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in the commencement of my work, have been borne out 

 by recent and concurrent circumstances. The Missouri 

 Republican, of St Louis, bearing date the 27th of January 

 last, gives an account, copied from the Louisville Journal, 

 of a grand banquet and " fraternization of the executive 

 and legislative powers of the great States of Kentucky 

 and Tennessee," at which were also present " the State 

 officers of Indiana and some of the municipal dignitaries 

 of Nashville, Cincinnati, and a delegation from the Ohio 

 Legislature." 



In the invocation of a blessing and prayer pronounced 

 by the Rev. Mr Royt are the following words : " We 

 come before Thee in an intercession hitherto unknown. 

 Save us from every dissension, from civil war and from 

 blood ; restore peace to our borders, and bind together 

 this vast population in the bonds of fraternal and untiring 

 affection." 



This allusion to disunion was followed up in a speech 

 by Judge Bullock, in which were the following words : 

 " The States of Tennessee and Kentucky are now drawn 

 still more closely together by the apprehension of a com 

 mon danger." 



Judge Bullock concluded by reading the following 

 " sentiment : " 



" Tennessee. In this national crisis she will cherish in her 

 heart of hearts the noble sentiment of her patriot hero, 

 The Union, it must be preserved" 



That sentiment was followed by several others, whence 

 I need select but one more : 



"Kentucky. If treason to the Union shall prevail in 

 the North or in the South, our noble State will stand be 

 tween the two sections, as stood the people of old between 



