hint to the prison, the
penitentiary, or the gallows, ho is
thereby fighting for the independence
he has thus declared and advocated;
and such is the condition of the, con
spirators of the South at this moment.
It is no longer a question of Southern
rights, which have never been viola
ted, nor of seenrity of Sonthern. insti
tutions, which we knoWperfectly well
have never been interfered with by
the General Government, but it ie
purely with us a question of national
existence. In meeting with this ter
rible issue 'irhia. 'rebellion Las made
up with the loyal men of the country,
we stand upon ground infinitely. above
all party lines and party platfiirmElJ---
ground as sublime as that on which
our fathers stood when they fought
the battles of the Revolution. lam
for throwing into the contest thus
forced upon .us all the material and
moral resources and energies of the
nation, in order that the struggle may
be brief and as little sanguinary as
possible. It is hoped that we shall
soon see in the field half a million of
patriotic volunteers, marching in col
umns which will be perfectly irresis- ,
tible, and, borne in their hands—for
no purpose of conquest or subjugation,
but of protection only—we may ex
pect within nine months to see the
stars and stripes flouting in every
Southern breeze, and hear going-up,
wild as the storm, the exultant shout
of that emancipated people over their
deliverance from the revolutionary
terror and despotism, by which they
are now tormented and oppressed.—
The
war, conducted on such a scale
will not cost exceeding four or five
hundred millions of dollars; and none
need be startled at the vastness of this
expenditure. The debt thus created
will press but slightly upon us; it will
be paid and gladly paid by posterity,
who will make the best bargain which
has been made since the world began,
if - they can secure, to themselves in
its integrity and blessings such a gov
ernment as this, at such a cost. But
if in this anticipation we aro doomed
to disappointments; if the people of
the United States have already be
come so degenerate—may I not say
so craven—in the presence of their
foes as to surrender tip this Republic
to be dismembered and subverted by
the traitors who have reared the stand
ard of revolt against it, then I trust
the volume of American history will
be closed and sealed up forever, and
that those who shall survive this na
tional humiliation will take unto them
selves some other name—some name
having no relation to the past, no re
lation to our great ancestors, no rela
tion to those monuments and battle
fields which commemorate alike their
heroism, their loyalty and their glory.
But with the curled lip of scorn we
are told by the disunionists, that in
thus supporting a Republican adminis
tration in its endeavors to uphold the
constitution and laws, we are "submis
sionists," and when they have pro
nounced tills word; they suppose they
have imputed to us the sum of all hu
man abasement. Well, let it be con
fessed; we are " submissionists," and
weak and spiritless as it may be deem
ed by some, we glory in the position
we occupy. For example : the law
says " Thou shalt not steal" ; we sub
mit to this law, and would not fbr the
world's worth, rob our neighbor of his
forts, his arsenals, his arms, his muni
tions of war, his hospital stores, or
anything that is his. Indeed, so im
pressed are we with the obligations of
this law, that we would no more think
of plundering from our neighbor half
a million of dollars because found in
one of his unprotected mints, than
we would think of filching a purse
from his pocket in a crowded
.thor
oughfare. Write us down, therefore,
"submissionists." Again: thelaw says
"Thou shalt not swear fidsely"; we
submit to this law, and while in the
civil or military service of the coun
try, with an oath to support the Con
stitution of the-United States resting
upon our consciences, we would not
for any earthly consideration, engage
in the formation or execution of a
conspiracy to subvert that very con
stitution, and with it the government
to which it has given birth. Write us
down therefore again "submissionists."
Yet again : When a President has been
elected in strict accordance with the
forms and spirit of the constitution,
and has been regularly installed into
office, and is honestly striving to dis
charge his duty by snatching the re
public from the jaws of a gigantic
treason which threatens to crush it;
we care not what-his name may be or
what the designation of his political
party, or what the platform on'which
he stood during the Presidential can
vass; we believe wo fulfill in sight of
earth and heaven our highest obliga
tions to our country, in giving to him
an earnest and loyal support in the
struggle in which he is engaged.
