CONTENTS. I. THE SECESSION CONSPIRACY IN KENTUCKY, AND ITS By Dr. Ro. J. Breckinridge, II. THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE. By Rev. Charles Elliott, D. D. III.-JOURNALISM. By Rev. J. D. Shane, IV.—STUDIES ON THE BIBLE, No. II.—Israel in Egypt. By Rev. E. P. Humphrey, D.D., V. THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH. By Rev. T. H. Clelland, VI.-ISRAEL AND SINAL. By Rev. J. Cooper, Ph. D., VII.-IMPUTATION AND ORIGINAL SIN. Part III-(Con tinued).—Testimonies Continued. By Rev. R. W. Landis, D.D., - 371 395 406 445 472 - 496 - 514 THE Association having purchased the entire interest in Vol. 1, including extra Numbers, and the stereotype plates, are prepared to furnish any number of copies that may be desired. Applications for these must be made either to the Publishers, or to Rev. JACOB COOPER, Danville, Ky. DANVILLE REVIEW. No. III. SEPTEMBER, 1862. ART. I.-The Secession Conspiracy in Kentucky, and its Overthrow: with the Relations of both to the General Revolt. A Memoir of Civil and Political Events, public and private, in Kentucky; To serve as a History of the Secession Conspiracy which had its center in Kentucky: Commencing in 1859, and extending to the overthrow of the Conspiracy, and the breaking out of the Civil War in that State in 1861. PART THIRD.-The final struggle of Parties: Complete success of the Counter Revolution against the Conspirators: The Legislature declares for armed support of the National Cause: The Civil War breaks out in Kentucky. I-1. Conference of loyal citizens at General Nelson's Camp at Dick Robinson, on the 29th of August, 1861: The effective Loyal Force: The Stake and the Risk.-2. Preliminary Considerations and Decisions, in the Conference.-3. Detailed statement of the Plan of Defense agreed on, and executed.-4. Invasion of Kentucky by Polk and Zollicoffer, simultaneous with the Rebel Demonstration in Owen, and the Loyal Conference at Nelson's Camp: Alarming Hesitation of the Legislature.-5. Alarm and Hesitation of the Rebel Leaders: Indignation of the people at the Invasion of the State, and the apparent stupor of the Legislature: Recoil of the Owen Meeting, from its war policy: It procrastinates-changes its Strategy-is a Failure. 1. SIX clear days-August 29th, September 5th-were all that remained after the Conference at Camp Dick Robinson met, until the great Owen demonstration of the Secessionists. 24 (371) Besides General Nelson, and the chief persons, then or since engaged in the military service, we do not feel it to be proper to mention, without their consent, the names of other persons then present. Colonel Bramlette, for many years a distinguished Judge, and at that time Colonel of the Third Regiment of Kentucky Infantry, was in the Conference: so also was Colonel Fry, then commanding the Fourth Kentucky Regiment, and afterward promoted for his gallantry at Logan's Field and Mill Springs. There were present, also, several influential members elect of the Legislature, which was to assemble on the fifth day afterward. The remaining persons present, were gentlemen holding, at that time, no civil or military office; a portion of them were professional men of distinction-one of whom, both before and since that meeting, has been called into the political service of his country, and another was the present General Boyle, who having raised a brigade of Volunteersled one to victory at Shiloh-on the second day-the day of triumph, at that place of carnage. The writer of these pagesadmits that he has personal knowledge, of what occurred at this Conference: and it may be as well to add in this place, that another meeting was held by General Nelson the day following, in the county of Jessamine, composed of a different set of gentlemen; which ratified the conclusions reached at the present one. Upon careful enquiry it was ascertained, that Nelson's force consisted of four regiments of Kentucky troops, one of them being mounted-and two regiments of Tennessee exiles-one of them very weak; allowing for detached service, a column four thousand strong, was the most that could be suddenly put in motion from Camp Dick Robinson. It was believed that Rousseau's force in Camp Joe Holt, across the Ohio River, near Louisville, scarcely reached two thousand effective men.* It was thought that four or five thousand Home Guards, organized into companies, and tolerably well armed and drilled, could be concentrated on any central point *On the 16th of June, 1862, the Union citizens of Louisville, Ky., entertained General Lovell H. Rousseau at a banquet given to him; during which he made a noble speech which was published in the Louisville Journal of June 18th. We subjoin a few extracts taken from various parts of that speech, illustrative of with sufficient certainty. A force of about ten thousand troops, of which one incomplete regiment would act as mounted riflemen, and with whom would be perhaps two batteries of light statements made by us, in this memoir; regretting our inability to make these extracts much more copious: "It is now a little more than a year since I asked leave to enlist