New-York tribune., 1867-08-14
THE S0tTh.
KENTUCKY,

MASTER
-CONCUBINAGE AND ITS RtoOhio "
GROEs-THEIR PROGRESS.
WV" IpxtyeroS KY, August 8, 1867. |
That the election just passed IN thiS oCaVe
was unfair and mookery Of justice Is tuly
by the fact that 10000 white Reoel souisI ", tyn,"
poIIs and voted while $4,000 dsfranchiSeu olsoA oio
,ood nv and looked on. The one fought lot tne
C,e,, and the Union, the other fouSht against
vet the one to-day dsfranchtsed wn1 @ oitcaI o cnn
home Iro % W. Government they cond not break up ana
assume 10 make laws without ter AZ th pbols & copane
VINO %GTe alone 10 making laws for the victorious put
shoot rob Whip e sn faroe now being
Pi Continue know not but we sn0n ndIU CnnSess
hid not Kentucky he rccOnstructeh IL ehe nos
disi1yai Is not the whole state III tnS % n dstr,cts
uuIcsg BandS Of armed regulators RUE ehtie uStVo.
men are shot down In broad daylight all over
The state aud their murdercrs go unpuhlshed ns
1 nennty Shers themselves members OF the mons
% their awess deeds 1t isno ongera cTlne 10
xiii Union man, aud 700 brave soldiers wno Is ha
the late the Federal side are complsoH ~ ta1 1
hands OF their morcess Rebel enemies; and al ths % a
these Federal soldiers haG and nes for
acts while in the army prescribed n Tneiicd
@ Sefbese U G are some Of the ourages tho Union
men of Kentucky have suffered anu NY NV ~, tho nenpe
nert winter comes TO their rescuei Surely the men h
fought in army deserve TO be prQSeoed state
nes can make no difference the protection OF st
neither can Rebels and treason honrsn n IN we % cannot
Oh tns pIs an ono state and with justice allow them
mnnnes and phHess shS GSyernmeHt m be allowed make
treason respectable and seize alu o owed
he same privilege But the Rebels chm tnat hent9ehI
ia loval State in full practical relations Will . ,H 10,
Ioverment which relations were never IN
~orthat she never seeded never rebeed ana oaiot'
therefore be put under the Reconstruction hMs VI @ . ~
gress Even il all tins trne was she any le @ less ie 20
beIousi Did she not send 10000 OF her young men "
help the Rebel armyi Were not all the counties GOV M 0 ,g
e. 70 cent Al II at one in the hands OF the enemy
Did not portions OF the state continue in the con-
troll of armed Rebels untl months ster o1ers 1ne sur
tile State haIbOr and feed gherriast Bnt ,ne ia Is @ 90
sumed to be stated that the praetGai sSep dis
turbcd is false. She has now no repfesentauou ~ Ill
gress consequence OF her dsqya The techn
cal LOYALTY claimed by Kentucky Will not aVa IN 'h
vopv t,yentyfour hours She Rebel from the begin
ming is Rebel now and will continue Rebel until recon on
sctcd by Congress- But IN her present anomalous ~
FIRST IL Is claimed that her Constitution and laws arc
not republican form, and that 1t Is the duy o, Sohs
TO- 70 eInrantee a republican government TO the state
Second: II is claimed that, under the Constn'SSna S
ress 10 make ali appropriate legislation TO SECURE ,o
objects intended Congress may eg,a , OF tho
lava of Congress and there being now no JslCe
"a NE hochs i'm the state They are denied trial by jury
the Rt Of testimony courts and their lives ana prop
erty are continually In Jeopardy o % xod ,v,tbont
and that Congress must extend the SUI
rare in order 10 establish that just prncpe o. OUT
ernIpent that taxation and representation snhh ~ '"
Fo,r As we mako no discrimination on account oi
make no discrimination according theD protection.