Nor are we at all disturbed by the
flippant taunt that in thus submitting
to the authority of our government,
we are necessarily cowards. We know
whence this taunt comes, and we esti
mate it at its true value. We hold
that there is a higher courage in the
performance of duty than in.tke com
mission of crime. The tiger of the
jungle and the cannibal of the South
Sea Islands have that courage in
which the revolutionists of the day
make their especial boast; the angels
of God and the spirits of just men
made perfect have had, and have that
courage which submits to the laws.—
Lucifer was a non-submissionist, and
the first secessionist of whom history
has given us any account, and 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 because the Al
mighty would not yield to him the
throne of Heaven . ; the principle of the
Southern rebellion is the same. In
deed, in this submission to the laws is
found the .chief distinction between
good men and devils. A good man
obeys the laws of truth, of honesty, of
morality, and all those laws which
have been enacted by competent au
thority for the government and pro
tection of the country in which he
lives; a devil obeys only his own fero
cious and profligate passions. The
principle on which this rebellion pro
ceeds, that laws have in themselves no
sanctions, no binding force upon the
conscience, and that every man, under
the promptings of interest or passion
or caprice, may at will, and honora
bly, too, strike at the government that
shelters hint, is one of utter demoral
ization, and should., be trodden out, as
you would tread out a spark that has
Wien on the roof of your dwelling.—
Its unchecked prevalence would re
solve society into chaos, and leave you
without the slightest guarantee for
life, liberty, or property. It is time
that, in their majesty, the people of
the United States should make known
to the world that this government Lin
its dignity and power, is something
more than a moot court, and that the.
Citizen who makes war upon it is a
traitor, not only in theory but in fact,
and should have meted out to him
traitor's doom. The country wants
no bloody, sacrifices, but it initSt :Ind
will have peace, cost what it
Before closing, - 1 desire to say a.few words
on the relations of Kentucky to the pending
rebellion ; and, as we arc all Kentuckian!'
here together to-night, and as this is purely
a family matter, which concerns the honor of
us all, 1 hope we may be 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
Governer of your State. In his reply to the
requisition made upon I him for volunteers
under the proclamation of the President, he
has, in my judgment, written and finished
his own history, his epitaph included, and it
is probable that in future the world will lit
tle concern itself as to what his excellency
may propose to do, nr as to - what he may
propose not to do. That response has made
for Kentucky; a record that has already
brought a burning blush to the cheek of
many of her sons, and is destined to bring it
to the cheek of many more in the years which
are to come. It is a shame, indeed n crying
shame, that a State with so illustrious a past
should have written for her by her own chief
magistrate, a page of history so utterly hu
miliating as this. But your Legislature have
determined that during the present unhappy
war, the attitude of the State shall be that
of strict neutrality, and it is upon this deter
mination that I wish respectfully, but frank
ly to comment. As the motives which gov
erned the Legislature were doubtless patri
otic and conservative, the conclusion arrived
at cannot be condemned as dishonorable,
still, in view of the manifest duty of the
State and of possible results, I cannot but
regard it as mistaken end false, and one
which may have fetal consequences. Strict
, ly and legally speaking, Kentucky must go
not of the Union before she can be neutral.
Within it she is necessarily either faithful
to the government of the United States, or
she is disloyal to it. IF this crutch of neu
trality upon which her well-meaning but ill
judging politicians are halting, can find any
middle ground on which to rest, it has
escaped my researches, though I have dili
gently sought it. Neutrality, in the sense
of those who now use the term, however pa
triotically designed, is, 'in ef f ect, but a snake
in the grass of rebellion, and those who han
dle it, will sooner or later feel its fangi.—
Said one who snake as man never spoke, "he
whit is not with us is against us ;" and of
none of the conflicts which have arisen he
tween men or between nations, could this be
more truthfully said, than of that in which
we ere now involved. Neutrality necessari
ly implies indifference. Is Kentucky indif
ferent to the issues of this contest? Has
she, indeed, nothing at stake ? Has she no
compact with her sister States to keep, no
plighted faith to uphold. no renown to sus
tain, no glory to win? Has she nu horror
of that crime of crimes now being committed
against us by that stupendous rebellion which
has arisen like a teMpest cloud in the South?
