The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-09
THE Paducah Herald is somewhat

| rrIHE FaQucaH iI1STItO Is SOHitW Ia
|,exercised on account of a PARAGRAPH
which we published a few 3Ays age
from one of our correspondents in
Kentucky, in which it was stated thai
the only hope of the rebel Democracy
now was Reputation, and that there
was no adequate remedy for it but
Confscation. The Herald says:
| The Kentucky let er-writer leaves nc
| room for doubt as to his position 1t will
be seen that he is for .ceNFIsCAT1oN OF
| the property of the Southern people. How
many of his party in Kentucky agree with
him, we do not know, but it is more than
/ likely that there are those who think with
him. aisE n1Gattfes0 Aaf 90 it~
The same writer sends the Evansville
| JoURNALl a list of eleven new subscribers
l and the editor of the JOURNAL says he has
now one hundred ard fifty subscribers in
+ Graves, County. aff4f
Is not this enough to arouse the De-
mocracy of Graves County to some exer-
ton in behalf of their own paper9 ooa
III The Herald editor has two objects
in view in noticing this fippant squib,
chief Of which is to stir up !" the
faithful to their duty towards the
party organ. I'VE ahave mo- doubt it
has good reason for complaint against
7sthe. Democracy Of Graves as well
as McCracken, and Ballard, and
Marshalls and the rest of the f'iun-
washed z population of its baiIwick.
We know of Democratic newspapers
nearer home which are similarly af-
! flicted. Z 1t never was one of the dis
tinguishing characteristics of aDemoc-
racy to be. very profuse in its support
of Democratic newspapers, to say
nothing Of a higher type or better
class of literature. IF our infringe
ment upon thelterritory of the Herald
in the First District, where the Rad
ical Evansville JOURNAL has more
readers than any other newspaper
published lin or out of that. State,
shall be the means of IS arousing the
Democracy of Graves. to some exer-
ton in, behalf of y our Conservative
cote mporary at Paducah, we will re-
joice in his good luck. We have. in
the same incidental manner, stirred
up our city Democratic contemporaries
from their "Trip Van Wrinkle Sleep
and one of them has actually been
made glad BY the receipt of a few
clubs from the + Old Commonwealth
sdtBntathe, Herald would, if it could,
make aslittle political capital out of
The ljocose threat Of our correspon-
dent. There is no doubt but that the
unconditional Union men of Ken.
lucky. the men whom the Rebel
Democrats style Radicals, have griev-
Gus cause of complaint against the To-
cal and State legislation. aud the
spirit which actuates the men now in
authority. Ard the late elections
will have no tendency to molly this
spirit of prescription and disloyalty.
The Congress of the United States
has shown in its action in support of
the loyal men of Tennessee, that it
will not brook the oppression of
rebels, and that when occasion re-
quires, the strong arm of the Federal
Government will be interposed to
save the true and devoted friends of
the country from the misrule of those,
who devoted four years to the
effort to destroy it. There is no in
superable reason why Kentucky
should be exempted from the opera
ton of the Reconstruction Act,
which is applied to. the Southern
States. Ii that, State never wholly
seeded from the Union, it was not
the fault of the majority of its people, 1
who, but for the constraining presence
of Federal bayonets, would have car
ried it out, and did well nigh ac-
complish it. The State government
is rapidly passing into the hands of
the rebels. The Congressional Del
egation just elected, with one or two
are disqualified from TAX
ing seats. Hardly any of them can
take the oath required, without COM
hitting perjury; and Congress has
already shown that it will not be
left alone tolthe applicant to- decide
upon his ability or willingness to take
it. 49, 49,
We are not prepared to say how far
Congress will go in the exercise of its
Constitutional power to enforce a