, 1864-03-20
.......... $A,70f.G31
....-..... 57.935.49S


Anu Inc Ioss IN INC falpe 0t the Other
property is asoertained to be... $ae, SOC
Already equal to the entire value of the
slave property of the State.
But these arc not the most striking facts.
Take the following twenty, being the most
wealthy, counties ofthc State, to-Wit: Boyle,
Bourbon, Barren, Christian, Clarke Davicss,
franklin, Fayefte, Henderson, Jessamine,
Logan, Madison, Montgomery, Nelson, Shell
BY, Scott, Todd, Woodford and Warren; they
had in 1862, 90,730 slaves, valued at So, co.,
4n-nearly lalf the slaves Of the State, both
in numbers and value; these counties had
Sc, 122 white ma1cs over q years of age, but
have only furnished COTS soldiers for this
three months men, as shown bY the Adm
tant Generals report for 1864, a1d being only
16~S per cent Of their white male population
over 21 years.
Take forty other counties where but little
s1 spealibg, d and how stTiiiug the coatrast, t..
Wtt:-Adair, Allen, Bath, Boyd, Breckin-
ridge, Butler, Carter, Cusey, Clay. Clinton,
Crittenden, Cumberland. Estel1, Edmonson,
Grant, Grayson, Green, Greennp, Hart, Jack
son, Knsx, Laurel, Lawrence, Lewis, Magof.
fin, Mclean, Metcalte, Monroe, Muhlenburg,
laski Rockcast1e, Rowan, Russell, Wayne
and Whitley. These had only 1866 slaves.
total value thereof IS, 5T,564 These coun-
tics had, In 1867, 50,039 males over o1 years;
They have furnished 1860 soldiers ia this
war, equal to s4-6per cent Of their malcpopu-
lation over q years.
The first named twenty counties, not only
owned nearly half the slaves Of the State, but
they owned Of other property. $07, ,1B5, ISL, q
fraction less than half Of the property Of the
whole State, While the above named forty
counties only owned Of other property, $40,-
counties have had their homes desoiated,
their brave men killed in battle, and
buried By disease, these wealthy into
rior counties have mainly been pro-
tccted from the ravages Of war, They
lave been maee prosperous by Government
realized large prices for their stock and grain,
and for pasturage, Jet they have performed a
poor, very poor part in defending the Stste.
and sustaining the Government by furnish
Ing spiders. 1t tisnot meant By this to reflect
on those brave men who hare turned out
from those counties. Fur from it. All honor
to these gallant men; but they have been
poorly sustained By the home sentiment
There Is a laek Of that spirit in larre sfare-
holding communities which is looked for as
evidence TINT all the impulses and feelings of
the hea1t are with the Government, and while
moral support is SO essential to sustafn their
friends who are In the army.
It Is IN these counties that 90 much dis
content is bred about the "nigger,'' The
Government may be aseailed, the property OF
the border counties, and indeed the other
property Of all other counties, destroyed, the
brayest men Of the State lost, "but save, Oh
Eave the u1ggcr."
:. The property and labor OF ourselves and
future generations may be mortgaged and
taxed to pay the national Indebtedness, which
Ia still largely Increased by every days pro-
longation Of the war, but still, "saVe, oh
sare the nfgger!"
From these counties comes the counsel to
tue Governor to resist the enrolment of the
"nigger," which would be nothing less nor
more than rebellion, and the more discrcdIt-
able to Kentucky as she has been fighting the
rebels, who assert they were only warning to
preserve their "n1egers.'
Ihaye always opposed the raising of negro
troops in Kentucky, and should have unhesi-
tatingly voted against this negro enrolment
eiate come Of The reasons which inauenced
Congress to pass it.
The free States have enrolled their free col
oFed population, thus increasing their quota
OF soldiers. It was therefore rational for
them to regard it as but just that Keutucky's
Of her black population.
It does not necessarily follow, however,
that negro soldiers must be raised In Ken
tncEy, If, when the enrolment is made out,
each county will furnish her quota from the
white population Iopine no negro soldiers
need Of will be raised, but herein does the
shoe pinch. Th+se heavy elaveholding popu-
lations have not 80 far Furnished their quota
Of whites hence, TO add to this their blacks,
is m alarming amount for them to furnish.
This thing Is beginning to be understood In
Kentucky, md there Is daily growing feel
ins to have every county raise her own quo.
ia, especially the wealthy counties that have
made so much ont Of the war. But to return
TO the enrolment act
Every law of Congress and the State Lesis-
laturr having been sanctioned By the two de-
partments OF Government to which enact
ments were approved and confined. must be
regarded rs constitutional until pronounced
otherwise by the Judiciary. Then, until the
courts pronounce this enactment unconstitu-
tional, 1t must be regarded as Inv, and by.a
clause Of the United States Constitution
made part Of tlc supreme law Of the land,
anything in the Constitution or laws of the
States to the contrary Notwithstanding,
Then, this is simple, naked proposition, to
law of the Land. before which Site laws and
State constitutions must give way.
If the Governor should determine to do
this, which cannst believe for an instant,
h. will find That the true loyal men Of Ken
lucky, and from those regions which have
mainly furnished the army, will not sustain
Inn but Will sustain the Government Let
al powers beware how they attempt to put
the loyal men OF Kentucky in hostility to the
Fedefn1 Government.
The loyal men, and the Kentucky army, will
abide by the laws Of the Government, until
those laws nrc pronounced unconstitutional
br the Judiciary. 4 LorAl kESTUcKLAN.