KENTUCKY. 



569 



Below we continue further correspondence from dif- 

 ferent sections of the State, illustrating the " fairness," 

 "justice," and " freedom " of the election of Monday, 

 August 3d, 1863. 



A memorial addressed to President Lincoln 

 by Judge S. S. Nicholas, of Louisville, Ken- 

 tucky, makes the following statement : 



On August 1st, Colonel Mundy, commanding at Lou- 

 isville, issued his proclamation, with generous assur- 

 ances to the citizens that their election should be pro- 

 tected against the interference of raiders, of whom no 

 man had the slightest fear, but giving no promise 

 against his own soldiers, as to whom at least one half 

 of the voters stood in the greatest apprehension. On 

 the contrary, h said there would be a military guard 

 at each voting 'place, accompanied by detectives, who 

 knew " the record of each resident in the several pre- 

 cincts, to point out to the guard any who shall attempt 

 to perpetrate a fraud against the election law ; " and 

 that " all who shall present themselves at the polls, 

 and fraudulently attempt to vote, will be immediately 

 arrested by the guard, and confined in the military 

 prison." Accordingly, on the day of election, there 

 were ten soldiers with muskets at each voting place, 

 who with crossed bayonets stood in the doors, prevent- 

 ing all access of voters to the polls but by their per- 

 mission, and who arrested and carried to the military 

 prison all that they were told to arrest. But there 

 were not very many arrested ; it is said not more than 

 thirty or forty, all of whom, with one or two excep- 

 tions, were released the next day, it becoming early 

 apparent that there was no need for undue intimida- 

 tion to secure the success of the Bramlette ticket. 

 Out of some eight thousand voters in the city, less 

 than five thousand votes were taken. How many of 

 the missing three thousand were deterred from at- 

 tempting to vote cannot be ascertained, nor is it nec- 

 essary, for the intimidation of three thousand voters 

 is no greater outrage than the intimidation of only five 

 hundred. The interpretation generally put by tfce op- 

 position party upon the order of Colonel Mundy was, 

 that no man was to have the privilege of having his 

 right of voting tested by the judges if pointed out to 

 the guard, as proper to be arrested, by any one of the 

 colonel's detectives. He not having the semblance of 

 legal or rightful power to interfere with the election, 

 the most sinister suspicions were naturally aroused, 

 and very many deterred from going to the polls, for 

 fear they should be victimized to personal or party 

 malice. Indeed it is rather matter of surprise that so 

 large a number of the opposition party did go to the 

 polls. Similar intimidation was not only practised in 

 other parts of the State, but, from published proof and 

 reliable information, there is no doubt that in very 

 many counties the judges were so dastardly infamous 

 as to submit to the military order, and not permit the 

 Wickliffe ticket to be voted for. The result is that 

 there was not only direct military interference with 

 the election, but it was conducted in most of the State 

 under the intimidation of Federal bayonets. 



The candidates for State officers were as fol- 

 lows: 



Governor T. B. Bramlette, U. ; Charles W. Wick- 

 liffe, Dem. 



Lieut. Governor R. L. Jacobs, U. ; W. B. Read, 

 Dem. 



Attorney General John M. Harlan, U. ; Thomas 

 Turner, Dem. 



Auditor W. T. Samuels, U. ; Grant Green, Dem. 



Treasurer 3. H. Gerrard, U. ; H. F. Kaifus, Dem. 



Register James S. Dawson, U. ; T. J. Frazier, Dem. 



The vote for Governor was as follows : 



Bramlette 68,306 



Wickliffe 17,389 



Total vote 



Total vote in 1860, 146,216. 



85,696 



The vote for the other candidates was small- 

 er than that for Governor, on each ticket. 



The vote for members of Congress was as 

 follows : 



Union. Democrat. 



1st District, Anderson 4,828 Trimble f\\ 



2d " Teaman 8,811 McHenry... 80R7 



8d " Grider 8,654 Winfrey .'"l'293 



4th " Harding. 10,485 Heady 2608 



5th " Mallory C,257 Walfe 2477 



6th " Smith 6,936 Leathers 1, - 970 



Menzies 2.263 



7th " Clay 4,711 Buckner 2,143 



" " Boyle 2,487 



8th " Randall 7,898 Bradley 196 



9th tt Wadsworth . . . . 6,638 Brown 567 



Of the Legislature, the Senate consists of 

 38 members, entirely Union ; the House, 100 

 members, of which five or six were on the 

 Democratic ticket. 



The Governor elect was inaugurated on the 

 2d of September. In his address, he thus stated 

 the public sentiment of the State, as he regard- 

 ed it to be expressed by the election : 



The recent elections clearly and unmistakably define 

 the popular will and public judgment of Kentucky. 

 It is settled that Kentucky will, with unwavering faith, 

 and unswerving purpose, stand by and support the 

 Government in every effort to suppress the rebellion 

 and maintain the Union. That for this purpose she 

 will " devote the whole resources of our Government to 

 crush the present causeless and wicked rebellion, and 

 restore the national authority over the revolted States." 



But whilst so devoting our whole resources to up- 

 hold and maintain the Government against rebellion, 

 the same devotion to constitutional liberty will equally 

 impel her to oppose her*will to all unconstitutional, all 

 wicked, unwise, or hurtful measures of policy, which 

 may be suggested or adopted in the prosecution of our 

 defensive war. This she will do through the peaceful 

 medium of the ballot-box, by the persuasions of argu- 

 ment, and the legitimate force of our constituted tri- 

 bunals. 



We will make no factious opposition ; will adopt no 

 mode of opposition which can in any manner check or 

 retard those charged with the administration of the 

 Government in any legitimate efl'ort to suppress the 

 rebellion and restore the national authority over the re- 

 volted States. 



Kentucky will not affiliate with those at home, or in 

 other States, whose manifest object is, under pretence 

 of opposition to war measures, to cover their real pur- 

 pose of crippling the energies of our Government, par- 

 alyzing its arm of just defence, and forwarding tho 

 aims of the rebellion. 



The recent vote of Kentucky proclaims that she 

 will not fraternize with rebellion, either open or cov- 

 ert; and with equal emphasis that she will not frater- 

 nize with those who would pervert our just defence 

 into a fanatical war upon the constitutional rights and 

 liberties of the people of the Southern States. But 

 firmly and immovably poised upon her own just, loyal, 

 and proud constitutional centre, Kentucky will main- 

 tain the right, and support the Constitution of the 

 Union by all the powers and modes sanctioned by the 

 wisdom of a humane experience and a just and legul 

 warfare. " Men and money" to crush the rebellion ; 

 votes and argument to correct legislative or executive 

 policy, when erroneous. This is the proclaimed and 

 deliberate will of Kentucky. This is her right and 

 duty. She will maintain her right, and do her duty. 



We affiliate with the loyal men north and south, 

 whose object and policy is to preserve the Union and 

 the Constitution, unchanged and unbroken, and to re- 

 store the people to harmony and peace with the Gov- 

 ernment as they were before the rebellion. 



It is not a restored Union not a reconstructed Union 

 that Kentucky desires; but a preserved Union, and 

 a restored peace upon a constitutional basis. 





