The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-16
KENTUCKY'S SHAME.
The Foul Scoundrel Blackburn,
[From the Cincinnati Gazette.l

lIrom CIuc1unaT1 UaZ6tte.I
Getting tired of evasion, the Louis
vile Coatrjeg-J Journal has at last virtu-
ally admitted that DR.. Luke P. Black
burn, OF Kentucky, is the same DR.. Luke
T. Blackburn, of Bermuda, Havana,
and Canada yellow-fever notoriety. But
it has not yet summoned sufficient
courage to defend Blackburn's alleged
crime, although to deny it, which the
Coatr5er-JoGtr7aaJ does in the follow
ing extract, in the face of all the evil
dence that has been printed, requires
good deal of cheek. Here is the de-
NAL or apology:
During the war DR.. Blackburn was younger
than he is now, and, if not more social and
genial, at least more convivial than he is now.
He has always been voluminous and a good
talker, having the faculty of amusing and en-
tertaining an audience for hours. He was in
Canada. The Federals were all about him.
Something of a practical joker, as well as
conversationalist and humorist, he doubtless
did work up conceit-just as one might in
vent a ghost story about DISCRIMINATING the
Yankees No man could more elaborate the
details of a scheme of this sort with more the
oretic learning and shocking detail than he;
and those who know him can readily imagine
with what serio-comic zest he would enter into
the horrors of the recital. But to dimly con-
ceive the actual execution of such plot posi-
BILE to DR.. Blackburn is simply preposterous.
The Gazette has shown by official
documents that DR.. Luke P. Blackburn
did conspire to introduce the yellow
fever into Northern cities and Union
armies; that he caused clothing to be
infected in Bermuda; that such cloth
ing, in part, was struggled into the
United States; that DR.. Blackburn was
tried for the crime in Canada, and es-
capped punishment On merely technical
grounds. The scheme to infect
Northern people and to kill President
Lincoln was due to the circumstances
over which DR.. Blackburn had no
control. We have also the official doc
uments, not yet printed, showing the
operations of DR.. Luke P Blackburn
in Havana in the same direction. These,
as soon as space will permit, we shall
give to the public; and we venture to
say no reasonable man will question the
guilt of one DR.. Luke P. Blackburn.
It cannot be questioned. It remains
only for Gov. Blackburn and his friends
to agree among themselves whether he
is identical with the Blackburn who
committed the infamous crime proved
beyond controversy by the evidence
already produced. I
Not a single chapter or paragraph of
this evidence has been published by a
Kentucky paper. While it has been
talked and written about all over the
United States, the Kentucky Demo.
cratic papers had only a sheer for it,
and now the Coa1rier-Jourmal speaks
of it as joke. A joke, indeed! Was
it joke to murder patients in Bermuda
hospitals for the purpose OF more thor
oughly injecting clothing? Was it a
joke to infect a suit of clothes to be
sent to President Lincoln as a present
from the workingmen of Manchester,
England? Was it joke to hire men
to smuggle that clothing into the
United States? Was it joke that the
Rev. Stuart Robinson, D. D., denounced
in his letter to Judge Emmons as rank
atheism? Was it a joke that caused
DR.. Luke P. Blackburn to hide in Can
ada least he might be arrested, tried,
convicted, and hung? Was it joke
that caused his friends to advise him to
escape to Europe?
We have one question to put to the
Courier-Joa1r71oJ and to the honorable
men of Kentucky. Suppose the charges
against DR.. Luke P. Blackburn to be
true, whether the person be this DR..
Blackburn, or another, what do you
think of them? Can they be defended
by honorable men, and are you pre-
pared to assume the responsibility of
defense?
AS to the charges, they are true; they
are proven; they stand; they cannot be
overthrown.