The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-01-02
AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY,
Plain Talk By A Native Shareholder,
Letter from Colonel Leonidss Metcaif


we'll known faro banker OF II King
ton, in june and July last. They
robbed the Union men Of q thousand
horses and an immense amount OF
other property, and were permitted
to make their escape with it. This
celebrated black leg was very much
ncensed at the traitors and sympa
thizers, because they did not rally
o he STANDARD when he wac among
us with his thousand ragamuiiiu
-throats, for a nucleus, accord.
ing to their promise for he proclaim
cd that he had received Two thOus.
and letters inviting him to come
That raid, however, tried the exper.
iment and proved that a thousand
men could go through the heart OF
Kentucky, and lob, burn and steal
and murder, and no one to oppose,
but thousands OF scoundrels in our
midst to welcome them and applaud,
ard thousands Of she devils under
the guise and livery Of Gods best
gilt to man." would hasten with
smiles OF approval, and the honeyed
kiss, to meet these human liends
whose hands were then dripping
with the bood OF their brothers. A
Magdalen is an angel compared with
such soullesss hyeuas, who disgrace
the form and hablliments they wear.
After that raid terrible Juror was
got up amongst the Union men aud
military men OF Kentucky. The
cry was heard everywhere that the
sympathiz.rs who had invited the
robbers here, should be msde to
pay all the damages, foot the bill,
&c. A lew of the military officers
did Go something toward carrying
out the plan, but u great many back
ed down. You must remember
that we have some Union (?) men in
Kentucky. that wants office htr,ai'
ter, and want votes, and must play
good fellow with traitors, and we
have Union (D men who sit on the
ieuce, straddIe, and praying, Obi
thou good Lord, and good Devil too
to you and each OF you do com.
mend my property, not my soul
for that have not.
And now lay me down to sleep,
viii thou my niger take and safely keep
No prayer ever accents from theil
lips to the throne o! grace for the
relief OF their bleeding conntry. ii,
: does not ask protection tor the
widow and orphan. Destruction dc
y. vas,ation, ruin follow in the tract, o
the champions of S avery. Com
merce and trade are stopped, rail
- roads destroyed, telegrsphs cut. -
There is weeping; starvation ant
death. But all this he heeds not
nor does he care, il his nigger Cal
l. only come out of this wreck anC
crash with the ehacklcs safely rivet
ed on him. Last Summer | had
conversation with fem 10 blped il
g Fayette county, Kentucky, who Wa
Il particularly distressed about nigger
b | told her that shortly before lha
time a great battle had been Tough
at Richmond Virgiuis, in whic
- near twenty thousand men wer
slain, aud that more than hundre
Thousand of our own race had bee
olkillod in this war, and asked il
a! a! was not mere sensible to remov
the cause and quit killing one anotl
q. er. "Well, well, Of course" say
she, with the utmost sang .froit
"where large armies meet in battl
great many must be killed; Ut
, says she, "what will you do viii
the negro2 viii you have theu
a, here amongst us?" replied, il
save my people, if to save my coul
try, if nothing else will do, we vi
!. hang them. She burst into tear
and exclaimed, "On! would you
so cruel as to hang the poor inn
cent negro?" Now, mark the cffe
upon that biped, when | told her
the fact that hundred and TWEEN
SEQ thousand oi our men had been XII
ed. 1t did not cause an emotio
to but the bare suggestion of hurtil
the sacred niger, with all the i
ra caused her TO unveil the lurki
. 6end in her soul, to show her tr
un' sympathy, her love, her idol. {:
in you Kentucky is full OF just such l.
aO. gro worshippers. Passing throu
the village OF Nj, in Bourb
county, / saw very pretty miss
ont some fourteen Summers, going
school with a young buck nigg
about the same ago riding behi
aiS anu her on rhe same horse, with
/. arms around her waist-of coul
- only to keep him from falling off.
~ Now such travelling is by no mea
1s the common rule, but it is not
only instance ! have seen, anC
dare say that it attracted no parti,
ar attention in that niger worsh
ping slough of treason; bnt if {
OF them had seen II In Ohio or In
ana, it would have been cause
immediate dissolution. Well, VIII
business is it1 it was daddy's nigs
name such doings to call
peoples attention to their "assot
tions" a: home, for we hear 1t ds
2rn tod here that the Northarn nao