The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-22
Rebel Rule in Kentucky.

The Cincinnati Gazette, referring to the re-
suit of the election in Kentucky, which is
Overwhelmingly in the hands of the Confed-
crates, says:
"This victory is useful as showing what
the rebel Democracy do if they hadthe pow
er. They have full sway in Kentucky
Hence there is a reign of terror. No man
who adhered to the Union cause IL safe
There is no freedom of speech or OF the
press. constitutional rights, except as in
terpreted by the rebels. are disregarded:-
The numbering of Union men is not regarded
as crime. No jury can be found to convict
men of crimes committed against this class.
This is kentucky Democracy. 1t is this party
that carried the election by from 40 to So
900 majority; elected four fifths of the Leg
islature, and would elect John c. Brecken-
ridge to the United States Senate, but for
the test-oath. which guards the door OF
Congress against traitors"
A Kentucky correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune says:
"That the election has just passed in this
State was unfair and mockery of justice
is fully demonstrated by the fact that 10000
white Rebel soldiers went to the polls and
voted, while 10000 DISTINGUISHED black I'm
ion soldiers stood by and looked on. The
one fought for the Government and the I'm
ion, the other fought against it, yet the one
to-day is DISTINGUISHED, while the other comes
home from the fields of rebellion to resume
political control in the government they
could not break up, and assume to make
laws without their consent) for the men who
were true to the Union. Nor do the rebels
confine themselves alone to making laws for
4ln toto l>,,f oh bon rob yuh1
and murder the loyal blacks at pleasure
How long the farce now being enacted here
will continue we know not, but we should
think not longer than the assembling of the
next Radical Congress. Why should not
kentucky be reconstructed Is she not dis
loyal? Is not the whole State in the hands
of the Rebels? Bands of armed regulators
rule entire districts and Union men are shot
down in broad daylight all over the State,
and their murderers go unpublished. Sher-
ifs and Deputy Sheriffs are themselves MEM
bers of the mobs and encourage their law
less deeds. 1t is no longer crime to kill
Union man, and 10000 brave soldiers, who
fought in the late war on the Federal side,
are completely in the hands of their merci-
less Rebel enemies and all this after these
same Federal soldiers had conquered in the
field. Tried in civil courts before disloyal
judges and iuries, for acts done while in the
army prescribed in business, disgraced for
the uniform they wore, assasinated, expelled
from home-t these are some of the outrages
the Union men OF Kentucky have suffered,
and are now suffering"
Kentucky, it must be borne in mind, is
State in the Union. Her people did not re-
bel as an organized community. The gener-
al government is not, fol this reason, felt
there as it is here as protector of the lives
and property of loyal men, but they are
wholly at the mercy of vindictive and
bloody Confederate State government. If
these Southern States should 60 back to the
Union as they are now, in Confederate
hands, we can form some idea what our fate
would be as Unionists, from the condition of
things in Kentucky. The " war of races" in
that State has commenced 1t is war in
which Confederates shoot and hang, without
mercy and no provocation, Unionists of both
races. When you hear Confederate poll
tician say he fears there will be "war of
races" in North Carolina, he means that he
would like to have it in his power to shoot,
burn and hang, as his party friends are do
ing in Kentucky.