New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-28
TIE VOICE or CoNsERvATIgM.

We augur happy influence from the result
Of the recent election IN Kentucky. We have
already announced to our readers the victory
Of the Democratic candidate Judge Duvall'
and have analysed to some extent, the charae-
ter of the opposition to him. The election
| attracted the attention Of the whole Of the
/ Northern press. Strenuous efforts We're made
| to plant firmly on the soil of Kentucky the
standard of radieaHsm, Deception, misrep-
ressntafion and calumny, which are the chosen
weapons of that INSCRIPTIONS party, were
| employed in the most lavish way to accom-
plish their sinister purposes. Attempts the
most unreasonable and unnecessary, were
made to stir up anew in the minds of Ken
tuclians the bitterness engendered by the late
civil strife. The utmost skill of political
charlatans was employed to galvanize into
the semblanee of temporary life the dead
issues which had been buried by the war, as
a means of prolonging the tenure of Office in
the hands Of moribund party. Even the
most discordant elements were associated to-
getller with this view, having no other sym
pathies in common than the attraction of
public spoils
But the herculean efforts of the opposition
were Of no avail. By majority unparalleled
in her political history Kentucky sustained
the humane and statesman-like policy of Pre-
sident johnson, and administered to the
radical party Of the North and their allies in
the State the most signal rebulze. Her majority
of nearly fifty thousand votes proclaims her
sentiments in such thunder tones as to awaken
the spirit Of conservatism throughout the
Northwest, and inspire hope even in hitherto
| Responding hearts Though the election
was only for comparatively uni1nportant
State Office, the issued involved be-
came Of the greatest moment from the fact that
the whole radical party Of the North seemed
disposed to build their hopes of future sue
cess in Kentucky upon their ability to defeat
| Judge Duyall in the recent contest. The strife
then ceased to be simply for local Office. 1t
involved the principles Of republican govern
ment Il became a question of the support
or reputation Of the policy Of the President
1t involved the Endorsement or the rejection
Of the revolutionary policy Of the Congress
It would decide, in the estimation of many
whether the evil spirit Of faction, which first
set forth from New England on its tour of
sowing the seeds Of discord through the coun-
try, should effect permanent Judgment in
Kentucky, or should begin its retroeession to
the cold and pulseless regions whence it first
issued. In this view of the case, the result
became one of The greatest moment in the
political history Of the country.
The issues involved, and the results at
tanned, as far as the voice of Kentucky
is concerned, are very distinctly stated
in recent able address of the Demo
cratic State central committee to the
people Of Kentucky, in congratulating
them on their success in the recent contest. \
We commend the following wholesome ex-
tracts from this address, as indicative Of the
re-awakening of public sentiment to prin-
ciples long since established as true, but for
some time past forgotten, neglected or dis
carded in the presence Of oppression and
usurpation:
We stand by the great Democratic party of the
North and Northwest, and constitute part of
their general organization. We have entered the |
field Of politics TO do battle in common with our
Democratic friends in the other States not only
for the rights Of the States and the people Of the
several States.
We maintain that the fuuctionaries who may
for the time have possession of the government, /
as the administrators thereof, whether State or
federal, are Just as much bound by the provisions
OF the Constitution as the people, or as the |
humblest citizen.
We maintain that all just governments are made
for the protection Of the people in all their rights
of persons and Of property, and that the powers
granted by the Constitution to funetionarias cleo
ted by the penple were intended and ought to be
employed in protecting the people in their rights,
and not ia despoiling them of their property orr
depfiYing them of their liberties.
We have declared q warm and sincere attach
ment to the Union of the States under and pursu-
ant to the Constitution.
= That The federal government is one of limited
andresiricted powers and that it has no authority
to exercise any powers not specifically enumera-
ted in the Constitution and sucn implied powers as
are pertinent and necessary to carry out in good
faith the express powers, and that the powers not
thus delegated belong to the States or to the
people.
That the Congress has no right to deprive any
State Of its representation in that body.
That the federal government has no right what
ever to abridge or interfere twith the freedom Of
speech the press nor to interfere with the right
81 the people to worship God according to The
dictates Of their own conscience.
That the federal government has no right to try
or punish civilians by military commissions OF
irumhead courts.martial.
That the question of sufifage belongs exclusively
% the people Of the States, and the federal gov
srnment has no right whatever to interfere with it.
That the federal government has no right to
axe private property but for public use, and in
10 case without making just compensation.
That TO tax the people Of the Southern States
when at the same time they are denied repre-.
entation, is ahigh-handed outrage, and in direct
opposition TO one Of the leading principles upon
which the revolutionary war was fought and won
~ our fathers.