The Louisville Daily Courier, 1861-08-14

peare and good will wore wont to ll pL-udalmcd was forsaken und the lowly minister was seen buckling on his swmd aud calling on his flock to follow him where right aud glory called Here too Is no Jarring no couliicting claims for office Thu best liisu In the bent place is inrurli biy tho rule and the civilian of wealth and position is always ready to fall Into tbt nulls and follow bis poorer and liuinblrV neighbor who has the advantage of a trulb tary ediu-itlon Another tact and a highly "ratifying one it Is which has- surprised ms no less th-Ji the thorough nprUing ot the white popubi-' thru is tne entire submission and even1 afluctlon for their masters among tba blacks I had feared that when Lincoln with his invading hordes should march into Virginia the slave In some secticf of the Butte at least from ignorance and restless u ass and a vague idea of betterisg their condition would attempt If not In Insurrections - surrections Insurrections at any rate to escape trom tbe r masters Instead of this I have never seeuthe'slave population more indusltv ous submissive and better satisfied with thuir condition - and such is the confideiu-q of their owners in their integrity and frithl fulness that many a master luis gone inid the army to fight the 'invader of his Stale leaving hi wile and young children solely to tlw prottciie a of his negroes Tp! ' " intadjtoisistiteaieMgiaillfyingtsvl'a n action with this unholy contest and Is 4 J c ommeniary npOQ the loud howln that Abi lit fen orators have uttered on the horiots of sbiveiy The idea entertained at tin North ltd I am afraid to some extut even in Kentucky that the Sonth has hi her own borders tho seeds uf dis- ate which most ultimately destroy her it utterly aid entirely erroneous She is not weak nor sick but like a young giant she stands with all her nerves and sinews braced for the contest and eon never be destroyed of aual tied either by iutcrual weakness or external flics Bat foolish as is rite idea of subduing lira South by the strong arm of Northern pow power - er power that other idea the bright and beauti beautiful - ful beautiful one of starrlu" them cut is still mom so Tho fact Is it Is so extremely thiicu thiicu-lous - lous thiicu-lous that 1 hardly know how to trout It If on could only sec w lint 1 bare seen sines left Kentucky as I passed though Tts Tts-nessee - nessee Tts-nessee and Virginia the ground alnuitt groaning with tho burthen of the gralnj that pressed it yon could scarcely resist the conclnson that those twu States alone hive raised enough this year to supply the whole Sonth the conu Ing one Let Uiotc who would starve on an agricultural people look to their ows inffcrin" poor and sre that the loir! and terrible cry for bread docs not linp come from their inoulli No greater mil mil-tako - tako mil-tako could possibly be made than ttf rut rut-pose - pose rut-pose that me 8juUi Is either now or la likely to be hereafter iu wuut or any of tie necessary supplies to carry on a sncccH! campaign She has everything she need?? and that in abundance Let not the Non)i Non)i-dtcelve - dtcelve Non)i-dtcelve herself and those that (yuipathita' with her by laying "the fluttering nnclloi! to her soul'1 that such Is not the cash This place (Culpojipur Court House) luc been converted into u hospital tor the sk Iif and wouudod beiug the principal one In tho Boulliem Confederacy and there art indeed now here some thousand or twelve hui soldiers who have been returned from the sea of war on account of unfitness for duty Of course some of the poor fellow: have died sway from Ihclr homes am friends yet every attention is paid them' that kind soft hands can bestow and many a dying pillow has been soothed by th e consciousness of women's presence who hangs like s ministering angel s round tpe beds ot our sick and wonnded and is new' weary in well doing for those who have lijtr their firesides to come end defend thotf if Virginia's daughters Ercry house oopt tains some ol the sick or wounded ami TheLTdora!1 t ft

