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The venerable Gen. Samuel L. Williams, of Sterling, Ky., upon being cheered by the Union Guard of that place, thus addressed the men:--“When I was a much younger man, I followed that flag; it was in 1812; the enemy was threatening our young and rising country.
Under that banner we conquered.
And can I now be such a dastard as to forget it?
to abandon it?
No, no!
If Kentucky secedes, I will not. I will be true to that Union.
They may take my property — strip me of all, even take the little remnant of my life — but, as God is my witness, they can never make me recognize allegiance to any Government but the Union, with its glorious Stars and Stripes.” --N. Y. World, May 25.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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