Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-31
0Bio Statesman,
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MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 81.
Montgomery Blair in kentucky
Guarded by n Cavalry Company.

[From The Louisville journal. Oct. 81
Montgomery Blair, who was recently
compelled to retire from LincOln's Cabinet,
is now stumping Kentucky in favor OF the
reelection of our present Executive and
the continuance of his policy for another
term of four years. Mr.. Blair's speeches
are doing the cause of Mcclellan no harm.
The Union Democrats would like to have
him traverse the whole State and repeat
what he has said at Lexington, Shelbyville,
and other places, for wherever he holds
forth the friends of Mcclellan are more
than pleased, while the Lincolnites look as
if they had lost something. Mr.. Blair's
manner is respectful, and his course of ar
gument gentlemanly, but his attempts to
Vindicate the policy of the Administration
are weak and pointless; they remind his
auditors of stagnant pool of water, with
neither fountain head nor outlet. But there
is one matter connected with him and his
mission that we would have heavily
taxed people to know and consider. He
has about one hundred cavalry taken from
their legitimate business and assigned to
him as body guard or escort, and he thus
realizes the Miltonian picture:
Training his devilish enginery, impaled
On every sido with shadowing squadrons deep,
To hide the fraud.
lHdU UHOSc Incll SllOulCl Dc cDSdScu
work while the very neighborhoods of the
meetings are swarming with guerrillas, is a
proceeding which merits the most severe
censure. On Monday last, we are inform
ed upon unquestiOnable authority, that this
escort on their way to Shelbyville, with
their charge, passed very near the we'll
known rendezvous of guerrilla band, but
did not attempt any demonstration upon
them, as their orders were specific and
would not permit them to turn to the right
or the left. This policy will be best under
stood when it Is known that the guerrillas
in that section are assiduously hunting
down Mcclellan men, and hardly ever rob q
sympathizer with Lincoln and the Aboli-
tionists. We must do the Captain who COM
mands the escort the justice to say that he
expressed his anxiety to go after the thicv-
ing enemy, but was restrained by his or
ders. The Blairs are certainly highly
privileged family. The eldest is commits
stoned to offer Mcclellan restored place in
the army on condition that he will not run
for the Presidency; another takes seat IN
Congress to which it appears he was never
elected, and the President holds his .resig-
nation from his Majur-G r-Generalship in abey-
ance until such time as it appears certain
that the committee on Elections will ous
him, and then Mr.. Lincoln permits him tt
withdraw the resignation; and the thirt
makes abolition speeches in Kentucky, vio
lating our laws, endangering the public
peace and safety, and melting to ser
vile insubordnation if not insurrec
tion, and is given an escort of one hundret
men to protect his precious person. Gov
Bramlette goes about the State without
guard; we travel wherever business calls
though threats loud, deep and ferocious
have been levelled against us by the guer
rilla chiefs and freebooters, from Morgan
down to Jesse; there is not a guard upol
any railroad train sufficient to protect /
from the assault of trio of foot-pads; ant
the people of Kentucky, who were recently
induced by the presence of troops in vari
GUS localities to renew their stock of goods
now find these troops removed, so that tn,
State is completely at the mercy OF the reb
ell robbers. Why cannot Gov. Bramlette
we, and the people have body-guard a
well as the eX-Postmaster-Gener VIII,
cannot we be surrounded by protecting
soldiers, and travel with all the pride
pomp, and circumstance of war, and tn
blare of trumpets? There is, we presume
one advantage to be attained by having a.
escort attend an Abolition speaker I'M tou
throughout Kentucky: its members can d.
the 'applause" and enthusiastic cheering
with which the reports of his harrangue
will be inteIlarded in the Republican pa
pers. They say that it costs one milliol
dollars to pay the yearly expenses OF a cav
airy regiment If this calculation is correct
the one hundred men forming the escort o
Montgomery Blair costs the Government
nearly three hundred dollars day, or tw,
thousand dollars week. What could no
be accomplished towards purging our Stat
of 0uarrillac with Such q Sum2