The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-28
Kentucky Loyalty.

from me ITgOhne.
We believe Mr.. Garrett Davis considers Ken
lucky a loyal and law-abiding State, and we
suppose she is, Judged by his standard of loyalty
and obedience to laws. Kentucky and her
Senator agree in hating ''nigeers," in denounc-
ing the Freedmen's Bureau, and in nullifyIng
The Civil Rights law. Mr.. Davis has talked
some treason lately, and all through the war
talked Il great deal OF inhumanity. II anybody
doubts that he did and does truly represent his
State, we invite him to read the reports from
the Freedmen's Bureau in Kentucky, which we
PRINT yesterday morning.
General Ely says that the intense prejudices
existing in The forty-two counties under his
jurisdiction, against both the blacks and the Bu-
reau, render the officers OF the latter power
less, except when supported by troops. Pro-
slavery intolerance has not abated its mad zeal
because Of emancipation. The whites consider
that the Freedmen's Bureau has been abolished
by the Presidents veto. They have organized
bands of Regulators" and "NiegeI-Klller y
consisting mainly OF returned Rebel soldiers,
whose business 1t is to prevent the employment
OF The blacks by burning the houses of those
who do employ them, by hogging and numbering
the blacks themselves, and other like methods.
General Ely testihes that but TOR the terror ex-
cited by these bands, there would be no difficulty
in finding good homes and employment for the
Ireedmen.
The civil authorities have neither the power
nor the disposition to protect the blacks against
the ''niggerkillers;" the 1ormer owners of slaves
think that some OF their rights still remaln and
the courts sustain them by their adjudications
General Ely and Captain Merrill do not rest on
general statements; they give particulars of
many outrages; they present minute picture
OF the state OF society at this moment existing in
Kentucky. We should like to ask the most EN-.
bittered opponent of the Freedmen's Bureau
what he thinks of Kentucky civilization, and
what chance OF protection ne supposes the negro
would have without the BureauY The State has
passed no laws no protect them, nor does it per-
NIT them TO testify in State Courts.
Even where the freedmen are at work, they
ale working under contracts of which there Is
no record, which could not be enforced by law,
and which public opinion would justify the
planters in breaking the moment "nlggern
gets impudent enough to demand his pay. 1t
Is worth noticing that the most exasperating
otiense Of freedman is to have borne arms in
defense OF the Government. Should a colored
soldier dare to retain any mark OF his service
is quite in order to wear Rebel uniforms, with
q. S. A. wast-belts, and plenty OF pistols to
shoot loyalists on sight. nH y
And yet, Kentucky has never been out OF the
Union. She has always had two Senators in
Congress-though they never seemed quite sure
whether the Congress was in Washington orin
Richmond. She was excepted from the Eman-
cipation Proclamation; she refused to ratiiy the
auti-slavery amendment; she was allowed her
own way in most matters relating to her own
affairs. Her gratitude is manifested by des-
uerate hostility to the Government and the most
malignant vindictiveness towards her emanci-
pated slaves. If this be true of loyal Kentucky,
what is likely to Oe true of the lnsurgent Sta es