The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16

outlet of vast country, rich beyond the con-
ception of the lumbermen of Maine, in miner
al and vegetable resources: hemp, tobacco.
wine, coal, iron, are, in uneyhaustble quant-
ties, to be obtained within half the distance
and with less than half the labor that is re-
quired to bring the timber from Moosetock-
maguntic Or WiIimagunticook down over
Berlin Falls. Yet Louisville is a mere way
station and Portland is great commercial
centre that could buy up the Kentucky me-
tropolis and never feel the loss Of the money
The recognition of the dignity of labor has
made Portland, and the absence of that recog-
milton has prevented Louisville from becom-
ing what she so easily might have been. ANA
yet Kentucky is the last State to give up sia-
very and clings to its traditions now with an
imbecle, blind love that would excite anger
did it not produce sadness.
But reuenoas nos naoutOns. The Spencer
is very well managed hotel and am quite
certain that the guests are not imposed upon.
will only observe that the young man who
sells papers isso good Copperhead that the
attention of President johnson ought to be
directed to him at once, that he may be trans
lated TO the congenial atmosphere of the
White House. This morning asked him for
the Enquirer. "a s-sr. 5g7T
"It hasn't come" ..--l
p "Then give me the Commercial" s..,3l..
& ayes, sir, I've got all the abolition papers
+ "Well, when the Enquirer comes save me
copy, want to see what the Copperhead trail
tors say"
"Oh beg your pardon" said the youth, Il
thought you came from Kentucky" h''
So according to this young mans notions
man who comes from Kentucky must desire
to ponder over the lucubrations of Wash. Nc
Lean the friend of Pollard, the advocate Of
Beal the pirate and assassin, the friend and
supporter of Geo. 81. Pendleton, the persistent
and virulent opponent of Abraham Lincoln
and the war for nationality. This young man
ought to know the disposition and feelings of
Kentuckians, and have no doubt he does.
Slavery has so far demoralized the people of
Kentucky that the young men consider play
ing poker, or even stealing, more respectable
than work; and as to many of the women,
they will sacrifice themselves, body and soul
rather than show the marks OF labor upon
their hands. These people cannot be reasoned
with; of course speak principally of the mid
ding and lower classes. The doctrine that la
Dor is degrading has taken full possession of
them, heart and soul and brain, and more
than one generation must pass away before
that folly dies
The most powerful argument in favor ofuni-
'versal liberty is the Ohio river. On the one
bank, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; on the 9th
er Kentucky, "Look on this picture; then on
this,' and then, If a man advocate slavery, he
will dare anything that is wicked and alto
gether abominable The Ohio is the strongest
argument against Andrew johnson. Ken
lucky needs labor more than Ohio; and the
policy Of the President, insisting upon civil
distinctions between white men and black, is
driving crowds of dark skinned laborers from
the State in which they were born, to the 9TH
er State where their rights are respected and
secured. sIt a4fulzs bla U.9 ii .a ..1aC
We have only this satisfaction in store
The time will surely come when the entire
South will acknowledge the truth, that in all
our wars and throughout all our legislation
we meant to bless and not to curse the eight
millions of people who hated us, we meant to
flank their plantations with schoolhouses and
by so doing to cure them of their mental and
moral blindness.
Think of it! To-day, in the valleys of Ken
lucky, the grass is green, strawberry blossoms,
anemones, yiolets, gladden. the earth with the
promise of summer, while your farmers are
still waiting for the frost to come out Of the
ground. Who would not rather live on the
banks of the Cumberland than on those OF
the Saco or the Androscoggin? When Free
dom has blessed Kentucky as she has blessed
Maine, when the traditions of slavery have
become musty or decrepit by age, the Yankee
axe and the Yankee spade will be at work up
on the mountain sides and in the beautiful
valleys, and one of the loveliest portions Of
the good Gods creation will be redeemed from
thraldom and gloom with the beauty Of most
prolific richness. The earth will give of her
teeming abundance, the mines will show their
wealth to the sun, and men and women will
not be ashamed to show that their hands are
hardened ard their foreheads embrowned by
the handling of implements of industry and.
by exposure to the sun and wind. G.. G.