Hillsborough Recorder

Sept. 11, 1861

Page 2

FROM KENTUCKY

Louisville, Sept. 6—Capt. Garnett, of the State Guard, has been arrested for removing the guns of his company Southward.

Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, has telegraphed Gov. Magoffin, of Kentucky, that Tennesseans have occupied and are fortifying Hickman and Chalk Bluffs, and that he disapproves of the proceeding. His message on the subject has been submitted to the Senate, and a special committee appointed to consider the subject and report to-morrow.

There are rumors in town that the Lincoln gun-boats had shelled Columbus, but it can be traced to no reliable source.

Gov. Magoffin’s message to the Legislature is merely retrospective, showing neutrality to have been thrice ratified at the ballot box, and that his own course in refusing men to Lincoln, and his efforts to keep belligerents off Kentucky soil, have received the nearly unanimous approval of Kentuckians. He says:

“And now, addressing myself to the representatives of the people of Kentucky, I protest in their name and in their presence, in the name of constitutional liberty, and in presence of Heaven and earth, against all and every of the President’s usurpations and unconstitutional and illegal acts, and I protest, furthermore, against the prosecution of a war professedly for the object of restoring the Government, an object utterly impossible of attainment by such insane means as a war of coercion, and I protest, moreover, against Kentucky being made the camping ground or the pathway for the movement of forces by either of the belligerents, and recommend earnestly to the General Assembly the prompt passage of resolutions requiring both belligerents to keep off our soil, and respect in good faith the neutrality which the people of Kentucky with unexampled unanimity desire to preserve.”

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]