We rejoice to know that she is still a mem
ber of this Union, and as such she has the
same interest in resisting this rebellion, that
each limb of the body has in resisting a
poignant whose point is alined at the heart.
It is her house that is on fire; has she no
interest in extinguishing the conflagration?
Will she stand aloof and announce herself
neutral between the raging flames and the
bravo men who are periling their lives to
subdue them? Hundreds of thousands of
citizens of other States—men of culture anti
character, of thought and of toil ; wee who
have a deep stake in life, end an intense ap
preciation of its ditties and responsibilities;
who know the worth of this blessed govern
ment of ours, and do not prize even their
own blood above it—l say, hundreds of
thous
ands of such men have left their homes, their
workshops, their offices, their
onises, and their fields, and are now rally
ing about cur flag, freely offering their all to
sustain it, and, since the days that crusading
Europe threw its hosts upon the embattled
plains of Asia, no deeper or more earliest or
grander :Tint has stirred the souls of men,
than that which row sways those mighty
masses whose gleaming banners are destined
ere long to make bright again the earth and
sky of the distracted South. Can Kentucky
look upon this sublime spectacle of patriot
ism unmoved, and theh say to herself; '• I
will spend neither blood nor treasure, but I
will shrink away while the battle-rages,ruid
after it has been fought and won, I will re-
turn to the camp, well assured that if I can
not claim the laurels, I will et least enjoy the
blessings of the victory ?" Is' this all that
remains of her chivalry ?—of the chivalry
of the land of the Slielhys. the Johnson.,
the Aliens. the Clays, the Adairs, and the
Davisses ? Is there a Kentuckian within
the sound of my voice to-night, who can hear
the anguished cry of his country, es she
wrestles and writhes in the folds of this gi
gantic treason, and then lay himself down
upon his pillow with this thought of neutral
ity, without feeling that he has something in
his bosom which stings him worse than would
an adder? Have we, within the brief peri
od of eighty years, descended so far from
the mountain heights on which our fathers
stood, that already, in our degeneracy, we
proclaim our blood too precious, our treasure
too valuable to be devoted to the preserve
tion of such a government as this? They
fought through it seven years war with the
greatest power on earth for the hope, the
bare Imps of being able to found this Repub
lic, and now that it is no longer a hope nor
an experiment, but a glorious reality, which
has excited the admiration and the homage
of the nations, and has covered us with bles
sings, as " the waters cover the chaonels of
the sea," have we, their children, no years
of toil, of sacrifice, nod of battle even, if
need be, to give to save it from absolute de
struction at the bands of mon who, steeped
in guilt, are perpetrating against us and hu
manity a crime, for which I verily believe
the blackest page of the history of the world's
darkest period furnishes no parallel. Can it
be possible thht in the history of the Ameri
can people we have already reached a point
of degeneracy so low, that the work of Wash
ington and Franklin, of Adams and Jeffer
son, of Hancock and Henry, is to be over
thrown by the morally begrimed and pigmied
conspirators who are now tugging at its
foundations? It would be the overturning
of the Andes by the miserable reptiles that
are crawling in tho sands et their base.
But our neutral fellow-citizens in the ten
derness of their hearts say; "This effusion
of blood sickens us." Then do all in your
power to bring it to an end. Let the whole
strength of this Commonwealth be put forth
in support of tho Government, in order that
the war may be terminated by a prompt sup
pression of the rebellion. The longer the
struggle continues, the fiercer will be its
spirit, and the more fearful the waste of life
attending it. You, therefore, only aggra
vate the calamity you deplore, by - standing
aloof from the combat. But again they say,
"we cannot fight our brethren." Indeed
But your brethren can fight you and with a
good will too. Wickedly and wantonly have
they commenced this war against you and
your, institutions, and ferociously are they
prosecuting it. They take no account of the
fact that the . masseere with which they hope
their swords will ere long be clogged, must
be the massacre of their brethren. How
ever much we may bow our heads at the oan
fession, it is noVertheless true that every Do"
people that have existed have been obliged
at one period or other of their history, to
fight for their liberties against traitors with
in their own hostons, and that people who
have not the greatness in soul thus to fight,
cannot long continue to be free, nor do they
deserve to be an.
