New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-02
KENTUCKY ELECTION.
Of The n. Y. Tribune.

Conesposdenee Of The n. Y Tribune.
CARLISLE, KY, Monday, June %. 1855.
On the first Monday in August Kentucky
elects her Governor, congressman, and members
of the State Legislature. The event is looked
forward to with unusual interest, as friends and
foes of the new party are enxious to know Its
strength, and active exertions are being made
on both sides for the coming contest. The ma
ioritv of your readers doubtless know that here
as in Virginia the Administration Is the only
party doing battle against this "American'
movement, and already with strong misgivings OF
the result tor the very decided Southern proclivi-
ties of the late Philadelphia platform, over and be
yond the same tendencies of the Democratic Bati-
more platform of 80, are being appreciated by the
supporters of the peculiar Institution" and
though Democracy" is dear, still this " American
platform" promises more in the same direction
and hundreds are therefore seyerng old ties and
swearing allegiance to Sam" Added to this
10 Wing party in the field, and the hopes of the
Democrats are certainly not anchors sure and
" steadfast
On Monday last County Court the citizens of
Nicholas County, at Carlisle, listened to harangues
from the two competitors for a seat in the next
Congress from Ashland District in which Of
course each tOiled TO convince those by whose suf-
frapes he hopes to mount to place that good would
result to the South BY the of the party for
which he tolls. The intensified burden of both
speakers throughout was protection of the South in
her rights. The Democratic candidate, Dir. Harrl-
son, referred to the anteeedents of his party In
maintaining the rights of the South. Dr. Mar
shall, brother of T. F. Marshalls, assured his
hearers that the Know Nothing party was sound
on the Union
The word " Slavery" was not and rarely is used,
but save the Union from the perlous sacrllege OF
"incendiary Ab0tionism,' was sounded out upon
the ear by both candidates with startling distinct
ness. AS Harrison said there is impending a crisis
which threatens the perpetuity of the instltu-
tions of the South-a crisis which must
be met and its issue safely determined
cat the ballOtbOx, or failing there, the South must
"assert and maintain her rights at all hazards"
He would fan induce the voters of Nicholas to east
their votes for the standard-bearers of the party
which so molly fought for the rights Of the South
last Congress, aud for whose action on the Ne
braska Kansas bill of the AZ stern and unfatering
Democrats of the North, in running the gauntlet
of public opinion were tOmahawked. The cha n
pion of Americansm terated the same wOful
"bOO.hOos" of danger 10 " the Union from Free
Soil aggression. also, he thought, from Catholicism,
and in pathetic strains besOught the earnest CON
sderation of his audience to the Cnion-saying mer
its of the American party
five had leader of nerve, natiyebon Ken
tuckian of acknowledged ability-such for in
stance, as c. NJ. Clay" Old Ashland" might, in
the midst of fierce foes, give five hundred TO one
thousand FreeSoi votes and if the great body OF
the people could be brought to think or TO act upon
even their present convictions those now in the i-ld
would have no insignificant foe in the Free-SOil
l 4. hi 30, I.u- sfroft- "a fhaf
I should have added above that the sole argument
each of these candidates urged against the other
party was detection to Southern interests. The
one ''had affiliated with the Republicans 20 over.
"throw the Administrations" the other had
"courted the foreign VOTE and still panders to this
"element of unmerited right to all the immunities
"of citizenship undeerying of the right of suffrage,
"not only because Catholics but because the mai
"'ural enemies Of Southern Institutions -"
KENrUCKIAN.