The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-18
A Specimen Of Coming Times.

/ The absence Of marital lau IN Kentucky
msy socn bear fruit in abundance Of 4
Z character ike this. Tn Harrison county,
I whereof Cynthiana Is the chief town. ana
I cantankerous treason the chief sentiment
and sp ritual life of the people. lives enc
/ AIR. Nhalsy, a noisy and notorious rebel.
I The judges OF election, last August. know
/ lug well the mans auleeedants, refused %
receive his vote sc The polls. lie hes prose-
cuted them for the "olense," and claims
damages % the tune Of ten thousand dollars.
The impunity with which she man has ior
years Haunted his treason 60 the sympa-
timing little public around him, and diii-
gently exercised the same iu substantial
services o. rebel soldiers end the cut-thruat
gangs Of guerrilla robbers. su1icientle
toreshadovs what viii be the result Of the
prosecution. No public sentiment exists in
the county Of a character aud strength 90
furnish auy protection 20 loyalty in sueh
an encounter. Meanwhile. she cantinuaneo
Of martial law Woald render it both come
tent and obligatory upon the military au-
thorties 70 have this malignant arrested
and iTied for overt acts OF treason, and es-
pecially o. that most vicious form OF irea-
s0n, harboring and conuYiuE with guerrii-
las Such arrest was in fact made, some
days since, OF the strength OF alidavits Sled
by persons living in Whaley's nsighbor-
hood who have been familiar With his con-
duct since she outhreak Of the rebellion.
These ahldavits a1irm that the witnesses
have seen Mhaley conveying supplies 10
guerriilas, have seen members OF his house
hold preparing clothing for them, have
known repeated instances Of guerrillas be
ing lodged in coucealmeut az his house
They also aiirm that The said Whalev
openly reioiced at the Assassination az Abra-
ham Lincoln, and declared that he ought %
have been killed thirty years ago, Nume-
rous other kindred Items are contained ID
these preli ninary charges against him.
The prosecution instituted against the ciec-
ton judges has Of course provoked the
movement which brings Gus these ugly
iacta in the plaintiffs antecedenis.
On last Friday, when the culprit was at
the Cynthiana railway station, IN the hands
Of snail military guard, an nfruatcd
mob, headed by the Sheriff of the county,
released him from their hands, breathing
out the while the most intensified and
sediti0Us language of hostility % the repre-
sentstiyes Of the National authority. The
Sheriff announced 90 the crowd aad the
baiilsd military guard, that any further st.
tempt on the part Of the latter 90 arrest
Nhaley cor any Other man in that viciui-
", wOuld be met by him with violent re-
slstaBce; that he would summon the whole
county 10 bis aid If need be. Thus stands
the matter to-day. As martial law has been
repealed, and as il is Obvious that bloodshed
must result nom an attempted repetition OF
the arrest, We presume Gen. Palmer viii
awsit orders from higher authority before
proceeding further IN the case. If such
miscreants as Whaley are 70 be allowed to
prosecute Union men with impunity, and ts
the fun limits oftheir gloating malice, as q
consequence Of the revocation Of the martial
law, tue sooner Union people become &C
quainted with that fact the better. The au-
thorities at Washington are by this time mo-
titled Of the Cynthiana performance, and we
trust that they viii issue such orders as viii
tend 10 restore the sense Of the public secu-
rity which already waivers. We suppoie
inasmuch as troops are retained, and Gen.
Palmer retained, aud the writ Of haicas
corpus is not restored, that the design is 20
preserve public peace in the State by the
help Of Just 90 much military force ~ may
in any given case be needed. With tins
view We were disposed TO regard the repeal
of martial law, whilst an utcalled-i0r aud
unfortunate concession 70 The rebel element,
TO be, nevertheless, practically void for the
most part Of evil consequence. Our doubts
ON this point are groWing slightly. We
shall sec, what We shall see.-L0RisUalc
Press.