Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-29
truly, ]. F. BULLrrr.
A Ksnfueky Re be ExpIains Poslafsn
OF tss bsis IN that state.

- aeNAf@AN - NAASA 8a1aSs
LAeEASos. Ky, / ~
February .25th, 1888.
II II Dodd, Esq, Indianapolis. lad
DRkR SfR:--Yoar very kind and satls-
factory favor of the 22d inst has Just
come to hand. and | will hasten few
lines in reply
la the first place, in regard 10 the
Democratic Convention OF the 18th, ille-
gally aud unoeremoBiously dispersed BY
Col. Gilbert st Frankfort. can only say
that their views and feelings correspond
in all respects with those expressed by
you Of the Democracy Of Jour State, in
regard to this war aud the Administra-
ton generally | am an hamble individ-
usI in this community, praetieing med
icine, and am no part OF a politician
yet, since. the Inauguration Of this war
upon the Southern people, aud the at
tempt on the part Of the Republican
party 10 blot out all State rights and
State lines, and to suhiugate the people
to the will of tyrannieal few, have
felt compelled to take sides with the par
ty in Kentucky opposed TO these things,
and that party is the so-calied Demo-
cratic party" II you read the Louis
vile Journal, you see he calls his party
(the Union partly the Union Demo-
cratic party" ~
But Mr, Prentice and his followers are
for the vigorous prosecution OF this war
till the South is completely wiped out /;
and not for the peace measures you
mention as the principles of the ,Democ-
racy OF Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, &c. The
| question arises, then, il the Democrats
! of Kentucky and those in your own
State are for the same principles. are
they not the same We are taught in
geometry that things that are equal to
the same thing are equal tosAeh other;"
| and will say that the anti-war feeling 10
the chief ebaractsriatic Of the Demo
Gratis in Kentucky 1t is true that there
are some men who were always Demo
Gratis up to the beginning Of this war,
but they are now amongst our Union
men OF Kentucky, and are strongly in
favor Of ihs eoeroivs policy. They fol
low the Louisville JosTndL and the
Louisville Democrat and de not 20 With
the Enquirer. &c They even de
nounce the Enquirer as secession
sympathizer, &c This shows elsArly
where they stand, and that they ere mol
with the Democrats of Indiana, &c
They are not the Democraey Of Ksn
now, but belong to 6. ID. Prenties ans
the Louisville Democrat, and couse-
/ quenily they denounced the DenoeFati,
convention of the 18th as = mere bod,
of secessienists, because they do not q
/ together in their views Of tliis Admins
tratiou. Those who met at g.ankfert ol
the 18th are for peaee--for compromise
and if this fails, as you say, they are 70
the States resolving their present cor
nections and choosing their position,
The Union party. on the contrary, ar
for holding The States in the Union b
the bayonet-5y force. This is the wa
d party over here. Now the questis
arises, who are the wtlr party in Ind
Q aus2 Nobody else but the Radies
:, Abolition party; so we understand
from the Enquirer, SeatinsI, &c.
8 Then who are the war party in Ken
9 tucky. Nobody but the Union part,
r led on aud dic.a,ed to BY the LouisviIi
'e Journal, Democrat, i Co Then doe
: it not look very much like there were q
: understanding between the Radicals o
- YOUR StQe OF the ODiO anu ours on IN
: side of that glorious streHm1 So far q
!, the eoercive doctrine is concerned, q
+ least; il not in regard to the snar
cipatiou policy alsol We also 81
III aware that you Democrats are d
I'd nouneed as secession sympathizers, Be
'lr by your abolition neighbors, just as th
N, Democrats here are called secession
sT' lists, TRAITORS &c, BY eur Unio
friends over here. Does not this eoir
'es eidenee look significant also? / thin
I'D then u may be safely said that the .,
~ called Union party Of Kentucky. led /
Ike the Louisville Journal and The T.on;
The vile Democrat, is very diferen. a.,
As from the so-cahed CONSERVATIVES partv
Fy' the North and Northwest - hu, IN,
sS' they are in concert with the abolitic
= party of those States so far as the coe
" cion policy is concerned. aud will IL
say that they are, many Of them, Q
bur tirely Indifferent whether Lincoln frs
oi al the negroes in the rebel Statss
8 not, they seem to have such hatred
c