New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-11
Condition of Kentucky.

The editor of the Montgomery Advertiser has
had an interview with the Rev. H. A. NJ. Hender
son, Methodist Episcopal minister, just from
Kentucky and well acquainted with the condition
of affairs in that State. The Advertiser has the
following: t'5 @@
Mr. Henderson says it is necessary TO be in
Kentucky to appreciate the proper position in her
culnstances, as the saving doctrine of the State.
Had Tennessee not faltered as she did in the first
election after the success of Lincoln, Kentucky
would never have fallen back into the clutches Of
the unconditional Union leaders. 1t thus became
unavoidable, either to give the State up to the
Lincolnities, or to appeal to the manly pride Of her
people to stand as an honorable neutral in the war
between the North and the South, until the force
of circumstances must bring them to the point Of
defence against the fathless encroachments of the
enemy. 9
The present Legislature was elected when the
people did not believe Lincoln intended to invade
the State, but as soon as he was encouraged by o
Union triumph, he established his military camps
to overawe and subdue the true men, and this wan
ton violation Of Kentucky neutrality at once snr-
prsed and aroused the popular heart to resistance
throughout the glorious old commonwealth. There
has been an entire revulson in public sentiment
since the election, and no matter what the Legsla-
| ture may do, the people will vindcate their inde-
pendence. 1t was understood that this body would
attempt to impeach Gov. Magotfn, would request
| Senators Breckenridge and Powell to resign, and
would sanction the Lincoln camps, and the bur-
thensome tax proposed to be levied to support the
Northern Government, all of which measures
would only serve to raise the public Indignation to
! a higher pitch, and make collision inevitable.
| The people will never pay the tax they will sns-
| tain their Governor and Senators, and drive the
| Lincolntes from their borders. Mr.. Henderson
! says the recent calm but firm exposures of Lin
coins usurpations, in the Senate, by Mr.. Braekin
| ridge have greatly awakened his constituents to
| a sense of their danger, and cOrrespondingly
strengthened him in the affections of the masses.
The Southerners have the utmost confidence in his
! wisdom and patriotism.
| Roger Hanson ESD, formerly the most vigorous
Union leader in that State, now heart and soul in
| our cause, is regarded great accession. Old
| Mr.. Crttenden is pitted and admired for what he
| has been rather than abused for what he ia. Geo.
D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, is considered
| the most influential OF the Unionst leaders, from
| his brilliant and insidious appeals through his
widely circulated columns. 1t is feared that the
! Louisville Courier, which has done the Southern
Rights cause such signal service, will be suppress
| ed by the Lincoln despotism. 1t is reported that
his Apeship, Lincoln, invited Mr.. Preston, the late
United States Minister to Spain, to come to Wash
ington to settle his accounts Mr.. Preston replied
| that he was'nt ambitious to keep Mr.. Faulkne
company at Fort Lafayette, and must decline: but
| if that Government had any business with him it
could send an agent to Kentucky. One of the gen.
tlemen from Europe, whom Mr.. Henderson saw on
the way, told him that he had seen Mr.. Yancey in
| London, who was making a fine impression abroad,
and was in fine health and spirits, expecting an
early recognition of the Confederate States