The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
Missouri Risen-Kentucky Fallen.

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[From tho Richmond Dispatch, of the lst.]
OF all the border States, Missouri SEEM
ed to present the most hopeless case at
the outset of the war. Largely settled
by emigration from the North; with St.
Louis, a German city Of great population
as her centre Of wealth and trade; sur.
rounded on every side but one by a ''cor
don of free States," Kansas, with her cut
throats, under Montgomery. Aanking her
on the West; the Northwestern States
teeming with adventurous and desperate
characters, fashioned after the pattern of
John Brown, fanking her on the North
and East; IL seemed inevitable that Mis-
souri, must be the first State of the South
to fall under the threatened subjugation.
But there was one oircunetance which
offered gleam of hope TO her friends
outside. She had Governor of unfailing
courage, who was true to his duty and to
the South. From that one single piece
of good fortune has resulted the rescue
and redemption of Missouri. There we're
people enough in Missouri, as there are
in Kentucky and Maryland, true to the
cause Of their native South; but they
wanted a leader endowed with the polti-
cal authority and personal courage requis.
tie to give legality concentration, and
energy to their action. Governor Jack
son was this man. He has proved true,
faithful, and preserving. He has not
allowed himself to be dismayed at any
moment by superior force. He has never
forsaken, abandoned, or despaired of the
cause. With his faithful colleague Lieu
tenant. Governor Reynolds, he has pre-
sented nucleus, around with the loyal
men of Missouri have rallied.
The people of Arkansas, Texas, Louis
iana, and other Southern States, seeing
that the loyal Missourians were willing
to help themselves, marched gallantly to
their aid. The army Of three months
men, hastily recruited by General McCul-
loch, won the first great victory at Spring
field. Their terms of service having ex.
pired, they went home, and now General
McCulloch is at the head of new army
enlisted for long service, and marching
again for the heart of the State. The
success at Springfield produced great
accession of recruits to the army of Gen.
Price and Of Gen. Rains. chiefly of Mis-
souri, volunteers; and the victory and
wholesale capture of valuable munitions
at Lexington are, in great part, the fruit
of Springfield.
Gen. Price is true man, and brave
soldier. He is of the old Prince Edward
IVA. race Of Prices. He may be said to
be in possession of all Western Missouri
at the head, as he is, of twenty thousand
men flushed with two victories and in
censed with just Indignation at the butch
cries in St. Louis.
The case of Kentucky is in painful con-
trast with that of Missouri. While the
one is throwing off the yoke, the other is
putting it on; while the one is rising into
independence, the other is sinking into
slavery. Kentucky is about at last to
drink to the dregs the cup of desolation.
Her Governor and her Legislature crouch
with craven fear before the approaching
despotism. They are necessitating long
and bloody strife for the people. The
condition of Kentucky will be even more
hopeless for awhile than that of Maryland. |
But there is leaven IN her population
which will sooner or later leaven the |
lump. The brave spirit of Kentucky under
Buekner and Johnston will never surren. |
der the cause Of their State. They will
fight on through adversely and disaster,
until the dawning of that brighter day, |
which always rises for the patriots and |
heroes who do their duty faithfully |
through the night and the winter of |
gloom, and hold fast to the cause in the |
hours that try mems souls. f