The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-10
me KENTUCKY Election.

Returns come n slowly fromthe election
in Kentucky, but enough have been re-
eeived toshow that the friends of Freedom
and Ppogress-the true friends Of Kentucky
and she counsellors of her best interests
have suffered defeat. Though we regret
this fact We are not disappointed by it, for it
became evident that though the best minds
Of Kentucky, its purest and wisest states
men, most eloquent orators, and patriotic
citizens were in favor Of the amendment,
the throng Of sympathizsrs with seces-
lion, the shareholders aud s~lave-drivers,
the conservative men who sustsin slavery
because their fathers did, were too numer-
oussto be eutrooted and too selfish or stolid
TO be converted. A state that in Novem-
Der last gave Lincoln only 20, 786, and Nc
Clellan "a, 3O1 vote, was not very likely to
adopt an snti-slsvery amendment within
nine months thereafter. And the amend.
ment men have probably failed. They
have made tremendous gains, but the gains
have been mainly where their force was
already strong, and in the close snd7doubt-
full districts the anti-smendment ticket
has very nearly, if not quite, held its own.
The state has probably elected james H.
Gararrd Opp to the Office of5tate Treas
urer, over Captain w. L. Nesle (Union)
by about 10000 majority, and the Legisla-
ture ia AntEAmendment by On indefinite
but strong msjority.
We regret this action on the part of
.oas~OsJI IuOLO AGA HoI owl saAo tnan iVf
that of the nation. It places Kentucky in
an attitude of opposition to this general gov
eminent, which cannot bat be detrimental
to her best interests. 1t continues the IN
settled relations existing between
master and slave, q cause which has com
pletely upset the labor market, reduced
the average value of slaves from'$500 to
$45 per capita, and made slavery in the
State essentially q migratory institution.
It will neeessitate the continued garrison
ing of the State by military forces, which
80 snnoys the Kentuckians. 1t tends to
perpetuste upon the soil of Kentucky that
institution which has repealed free labor
from its fertile plains and turned it back,
with all its resulting advantages; into the
less inviting territory of Ohio and Indiana.
The amendment can get along without
Kentucky, but Kentucky cannot get along
without the amendment.
There are partial victories, however, in
this contest, which go far to make up for
the general defest. Major General Lowell
H Rousseau, that veteran fighter for free
dom, has Carried the Louisville district,
which gave Mcclellan 3 majority of 1852,
by nearly 1000 msjority, anes afmost gal
liant canvass. Green Clay Smith, the most
eloquent and most progressive of all the
Border State men in the last Congress, has
been reelected by about 1000 majority,
overcoming a hostile majority in his dis
trict last fall of 1888. William II. Ran
dali, 8 true-blue URionist, is reelected from
the faithful Mountain district; and the
Unionists also claim the election of Samuel
Mckee from the oh, and George II. Yea
man from the %. The latter are, how
ever, in doubt and should we make up q
table of our own 1t would be as follows:
Disriet. Union. Opposition.