Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-23

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/ Take forty other counties where but
little slave property is owned, compare
lively speaking, and how striking the
contrast, to-wit Adair, Allen, Bath, Boyd
Breckenridge, Butler, Carter, Casey
Clay. Clinton, Crittenden, Cumberland
EstelI, Edmonson, Grant, Grayson
Green, Greerup, Hurt, jackson, Knox
Laurel, Lawrence, Lewis, Magofhn
Mclean, Metcalfe, Monroe, Muhlenburg
Owsley, Pendleton, Perry, Pike, Powell
Pulaski, Roekeastie, Rowen, Russell
Wayne and Whitley These had only
n ,363 slaves; total valne thereof s.,
SIT ,564 These counties had, in 1862
50,639 males over q years. They have
furnished 1862 soldiers in this war,
equal 10 34-s per cent Of their white
male population over u years
The 6Fst named twenty counties not
only owned nearly half the slaves Of she
State, but they owned Of other property
S97, ls5, l34, fraction less than half Of
the property Of the whole State, while
the above named forty counties oaly
owned of other property, SIC, 3ST ,95S.
Whilst the poorer and iaore loyal coun-
ties have bad their homes desolatsd,
their brave men killed in battle, and bu-
ried by disease, these wealthy interior
counties have mainly been protected
from the rayages Of war They have
been made prosperous by Government
contracts Of one kind and another; thsy
have realized large prices for their stock
and grain and for pasturage, yet they
have performed poor, very poor par,
in defending the State, and sustaining
the Government by furnishing soldiers
II is not meant by this to reflect on those
brave men who have turned out from
those counties Far from il All honor
to these gallant men, but they have been
poorly sustained by the home sentiment
There Is lack Of that spirit in large
slavsholding communities which is look,
Ell FOR gs evidence that all the impu lses
and feelings Of the hsart are with the
Government, and while noral support
il so essential to sustain theig friends
NhO are in the army
Ii is in these counties that 50 much
discomfort is bred about the "nisger.
The tfoyernment may be assailed. the
properly Of the border counties, and in
deed, the other property Of all othei
counties, destroyed the lives Of hundred.
of our best. brayest men Of the State LOST
"a bot save, oh, save the nigger."
The property aud labor of ourselves
and future generations may be mort
gagged and taxed 10 pay the national in
debGedBess, which is still largely in-
creased by every days prolongation o.
The war, still, save, Oh, save the mig
eerf
From these counties comes the coun
eel 10 the Governor 10 rssist the enroll
nieht OF the nigser which would b.
nsthing less nor more than rebellion, ans
the more discreditahle 10 Kentucky A.
she has been fighting the rebels, who a.
sert that they arr only warring Ia pre-
serve their niggers
have always opposed the raising oi
negro troops ~ Kentucky, aud should
haye unhesitalingIy have voted against
this negro enroliment bill, had been il
Congress, Jet ! eau appreciate some oI
the reasons which influenced COngres.
20 pass Il
The free States have enrolled theii
free eolored population, thus increasing
their quota Of soldiers II was thereiors
rational for them TO regard 1t as bu
jast that keniuekY's quota should be ia
creased by the enrolment Of her blscl
population
Ii does not necessarily follow, however
that negro soldiers must BE- raised IL
Kentucky, il when the enrolment j,
made out, each county will furnish hei
quota from the white population
opine, no negro soldiers need or will be-
raised, bat herein does the shoe pinch
These heavy slave-holding population.
have not so far furnished their quota ol
whites, hence to add to this their black.
IS an alarming amount for them TO fur.
nish. This thing is beginning to be un
derstood in Kentucky, and there IS a
daily growing feeling to have every eoun
~ to raise her own quota, especially the
wealthy counties that have made SO much
out Of the war. But to return to the en-.
rolnent act.
Every law Of Congress and the State
Legislature having been sanctioned by
the two departments of the Government
TO which enaetments we're approved and
eonided, must be regarded as eonstitu
tional unit pronounced otherwise by tbs
Judiciary. Then, until the Courts pro
nouuce this enactment unconstitutional
| It must be regarded as law, and by q
clause Of the United States Constitution
made part Of the supreme Law Of the
land, anything in the Constitution OF
laws of the States to the contrary not
withstanding" Then, this IS q. simple,
naked proposition. to the Governor, Il
resist by force supreme law Of the land
before which State laws aud State con.
stitdtions must give way.
II the Governor should determine to
do this, which cannot believe for "a
instant, he viii find that the trne loyal
men of kentueky, and from those re
gions which have mainly furnished the
army. viii not sustain him; but will sns
tain the Government Let all poireri
berare hor they attempt TO put The lop
al saen Of Kentucky ia hostility 10 th.
Federal Gorey7ument
The loyal men and the Kentucky ar
my, viii abide by the laws Of the Govern
ment, until those laws are pronounced
uneoustitational BY the Judiciary.
A LoYAL kENTUcxIaN.
Lab0alaye on President Lincoln.