Kentucky Roused at last.
We have observed in our midst for several days past many prominent citizens of Old Kentucky and their countenances were welcome as giving assurance of their sympathy with our cause and of their approaching union with their Southern brethren, for we have never doubted their ultimate separation from the degraded Northern alliance.Kentucky has been slow, but her places of power having been filled by those who were unwilling to give up the fleshpots, she has been under an evil influence difficult to throw off.
We learned yesterday afternoon, with the greatest satisfaction, that Lincoln's intimation that Kentucky would not be allowed to hold any longer her ‘ "neutral"’ attitude, had aroused oven the Unionists of the State, and that other acts of despotic authority, announced to us by telegraph, with the prospect of a gradual but sure encroachment upon her freedom of action, had determined her wavering people to make an issue with the hated tyrants who rule in the once free city of Washington. It is further stated that Gov. Magoffin was about to issue a proclamation similar to that issued by Gov. Jackson, of Missouri, and that he would speedily open communication with the Government of the Confederate States. We are not prepared to vouch for the truth of the last statement, although it was believed in Knoxville on Saturday; but we think the signs of the times indicate the movement to which we refer. We pray that Lincoln may go on in his blundering career, and not cease until he has completed our Confederacy by effecting a separation, complete and perpetual, of all the States whose natural alliance is with the Government of the South.
