Year: 1861

In the Southern and Westerh portions OF Ken.
tucky there are some active opponents OF the
Lincoln despotism who have shown themselves to
be true men, with blood in their veins and the
genuine fegvor Of patriotism ih their hearts. The
state of feeling in Louisville, However, may be IN
ferred from the following paragraph taken from
the journal Of that city:


a SECESSION FLAG.-A small flag of the southern
Confederacy was raised over Ia house on an alley
in the MINER mart of the CITY ON the 4h of July.
The preparation of such deAd on Sucn day was
alfsrast saererious The miserable flag time was
short. Some patriotic Germans tookit down, bore
it sway and burnt it. Its ashes are part OF the
mad OF our streets.


We suppose the Louisville journal thinks that it
lives in free country. Doubtless, it would repel
with the utmost Indignation any assertion to the
contrary. Yet when a free citizen raises flag
over his own house, it is cut down by "patriotic
Germans and burned in the streets And the
Louisville Journal applauds the act.


That citizen ought to have followed the example
of Jackson at Alexandria. When his flag was
pulled down, he shot the insolent invader dead in
his tracks. If this Louisville man had done the cor
rect thing, there would have been at least one
patriotic German " less in Louisville than there
was before the attempt.


Things have come to a pretty pass in the do
mains of King Abraham, when a citizens house
can be invaded by people Fl pm foreign land, his
property destroyed and his feelings outraged, and
a public journal approves the act


1t is a principle of the old English common law
that every mans house is his castle. The same
rule holds good in this countyat least it did hold
good until the enforcement of Emperor Lincoln
Yet there have been cases almost innumerable, in
Baltimore and elsewhere, of citizens dragged from


their beds in their houses, at the dead hour of
night, put in irons, and hustled off to prison. Abo
ltionism pays no respect TO the sancty of mans


house. Searches, seizures, domciliary visits, are
| the order of both day and night, wherever are
found the hired mnions and lnercenaries of the in
fernaI crew of scoundrels who rule at Washington
On bare suspicion of treasdn,'' any mans house
is entered, his domestic altar invaded, his lareS
and penates rudely insuted his family terrified
and the man himself carried off and shut up in jail.
Some people may call that free country, and
very probably the Louisville Journal does-but we
don't


a kentuckian has as much right to raise flag
on his own house as he has tp build chimney to


it, or put a pane of glass id his window. There


is not State in the Southern Confederacy in which
secession flags were not raised long before the
State seeded. Two days after the Presidential
election last November we saw secession naGs
flying from houses in the StaEe of Missssippi-and
no patriotic German y or patriotic any-body- else
could have pulled one of them down. ANY one
attempting it would have been shot like dog, and
rightly too.


We believe that Kentucky will yet redeem her.
self from the disgrace of Abesion domination. Her
time has not come yet, but il is coming. We know
something of the brave blood Of her people, and
their free, fiery, independent spirit. Mythology
tells US Of man who, for bis crimes, was con-
demned to be tied perpetualy to a fostering
corpse-but Kentucky has never. done anything
so criminal as that she must be chained, for all
time, to the rotten and stinAing carcass of Aboli-
tionism