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tucky will not sever connection with the National Government, nor take up arms for either belligerent party; but arm herself for the preservation of peace within her borders; and tendering their services as mediators to effect a just and honorable peace.
Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge--always a devoted Unionist, because never a devotee of Slavery — in an address at Cincinnati, one year later, declared that Kentucky was saved from the black abyss by her proximity to loyal Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, whose Governors, it was known, stood pledged to send ten thousand men each to the aid of her Unionists whenever the necessity for their presence should be indicated.
Had she been surrounded as Tennessee and North Carolina were, she must have fallen as they did. She would have so fallen, not because a majority of her people were disloyal, but because the traitors were better organized, more determined, more belligerent, and bent on success at any cost.
They would have succeeded, because
telligently hostile to the Union, became a much easier prey to the conspirators.
Her Democratic Legislature — reconvened at Raleigh, November 19th, 1860--had refused, a month later, to pass a bill to arm the State, though visited and entreated to that end by Hon. Jacob Thompson, then a member of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet; and had adjourned
December 22d. without even calling a Convention.
This, as we have seen, did not prevent Gov. Ellis taking military possession of the Federal forts near Beaufort and Wilmington (January 2d), on the pretext that, if he did not do it, a mob would!
He proceeded to reconvene the Legislature in extra session, and to worry it into calling a Convention; for which, an election was duly held.
January 30, 1861. But the act making this call provided that the people, when electing delegates, might vote that the Convention should or should not meet.
They profited by the gracious permission, and, while electing a Union Convention by an immense majority, vote
