The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-05-16
A Picture of Kentucky COnsera
Vatism.

A Picture OF AemLucky COMSeE"
Vatism.
The travelling correspondent of the
Cincinnati Cousmercial, "Iack," gives
the following lively sketch of Ken
lucky conservatism:
"I don't know ofany better cure for
conservatism than a few days resi-
dence ia the Blue Grass region, and a
careful observation of the political sit
uation here and hereabout. Not that
there is anything in the political or
social atmosphere having a direct ten
2ency towards ralicalism, and present
ing it to you in all the beauty of its
4 holiness-faT from it. But there are
two modes Of conversion in religion,
and why not 10 politics? In one church
they scare sinners into heaven by open
/ Ing the faruace-doOr of hell, and let
ting the brethren and sisters see for
themselves how high the mercury
stands; in another they coax them in
to the realms of bliss, on the direct
line of piety and good works. 1t is by
the first of these two modes Of cOnver-
sion that I should propose to cure con-
servatism here i'll Kentucky. Just let
the weakened brethren come over
here and see the lawful example, and
nothing short of a postofice apiece will
keep them in the conservative ranks
ten days longer. came here on Sat
urday a tolerahly conservative person.
! shall leave to-day in order to save
myself from radicaIism. If I remain
ed twenty-four hours longer, should
\ go away hurrahing for Thad. Stevens,
believing Ben. Butler a saint, and Sc
riously doubling if Ashley ever had
anything to do with town sites
"The fact is Kentucky is q living
anachronism. She exists in the nine
teenth century through some mistake
or other, and bears upon her face ihdis-
putable evidence that she was intend
ed for the pre-Adamite period, or, at
any rate, the antediIuvian era of the
worlds existence. Every year hum
dreds of live Americans cross the
ocean and travel through Europe, toI
see the Holy Land and other anti
quities. They can save much time
and money by coming to the unhOly
land of Kentucky, where they'll see
all the antiquities they want The
COvington and Lexington Railroad,
starting from the Ohio river, will take
them back toward the dawn Of crea-
ton at the rate of five hundred years
per hour, till, upon reaching the ter
minus at this end, they will instinc-
lively rub their eyes and inquire for
Adam and his accomplished lady.
"But if keep on in this strain l
fear shall be set down as one who
don't like Kentucky, which ain far
from being. There has been no other
place like it since Sleepy Hollow, with
its legends, went out of existence.
"Strange as it may seem for SO an
cient a land as this, they have political
parties here. But, above all, they
have id niggers.' The id Dig-
ger is the glory of Kentucky. He
exists in all his primitive simplicity
here. Congress may legislate him in
to a citizen ; the Civil Rights law may
attempt to change the EthiOp's skin,
or the leopard's spots; but here, in
kentucky, he is a id niger still
yea, and ever shall be, world with
out end. In Tenness ea, and the South,
the race of id niggers' is extinct
twas eXtinguished by the Reconstruc-
tion law, and in it's stead immediate |
ly sprang up race Of respectable and |
intelligent colored Citizens-blaCk, it |
is true, possibly thick-lipped, perhaps |
MISUNDERSTANDING its prede- |
cessor in the physiological fact that the |
hollow Of it's heel makes a hole in the
grOund-but intelligent and respecta- |
BILE for all that, and worthy a full rep
resentation in a conservative cOnven-
ton in Tennessee. Against all such
political heresy Kentucky stands firm. |
No respectable colored gentlemen for
her. Not all the Establishments of pol |
iticiars can persuade her that a id |
nigger' is anything of the kind. She
will not sell her birthright-the ines
timable privilege of hitting nigger
with the nearest briCkbat-fOr any |
such a mess of pottage as a few thOus-
and additional votes. The niger was
a nigger under the fathers and when
MacauIay's New Zealander shall sit
upon the suspension bridge to sketch
the ruins Of the Queen City, he shall
turn his eyes to the South, and they
shall rest upon the time-honored in
stitutions of Kentucky still preserved
in the 'woIloping of a nigger.'"