The southern press., 1851-07-28
From the Louisville Journal.

| A Few WORDs BEFORE THE BATTLE.-To- day
we send our weekly paper forth into the country
and we would avail ourselves Of the opportuni-
ty, next to the very last We shall have, of say
| ing few words Of earnest admonition and ex.
hortation to our political friends throughout the
State In less than two weeks from this day the
great struggle for supremacy between the Whie
party and the Locofoco party ofthis State will
have closed-a struggle destined to be far more
important in it's immediate and ultimate results
than any mere local conflict that has ever YET
taken place in Kentucky.
Our intelligence from various portions of the
State, we are deeply panied to say, is far from
being favorable. Cassus NJ Clay, the abolition
| candidate for governor, will, it is said, receive
from five to ten thousand votes, and full three
fourths of the voters for him will be Wings
The Locofoco leaders have succeeded, by their
stringent organization and by virture of their
general system of discipline, in drilling more
than four-ffths of their own emancpatonists
into the warm support of Powell and Wickliffe.
Claws running for governor is worth at least
three or four thousand votes to the I.ocofoco
candidates. Moreover the Wings, in all direc-
tons, are divided and distracted as TO the cleo
tions Of members of Congaess, members Of the
State senate, and members of the lower branch
of the legislature, and their divisions and dis
fractions are in every instance turned by their
cunning and united opponents to the greatest
possible account In addition TO all this, we
have to announce, that, although the day of
battle is now almost upon us, there is no Wing
organization or even semblance or symptom
Of Wing organization in a seventh part of the
couuties of the State.
These things are suf6cientto alarm but not to
appal us. They show the necessity Of prompt,
vigorous, and perseverng action on the part of
the Wings, but afford no ground for despair.
The Wings are majority Of thousands of the
votes of the State, and they have the power to
say and to determine by their action whether
Kentucky, renowned for the undimmed glory
of her Whiggism throughout the last twenty
years, shall still retain her glory or bow her
head at last to such Locofoco domination as pre-
walls in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Iii.
nois. They can still save their State and uphold
all her ancient honor, If they have but an energy
Of will equal to the occasion. Lnte as the day is,
and precious as was the time that has been lost,
they can still save their State IT, as soon as they
read this appeal, they will go instantly to work
for their party and their country as industrously
and zeaously as is the stake were their own
| lives, their own personal characters, or even
their own individual fortunes.
The great fact cannot be disguised that the
main issue now between the two parties in the
West and South il Union or disunion. This il
an issue that rendersall others comparatively un
important Throughout the slaveholding States
as general rule, the Wings are the friends anc
the Locofocos the enemies of the compromise
upon the observance of which we nl know that
the salvation of the country depends. At tht
time of the adoption Of that con primise, tn,
friendness of the Wings and the enmity of the
Locofacos of Congress were strikngly and une
quivocaly manifested In the grand struggl,
upon that measure in the House of Representa-
tives, when all intelligent men throughout tbt
country felt and proclaimed, that, upon its adop
ton or rejection, was suspended the fate of tn,
Union, all of the Wings from the slaveholdinf
States, with the exception of Mr. Clingman o
North Caroinn, voted in favor Of while tn.
whole Locofoco delegation Of Mississippi votes
aQainst It, the whole Locofoco delegation o
Arkansas voted against il, the whole Locofoct
delegation of Louisiana voted against it, tn,
whole Locofoco delegation Of Alabama votet
against it, the whole Locofoco delegation o
North Carolina voted against It, the whole Loco
foco delegation of South Carolina voted against
il, the whole Iocofoco delegation or Georgia
with. the exception of solitary member, voted
arsinsE = and ons-half Of the entire Locofoct
delegation Of Virginia voted against It.
| Here wan an overwhelming majority Of the