troops in Kentucky for the defense of the nation. My commission of Colonel, with authority to do so, dates from June 15, 1861. You can never fully comprehend the magnitude of the trials through which I passed. Old friends whom I had known well for many years passed me in the public streets of my own city, without recognition, because they had turned traitors and I had remained loyal to the Government of our fathers. I walked the streets of my own city as if in a strange town, and I tell you, my fellow-citizens, that little as I love battles and danger, I would prefer fighting a battle once a month to going through what I did in raising my brigade. My enemies were ever on the alert. The friends of the Union were bewildered, and most of them silent on the issues of the day; but I was doing my duty, and never faltered for a moment. "On my return from Washington, with authority to enlist soldiers in Kentucky, the leading men of the State who were for the Government met at Louisville, and, after mature deliberation, resolved that it was impolitic to enlist soldiers here at that time. I was instructed from Washington to act in harmony with the Union men of the State. With much reluctance I abandoned the project of enlisting my soldiers on Kentucky soil, and went to Camp "Joe Holt," in Indiana. "At that time the rebels had their recruiting stations openly established in many places in Kentucky; they were paying large bounties to those who would join them in this city. I saw that our young men were flocking to their standard, I observed that every one they seduced into the ranks of treason, took with him more or less of the sympathy of his kindred and friends. I saw the necessity of counteracting this by enlisting men on the side of the nation, thereby giving a loyal direction to the sympathies of our people. "I raised my troops and equipped them. The traitors hated us intenselycalled them "Rosseau's Silver Creek Ragamuffins," "Lincoln Hirelings," "Abolitionists." They were drilled and disciplined, and on the field of Shiloh they repaid me, and their enemies, too, for all I and the soldiers had suffered. I am proud to say that a braver or more gallant regiment never entered a field of battle. "My command at Camp "Joe Holt" was ordered to Missouri, and then my friends, who had rather stood aloof, awoke and came forward, and wisely, as events showed, and got the President to countermand the order. Soon after Buckner came into the State with his army of double traitors-traitors to their State and to the Nation-and on the memorable night of the 17th of September, we crossed the Ohio River and marched out under General Sherman to meet them. By some means that ardent desire of our hearts was never fulfilled, but Buckner never came to Louisville." artillery, might be so handled that the whole could be concentrated at, or near Frankfort, within the six clear days that remained, and upon an order to move, received by the most distant corps twenty-four hours in advance of the hour of concentration. It was a great venture-and with apparently small means-against immense odds. But it was not only the best-but the last alternative. And however desperate it might seem by itself, yet as the elemental portion of the plan adopted, probably every one in the meeting felt great confidence in its immediate success, and an undoubting conviction that the ultimate deliverance of the State would be wrought out. 2. Various suggestions were made: several plans were considered some preliminary acts were performed. General Nelson openly declared that so far as concerned himself and the force under his immediate command, he felt no solicitude, for he was able to maintain himself where he was; or to fight his way into the loyal mountainous region of the State; or to the Ohio River. His solicitude was, to know in what manner his duty toward the State, situated as public affairs then were, could be performed most effectually; most for the preservation of public order, and the life, liberty and property of all; most in accordance with the wishes of the people of the State, the great majority of whom appeared to be loyal-while it was difficult to understand the politicians, and impossible to act by their contradictory and urgent opinions. For himself, his belief was that the Owen demonstration, six days off, was military in its nature, traitorous in its objects, and too dangerous to be allowed to proceed unmolested: and his impulse was to lead his troops against it-capture the leaders of the conspiracy in a body-and disperse their force. This suggestion did not commend itself to the Conference: their opinion being that the distance to be marched was too great, and the Secession spies too numerous, diligent, and acute, to render a surprise, and important success possible; and, moreover, that even complete success, by a movement so thoroughly aggressive, would not find the general information and opinion of the people-ripe for its maintenance,-nor the actual military posture of the loyal party adequate to face a serious reaction if it should follow. Before any final decision was reached, |