New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-17
PRO.r KENTUCKY.
The Ambiguous Position Of tho State.


LOUISVILLE, KY, July -, 1851.
lam not without misgvings TO the possibility Of
NV ooi,o "A far South az did DIR. Russell 1t is very
certain that can guarantee as good behavior as that
gentleman of Crimean renown-indeed, better; for |
shall rot ,ay my worst things Just in hne ior them 70
reach "the hospitabe planters after have retired.
But it would not do for correspondent OF IHE IRiE-
uSE TO cs on Gen. Bragg though be should hold bach
more carefully than the Russell all information bearing
on military moyements-no troublesome sef-restrSnt,
by tue way for DR.. T. simply told US Bragg waso oady
fixed but declared that confidence forbade bis drawing
a complete map Of the defiOite fixtures. shall not
prooeed further than Memphis, and may perhsps cal
council Of correspondence ct Cairo. If l can only &c,
on the good side Of Pillow then you may expect letters
from Helena, Ark.
During the Eve days Of my stay in Louisville Ihaye
wasted no time which could be used in acertaniDg the
real feeling Of the so called Union men in snd about
the city; and must confess that my impressions
euch ss encourage the hope that they viii not permit
the sweeping tide of Southern folly to croas their line
formally. say formally" because revolutions,
when developed in actual warfare, mus: have their
faint surroundings as great lights have their halyos
Tie fruges Of Secession turbuance you know, have
already stung the iace Of Kentucky, from the Haunt
ings Of Tennessee; but perhaps we should forgive her
parieuce when we remember that the latter State has
taken foul hold by locating two of her camps imrned
stey on the line to cosrce as much possible, her
own dear sister while crying out "No coercicni"
Camp Trousdsle near little village called Mitch
eIyills about the location OF which, AN told there
was doubt but year or two since-some holding to
be in Tennessee Others in Kentucky. There is a
n ,1 Nash hvill Pail ad upQr
by. So this camp answers TO command the railroad
near it, in which Kentucky owns more stock than
Tennessee and, to show that II does command It,
Buchanan's old postmaster at Nashville, Tenn,
SiIn Anderson bas seized aud retains large portion
OF tho rolling ock, in reliance of the Railroad
company, as your readers are aware. Tue other camp
is near station called Estate Lne," at which little
halconstructed road, with grades like turnpike, taps
the Louisyile and Memphis road, and by tbat means
sya itsef Of Louisville enterprise 10 get out to some
whereit would otherwise have ended nc nowhere, for
il act out to reach point called Henderson, the Ohio
river, but broke down among the hills OF Robertson
eounty Tenn Notwithstanding this little abortion of
roao gets its vitality from Kentucky enterprise and
thereby enabled to get from one town on the Gum
berand river within Tennessees borders to another
town on the same litde stream and within the same
State, the ssterly snrpaton of Nashville has another
eucampinent called Camp Cheatham, right at tbs
junction, as much as to say "Now, Madam Kentuek.,
YOU have allowed us to bake at your oven but If you
put anything your pies, when you 60 10 bake them
which doesn't smell good we will put out tue fire.
Tennessee is trying to bully the border of Kentucky
In every conceivable manuer. te
But will venture 10 suggest after careful recon-
uoiksauce of the euie yround that 10y of the
United sgates should not be TOO impatient with Ken.
lucky in her present ambiguous position. There are
two points fom which view Of this pOsiion may be
iskenbe point Of abstract right, and othe point OF
policy. Looking from the former We grow impahens
that Kentucky has not placed herself squareiy BESIDE
the other law abiding S,aies and responded oste0sDy
to the Presidents call for troops Making oar ooerV'-
tons from the latter, we gee that Kentucky present.
attitude not only keeps actual wariareOn' oi net0wh
borders, but shields unprotected portions OF on'0, ~
diana, aud Illinois from paeyand piracy = une nain
feature of this rebellion; it was initiated because nS
leaders psteut for national stealing bad expired on tue
4th Of March, 1861. sit s-.ta9
Itisa question: then, worthy the serious consiaera
ton of shose who feel outraged ut her ncutFah'y'
whether Kentucky could more siiectuay sucserve the
ultimate restoration Of law and orderly snswernghke