The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-16
[ From he Missouri Democrat.
Kentucky LOyaltY.

The more this article is scrutinized
and tested, the more suspicious it be-
comes. That sort of patriotism which
estimates the negro above the country,
will not answer to save the latter in a
contest like the present That there are
many pure and high-minded patriots in
Kentucky, who would rather see all the
negroes in Guinea before they would
surrender foot of our National domain
or right guaranteed under the Consti-
tuition, to the fell spirit of rebellion, is
unquestionable; but such, unfortunately,
is not the spirit which fills and governs
many of her leading politicians--men
who are put forward to speak her senti-
ments in public places. Too many Of
these seem to think that their special
mission in the Union is to defend slavery.
They are good Unionists, but better
slave-soilers. They are great on the
American Eagle, the Star Spangled Ban
ner, and particularly strong on the Con-
stitution, but the only clauses of the lat
ter which they seem to think in great
danger of violation, are those under
which slave property has been recognlz-
ed, and returned when it has taken to it.
self legs and fed from the old Kentucky
shore" They seem TO forget that
Just South Of them, where the institution
has reigned supreme, the Constitution
and the nations flag have alike been
rent and torn and trampled upon, until
the authority of both has been utterly
repudiated, and that the ruling and con-
troiing agent in all this work of desecra-
ton has been, and yet is, the restless and
rapacious spirit of negro slavery. They
seem to forget, in their anxiety to save
a single part Of the original structure of
our nationality, that the entire ediGce is
in danger of demolition. Hence, while
brave and true men all over the land, as
they proffer life, property and all they
have, are shouting ''save the country"
the voice of Kentucky is heard amid
the roar of battle and the patriot cry of
freemen to the rescue, in solitary accents
shouting "save the nigger.
We are aware that the disposition we
have described is not confined alone TO
Kentucky, and fairness requires that we
should state the fact There is enough,
and more than enough of it, in all the
border slave States, Missouri not except
Gu. III Il Sllil uclibR IL
exhibits itself in the party formations of
the North, cropping out from the face of
society there, ike the coa[stone layer in
a mountainous district, and where it has
not the apology of interest for its exist
ence, which serves for partial extenua-
ton in the South. Butnowhere are men
to be found who so loudly profess Union
ism, and at the same time exhibit so re-
lentless devotion to the perpetuity of
"the institution" as in Kentucky 1T is
very clear that the free soil sentiment,
which has been gradually overhowing
the border slave States, and latterly has
swept over Missouri like food, has not
succeeded in making the same progress
in Kentucky We are very far from be-
ing convinced, however, that it does not
exist there, and in much more formida--
BILE character than superficial view
would suggest. The politicians are not
the leaders Of the people, notwithstand-
ing they bear the name. They are, in
act, their followers They are invaria-
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