Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-09-11
From h' Montgomery 4 ipsrtissr.
WAR IN KENTUCkY
IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE.
LSTIfR FROM REV. II. A. n HENDERSON.
ExoHAxax BorIi,

/ Montgomery, Sept 3, 1851 I
Dear Reid: Having left Kentucky on last Friday,
With regard 20 the rspidy compiicaring sirs OF that
State Having been actively engaged for months in ma
king speeches and enlisting solder Tor the c. s. army
| was threatened with imprisonment Il was distinctly
asserted by prominent parties that should leave The
State. Toe day set for my departure was the Gh Of
September Ny friends appoated Inc as one Of tie
speakers at great Southern barbecue at Pars Sat
urday, Aug Sst on Friday, the $0h, got the cars
and made my way to {" Dixie" have cheated them
out OF their game, and escaped, perhaps, wearisoe
imprisonment in some Yankee fort.
Toe late election in Kentucky was on the platform Of
neutrality Even upon this bass the Union pal have
lost 10000 votes since the June election.
Since the election Lincoln camp has been established
at Hoskns in GarrArd county. The soldiers Ketuck
ans and renegade Tennesseeans went within their
lines, at some risk 10 myself and learned from them that
they bad 1000 men in camp. receiving additiols
every day. aud that they designed the invasion Of Ten
nessee They have excellent arms and three batteries
Of artillery. They composed mostly OF the ignorant
aud deluded mountain of East Tennessee aud Ken.
tucky and have been enlisted upon the idea Of eomp
,a, or reduction OF all class 10 level with themsev.r
This camp authorized, armed and Otherwise eppontedby
Lincoln, has excited the intense indignation OF he masses
OF Kentucky. Ii is rightly considered violation OF hrr
neutrav, and the prime OF impending ia that
State. Gov. Magctn sent two commissioners 10 Wash
ilgton TO demand the removal Of said ard similar caps
They had returned. and i. said that Mr. Lincc1 re-
fuse 10 di,bsrd them, and declared that they would be
sust ned by $4,000 additional troops if necessary
While Mcclellan, Fremont and Rosencrslz are calling
fer aid il is matter OF conjecture TO where the !ty
thousand sre TO come from The legislature met Non
day. Tbs Governor in his message will repor. the re.
suit OF the visit of the Washington Commissioners. He
WILL 1t il believed afterwards issue proclamation calling
the Lincoln caupl TO disbaod. This vii be followed
b. Sno her calling out the Kentucky State Guard and
other military forces of the State The "Ghari" is a
completely southern Organization, and numbers about
$500 mer, well drilled and armed. This corrs Is go
into camp in Owen county, and also Glasgow Ken.
tucky where hundreds of States Rights citizens are
joining them.
The citizens the Kentucky Central Railroad refuSs
the TRANSMISSION Of Yankee troops and arms over that
orougharc and have already burned two Of IL bridges
10 defeat this purpose The track the Louisville al
Lexington road has also been torn up twice and the
pany row decline the transportation Of Yankee mupi
tons OF war. The State Guard lone regnent) parad,d
the streets OF Louisville las, week the Of Mar
stiHaise and Dixie. On third street. while pas ing q
large United States flag they marched by will drs re-
Uerstd This excited the indignation OF tie Unonss
Since the kentucky election the greatest revelation
has been in progress in public ssntDeni know Of
hludrtds tiat have openly declared for the South who
have itherto rallied beneath the Safs and Stripes -
They say We have been Union neutra because desired
to have peace AZ homo; II must have VIC will bat.
tie for the South against the snbverets Of constitutional
liberty. Threeionfths of the fighting of Kentucky
are ios the South The young Qenergiiy are Seas
sonis'S. George d. Prentice Jno j. Crttenjen t;ay
rett Davis and the Rev. Root Becsinridee the l..
Snii Union leaders all have sons n the Confederate
army. Oaethird OF the soldiers l CAMPS Boone and
Burnett Confederate States roops ere the sons OF V
ron men in Kentucky. In month ate. the Govern
ors proclamation fifty thousand true Kutuckiars vii
have responded The largest meetings ever known
being held all the State They are addressed
by Hon. Juo G. Breckenridge, VIM. Preston. Qs,e Min.
lister 10 SpGiD) and Gov. Charles Morehead aud Roger
Hanson, ate Union leaders The effect of these meet
iugs Ia highly gratifying to the Southern hear. III
'tribanded banner icats the stand and masses In
deafening cheers split the air for "Je Davis an the
Southern Ccnfederacy." The Cincinnatians have be.
come alarmed Of the threatening aspect Of affairs in Ken
,ucsy, and are fortfying the city. TIE hill; on the
Kentucky side command "Porkopolis' city that has
fatened on the trade Of the SoutL de rves to be re
dgcrd to ashes for having turned her strong against
her benefaciors. Down the made the acquant-
ance OF two gentlemen juet returned from Europa 0e
oil them was bsarsr OF dispatches to Government the
other, wealthy planter had resided in France for three
years. They declare that the JOY ia EUgIand over our
victories could not be surpassed had IL been the triumph
Of Engsh arms that Manchester rs much on uu for
the South Mobile; that our i1dep ndence will be re.
cognized this FALL that the Federas cannot obtain one
dollar OF loan 10 Europe and that the entire prestige
this is In favor OF the South. Canada they also de-
clare to be In our favor aud the hatred there to the
Yankees as intense as among ourselves One of these
gentlemen showed me recent copy OF the London
Punch. Olc OF lis Illustrations caricature OF the
fight of the Federal army at Manassas, and headed
The woy they took Canada n to which Is appended the
following remarks of the New York Herald "For the
outrage tered in the Queens proclamation, the United
States will possess itself Of Canadan Some Of It's witt
c'sms ran as follows:
"The fight Of the Federal forcrs at Bull Run will It s
said lead 10 change Of the of the rivue: Ba's
Run that was, therefore, unicst md Is hero oIth
be called Jonathans run "The accounts Of the battle
Of Manassas shonld be written upon fyng sheets" 'The
Yankees have long been foui Of boaspg that they
far the most so ahead OF nations aud after heirug how
they went ahead in running from Bulls Run, canro.
dispute their having some grounds for their boast"
II "straws show which wav the wind bows" the
bon m0ts from the London [aorisari may II libit &
current Of public sympathy in Esgand.
10 aasle, yours, H. A. N. HEN 0ERs0N.