There is not and there cannot be any new.
tral ground for a loyal people between their
own government and those who at the head
of armies are menacing its destruction:—
Your inaction is not neutrality, though you
may delude yourselves with the belief that
it is so. With this rebellion confronting you, ,
when you refuse to co-operate actively with
your government in subduing it, you thereby
condemn the government anti assume towards
it an attitude of antagonism: Your inaction
is a virtual endorsement of the rebellion,
and if you do not thereby give to the rebels
precisely that "aid and comfort" spoken of
in the Constitution, you certainly afford them
a mast powerful eneouragement,end support.
That they regard your. .pFeoent.lpositnin its
friendly to then, is proved' by the - fact, that,
ih recent enactment of the Confederate
Congress coulheating the debts due from
their own citizens to ;those of loyal States,
the debts death the peopie'Of.Kentileky'are
expresly excepted. Is not this significant
Does it leave any room fur doubt that 'the
Confederate Congress suppose they bare dis
covered under the 'guise of:your nentrality ft
lurking sympathy , Immy their•cause mivhiplf, en
titles you to be treated,as,friends if nutria
active elites? Patriotic as Was,the purpose
of her apprehensire statesmen in Phienig
her in the anomalous position she - now occn
piee. It cannot be denied that , Kentuety by
her present attitude is exerting a pute'n in
fluence in strengthening the rebellion, titivdis
therefore false alike to her loyalty,nnd tolter
fame. You may rest well assured thatthis
estinitite;of your neutrality' is.,Ontefiitinaby
the true men of the country in'all,,t4Stittes
which are now .sustaining the "Gtiternnient.
Within the last' fen , weeks‘' We many-of
those gallant volunteers, who bkve left - home
and" kindred and All that is dear to them; and
are now under, a • Southern -Ann,' exposing
themselves to death from disease and, to death
front battle, and., are accounting' theirlives
as nothing in the effort they are making fur
the deliverance of your GM:ointment• and
theirs; how many of them have Said to me
in sadness and in longing, " Will not Ken
tucky help me ?" How my soutsvonla have
leaped could I hare answered promptly,:con
fidently, exultingly, t' yes, she ;will.", Bet
when I thought of .this neutrality, my heist
sank 'within ruie, and rdid not and I chub'
not look those brave mdkin' the - face:: And
yet I could not answer "no."- I could not
crush myself to the earth under 'the self
abasement of such a reply. thefefore said
—nod may my country sustain me—"l hope.
I trust, I pray, nay, I believe, Kentucky will
yet do her duly,"
,
If this Government is to be destroyed, ask
yourselves: are you willing it shall be re
corded in history that Kentucky stead by is
the greatness of her strength. and lifted , not
a hand to stay the catastrophe? • If it is to
be saved—as f verily believe, it is—.are you
willing it shall , be written thatin*the im
measurable glory which must atterfd the
achievement 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 herveit fields; now
waving in their abundance, to be trampled
under the feet of hostile soldiery as a flower
garden is trampled beneath the threshiogs
of the tempest ; if she wislieS ton homes where
her loved ones are now gathered in peace,
invaded by the prtnicripiivtadrY,of a military
despotism, sparing neither life-nor property;
if site' wishes the streets'of her:towns and
cities grown with grass ant the 'steamboats
of her rivers to lie rotting. at her wharves,
then let her join the Sathern Confedeiticy.
But if site would have the bright waters, Of
that river ,flow on in their gladness.; if she
would have her harvests peacefully gathered
to her garners ; if she would have the-lulla
bies of her cradles and the monks sif her
homeduninvaded by.the cries and terrors of
battle ; if she would have the str*itisof her
towns and cities again filled with-the hum
and throngs of busy trade, nod *her eiyere
and their chores once Inure recall, with the
steamer's whistle—that Mullein of a free;and
prosperous commerce—then 'let her stand
by the stars and stripes, and do her duty and
, her whole duty as a member of this 'Union.