Ft(h The loyal men claim that C0ngl,Ss s s. ,pn,
struct kentucky measure OF national :SieH n e
the state the hands OF the enemies 0t me
ment and that Rebels must not be 70 Thsv
claim mat The laws OF the Uuted states arc dened and
tratoT, for service IN the Late Rebel army that Union
men despoed OF then properly VstaeiS,u. ,ha,
Ijnon aro shot because they fought Tor he
Federal Government and that the Goyernnent ought 70
protect tho mon who pulltu lheiI avs M" N'0 fNF
These are some the why the Radical Union
nei of Kentucky think Congress should reconstruct tho
state They believe the power ot Congress over e quss
ton Of reconstruction IN their state eeay eAia' ~ a -
they will at its next sitting pray Congress lo use " ~
only proper we should here state that all ~ the men y'
Ing themselves Unonsts DO not agree 70 the above Pr
sItons There Is almost every shade ot political belief 10
Kentucky. from the Congrcssiona % ~
tho bright men," who are Ia iA'or Oh res'o'nS 'u'
We have already said that the Of the white voting
population In Kentucky were Rebels The great , nsns
OF their party such men as Preston kodnsh,
aud others who hayo held high commission: ~ the 6sSs
qualifications for Office looked upon ss OF uie nc
Ice is their ay9rte cao1a1o S .bs hero
who 20 come forth presently Ike conlueror Tgoe1e
states senate IL was the rank aud file OF the Democratic
party that IN 1917 followed such Rebel Denocra,s as
army, and more ignorant or dcluded set OF could
not be found anywhere IN this country. But little auen
ever been paid la Kentucky 10 the education OF
the people aud perhaps larger proportion Of her citizens
read and write than the people OF any other state
could read and write and 80 could not AZ polls was
found 50 men had voted the enocThc ticket ana SIX te
| Republican, and, on consulting the polbO9ks 1t was
further asOortanod that the names OF the SIX men VINO
| had voted tho Republican ticket were tho six
who could read write. Az further evidence oi
the ignorance OF the mass OF whte men who
60 the polls In Kentucky and vote, we quote from
late speech OF Gen. ]. Brsbne delivered at lexington
| He said: "Whe IN command IN Kentucky, n court mar
ta assembled at this place aud &C white Kentucky
tered plea In their behalf which presented 70 Col
Cummings. the President Of the court and which on eI
animation found % contain six names and 30 marks
Thus 40 out Of 80 native white Kentuckans could not
write their names gift which, according 10 Dogberry
comes from nature" II is wellknown fact that the
Rebel Democratic party now the ccntroing power IN the
state. has among It's supporters the mQSt Ignorant and
| interruptions men In the commonwealth: such are tho
Among the colored people may be found many men OF
wealth, Intelligence, and updopbtfd mental ana moral
worth Slavery never absolute In Kentucky IA IN
other Southern States and the negroes were allowed
many privileges The reason Of this will bo manifested
tuckian lived with his slaves. He fond Of horses
and the black hoser had his condenco they discussed
the merits and points OF the horses together the slave
master they bet their money aud lost together
asa great nS %S pey ySI 5 ana on the
plantations the masters cOncubines, and their
or never would sc The most nessn, sSYe,
were made servants in the family, and were generally
treated with great consideration and Kindness Each
young master had his black boy and every Miss her
ing girl AS usually tho ease with the young those
boy mistress and girl fond OF each other. In the
nS ss agent and end % SGy ms
love notes and not only the answer but Sans report
was looked for with more anxiety than the letter itself
for however formal tho reply might be- Sam could tell
how old mistress looked when he delivered the letter
whether Miss bushed and seemed agtated not what
the servants said, and thousand other things intensely
interesting for lovers TO know Generally the Willy slave
made love to the mstresss maid, and thus tho private
thoughts almost OF the young r 20 the knowledge
OF the master III the match was opposed by cruel par
en Sam somehow OF other nearly always .managed 20
fall In love with black Rr on his masters swoethears
plantation and was he who arranged the escape and
waited by the garden wall with the sadded horses for the
| eOpng lovers.
What the boy was TO tho master the young slave girl
was 10 her mistress She consulted all matters OF