Newbern weekly progress., 1862-01-14


both in America and Europe, agree upon this
one proposition, that the Northern people and
government are intoxicated with malice, ha-
tired, and envy, and it is said that the leaders
about Washington absolutely keep themselves
drunken with rum, otherwise they could not
venture to perpetrate such hoIrid deeds of
wickedness and crime as have marked their
course at every turn since this degrading strug-
gle commenced. And yet, in all the border
Southern States thousands of men have been
and are still found wicked enough to wink at,
and actually aid the enemy in his deeds of un
paralleled outrage. Had the people of Mis-
souri, Kentucky, Western Virginia and Mary
land acted with the promptness Of North Car
olina when Lincoln committed the 0oert act
the struggle would not have lasted to the pre-
sent time. But unfortunately those States
were cursed with leading men that merited ell
ovation at the end of rope much more than
to Offices which they perverted to the obstruction
of their country
The great bane Of our country has been the
yielding, on the part of the people, instead Of
governing themselves, to be governed by an
unprincipEed set of .demagogues. The people
are right, and could they have had their way
those States never would have bee n overrun
as they have been.
We are happy, however, to see that Ken
lucky is raising her head and We begin to feel
confident that the day is not far distant when
she will hurl back the in vading foe to his own
native haunts of iniquity and abomination.
The following extract from the pen of the
Editor of the Boaclimg Green Com Ter, has in
spired US with new hope and zeal. We COM
mend it heartily to the careful reading and
prompt emulation of all faint hearted persons
hereabouts True that Burnside with his ex-
pedition is said to be on his way here and SO it
may be, but if all our people will but come up
to the work in the spirit of the extract, better
would it be for Burnside were a milestone
hanged about his neck and he cast into the
midst of the sea:
OLD KENTUCKY.
The writer, after aluding to the tardiness
which at first characterized the movements of
Kentucky, says:
Thank God that sleep is at last broken. The
p;ant is at last aroused. There's life in the
old land yet"
Kentucky was not dead, but slept She is
now awake aroused erect, defa:t, self-relant,
she is Kentucky again and her sons, with
arms of giant strength and hearts Of oak and
stubborn resolution, are in the field to shield
Rer from evil, to defend her rights, to vindcate
her good name and honorable fame, and, by
their deeds of valor and heroic endurance. to
make the title of Kentuckian again the syno-
nym for all that is generous and true and
Brave.
Yes "there's life in the old land yet "-life
IN the veins of freemen, in the gale that sweeps
across the borders of the State, in the soil ID
which rest the remains of the illustrious dead,
on the highest peaks Of the Cumberland and in
the valleys of the Ohlo,-life everywhere, in
the Spring tide, healthy, vigorous, growing
life that cannot be crushed out by tyranny
and usurpation,-life immortal as freedom it
self
Kentucky is alive. Her true sons, jealous
of her fame and her honor, and proud of her
history, no longer clothe themselves in sack
cloth and ashes and scourge themselves and
seek through fasting and prayer to avert the
wrath of Heaven, but, they contemplate her
present position, and consider the many indca-
tions of her regeneration, they celebrate her
deliverance with feasting and thanksgiving and
hyms ofjoy and praise.
The scales are lifted frenp the eyes OF the
people of Kentucky. They see things as they
are. Yawning at their feet is the dark and
bottomless gulf into which they we'll nigh
drifted; and escaping from it, with lusty efforts
they are stemmiDg the dredful current down
which they lately foated without struggle,
challenging headniration OF the world IN then