The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-22

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TUESDAY MORNlN0. q, 1851.
AsSAiKs N KxSrvcxY--Tt no longer ad.
mits Of doubt that the enemy intend to make
Kentucky henceforth the battle ground of the
present struggle. He lie concentrating q large
force 1t Lexington, in the heart Of the State,
with view, it is thought, to making an ad.
vance upon Cumberland Gap and our great
back bone line of railroad connection with
the Southwestern States. He is concentrating
another large body Of men At Louisville, and
preparing for push upon Nashville with an
immense army. Thirty thonsand troops are al.
ready in rendezvous about Louisville and a very
considerable number Of men are assembled
about Lexington. Besides these main camps. nu
merour smaller ones dot the State. There are
twenty FIVE hundred men at the mouth of the
Big Sandy River, on the Virginia line, and n
thousand more at Louisa, fifty miles above, a,
the junction of the Tug Fork and the Louisa
riyers. At Maldraugh's hill is q considerable
camp. and still other forces are in front of
Genera, ZoLLIcoFFER in the Southeast, and
Generals HARpEx and Polk in the west
The forces collecting at Louisville, Lexington,
and on the Big Sandy, are from North of the
Ohio. Those nearer our own forces are chiefly
native Kentuckians
Delighted at the prospect of having the aid
NJ such brave men and good soldiers az those
If Kentucky to help them fight their battles.
Al. Yankees see giving much attention to thei,
.su.e in that quarter, and are lavish of arms
munitions, aud men, in strengthening them
.elves there The Southern Confederacy
strategically considered, is more vulnerable
from Kentucky than from any other quarter /;
and this advantage, united with that of enlist. .
;,,A entuckians under their banners, has
made Kentucky the most attractive and popu.
Lar theatre of the war in the eyes Of the North
They know very well, too, that the regiments
which thew recruit in the Northwest are vastly
superior in proves and courage to those
raised in. the Eastern and Middle States; anG
it is much more polite to precipitate those
Northwestern regiments in vast bodies upol
Kentucky, than to send them far West int"
Missouri or Kansas, or as far East as Wash-
iupton and the Potomac.
The Southern cause, on the other hand, is
embarrassed in Kentucky by the political posi-
t;on of that State Gen JOHNSTON, as we Sc.
bv his recent proclamation to the Kentucky
nsonle. holds a defensive attitude, and does
not feel at liberty to take such decided ano
aggressive steps TO confront andresi enemy
"a he would do if Kentucky were member
of the Southern Confederacy. OF all the
States, Kentucky is the one in which the
enemy is concentrating his largest forces ana
assuming the most offensive and formidable at
,itudes; and yet it is in Kentucky in which the
,a, If the Confederacy arc tied most tightly,
and where we are least at liberty to resist and
counteract the aggressive measures of the
enemy.
The pride Of the Kentucky people is such
,hat we cannot hope for their rallying under
the banners of the Confederate Generals in
apy very great numbers. Four-tifths of the
fighting men in Kentucky, on question OF
sympathy between the North and South, are
Southern men; and yet they have, by the
adro;tness of the submission leaders in that
State. become SO committed to the Union as
against Secession, that the greatest pains Will
have to be taken, now that the question has
really Become one of mere North and South,
to prevent them from fighting for what they
NAV still consider the Union cause. They
cannot be brought right by the appeals OF the
Confederate Generals or authorities. They can
be rallied to their own section only by their
own native citizens, to whom they have been
in the hasit of looking up in the past contests
of parties. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, Mr. POWELL,
Governor MAGoFFIE, Colonel MARSHALL,
Colonel WIN. PREsroN, General BucKSER,
Colonel HAWKINS, Mr. STEVENSON, Mr.. BUR-
NIT, DR.. PEYroN, and men of that character,
can bring Kentucky into line with the South,
il allowed to conduct the work in their own
vay; but it cannot be done from the outside.
Meantime, large forces ought to be rendez-
voused along the Southern and Eastern Dor
dor. If Kentucky Confederate Go,
eminent, with view marching in, and
holding such positions as are of military I'M
portance when necessary; and with the fnr
Their view of being ready to meet the enemy
in any force, and of forming rallying points
for true Kentuckians who may have to come
out of hostile neighborhoods in the State to
ioin the Southern banners. We understand
that the mission Of Messrs. BRECKENRIDGE,
PREsroN, and MARSHALL, to Richmond, rs III
reference to these important affairs.