The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-08-19
{ NUMBER 8.
The Triumph of Democracy in
Kentucky


Courier of the 4th
We send forth this morning our greeting
to the Democracy of the North and of the
South, of the East and of the West. The
first utterances of the sentiments of the
people since the nomination of Seymour
and Blair were heard yesterday in Ken
lucky. They will resound from the Allan
tic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to
the Gulf, inspiring every lover of the Con-
stitution and of civil liberty with hope, and
every enemy of the institutions of his
country with awe. To the Democracy of
the whole country the voice of Kentucky,
as pronounced yesterday, will give cheer
and encouragement, aud the figures which
we present this morning will be to the
Radicals as the handwriting on the wall,
pronouncing thu doom of their revolution
airy policy and infusing fresh life into the
Constitution which is the basis of the lib
erty of our people and Of the greatness of
our country.
In the city of Louisville the whole DEM
ocratic ticket has been carried by unprece-
dented majorities. The full Democratic
vote was not polled, yet Stevenson, for
Governor, leads his Radical opponent by a
majority of seven thousand seven hundred
and fifly-two in the city alone. The whole
Radical vote in the city for Governor is
only four hundred and ninety-two. In the
county the proportions of the vote are still
more favorable to the Democracy, while
the returns from other portions of the
State Indicate majorities so Overwhelming
as to approach unanimity. The people of
Kentucky, almost as unit, have pro-
bounced judgment on the indictments
which have been made against the Radical
party, and hare found that corrupt faction
guilty of all tho atrocious crimes with
which they have been charged in the Dem
ocratic platform. Federal and Confederate
soldiers, Unionists and Southern sympa-
thizers. men who in former years were ar
rayed against each other in the bitterest
antagonism have united once more on the
broad platform Of the Constitution. and
with one acclaim denounce the Radical
party as guilty Of the highest crimes against
civil liberty, humanity and the Caucasian
race of freemen.
Democrats of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois,
we Of Kentucky send you friendly greet
ing. We have ever loved the Constitution
of our fathers, and yesterday we proclaimed
our wish to see it extended in all it's
strength and beauty and glory over every
State of the Union. We proclaimed our
love of civil liberty and our hatred of des-
potism. We proclaimed the dignity of
the white race and our condemnation of
those selfish partizans who to aggrandize
themselves would trample you beneath the
heels ola military despotism, urged and
directed against You by the balance of
power welded by negro votes. Fedcrals,
Confederates. rebels, copperheads, Wings
and War Democrats are no longer found
with US. They are issues of the past,
which have been buried in the face Of ex-
listing dangers, and are now blended to-
gether as one homogeneous party in sup
port of the vital principles against which
the Radicals hare waged the most relent-
less warfare. Men of Indiana, your inter.
ests are identical with our own. In former
years our fathers combated by the side of
yours for the preservation Of your beauti-
full country from the ravages of the savage.
To-day we have pronounced Our condem-
nation of party not less relentless in its
prosecutions than the Indians who would
have desolated your homes-of d party SO
proscriptive that it would rob You even of
the semblance Unconstitutional government
and rule You with the tyranny of the
sword. We have shown you how freemen
should vote, and we expect from the free
men of Indiana, and Ohio, and Illinois, q
responsive echo which will drown the fee
BILE cries Of those malignant men who wish
still to incite friend against friend and
brother against brother We expect an
echo so loud, SO clear, so distinct; that
Butler, and Stevens, and Sumner, and the
chosen standard bearers Of their despotic
and proscriptiye principles. must concede
that d united West are resolved to MAIN
tain the Constitution, enforce the laws as
interpreted by the courts, and preserve tho
union of the States and the rights of the
citizen against every revolutionary attempt
to repress them by tie bayonet, or trample
them beneath the heels of negro-sustain-
ed oligarcby.
Democrats Of the. North, we have dis
charged our duty as freemen and as lovers
of our country. If you do likewise, our
liberties will be preserved, spirit of fra
ternity will be revived, the fonr years OF
var will seen, but an episode in our histo-
~, and union and harmony will inaugurate
new era Of prosperity and greatness for
our suffering country.
GEN. GRANT DRuNK.-Col. DOMAIN. oI
the Missouri indicator, 3gentleman who
never told lie, asserts most positive