New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-07
AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY.
1851 md 1869 Effect Of the Morgan Rnid
-Unioni-m not from Neral suasiOn, but
Rebel Coereion-uow the Confi.cntion
Act il viewed-Kentucky Rebels and
Indiana Democrncy-suppres Of n
Rebel sheet.
Prom Our spoelAl Correspondent.

1
LoursvirIE Aus. l, 1862.
A year ago Kentucky was still wrapt IN the deu'
sion OF neutrality. Deceived by the experience Of
the three months following the FIRST uprising Of the
North for the suppression Of the Pro-Savery Rebel
lion her people fattered themselves that they might
continue exempt from participation in the struggle
between the two sections. Their neutral hopes and
wishes flowed from want Of that true LOYALTY and
patriotism that s sways ready to sacrifice individual
wel-being TO the veal of the natOn--from instinct
i've perez ption Of the dangers to the alabsorbing
interest IL human chatteldom, involved in coagency
in the civil stuye-and above ALL from selfish cnlcu-
lalions OF the advantages Of remaining mere
spectators Of the war; Neutrality bad bee proita-
bic. While all the avenues Of trade between the
rebellous and Free States Were closei, Kentucky
had enoyed but nominalIy restricted Intercourse
with the former during the Spnng aud Sumner
The whoe ale dealers and manufacturers of this her
commercial emporium had never seen such prosper
ons days AS in that period. The exhaustion of
-iocks--lhe imp0ssbilily to I'LL crowding orders
from inruii cheney of manufacturing capacities and
the want Of shipping iacliies Were, indee 1, then
the only limits TO the bn-lness OF Louisville, to
which the blockade had forced nearly the whole
South TO become tributary. Nor were the profits OF
neutrality confined to Louisville. The interior of
the State found them equally great. The Ggricui-
tursl population likewise rcaped harvest Of South
ern gold. Stock and the products OF the soil were
ar en- gery demanded aud AS largely supplied she
wares OF the monOpolists of Louisville.
Two mouths later and the deluson was gone.
What Northern augmentation and forbearance
failed to DO, Rebel reekcs-ness brought about. The
equivo,al position President Lincoln allo we'd the
State 10 occupy, Bnckner forced her 10 abandon.
No better blow could be struck for the benefit OF
the North by the Il bel Government than the iuya-
sion Of Southern Kentucky. IL forced at once the
conviction upon the neutrests, that the soath wa.
determined 10 drag their State out of It's parsye At
titude-to visit upon her the very ravages of war,
the very loss and insecurity of property hey had 80
long, 70 ingeniously, so selfsbly lubored To avoid
aud that there remained to them but one hope
one mears % avcrtng the dreaded cahmitIes-to
invoke the assistance OF the Federal Government in
removing the theaer of war from the soil of the
State. Thus Kentucky became actively loyal-her
previous peslveness was worse than enmiiy--not
IRON mora, suasioD, but Rebel coercion.
As Kentucky was fairly loyaliLed by Rebel ag-
gressioo in 81, 40 her Unionism intensified by
ike influences in '62. Simon Bolivar Bucsner was
Ia more active and successfu! propaganda in be-
halt OF the Union than John Morgan. Both applied
aTgun.sHtd al hO1alniDl-tbe stimulus most power
ful with those that lead the destnies OF the State;
they iutertered with toeir property. The wealthy
class, that IN this, as in every other sllyehOldmg
State determines the social and political tone of the
community. considered 1t WISE for the safety Of
their negroes, to identity ther fortunes with tho
horses no less and hence Morgans distractions of
tho latter have strengthened their belief in the Wis
dom OF their Unlonisrn. That daring Inarauder has
done much harm. but also much good. Every
horse be slOle-eyery COrn-crIb he emptIed-evefy
house lie plundered, insigorted the sympathios
of ken;uckians with the loyal cause. Nor was this
ALL CotempOnneous as his lorny was almost with
the passage OF the Conilscation BILL IL furnished the
most telling illustration OF its justice that could pos
sibly be made before the eyes oi BofderStaes men.
IL hardened their Heretofore soft loyalty in re
naIkable degree. 1t would be difficult To find any
one protesting loyalty ia the districts visited by
Morgan disposed TO gainsay the righteousness OF
retaliation b. cOnGscaling the property OF aiders and
sbettors Of the rebellion for the benefit II robbed
Uniouists aud the Government. The cry, No
mercy to the property Of Rebels, Is sounding wi h
increasing force all the Stale, aud many are so
jealous IN their advocacy of relentless retribulon,
that they even deny the right OF Secessonlss to own
negroes. Should third INVASION OF the State take
place have 10 doubt the ast vestige of opposition
10 the enforcement Of the CoDiscaion act will dif