D. 1861.
"Twice read and adopted.
"Attest: (Signed) J. H. Johnson, S. S.
"In accordance with the foregoing resolution, the Speaker
appointed as said committee Messrs. John M. Johnson, William B.
Read, and Thornton F. Marshall.
"Attest: (Signed) J. H. Johnson, S. S."
_Letter of Hon. J. M. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee of the
Kentucky Senate, to General Polk_.
"Columbus, Kentucky, _September 9, 1861._
"To Major-General Polk, _commanding forces, etc._
"Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith a resolution of the
Senate of Kentucky, adopted by that body upon the reception of
the intelligence of the military occupation of Hickman, Chalk
Bank, and Columbus, by the Confederate troops under your
command. I need not say that the people of Kentucky are
profoundly astonished that such an act should have been
committed by the Confederates, and especially that they should
have been the first to do so with an equipped and regularly
organized army.
"The people of Kentucky, having with great unanimity determined
upon a position of neutrality in the unhappy war now being
waged, and which they had tried in vain to prevent, had hoped
that one place at least in this great nation might remain
uninvaded by passion, and through whose good office something
might be done to end the war, or at least to mitigate its
horrors, or, if this were not possible, that she might be left
to choose her destiny without disturbance from any quarter.
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