E&We' oommecd the following from tha New York Journal of Commerce m conservative paper to the earnest attention of onr readers The LouUville Journal never gives place to anything fsroilng peace: - nwnicTioxa Having tome months since to writing' -forewarned my countrymen of the cslaiu ties they were bringing upon themselves ' by the "no compromise" policy bnt with no good effect and having with sorrow since beheld the fulfillment of all my pro pro-dictions - dictions pro-dictions I venture now flirtlier to record the results which I foresee are to follow from a continued prosecution of this iuto one ncnatural and unnecessary war X -hope (though almost cgilnat hops) that -prndent counse s may yd induce our peo- pie to estimate the insurmountable dimcnl- -tics to tbe tsskkey hsve too hastily under- taken snd to Laute If bnt lor a brief spore ' to consider the remote as well as tha ha- mediate results of Us (hither prosacnUoa ' L When started this was to be finished -to six weeks then to six months Bat X predict that the Sonth will not he snhjugsr ted within six pears Indeed why blind 4 onr eyes to tha tot that it will Merer bet done? Some suppoee it can be dona -through tlw agency of tonetloa Don't let us deceive ourselves with -such idlo long the wnr my last £ The incendiary edbrts of ths extrema to excite th soon arrest tlus attention and excite the abhorrence of ilia majority to tire North and thronghoofc ' Christendom and wfU net tuetetS The at- tempt to do so wiU create a revulsion will be denoncced by the moderate Republi Republicans - cans Republicans themselves end will within sLs months cause a wide ejjtU to the war party S That portion of the war party eon- prising tho moderate Republicans and tha misled Democrats who thought they were fighting for the Union and not for tha ' abolition of slavery - will before this year closes abandon that party to Join the peace : party - which will be mainly composed of ' Democrats snd old line Whigs as the ' nucleus around which patriots of every - hade will guher 4 These Democrats who misappre misapprehending - hending misapprehending Ibe ulterior objects of this war -o suddenly loft their bearings and becamw 1 ultra advocates of extreme measures ro j fusing to hear the word "Peace" wiU ro tarn to their first love will abandon the -' Tribune jnuta will see their mistake and whither they are drifting and return to their allegiance to the Constitution Ming 1 of them within three and aU within six months & The great Democratic party of th -North slued by ihe oid-line Whigs and tha Bell-Everett parly - ever friends to oat -Constitution laws and fits - will control : the Legislatures of New York Pennsyl Pennsylvania - vania Pennsylvania and New Jersey before the close of -next year The elections ef 1803 to thos : States will result to the success of tha CnnsulnlloDallat party of Fusee ZKnct 2Vxrcthe duty on and increased price of tMj coffee and ntgar and the kagt Xattoaot lMbt in prospect will cos tribute to this ro ' salt The Peace party will then re-uni ta ' the States - -rale which is more proba proba-' - ' proba-' the ultra war party have mesa while -Je re-union impossible A Cotton will be shipped from New Or Orleans - leans Orleans to Liverpool before the close of next winter blockade or no blockade We shall have onr hands full at home and no wae with England or France wUl be prosecuted- -or them threatened Cam dm will be far farther - ther farther reinforced this year The Lion of AI-- bkm will shake the dew from his mane England snd Prance will treat ns Dslrlybut will not submit to wanton insults 7 The present Union men to Missouri Kentucky and Maryland finding that tho ' " War for the Union" hasthrongh New England prasaaies and Tribune dictatioo'

St'rPBnsfiixo DcwocuATicFAnxeL-AThe Dcmocratlea Standard puUUhedln Con Concord - cord Concord N 1L one of the abieu npc in the Jfbrtb wae eupitreMed on the Sth inat by mob vidleuce at the instigation of the Lin Lincoln - coln Lincoln olQcials of conrie They were cow cowardly - ardly cowardly eet of ruffians and ihe teeukn lAei tld It nmcmbtmt The offense of the Stand Standard - ard Standard eras telling the plain truth Our dispatchee yeeterday herald another font of the irrepressibles - the destruction of the types and press of the Bangor M-) Democrat in able patriotic troth tolling )apcr which scored the Abolitionists on all -ocessions and exposed the iniquity of the Administration in prosecuting the section sectional - al sectional war The Dayton O Empire wonld have been mnxzled long ago bnt for tho wholesome fears of certain irrepressible leaden who were duly Informed that they would be heklywfONafry rttwmlbc for any accident to the Empire OTA correspondent at Lexington in in-formf - formf in-formf ut that the account of the difficulty between Wra It Daniels and Wm JR TK-vrell copied Into this paper ftom the Observer and Reporter wae incorrect In seven"! p&rt'cnUn" and did Injustice to Mr John J SrcAfoo It seems that a political dllUunlty occurred between Danlcla and McDowell Mint Dr Young placed in the hands of McDowell a pistol and after the exch'suge of several shots Daniels fell McDowell in the meantime closing on him At Uie fame tlmo Mr McAfee a warm per personal - sonal personal friend of Dunlols made an Ineffectual attempt to give Daniels a pistol and being unable to accomplish his purposennd sup supposing - posing supposing that his friend was mortally wound wounded - ed wounded tired one shot at McDowell who was in tho act of beating Daulels over the head with his plstoL We are fhrlher Informed that the statement that it was with difficul difficulty - ty difficulty that the crowd was restrained from hanging McAfee Is wlthont foundation pThc Fedcrals say that Prince Napo Napoleon - leon Napoleon said that tho troops of Urn Bon'Jiern Confederacy were dirty rugged snd looked half starved Wo do not hellre a word of It Prince Napoleon Is too intelligent a man to utter such sentiments llow could such ragged and half starved troops thrash the Grand Army? HoW could Gen ISrnn ISrnn-regard - regard ISrnn-regard have such pompwiih ragged and hslf starved nieu! TheNortburnreporleis have lied and the X'riuce will prove it in the end If our Northern friends cxpcc: to make capital by lying they will find that in the end Such talus will recoil upon them and thuir Gland Army will only meet with defest and disgrace Em out or Uol Kes&uaw - CoL Ker Kershaw - shaw Kershaw of the Second South Carolina Regi Regiment - ment Regiment has famished the Chaileston Mer Mercury - cury Mercury with the official report of his partici participation - pation participation in flic battle of Manassas Plaics Plaics-USs - USs Plaics-USs regiment went into the battle 7tE strong and the casualties amouuted to five killed and fbrty-seveta wounded They captured s baitery of guns consisting of six pieces steel rifled ItrFoiiTEJO Caitcri or na LikcoiA Bn-ivrw CHV-sapr The Charleston

