The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-12
rur hIrrArrnN ~ KENrUCHY.

There is very bad state of feeling in Keu-
lucky. The Democrats thcce are hourly
growing more and more impatient under
what they regard as the unwarrantsbls de-
signs OF the National Government 10 intccfbre
with their reserved or State rights. Governor
BRAMLETrE has recently published several
proclamatious, in which he not only maniiesls
an exceedingly violent temper, bat positively
councils rebellion In case any measures what
ever are taken by the President 10 regulate
the elections In that State.
Ex-PostmRster-Geuera WtcKLIFFF, who,
with BLr. GuruBIE has fallen into a driycling,
dotage as Ia witnessed 10y the weak tears they
both are reported 10 have shed In the presence
of the recent Chicago Convention, has been
and is preaching fat and bold treason. and
doing all be can by his personal influence and
counsel TO incite the people OF his State 10 in
surrection.
These men and their eoDlederates win need
watchlng and unless they exercise much
more discretion and retlcence than they have
lately practised, il may be necessary 10 deal
with them az traitors in fact, though they
doubtless fatter themselves that they are the
highest and purest sort Of patriots, aud are
only proving their title 10 that character by
their incendiary denunclations of the Federal
| Executive. Mr.. GEORGE ID. PREErICE, and
! other journalists In Kentucky, are aiding and
abetting BRAMLETTE, WICKLIFFE, GUTH-
RE, et I'd onne genus, In their efforts 10 stir
up the people of that State to open revolt and
we dare say that If provost marshal and his
/ II aln ND mi ms ril v in m
press these pestlleut fomenters OF sedition,
thoy would consider themselves cruelty dealt
with, and call on the whole country TO sympa-
thize with them a. the amable and heroic
martyrs OF civil liberty, aud all that sort Of
thing.
But these gentlemen forget, or do not care
to realize, that they are citizens of State
whose loyalty Is much more than question
able, and large portion of whose people are
actually in the military service Of the Rebel.
lion, while another portion, who remain
within our lines, are ga really hostile to the
national cause as If they were opposing thai
cause with arms in their hands. Kentucky
= has not been, since the Rebellion began, eithe
wholly in or wholly out Of the UnioR-
i She commenced by absurdly claiming tn,
right to assume the attitude Of a neutral in
- civil war, In which not to BIO with the legti
e mate national authority was necessarily to bt
d against It and since that extraordinary pre-
8 tension was disallowed, and she was forced by
the action Of the honestly and wisely loyal
part of her people 10 take stand on one OF
the other side Of the conflict, she has been per
petually oVerrun by bands of Rebel guerillas
e who have assembled and plundered those o
; her people who have remained faithful to their
, allegiance, and anxious, by free exercise o.
their privilege Of suffrage, to keep Kentucky
from being carried over to the enemy.
i The Democrats in that State insist on
!. free election, and yet they could not vote a
! all, except In favor OF secession and rebellion
, unless the National Administration employed
its military power 70 protect kentucky against
Rebel raids and conquest, and TO make effect
i've the votes Of the truly loyal Kentuckians
| by denying to all disaifected and disloyal per.
SONS the right to cast a ballot at her elections
Kentucky is within the theatre of war, and il
therefore properly subject 10 martial govern
ment or law; and the freedom and Legitimacy
of the elective franchise within her borders
f can only be preserved by that military police
against which the Democrats are protesting
Let them protest, but protect them neverthe
less against and in spite of themselves.
1t sometimes happens that people arc 81
extravagantly and insaneIy in love with the
abstract principles of political freedom, thai
but for the wise, salutaTy, and timely inter
ference of some overseeing authority, theJ
would lose entirely and forever all real and
J practical liberty. Kentucky is In that cate
| CORY now and hence It is necessary, for a sea
1 son, TO put certain measure Of arbitrary
0 restraint on the turbulent passions of he
people, and prevent them from committing
4 political suicide under the visionary concei
+ that they are only asserting and defending th
n fundamental doctrines and conditions Of popv
% lar government. This peculiar madness (
4. the hour is affecting a certain portion Of Oh
t, people ofthe whole North but time and even
,e win soon correct the eyH, and restore tt
10 maniacs 10 reason.
TIE TOBACCO NUISANCE.