New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-02
TIE POLITICS OF KENTCCKY.
CSrespcni.nc- II TIE n Y Tribune
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P'se of compar ng notes, and recognizing Tor the
November compsign. About 400 delegates were
present, and considerable enthusiasm was mani
tested. President Bartlett declined reelection;
add Thomas II. Clay, a .on Of Henry Clay. was
( urabin,' usly elected President OF the Order in
Kenucky. So, one Of Henry Clsy's is for Fill
more, srd the other laboring industriou,y for
BucbaLan, fair illustration Of tho presen: cen ii
tion Of ~ old Wbig party.
At tbs meeting Of the State Council i: was de-
ttrmiDed to CANVASS the Sate most lhVlonsbly for
the purpose Of carrying it for Fillmore Additional
Electors were appointed. a detailed and minute
organization wa recommended, and the American
Members of Congress wefe invited 10 take tue
stump for Fillmore immediately on their return
from Washington. You may therefore set il down
for certain that Kentucky will be- one of the most
hoty contested States in the Union. Large sums
of money were bet on Fillmore carrying the State
previous to our State election. Great efforts will
be made to save these BETS and it is asserted
that some of the very parties who have large sums
bet On Fillmore in one part Of the State are EN-
ploy ing agents to bet on Buchanan in other sec
tiODs. But the trouble now is to find men willing
to risk their money on Fillmore. This species Of
ri. .ctioneerng gambling will add much to the Bit
4 terness of the canvass in this State. The Bu
chaD8n men, however are not idle. They are as
active As their opponents, confident of success
ard most thorough: organized They are oher-
ing money freely and giving odds that BuchanOo
will carry the State.
The recent telegraph dispatches from Kansas
have aroused the Pro-Slavery men of this part of
the State. A company of young men, meH armed
and under species of military organization leave
this city this aeek for Kansas, with the open and
avOwed determination Of assisting to drive the
Free State men from the Territory. This is the
secOId company sent from this place this season.
Nobody pretends that these parties go to Kansas
for the purpose of settling or cutivating land.
Their expenses are paid for them; they take with
ttem neither women nor children, and in converse
ticn with them one may easily see that they are
merely the hired Instruments of the Pro. Slavery
party, for subjugatDg Kansas to its own purposes.
Ab Sir, on this Slavery question the South Isl unit,
and the North is drided: that tells the whole tale Of
the present trouble in Kansas.
In The Lou,srtNe Journal yesterday (Which you
know is the leading and by far the ablcst Fillmore
paper in the SOuth-West) tbereappeared two
rather remarkable artices-the one from the
editor, and the other communication. In the
former it is confessed that if Fillmore were not
candidate Fremont would sweep the entire North
and be triuu phaDtly elected. The Fillmore men
are therefore called upon to rally in the South not
with the expectation OF carrying the South, but to
strengthen Fillmore in the North, and thus defeat
Fremont. Thus, on all sides, here in the South.
the cry is: Anything and everything to defeat
the Northern candidate, Fremont"
j see some of your Northern papers are depre-
eating IremOnts election as sectiOnsiism and n
sectional triumph. Why, gentlemen, Of the
South glory in our sectionaism 1t is our life, our
salvation, and the secret Of our continued success.
Every candidate for Office in the South is expected
to be sectional, and the more so the better, pro-
vided he is on the Southern side. With us. a can
IL L. IL.
tiOnal soon gets leave to stay at home, and no
policy therefore, that you can adopt, and no
candidate that you can elect, can out-sectOnalize
US. We at the South are sectional people and
nothing else.
The communication in The Juurnal to which
allude, aud copy of which | inclose, is under
stood to he from the pen of Judge - s Nicholas of
Louisville | think it is one of the ablest produc-
tions which the canvass bas produced 1t is headed
"Iisunicn, and may be taken as the view of Il
moderate Southern man in the present crisis. He
shows very plainly what the Southwest will have
to lose by dissolution of the Union and that the
suferers must be the States bordering on the Ohio
River. Judge NicS'as is a Shareholder was form
ery Democrat, then a moderate Wing, and at
present is understood to be member of no poti-
cal party. He is certainly one of the sblest men
in the State, and at the same time go utterly i'm.
practicable and selfwilled as 10 have but little
influence. Still l hope and trust that the very
e
ing to The Joutnai may do good, both in the
North and South
see no good reason to change the opinion eX
pressed in my last letter, that . Kentucky uW 20
''tor Buchanan Jya rery respectable majority.
kEnGtCKy
Correspondence OF The N. Y. Tribune
LOUISVILLE Kentucky, Aug p, 1886.
As a constant reader of TIE TRIBUNE feel
impeled to contribute ~ its pages some OF my own
more immediate observations The people Of the
North are too sp. to judge Of the tone O. public
opinion at the South almost exclusively from the
newspaper press of that section, which the7 lind
Almost invariably violently sectional in The Sa7ery
Extepson tendency. Our Pseudo American ned
Sham Democratic organs assume as n natural. IN
disputsble proposition that every Southener ought
to cast his vote in such way rs to defeat Ere
mont. But mixing with the people find great
many, of both buchanan and Fillmore mer- to
whom Fremont is their I" second choice | often
hear Known othings say "We'd rather have
" Fremont than buchanan, though they are both
sectional men," aud just as often you might
hear some Buchaneer triumphantly proclaim:
"Well, Fillmore won't get il anyhow.
The great number of persons so disposed are
not apt to go into civil war and rebellion at the
bidding of ambitious party leaders if the - Anti
slavery" candidate should succeed. We have
Fremont Electoral ticket out for this State, with
prospects Of very respectable vote in the north
eastern counties of the State. In this city hardly
any BODY but the Germans avOw an intention OF
voting it, Some of the most esteemed and best
educated men among our lawyers. dlvlnes mer-
chants and artisans, openly favor Fremont S cleo
tion: such men whose talents and Integrity will
command the esteem Of the masses, all malicious