WAIl COERESl'OSDESCE 1 Letter From Se Do Kay " to New Brigadier - Changes iu the Bat Bat-talion - - talion - Bat-talion - Cots Hunt usd vVilltsms - Major Andersen - Ken tacky Elec Election - tion Election ' ' Cawp Babtow Monday Aug 5 Oar brigade which wss much scattered by the battle of the 31st of July Ji as been re organized and is now camped within three miles of Manassas Jaaction near the line of the Orange and Alexandria Railway and within twenty two miles of Washington City General Samuel Joues bis assumed command as the successor ' of the gallant butiU-futed Birtow Oar new Brigadier wns lsng la Iheecrvkeofthe Federal Gov Government - ernment Government and his last official position wss Assistant Adjutsat-Seneral of the United States Army lio is a hale hearty man stoutly built with a broad good humored face a frank cheery manner universal bon Amom is and the reputation of a dash dashing - ing dashing and brave soldier We look with con con-thfenre - thfenre con-thfenre him as B'lr leader in the next engagement which' jri3 ludlcallouS can cannot - not cannot be vwy remole' ' The Kentucky - BatleUon is now very pieoviutly situsited and e better and more hopeful fouling animates officers and mart than at any previous lime Sever il changes in the organization have occurred recently that 1 have not heretofore noticed Lieut Wm H Rowan has been promoted by election to the captaincy of the "Bas "Bastard - tard "Bastard Guards" Cspt R is of good old Kentucky slock lamed in the annals of the nation being the son of Hon John Koitan former Minister to Naples while hisgrandfatherwas the d'stlngnishcd Jurist and Senator IL W Morgan was chosen 1st Lien tenant and James O MeEwcn and fames W McLaughlin 3d Lieutenants - The vacancy of SI Lieutenant in the Corn wall Guards has been filled by the election of Robert H Howard Wc arc expecting daily the arrival from Richmond of four other Kentucky compa companies - nies companies which will give us s complete rcgl merit and add greatly not only to the ef effective - fective effective strength but to the influence of the battalion Col Claiborne will retain com command - mand command and Capt Ben 1 Anderson of the Daria Guards bji been decollated by the Department of War as Mrjor Among the many Visitors to the battle field during the present week were Col Jehu S Williams and CjI Thos H Hunt Both of these gallant Kentuckians were TmclVLd with the consideration und atten attention - tion attention due Ihdr exalted patriotism and noble devotion to the cause of Southern Rights The udjntancy of our battalion has been assigned to Llent George D Wise who has been nlih ns Kentuckians during all our campaignings He is a uepliyvr of tx-Governor Wise aud a true scion of a noble stock Lieu' Whip 8- Rogers filled the position for some weeks with greet fidelity und ability' but hie a flection for the "South Licking Rebels" was so great that he could not consent to temporarily sever his con connection - nection connection with that gallant and effective body ((men - ' This Is election day In Kentucky and the --- !n" p-'-'v m-'rnlnr- bsvs Ihwi tQ----

