Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-22
KENTUCKY POLITICS.

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SATURDAY, - MOVIE, 1852
KENTUCKY POLITICS. hHP
We COPY to-day, on our outside, an article
from Prentice's Louisville yownal, the same
paper which denounced President Lincoln's
proclamation Of April, 1861, calling out 75,ooo
men, as mad and wicked. The Journal Is the
organ of certain politicians in Kentucky, who
have since affected to be for the Union, but
with an infinite number of qualifications and
conditions. They are In open alliance with the
Woods and Van Burens of New York, and 1t is
not without significance that the article of the
Journal which we copy to-day, speaks of the
rebels as 'our Southern friends"
The reader will not fail to observe that all
this outbreak Of spite and fury on the part Of
the Journal, Is not on accout Of anything done,
or threatened to be done, in the State Of Ken
lucky. It Is Indignant at something which is
impending over the rebels of Louisiana and
Mississippi. II is sympathetic In behalf Of
men who are waging deadly war against the
nation, and who, II not themselves utterly
crushed in the conflict, viii subvert the only
free Government on earth. II is for these reb-
els, that the Journal claims, that when, In their
sovereign good pleasure, they shall condescend
to come back into the Union, II shall be with
'.just the same rights and prerogatives that they
had and exercised before the rebellion broke
out" Il is these rebels, whom the Journal ap-
plauds for the determination never TO ''live
with their present slaves except as owners and
masters" and 1t is these rebels whom the
Journal means to support, so far as 1t dares, in
acting upon this dissemination.
All we have to say about 1t is, that If these
rebels in Louisiana and Mississippi cannot live
with free black men, they must leave the coun-
try, and the sooner the better. They are not
very numerous and will not be missed. They
may depend upon it, that they will never be re-
admitted into Union which they voluntarily
left and have endeavored to destroy, except
upon the basis ofassured and unqualified submis-
sion to the lawful acts of Congress and of the
President, and especially those which emanci-
pate slaves.
The direct tendency Of such reasonable appeals
as this of the Louisville Journal is to envelop the
South in the horrors of St. Domingo struggle.
These horrors win certainly come, If the whites
in the Gulf States listen to such mad teachings.
Their only escape is to submit quietly to what
is inevitable, as they seem to be doing in Lou
isiana. 1t is very easy for editors in Louisville,
themselves safe from danger, to advise wal
of determination between races elsewhere. But
II is either wicked beyond measure, or marks
the intense recklessness of political passions.
THE OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA.
correspondent of the New York Tines gives
interesting details of recent operations in Louis
lana. Thibodeaux, from which he writes, 4
forty-six mneseys.-.onelousasr railroad from
Agiers opposite New Orleans. BY steamboat
it is reached by going up the Mississippi eight,
miles from New Orleans to Donaldsonville, and
then thirty miles up the Lafourche river, upon
which Thibodeaux is stusted. Gen. Wetzel,
with his principal force, took the steamboat
route. Col. Stafford, with his black regiment,
500 strong, took the railroad. For the first
thirty-six miles out of Algiers 1t is swamp and
wet prairies. Then comes ten miles OF magnif-
cent sugar plantations. The Times's CORES
pondent saTs: r.l.... I.. T
"In all this country for miles Is now 30 b'
seen ready for the sickle, or rather the knife
the most splendid crop Of sugar cane that wa
ever seen in the world. Nothing like the siz
or height was before ever known, and il is cal
culated that had there been no war, aud VI
planters had been left to quietly pursue thei
avocation, their income this year would hay
been unprecedented in the history of the crop
But now, alas all Is to be wasted; for miles th
ripening cane is to be seen, growing richer an
richer by every full breeze, but ripening still
only to be wasted and lost. The appearance o
our troops has ended all work among the ne
md n nj ~ nf the nlantara flee
ing from us with undisguised fear. A few re
main and welcome our presence, but their Ia
borers, unfortunately, are demoralized by tn
surrounding example, and they suffer with tn
rest. And the effect is the appearance of tn
soldiers Of the First regiment Of the Gdrdes d
Afriqus, who have made a conjunction wit
Gen. Weitzel, having passed up the railroad In
stead Of the river. The black troops, so far
have behaved with admirable moderation an
with all needed courage, and although they hay
not been In action, they have courted danger
and done their duty well. 1t is passing strang
to see these men on the Lafourche, standin
sentinel upon some hedge, when the one
wealthy and still proud planter passes with hi
splendid equipage. The negro soldier bids tn
traveller Halt examines his pass, and bid
him return or proceed, as the case may be; 1t !
a strange and wonderful revolution, scarcely t
be comprehended by the sight or understood b
the reason. ............ d..
In the vicinity of Thibodeaux is situated tn
plantation of Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg. 1t @
course attracted the attention OF our soldiers
and his negroes seemed to have very intelli
gent idea of the relation their master stood q
the National troops. As our soldiers advanced
Lieut.. COL Warner, of the Thirteenth Connec
ticut, received a word from Mrs. Bragg that sh
would like to have guard to protect her prop
erty. This request was promptly compile,
with, and when Col. Warner came up, two mel
of his regiment were pacing quietly before tn
door OF the mansion. They had, however, ar
rived too late to save the property entire. Tn
negroes had taken advantage Of the opportuni
ty to break open the closets, invade the bu
reaus, rip open the the feather and moss beds
In search of treasure, and otherwise destroy tn
yalusbles In the different rooms.
was over the river yesterday visiting seyera
large plantations, where every negro had rui
away after pillaging his masters plantation AM
house-ruin everywhere. Allen had three hun
dred and fifty negroes, of which not one re
mains-and, of course, the standing cane will
all be lost So with every plantation in the vi
cinity
Men who were rich wake up to the disagree
able fact that their wealth has departed. AL
the houses have been ransacked by the negroes
who have taken what they wanted. Across tn
bayou opposite our camp there Is a most re
markable aud picturesque assemblage Of owe