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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 65 (search)
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63.--meeting at Louisville, Ky.
Mr. Guthrie's speech.
the Hon. James Guthrie rose amid tremendous cheering.
He said: Fellow-citizens, my voice is not very strong, and I fear it cannot be heard all over this great assemblage, but I will try to make it heard.
Events press upon us with haste, and we scarcely know what is to come next.
When Mr. Lincoln was elected President we all felt that the remedy for a sectional President was in the Union and under the Constitution.
We knew wthe Hon. James Guthrie rose amid tremendous cheering.
He said: Fellow-citizens, my voice is not very strong, and I fear it cannot be heard all over this great assemblage, but I will try to make it heard.
Events press upon us with haste, and we scarcely know what is to come next.
When Mr. Lincoln was elected President we all felt that the remedy for a sectional President was in the Union and under the Constitution.
We knew we had a Senate against him, and hoped that we had the House against him; and there would have been if all men had stood at their posts as Kentucky has stood.
But certain States chose to take the remedy into their own hands, and dissolve their connexion with the Union; South Carolina first, and then seven other States followed.
They have organized a separate Government, and one exercising governmental authority.
Louisville spoke early, decidedly, and firmly against a sectional party in the Uni
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 265 (search)