Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-18
The Kentucky Election.

W ncQ MT. DuCnauaD carried heDtuCkY DY over seven thousand majority, aware | that he was indebted for that remarkable tri- umph not merely to the revolting and murder ous character of Know \ othingsm as exhib-
 tied in Louisville but also to the independent mauness ever characteristic of the people of that commonwealth, which made thousands of old-line whigs for the first time forsake their first political love to save the South and it's honor. We knew moreover that Ill the Presi | dental canvass there was a name on our banner dearly loved by all men of all parties in tAat State. It was name which knew neither dis honor TOT defeat, name indosOlubly linked with the memorable debate in Congress upon | the Kansas \ Nebraska bill-a name which, un- aided by party ties, was worth more than three 1 thousand votes to our cause i'll Kentucky. We had little hope, therefore, that at n ulexcit ng election, when our party was resting on its we'll 1 earned aurels, we could even equal the major- ties of November.
 | The telegraph, which by the way ought to ! be "spotted' and "thugged" for its recent democratic tendencies, tells us that our State ticket in Kentucky has swelled up majority 1 of some l2,0OO, aud that we have elected ven, 1 if not eight, members of Congress and demo- 1 cratic majority in the Legislature. For the first | tune ln forty years we have assurance of regu- l hIr democratic Senator in Congress from that once trueot and irmest of all State Rights Commonwealth, John Rowan and Richard NJ. Johnson being the last J etferson democrats w ho
 were sent as such from Kentucky All eyes will be turned to the next Legislature to see who of the democracy will be the recipient of l this high and unwonted distinction.
 | Among the new Congressmen there appears
 in the list of the democratic members the names l { I-l-.
 both of whom are men of mark and prom- | hence. In the fierce canvass in the Ashland | district we judge that there seldom has been a better display on both sides of ability and tact James B. Clay is said--even by the editor of the Louisville Journal--to have exhibited a power of oratory that no one, even of his near est friends, suspected him of possessing. En- ergy and cultivation were always accredited to him. MT. Stevenson is the gifted son of Andrew Stevenson, once member of Congress from Virginia, and afterwards Minister to the Court of St. James, He is a man of fine legal ability, of unblemished purity of character, and great powers of solid debate
 And now to all the old Know Nothing lead CTS of Kentucky what a sad future is spead out! Humphrey Marshall, the least trusted and least trustworthy of them all, is alone seated firmly in his place. With keen and vigorous mind and finished education he might have now the first place in the State had he been but true to the democracy he so fool
 shly and corruptly deserted. In two years more, when Louisville shall have crushed out "Thugs'' and "Plug- Uglies''--as crush them she must and will--then even this last scion of the "ghastly and goddess crew" will be swept into the obscurity due to his political heresy. | For the amiable but dO- less CritteDdeD the coarse and mithy and selfish Letcher, and the host of one-ideaed, one-horse politicians who have been vigorously shouting for Sam, Ken lucky will soon have little use
 The next grand council will meet to hide away the political carcass of Kentucky Know Nottingham, and we hope copy of that lecture tthe editor of the Louisville ournal will be pre- served as warningto future politicians against the miserable end of this hideous fanatcism which has stained the soil of Kentucky with n- | nocent bIood-Ln Courier