The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-02
Kentucky Conservatism.

AtutuChJ VVHSCE S0tlbHis
The Democracy are sometimes de.
lighted with what Mack, thu
well-known correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial has to say
about the Radicals, and copy his
articles in their papers with great
gusto. The following extract from
one of his recent letters the
Blue Grass region" we have not
seen in any Of the Democratic pa
pers. We commend it to the atten-
ton of our Conservative brethren:
I don't know of any better cure fer
Conservatism than a few days resi-
dence in the Blue Grass region and a
careful observation of the political
situation here and hereabout. Not
that there is anything in the political
or social atmosphere having asdi-
rect tendency toward Radicalism and
presenting it to you~in all the beauty
of its holiness-farf from it. But
there are two modes of conversion in
religion, and why moi in politics? In
one church they scare sinners into
heaven by opening the .urnace-door
of hell, and letting the brethren and
sisters see for themselves how high
the mercury stands; In another they
coax them into the realms of bliss,
on the direct line of qpiety and
good works. 1t is by the first Of these
two modes of conversionsthatI 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 Conservative ranks ten days
longer. I came here on Saturday a
tolerable Conservative person. II shall
leave to-day in order to save myself
from hopeless. Radicalism. IF I re-
NAMED twenty-four hours longer.
should go away hurrahing for Thad.
Stevens, believing Ben. Butler a saint. !
and seriously doubling if Ashley ever
had anything to do with town
sights" Ak 1
The fact is, Kentucky is a living
anachronism. She exists in the nine
tenth century through some mistake
or other, and bears upon her face in
disputable evidence that she was
intended for the pre-Adamite period,
at any rate, the antediluvian era of
the worlds existence. Every year
hundreds of live Americans cross the
ocean and travel through Europe, to
see the Holy Land and other antiqui-
ties. 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 Cow
and Lexington Railroad, start
ing from the Ohio River. will take
them back toward the dawn of crea-
ton at the rate of five hundred years
per hour, till, upoureaching the term
nus at this end, they will instinctively
rub their eyes and inquire for Adam
md his accomplished lady.
But fl keep on In this strain I
ear l shall be set down as one who
like Kentucky, which [ am very
ar from being. There has been no
,ther place like it since Sleepy Hol-
ow, with its legends. went out of ex-
Strange as it may seem for so an
,ient a land as this, they have politics
md political parties here. But above
Ill they have Odd niggers." The
id niger" is the glory of Ken
lucky. He exists in all his primitive
implicitly here. Congress may legis-
ate him into a citizen the Civil
law may attempt to change the
Ethiop's skin, or the leopard spots;
,ut here in Kentucky he is a id t
still-yea, and ever shall be,
world without end. In Tennessee and
he South, the race of id niggers
5 extinct. 1t was extinguished by
he Reconstruction Law, and in it's
tead Immediately sprang up a race of
respectable and intelligent colored
.itizens-black it is true, possibly
.hick Tipped, perhaps kinky-headed-
resembling its predecessor in the
physiological fact that the hollow of
lis heel makes a hole in
he ground but intelligent and
.especfable for all that, and
worthy a full representations a Con-
sentative Convention in Tennessee.
.gainstal III such political heresy KEN
tuckys stands firm Mo- frespeetableS
gentlemen I" for her. Not all
the Establishments of politicians can
persuade her that "a id niger is
anything of the kind. She will not
sell her birthright-the inestlmable
privilege OF hitting a niger with the
nearest brickbat-for any such a mess
Of pottage as a few thousand addi-
t onal votes. The niger was a mig
GER under the fathers; and when Ma
saniy.s New Zealander shall sit upon
the big suspension bridge to sketch
the ruinsnof the Queen City, he shall
turn his eyes to the South, and they
shall rest-upon3theatime honored in
stitutions Of Kentuckystill preserved
In the ..syolloping eta niggerndasay