Year: 1867

II is great public misfortune, resulting from
the blind intensity of partisanship which sways
the great mass of American journals, that one
half Of our people are kept in ignorance of the
facts which control the political action of the
other half We do not complain that each
journal puts forth its best arguments for its
own side; we protest only against the sup
preston of vital important truth, i'll ignorance
of which the acts and motives of those oppo-
site cannot be understood. The telegraph does
somewhat toward the correction of this evil,
but it is still fragrant and enormous


All our people are aware that Kentucky re-
Gently elected eight Democrats $50 called to
represent her in the Federal House of Repre-
sentativcs, and that-one of these having COM
mittcd suicide-but one of the seven survivors
has as yet been permitted to take his seat,
pending an investigation of their right to seats
by the standing Committee on Elections. Yet,
up to this hour, no Democratic journal has ap-
prsed its readers that this exclusion has any
other foundation or reason than the fact that
the Kentucky claimants are Democrats-there-
fore obnoxious TO the overwhelming majority
of either House. How can they fairly judge
who are kept in ignorance of the facts7


The Unioniss of Kentucky affirm that the
party calling itself Democratic in their State is
entirely inspired and controlled by the Rebel
element-that its eight candidates for Congress
were all partisans of the Rebellion, and that
several of them owe their election to the votes of
paroled prisoners from the surrendered armies Of
Lee, Johnston, and Kirby Smith Say if You
will, that this matters not-that these are lust
ps good voters as any Others--is it not naked
justice that all should be aware of the grounds
whereon their admission to seats is resisted7


The Commonwealth Qrankfort) has the fol-
lowing


ave learn that OF the Rebel Democratic canddates
for Representative In this county In of his speeches
ing furnished the United States with horses
TO put down the Rebellion The accused party replied
that he had contract to furnish horses TO the Govern.
ment that he had furnished them but that he had 80
arranged the place and time OF their delivery as to
their capture by John Morgan, who was then rud
Kentucky"


This, you may say, is loyalists story:
which may be unfounded or exaggerated Sup
pose, then, you try your teeth on this, from
Tile True Kentuckian, Democratic" organ:


ACARD.


ASH am informed through reliable sources that Il s re.
ported I'm this community that with the Federal
army during the war wish to pin the lie 10 IT, by making
public denial through your paper for was not asso-
ciaed with that army In any capacity during the war
and defy any one TO prove the contrary. | am only
anxious 10 deny the reports, because know that they
were promulgated by some malcously disposed person
persons with view OF preudicing The public against
me. Dr) W. TALBOT, Centroyille, Kentucky.


We believe DR.. Talbot is the son of a
former Democratic member. of Congress.


We hope to see the day when all Ken
tuckians, White or Black, and whether loyal
or rebel in our great struggle, shall exercise
the Right of Suffrage yet we cannot realize
that any hardship is involved in deliberate
scrutiny by the House of the influences whereby
the choice OF the delegation just returned was
effected. Rely on it-were that House Demo
cratic, the new delegation from Tennessee
would have hard road TO travel-and we