New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-23
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| louisville. Ky. Nov. 1G-You viii SEQ Jy tho
! Louisville papers arriving with this mail that The
Lorisrile D,mogai. paper doubtless on your c1-
change list. has changed hands-the firm Of Harvey.
Hughes & Co, editions and publishers. having sold
out TO Messrs. Hatcher a Perrin. An event 20 size
uidcaut in the great whir Of excitement scarcely
merits tho line ia the dispatches which announced
the event
But To- those resident in Kentucky and familiar
with the sentiments OF ts people. and to those cap1
bio OF drawing conclusions from apparently udlhcT-
cut circumstance. this event indicates lar moro
than the mere transfer Of publishing house from
one finn 10 another No event has happened since
the termination of the war that proves eO conclu-
sively the bias of Kentucky toward the Lost Cause
Of the south The firm of Harvey. Hughes ~ Co..
a. see from NOR announcement Alr o'tu Ioi twenty
I'VE year. publishing ,paicF dcFotcd 20 tIt sup
port Of Democratic prluuplcs, ana by its undcvatme
consistency Might WEI s4p1SIa 70 Ic EaSf Of @ ss
who lately gave majority Of 1900 Tor seymour aud
Blair
But The LoidsriHo Democrat under the edItorshp ~
the late j. ~. Harvey, had committed the objectionable
lent powerfui aid 10 rescuug the state Of Kentucky
from tie Of Rebellion u had added 20 an Ocnse
10 grave in character the further crime Of declaring that
adhesion to secession was not proper OASIS Tor eheI
State National Democratic party, and, In The noninA
ton OF W b. Knkead had prosecuted an active aud Wig
OrOus against the Hon. l. Helm, the nominee
for Governor OF the Southern Rights Democracy.
Notwithstanding the fact that the enfranehsement on
the COnfederates whose night Of suffrage had been de
clared forfeited by the legislative session OF 1907 was
the later crime Of resisting the claim Of Southern gym
pathizers all Office and power and the prescription ~
In which the contest bctIcen the two WINGS OF the IL
mocracy occurred, The Democrat has suffered that telent
less prescription that only tho weak and when IN
power mete to their adyosares. The sIigencies OF
the canvass and the conturrenc. OF MI SEYMOUR ante
cedens with the principles prOfesscd by The IOsisci
DcB0od induced that paper TO wave the local issue be
tween Secessionsn aud Unionsm, and lend hearty
support 20 Seymour and Blair THIS Tact you are as "a
pablo Of knowing IA your correspondent
But the seeming cordially was not real The De'noorm
Onsl articles aud to assert that the gallant Union boL
der who had fought for his state and the Union was as
richly entitled 10 The support and suages OF the people
the soldier who had deserted hS state 10 nght against
1t and the Union.
supported the Thirteenth Amendment aud condemned
with acrimonious severity the Recession organization of
Prentice, and substituted more acceptable TO the
southorn party. Finally. In le0 carpet bagger who
had run The Chattanooga Rebel into the ground ana al
minstered the small stock Of Radbtahsln lie hAd on
The Cincinnati Times assumed the managing control OF
having been nm active Rebel In The South In tLs way
The LOUISVILLE Journal whose SWIM Unionhn had eH-
ceIed THE TRlBUSEs during the War became inc ys0-
nt ate and exponent Of extreme southern views
Previous to this The LouisoIe CsurNr edited sna pub
lshod by w. N Haldeman, whe had ned the state In
IsGl and held some nominal Office in the Conederacy,
and conducted q whisky dstsry 10 yleh inspiration ~
the purely Rebel interest The Louisville Journal
have seen. had sdroitly managed 10 iEttse rivalry
existence depended s giving this lie 70 its record OF
extreme loyalty ana did not hesitate 20 make the de-
newspaper intensely Southern In character
With thess facts before are prepared 10 resume
the consideration OF the course OF The democrat s pub
Ishers struggling keep alive the cnbers OF Unionism
State and yany endeavoring 10 clear the party OF
the faint OF Rebellion, have Mt length discovered the
futty endeayor They bow to the stor11 and give
up useless struggle they have 40 long ana brsvely
maintained Unable 20 bend convenient conscience 10
the reputation of their principles, Impoverished by
vain struggle misunderstood IN the North, and unpOpu
lar in Kentucky they have sold their establishment to
the Drm
This new hrm as you will perceive In III sautatOry ad
dress catches the keynote OF all third presses the
State and cannot think Of deserving our old mother Wiz
GINA or that whose fortunes IT. chief editor shared
from tho first gun sumter 10 the last gun ~ Apo
matox Court House, &c, &c. DO There ~ now
paper published In the CITY Of Louisville IN which any
tncturcd with Union sentiments mas any interest
influence BOT Ainply Radical, no Republican, but
Union Democrat md fair expression exposition
Of his views this city this State And yet Kentucky
Is loyal No doubt she would be loyal n all the blue
DOnnes tho border but, 10 her shame be- IT
spoken when IL required nerve TO be Secession she
10000 majority FOR the Union; when 10 requires
be Union she Is 1900 majority Tor Secession Will
say 1t Of tho editors OF Thc Democrat. for do not
know them; but there several of the kind Ia this
state now who insist on beng understood repressby
for their native South and "Old Mother Virginia" Who
easily repressble during the wat, aud much