Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-18
TACTs FOR KExruCKIASs.


lKsntaeky Cortespoaasncs Cihsls nasi tsazstie.l
For the want Of loyal organ through
which TO express their real sentiments,
and for the want OF men who are not
afraid 20 tell the whole truth in regard
TO Kentucky loyalty, this State has been
misrepresenled abroad, and policy at
tributsd to her Union men which they
have no thought of adopting. The
wealth Of the State Is in the hands Of the
shareholders The journals have been
controlled by them, and 10 q great extent
heretofore they have chosen the can.
iiiates for Office. The vast naj0sity Of
the people Of this State are non-slayehold-
ers, but they have been so educated TO
the interest of the Shareholders that il
has taken them three years to shake it
of. lnstinetively they we're loyal, and
when the crisis in 81 broke upon us, il
only needed the resolute stand taken by
few men TO make this non.slaveholding
portion OF the State break through the
meshes Of neutrality, and rally around
the flag Of the Union. The common
people OF the State--the poor men and
the small farmers, who, by the sweat Of
their own brows make their bread--are
the men who veted right all the time. 1t
is truth that most OF the time they had
but poor candidates presented to them
but they have always chosen the one who
stood tirmest by the Government They
are tho men, TOO, who swelled our regi-
ments. The officers, as general thing,
have been from the slave-holdirg class,
but the priyates in the Union armies are
1 almost to man non-slaveholders We
! propose 20 illustrate these statements by
i a few figures, which will show concla-
/ sively where The Union strength in this
State lies, and how utterly incapable ans
disuaion or Copperhead faction is oi
carrying it for anything just let the
people know that the issue is between the
I friends aud enemies OF the Union and
they spontaneously arraign themselves
on the right side. But 20 the figures
Take the ten largest slaveholding eonn
ties, aud the ten counties which bave ths
smallest number Of slaves, and see how
many men each class has furnished ths
Union armies The largest slayeholdins
counties have furnished 26 per cent o
t
ties with the fewest slaves have Furnished
IS per cent of their enrolled militia. Ii
the former there are 69,5l9 slaves
about 26 per cent Of the whole number
in the State. In the latter there are |,
016 slaves. The former, out Of yotins
population Of q, ,OO9, have furnished 5.
665 soldiers; the latter, out Of votinG
population of T.l19, have furnished s, so
soldiers TO the Union army
Again, take the counties of Fayett,
aud Pulaski, which have ahoat the sam,
number of voters Fayette has 9.34.
slaves, and has sent TO the field $50 men
Pulaski has | ,26l slaves, and has sent I,
the field !, ,22SS men But there is thi
difference to be noticed alsO-of the 3Sl
men from Fayette, 100 Of them enliste,
as officers, and the privates almost to
man are from the non-slaveholding por
ton OF the population Of Lexington, an,
one precinct in the county in which wa
a large cotton factory, the hands o
which were non-slaveholderS
Again, take Scott and Casey counties
The former has >. .O6S voters, 5,3TSs slave.
and has furnished So, men, Casey ha
$40 voters, 69l slaves, and has sen
$50 men TO che Uuion army. Agar
Bourbon has 1905 voters, and $50
.. slaves Russell has loss voters, an
E SIS slaves. Bourbon has sent - pc
cent. Of her enrolled militia, and Russo
b 81 per cent, ofhers-
Woodford, with 1896 slaves has ful
nished 81 per cent, of her enrolled mil
TIA, and while ously, with 40 slaves hs
furnished l7ope cent of hers But III
Is enough TO show where the Union SO
= diers come from, and who they are tki
are lighting the battles of the Unio
= While on the other hand, those countis
which contain the largest number
slaves have sent the most men TO Il
y rebels. Fayette is the largest slavehol
ing county in the State, and in Fsyet
a. John Morgan got most of his recrui,
Bourbon, the fifth largest slavaholdir