Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-24

stood Up firmly for the Union, seyered be
connection with the dead body TO Whic
she had too long been iastened, and |
/. lnow Free State, with an sAntl- SLAYER
ConstitutiOnIand Government ntand two An
d lISlavery United States Senat0tssready {
. ltake their seats in the next Congress-
) tS6es will probably elect three Representa-
} tives OF like faith, aud proceed to give
hearty support to the Administration, th
War, and the policycof Emancipation.
4 A. KRNTuDKY.--ThisaSt 81 ahad Demo
cratic Governor (AIRgofin) when the wa
broke out, who was so thor0nghly in tn
Icounsels of the traitors that the Rebe
Secretary of War r.. T Walker) drew
. upon him for troops to uphold the Rebel
lion as coolly as though the State hal
formally seeded. A lafge portion of th,
leading men of all parties John @. Breck
inridge, Humphrey Mars hall, James B
-lClay, William Preston, aries s. More
head, Henry O. Bufnett IN liam q. 5inEis
II etc.-threw themselves into the rebellion
and a large number of It's young men, in.
Ecluding sons of its frmest Unionists, were
seduced by Simon B. Buckner, John Nor.
gan, and othel rebel paFtisans, into the
ranks of the Disunion forces. Kentucky
at first, under, Magofin, held posision OF
neutrality between the Union and the
Confederacy, which was snbverted by the
Rebel armies advancing unopposed and
proceeding to fortify themselves at Bow
ling Green, Columbus, etc. They left her
in haste after ZoliicOfer's defeat at Mill
Spring early in 1884, but they have since
harassed her by repeated raids, and once
invaded and nearly traversed her in force
under Bragg in the Autumn of 1862. She
chose Union representatives in Congress
IN onaN in l9R1 and a TInfOn
Legislature; whereupon Magofin Resigned
the. Governorship. She has now chosen
Union State officers, full delegation to
Congress, and a Legislature by OVeFwhelm-
ing majOrities and, although all these
stand nOminallYs on the "Kentucky Plat
form, of Composition alike to Secession
and to Abolition" it is notorious that this
does nor express the personal convictions
of many of them. Gen. Green Clay Smith,
newhew OF Cassius NJ. Clay, who was dee
nounced by the Louisville journal as a
Republican, has nevertheless run out John
NJ. Menzies, the late "Union" Member of
Congress- from the district opposite Gin
cinnati. BY a large majority; and there are
other signs that it will not be possible
much longer to keep her Union masses In
the leading strings of the fossil politicians
who have thus far supplied them with
platforms. Not one white Kentuckian in
ten has any interest in the preservation Of
Slavery, and each successive Rebel raid
increases the number of those who are
exasperated aud alienated by the plunder-
ing foI avs to which they are subjected by |
the minions of the Slave Power. Kentucky |
is not yet consciously for Emancipation, |
but events tend steadily and strongly to
make her SO, even against her will.
8. TENNEssBR.-Here the plowshare of
War has been driven deeply, and with
results. The powerful "Union
Club" of Nashville is an Emancipation
club, though several of its members are
The Nashville Union is q
vigorous advocate of Emancipation. Two
thirds of the State, including most of the
slaves, is now firmly held for the Union.
and the Rebels are greatly disheartened
by their recent discontinue. East Tenn
essee, which is sall the Rebels now hold,
had never many slaves, and has remained
inVincibly and ardently loyal. But for her
exemption from the purvtew
OF the Presid dents Proclamation Of Freedom,
Tennessee would ere this have been both
free aud loyal: as it is, she is rapidly be-
coming so, though a Republican or dis!
tinctively Anti-Slavery vote was never yet
cast at her polls, l5 Er i
6. MTssoURI,-A gallant though not
numerous "Free Soil" party was formed in
St! Louis some years since, led by Francis
P. Blair, Jr., and the St.Louis DetnocTat'
it gave Lincoln IL ,O2s out of l6b .5ls votes
in go. The breaking out of the Rebellion
found her Democratic Governor claiborne
F. Jackson) with his Lieut. Reynolds and
q large portion of her Legislature deep in
the cohnsels of treason. The first military
force was raised on that side; but the first
blow was we'll struck k-ou the other !; since
which the State has been, the arena of
constant carnage; guerrilla bands sudden
ly gathering, attacking, plundering, kill
ing, and then dispensing, ever since the
more formidable Rebel armies were per-
manently expelled. A Constitutional Con-
yention chosen in '61 proved decided
Iy loyal, but pro'slavery; and that Con-
vention elected the present State officers.
II has lately been again in session, and
has passed over the heads of the "radir
cals9 an ordinance of future gradual eman
cipation, whereby the State is to be nearly
rid of Slavery some ten or fifteen years
hence. The Legislators, chosen last year,
aud a majority Of the Representatives in
Congress, are emaucipationists. The peo.
pie are certainly for emancipation, and
probably desire that it beimmediately con-
sumated; for when q " Reconstruction"
shall have called home the twenty or thtr-
.ty thousand sAiissourians now serving 10
the rebel armies, II is by no means certain
that Slavery wiz not again PrePonderateI
aud 1t may be as intolsEantsas ever Bat
the civil power Of the State and the mill
'tary power of the Federal Government are
now welded by, s SConseFyAtixes 3 and. it.
is hardly probable that an ordinance or act
of immediate emancipation will be passed
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