Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-15
4 Picture of Kentucky GOnSerI at ism

The travelling correspondent Of the Gin
cinnati commercial, = Mack" gives the
following lively sketch Of kentucky con-
scrvatlsm
Il don't know Of amy better cure for
conservatism than a few days residence III
the Blue Grass region and careful obser-
vation Of the political situation here and
hereabout Not that there is anything in
the political or social atmosphere having a
dreect tendency towards radicalism, and
presenting it to you IN all the beauty of It's
holiness-tir from it. But there are two
modes Of conversion III religion, and why
not in politics? In one church they scare
sinners into heaven by opening the furnace
door Of hell, and letting the brethren and
sisters see for themselves how high the mer-
curry stands; III another they coax them
into the realms OF bliss, on the direct line
of pietv and good works. 1t Is by the
first of these two modes of conversion that
| should propose to cure conservatism here
in Kentucky. just let the weakened
brethren come over here and see the
awful example, and nothing short of a
post Office apiece will keep them in the con-
Servatiye ranks ten days longer came
here on Saturday tolerable conservative
person. shall leave to-day in order tC
save myself from radicalism. II | remain
twcntv-four hours longer. | should 90 q
way hurrahing for Thad. Stevens, believing
Ben. Butler saint, and seriously doubt
ing If Ashley ever had anything to do viii
town sites,
The fact i Kentucky is living an
achronism She exists IN the ninteentl
century through some mistake or other
and bears upon her face iudi>putahle ev
idence that She was intended for the pre-
Adamtc period. or, At any rate. the ante
diluvian era of the worlds existence Ever
year hundreds of live Americans cross tn
ocean and travel through Europe, to Sc
the HOLY Land and other antiquities
They can save much time and money BY
coming To the unholy land OF kentucky
where they'll see all the antiquities the,
want The Covington and Lexington Rail
road. starting from the Ohio river vii
take them back toward the dawn of ere
alton at the rate of five hundred years pc
hour, till, upon reaching the terminus a
this end, they Will instinctively rub thei
eyes and inquire for Adam and his accom-
pH~hcd lady
But if | keep ON in this strain fca
| shall be set down A. one who don't lik
kentucky. which am far from being
There has been no other place like ii sine
Sleepy Hollow. with its legends went on
of existence.
Strange n il may seem tor ancier
land a this, they have politics and pc
litical parties here. But, above all. the
have id nigger> The id nigger
is the glory Of kentucky. Heexi>t> in a
his primitive simplicity here. Congre>
may icgiSlate him into a citizen; the Civi
Rights law may attempt to change tn
Ethiop'> skin, or the leopard'~ spots; bu
here III kentucky, he is 4 id nigger
stili-yea, and ever shall be, world Withou
end. In Tennessee. and the South, tn
race of id niggers l. extinct. 1t va
extingui,hed bv the Reconstruction Law
and in it, stead Immediately sprane up
race of respectable and intelligent colore
citizens-black. it Is true. possibly thicl
: Tipped. perhaps kinky y-hcaded
its predecessor in the physiological IA,
that the hollow of its heel makes Z hole
the ground-but intelligent and respectabl
for all that, and worthy of a full repr,
sentation IN Il conservative convention
Tennessee. Against all such polite;
heresy Kentucky stands firm. No 'respe,
: table colored gentlemen for her. Net Il
the Establishments Of politicians can pc
: sua,ie her that ID nigger is anythin
OF the kind She will not sell her brit
: right-thc inestimable privilege of hittn
miggcr with the nearest brickbat-t'
amy such a mess of pottage as few thou
and additional votes. The nigger was
ngger under the fathers and when Ma
aulay's New Zealander shall sit upon Il
: suspension bridge to sketch the ruins
the Queen City, he shall turn his eyes
the South, and they shall rest upon Il
time-honored institutions of Kentucky ST
: preserved in the wolloping Of Il nigger.