New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-10

A Week In tSs Nsyih- West-Tooe Of the
Peepio-Hpizs lice ca their HIsfivcs--
Bn.ins-s Prsspsrfty---A Rebel FaiIaey
--Hsnfscky-spurious Loys;sy-Trou-
Bile Ahead.
Yren Oar Special csu~spshdsAt-
.4l LousvLLl. KY. Apri s. 1859.
l spent las. week In travelling through tho North
ws,L Tie tone Of the people on the war was
never better. Now that tho question has become
simply one Of endurance their Northern blood tells.
" This is hard pounding gentlemen" said Yelling
ION At Waterloo, "but We will zee who can pound
the longer" So. In spi.e ef the Copperhsads--
merely the dust and chaf on Gods threshng-foor"
as Conway calls ,hem--ihe overwhelming sentiment
Of the people is TO fight it ou' to the last man and
The lar. dollar. ..... ... a y
Yco have been wopt to say: "The West can DO
depended upon for the war. She will never give up
her gres. outlet, the Mississippi Truei but it
leaves tho inference that her loyalty Ia bssed pr.
msiily upon material consideration; which il IN.
trus and unjust. Men, able-bodied men, who can
carry muskrts, the riches the very hieblood Of
nc n country. The West nas poured them out
freely and will do to the bitter end but not on
any petty question Of navigation or Of markets.
Ony on the weightier issue Of Freedom and Ma
tlOnality. ...,,. ..... ..
Notwithstanding q few Western lanaiics VIII o
talk Of third confederacy, The men OF the Missis-
sppi and the frontier will sacrifice more for On
undivided country than the mon Of the eoaet. They
arc moro deeply impressed With tho magnificent
Pennsylvania may believe In the greatness Of tho
country tha kaHsIn or Hinnesotian, who has gone
one or two tbou,snd miles TO establish bis prairie
home, walks ny sight instead Of faith. To him, the
G-ea. Repubho of tho future, with his section for
The sest Of empire, ia rhetorical flourish or flight
Of fancy, bnt o living verify. His instinct Of
natioealy Is Of the very strongest his belief III tho
Esgls profoundest. May he never berenitef
stand ia Dsed OF Enlersons pupgent criticism:
TIE American eagle 10 good; protect IT, cherish III
but beware Of the American peacock ~
The mosl marvellous bubble OF the Rebels used 20
10 lhelr faith IN eoton blu, that 10 exp oded As
Prentice has IL, tue Rsbels went in for cotton and
got worfted. Their greatest delusion nov Is con-
Corning tho NorthWest Their leading politicians
and editors actually seem TO believe that, while the
great manufacturing and commercial interests OF
New England, hew-Vork, Pennsylvania, arc fos-
terob ans fattened by the war, the farmers of the
Nohh-West are In state Of pecuniary ruin, II not
Of Starvation. They would DO astonishsd to REQ the
evidences Of prosperity everywhere visible In the
great agricultural districts Chicago, to-day Ia the
most fourishng city on the continent and the vast
grain producing region tributary TO 1t, the most
fourehing rection True, the dark shade ws Of war
arc seen in tho hight OF many q home forever goue
out in the cad array Of widows, orphans and Grip
pies; but even in this respect there Is nothing to
compare with those Virginia towns where almost
every woman one meets Is dressed in mourning. As
for financial sdverity, Il only sxists in the Rich.
mond and Charleston brain.
A less pleasing theme before close. I have boon
in Kentucky only two days; but under circurn-
stances 10 study somewhat the public feeling know
something Of loyalty in the Slave STATES; in Mis-
souri,, Tsnnessee, Western Virginia and Maryland
have encountered much to cheer the heart Of any
patriotic man. Bot here the political atmosphere 70
totally different. Tho mind Of Kentucky u utterly
dobsachsd by her politicians aud editors, who
while claiming to be loyal, spond moro time in
denouneing the Government than In attempting to
crush out the Rebellion. Some Of them openly sd
vocats stopping men and supplies for the army;
nearly all attempt to dictate to the Government
with an insolenoe which smacks Of the plantation.
Slaves who have come in from the Rebel armies are
seized and sold, with the permission il not the
coursgsment Of the military authorities. Yesterday,
this city elected for Mayor, by nearly one thousand
majority, man who, II mot Rebel himself, re-
csiyed tho vote Of every Rebel who went to the
polls.
guar tiers permanently In the State, and may estab
fish them in this city. His presence and the rigid
rule his antccedents promise, would have healthy
effect. There il loyalty enough among the Masses
but tho leaders OF public opinion neutratIs and
III laata tha,.