Let her brave people say to the President of
the United States, " Yon are our Cheif Mag
istrate; the g.mvernment you have in charge
and are striving to save from dishonor
and dismemberment is our government; your
cause is indeed our cause; your battles are
hnr battles : make room for-us therefore!zn
the ranks of your armies, that your triumph
may be our triumph also."
Even as with the Father of As all I would
plead for salvation, so my countrymen, - ,as
upon my very knees, would I plead with you
for the life, aye for the life, of our great and
beneficent institution's' But if the traitor's
knife notv at time throrit of time republic is to,
do its work, anti this government is fated tA,
add yet another to that, long line of sepul
chres which whiten the highway of the, i past,
then my heartfelt prayer to God• itilhat it
may lie written in history, that the blood Of
its life was not found upon the skirts of
Kentucky'.
Pull Account of , McClellan's Victories.
CINCINNATI, July 16.-1 special
dis
patch to the Gazette, dated on the field
of battle, at Carrack's Ford, on,' the
14th, says: On the. night of the 11th,
the rebel army, at Laurel Hill, under
command of Brig. Gen. Hebert S: Gar
nett, late a Major in the United States
army, evacuated its camp in great
haste, on hearing of Gen. McClellan's
approach to Beverly, apparently hop
ing to pass Beverly before General
McClellan's arrival, and thus escape
the trap for them by a passage through
the Cheat mountain pass. •
The evacuation was 'discovered on
the morning of the 12th, and pursuit
was instantly ordered. By 10 o'clock
the Indiana Ninth entered the camp
on Laurel Hill, and found a large
number of tents, a lot of flour, camp
equipage and clothing, and several
sick and wounded, with a note asking
us to give them proper attention.
The whole road for twenty miles
was strewn with baggage thrown from
the wagons to facilitate their retreat.
The rebel army .went within throe
miles of Beverly and there met the
rebels flying from Rich mountain, and
finding escape to Huttonsville' impos
sible, all united and returned towards
Laurel Hill, and, took the road in the
direction of St. Morris.
Gen. Morris' division pursued them
for a mile or two • beyond Leedsville
that night, and halted from -11 till 3
in the morning, when the advance re
sumed the pursuit and continued it all
day, in spite of an incessant rain pour
ing down.
The rebel army left the pike and
struck Cheat river and pursued the
mountain road down the valley. Ottr
advance, composed of the Fourteenth
Ohio and Seventh and Ninth-Indiana,
pushed -on, guided through the moun
tain gullies by tents, camp furniture,
provisithis and knapsacks,, thrown fi•Om
the rebel wagons to facilitate their
flight,- - " „ -
Our troops forded Cheat river fbur
times, and finally about 10 o'clock
'came up with the enemy's rear guard.
The -14th Ohio advanced rapidlritri ,
the ford in which the enemy's whetnEt
were standing, when suddenly- the
rebel army opened a furious fire on
them with small'arms and two rifled
cannon from-the bluff on the opposite
side at Cheat river, whore,.they had
been concealed, but the fire, as usual,
was too high to be effective::.
Tho 14th re_gimont retarned the fire
with spirit. Aleanwhile two pieces of
Cleveland - artillery dame up and
opened on the rebels, and the 'Ninth
Indiana advanced 'to 'support the 14th
Ohio regiment, left While the Seventh
Indiana crossed the-river between the
two fires and came in on the enemy's
right flank.
,The rebels then fled. In
great disorder leaving - their finest pieee
of artillery.
• At the next ford, a , quarter of m
mile fgrtheron, Gen. Garnett attemp
ted, to rally .his foreeS, When .the 7th
Indiaria'eathe up in hot 'pursuit; and
another brisk engagement ensued.--,
Gen. Garnett was finally shot dead,
when his army , fled' in wild confusio - n
towards St: George.. - •
The Seventh Indiana pursued - them
a mile or two, but= our fbrees were so
exhausted with their tbrced march of
twenty miles with but little - rest from