The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-17
KENTUCKY.


Stevenson, sent to the Kentucky Legisa
ture last week, that on the 10th OF October
1869, the State debt was $l,65s,s9i. Al
the snme time the sinking fund had SSiO,
$40, loaned temporarily to the revenue
proper; and there was balance IN the
treasury Of $35G,7s3-making together
sL259,335, which sum, il applied to the eA
tipUuishment of the debt, would reduce that
debt 10 s399,55s. To meet this the SINKING
fund holds bank stocks, railroad s'ocS''
and other property worth $,2SI7''-o'
nm excess of available resources over inc
debt of $s5s,294. o
l, NAV he that some of our "loyal' States
c.p present as good financial exhibit, but
NO don, believe H. Considering the terri
hIe ordeal through which the State has
psssed during the past eight or nine years.
this must be accepted not only as remarksole,
bat as highly creditsbie to the government
and people Of She State.
R.dicsIism teaches that disloyalty is the
parent of nearly all evil. If weIIpos'ed'
thoroughly loyal man, who cannot look upon
anv kind Of sin oxcep, Radicallsm, with the
lass, degree of allowance, should be asked
what State in the Union is most thoroughly
rooted and grounded in the most stubborn
quality Of disloyalty, he would probably an
sver Kentucky. And from Radical point
of view he would undoubtedly answer cor
rec,ly, for the State has borne her head
high above all forms Of RadicaIism' and
has in every instance refused to submit her
neck TO the Radical yoke. True, she has
in common with the whole country, endured
endless outrages from Radical Legislation,
with q Shakesperean philosophy, but she
has never compromised herself or marred
the consistency Of her record by eonsen'lng
to them. Every departure from the const
tuition and the laws has received her EN-
phatic protest. She has not bowed herself
TO receive burdens and kicks from fedora
mower. az have some. Her archives are
not dishonored by even formal ratification
Of any of the infamous partizar
amend ments made or proposed to be mad
10 the Constitution of the United States ont
will never be: her courts Of law, while thu
boom of hostile cannon we're familiar sounds
in her borders and threats OF st~t" "n"'hhn
ton were the common greetings from To-
national capital, yielded not to the eIamo
ofexpediency and false theories Of loyalty
but boldly recorded their judgements tina
the legal tender oct and other Cougression
al epactments were unconstitutional an
void, while other tribunals DO less !earne'
As 10 law. trlcAIed to power and cnrre
It's favor BY declaring law Of eIpetlenc
and necessity to be that Of the Constitution
Even if BY that infalIible test and standaT
ofriqht which is to be revealed Ia the here
after she has been wrong in all this, nc
conscientiousnees and the persistent consIs
ency of her wrong is more than equal IN tb
schIt OF FlIkNt w thG va AH''N ""' $3.50
standards which have governed some othe
states.
From the very frat martialing OF host
forces in the late war, ns government 81
has stood like a massive marble coInm
around whose base the waves and tempes
of passion, of war and Of delolaton have il
potently spent themselves without MARI
It's fair proportions or moving 1t from
firm pedestal. She has not been Sedu(
into rebellion, nor has she been dragged
frightened into any form Of Radicals
When al impartial history Of the
cventful years shall be written, she will
honored as no other state will be, unless,
the meantime, free government under
written constitution shall forever disaPP
in the recklessness of Radicalism.