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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The cotton planters' Convention. (search)
lroads, but only one railroad from the South. A horde of 100,000 Abolitionists could be poured into Kentucky in ten days time, whilst reinforcements from the South could only come by one source, and therefore limited. It therefore behooved Kentucky to be prudent, as her position was eminently a perilous one. But the great heart of Kentucky throbbed in sympathy with the South. As for himself, he had been a devoted Union man — was an intense Union man until Lincoln's proclamation of the 15th April. Then he felt that it was time to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. All that he had, or was — his heart and soul, property and all — was dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, and old as he was, he stood ready to shoulder his musket in the ranks of his fellow-countrymen, to vindicate Southern rights and honor upon the battle-field. Every heart beat in unison with the conviction that our brave soldiers in Virginia would conquer the proud cohorts of Lincoln. But suppos<