1861 23T- To the candid coaslderatlon of all American cltlzpnt we commend tho fal fallowing - lowing fallowing article from the Dublin Nation Read-it and then ask yourselves what yon think of this fratricidal war Ta Ken Kentuckians - tuckians Kentuckians and partlcululy to the Union men we commend Its consideration To all t jobs who gre searching for pretexts to contliine the war we commend It The bond uniting the people of the several State Is the free consent of the governed Ia this country the people must rule not fanallcs The Southern people are united against the usurpations of the North and none but Block Republicans deny it - Tnr rxsjwiciDAL wau As the news from America flows In the 1 of the Northerns and of their tend more and more to disgust longwise of the Northerns and Journals tend more and more to dlsgu and outrage all who hold the sacred faith of human freedom and to nuke them weep in poignant mortidca'ioa end deep despair Well-iiuy are despair of popular liberty to presence of the sight the world seea to today - day today A republican people whoso liberties were won by a rebellion whose indepen dence was achieved by a Secession parrot as gUhly a any minions of Old World tyranny- "the rebels" and "the rebellion" 1 phrues of oJinmmud reproach! Those whpproWto'h will to reverence the desire for sell-govt eminent proceeding to drown the popular will to blood and to answer the desire for self-government by butchery and slaughter! If what 1 now par sins In America took place to any of the Old World empire It would be at least intelligible It the clti-z-jni of nearly half an empire five times ss large aa all Europe with an unanimity never surpassed and rarely equalled de declared - clared declared by free poll to open day by univer universal - sal universal snfirage that their interests and their feelings demanded the substitution of the Imperial Government by one of their own choice and that the Imperial Government marched its armies to crush the demand to tbe blood of the ''Rebels" it would be no nothing - thing nothing new among despotic systems Bui in a great Confederation of Republi Republican - can Republican States to a syitein based on the will of

Ive powet of the -State i'-su the convention can eiproiriutc icmcy a jiowtr denied il during its session ist winter: it can district the state for the lection of Congressmen apportion repre representative? - sentative? representative? among the counties and senato senatorial - rial senatorial districts elect United 8'atcs Senators builu rdlroadii charter hanks impose luxes and fix tne rates snd objects of taxa taxation - tion taxation organize and arm the militia or any one or all of the thousand acts of a legisla legislative - tive legislative body The following in from the Standard a State Bights paper: i This action is iVeyo ttowUlUitional and 'U'Vi'b'oMnry without the warrant or sanc sanction - tion sanction of law iu any particular By authori authority - ty authority ot the law the office of aay member of the Stale Government tan be vacated only by impeachment by the House or lttpre lttpre-senhitlvceand - senhitlvceand lttpre-senhitlvceand trial by the Senate Again ilic Constitn'ioa knows no such officer as a "Provisional'' Governor The whole ac action - tion action is a AorM noru gotten up to sell your liberties and turn you over body sonl and spirit into the hand of their maiter the tyrant and u'urper at Washington What id tut be done? 1 What la 1 answer Upbih Give rightful but exiled Governor ot your Suite - render obedience to the law as ad administered - ministered administered by his officers - resist at nsur patina any promulgation or edict of the bogus Administration to be Installed to Jvlicrsou City - and throughout the land raise such t howl of cxccntionibhorrance and vcngearee that the traitor whopoluio your Caidttl may tremble to the den ef their filthy conspiracy and flee from the day of your wrath The Missouri Telegraph another Union paper that disposes of the bog as con concern - cern concern The State Convention has unwittingly but eifectiially thrown up a masked batte battery - ry battery from l-chiud which the Secessionists ad Revolutionist may overwhelm andni- - I fc'notelr carry he State with the SouLhern I Confederacy Was this designed? The I

the people - based on the right of rebellion - that all this should happen that we now see - that no tyranny or despotism of Old Europe ever drew the sword more savagcly to put dewn "rebellion" and trample on the voice of the people than this same Central Government or a Republican Con Confederation - federation Confederation - it ia enough to wring tbe heart of any man who bsueved In the greater humanity and toleration of popular Gov Governments - ernments Governments Well may the advocates of des despotic - potic despotic monarchy laugh to bitter mocker' those who believe that a people ruling themselves would never epill blood lu popular snlijugatlon and that such mur murder - der murder were dime only by kings and despot of Old Europe It Is a hideous sarcasm on Republican Republicanism - ism Republicanism to hear the Journals of the Northern States yelliug for the blood of "the rebels" for their utter subjugation and destruction "We mean to conquer them" says a Re Republican - publican Republican journal to New - York - "not merely to defeat hut to conquer to subju subjugate - gate subjugate them But when the rebellious trai traitors - tors traitors are overwhelmed to the field and scat scattered - tered scattered like laavee before the angry wind It must not be to return to pose etui and con contented - tented contented homes They must Had poverty at their firesides end ses privation to the anx anxious - ious anxious eyes of mothers and rags of chil children" - dren" children" Was ever more hellish sentiment uttered? Where to the annals of despotism or tlia records of its hatcheries shall we seek for a parallel to this? Where even against rebels who had not a particle of j astlllcatlon? If the subjects of the most legitimate sov sovereign - ereign sovereign that ever held a scepter hid acted as the Southern Slates have donewonld these sentiments not be tofltmles If uttered his part? Yet In ft my of infamies are they when uttered by republicans against brotb- --aiftwH h ftin 11-01-0-111 fs