Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-18
NASHVILLE, Oct. Is, 1861.
From the Louisville Courier
From the louisville Courier.
The City of LOuisvilIe..The Effect
of the War i'm Kentucky--WhO is
Suffering.

Suffering.
Louisville, Covington, Lexington, and the
cities and counties of Northern Kentucky,
| are occupied by the Federal forces, and are
| temporarily subjected to the domination of
the administration at Washington. Bow
| ling Green, Russellville, Hopkinsville, CO.
| lumbus, and the cities and counties of South
ern Kentucky, are protected against the
| Northern Cloths and Vandals by the troops
commanded by Gems. Johnston and Buekner.
Let us contrast, for moment, the condi-
ton of these two portions of the State.
Louisville has been the commercial empo-
| rum of the State. 1t has beenthe centre of
| capital, of trade, of manufactures, of COM
| merce. There our principal banks are loca-
| ted There the merchant princes of the
Commonwealth have accumulated their mag
nifcent fortunes. There the smoke from
| the stacks of hundred manufactures dark
en- the air. There the hum of mills and the
elanking of machinery, and the creak of en-
gines have told the passer by of the enter
prize, thrift, and prosperity of the people.
At night, thousands of hardy and grimed,
but happy and contented operatives might
have been seen at any time in the past quar-
ter CT a century, vending their way from the
workshops in which they earned the means
of supporting their wives and children, to
homes made happy by their labor There
has been employment for all, either of capt.
tai or of labor, that accumulated there; and
with rapid strides that city has been seen
advancing in wealth and greatness, the pride
and boast of Kentucky. But her prosperity
attracted the attention of New England cap
italists, clear headed, sharp-sighted, money
loving, but fanatical Yankees, who invested
their dollars in mills and manufactOrise in
her limits, and, most unfortunately, made
in the minds of her people Judgement for
their anti-slavery principles. These have
spread but too rapidly among those in the
active and most pernicious class of her peo-
Pile, while they have been indirectly encour-
aged by those unprincipled and selfish dem
agogues who infest all free communities,
ever holding themselves ready to barter
away the public good for their own prefer
ment, and ever on the alert for opportunities
to attain their own unholy ends by pander-
ing to the prejudices of the ignorant, cater
ing to the passions of the bad and ayailing
themselves of the momentary Influences that
sway the thoughtless. In 1919, when the
question of the emancipation Of the slaves in
the State was directly before the PEG pie, so
strong had the influence of this foreign ele--
ment equally foreign, whether imported
from New England or from Germany be-
come, that the pro-slavery candidates for
the State Convention we're barely elected
barely elected by majority, considerable
portion of which, represented by the Louis
vile Journal, Enthusiastically indicated that
its opposition to anti-slayery was unreliable
and uncertain. Ee &
Z. When LINCOLN lind been inaugurated,
when his policy had been foresAadowed at
Indianapolis, in Pittsburg, and in his Inau-
sural, and when it was evident that the SIR
repressible Conflict was upon us, and to be
emit at once and forever, then it was seen
that in this city were men of giant intellect
and great influence, men of wealth and po-
sition, men of power and determination, who
would stand by the President in his war on
the South, and that they would be sustained
by other men Of scarcely less ability, whose