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...Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...s everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York Sta...

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..., 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Flor... ... be the Representative of to- morrow. Mr. Crittenden, who was Senator from Kentucky, is now a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in ... ...ll probably be dictated by the North. It may still be hoped that Missouri, Kentucky, Vir- ginia, and Maryland will go with the North, and be res- cued... ... army of Virginia was called, of which McClellan held the command; that of Kentucky, under General Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio;... ...ee rebel armies of Beauregard, in Virginia; of Johnston, on the borders of Kentucky and Tennessee; and of Price, in Missouri. There was also a fourth ... ..., to Portsmouth, Cincinnati, and the whole of South Ohio, to Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio joins the Mississippi. T... ...head of it. Cincinnati stands on the Ohio River, separated by a ferry from Kentucky, which is a slave State, Ohio itself is a free-soil State. When th... ... and where Southern wishes commence. New- port and Covington, which are in Kentucky, are suburbs of Cincinnati; and yet in these places slavery is rif... ...ke a railway a division, or the center line of a city a national boundary. Kentucky and Ohio States are joined together by the Ohio River, with Cincin...

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...wonder if there are some Kentuckians about this audi- ence—we are close to Kentucky; and whether that be so or not, we are on elevated ground, and, by... ...e it. In this matter Judge Douglas is preparing the public mind for you of Kentucky to make perpetual that good thing in your estimation, about which ... ...not to Kentuckians! Mr. LINCOLN: I beg permission to speak as I please. In Kentucky perhaps, in many of the slave States certainly, you are trying to ... ...rence to color; and he knows very well that you may entertain that idea in Kentucky as much as you please, but you will never win any Northern support... ... the con- trolling of it as other property would be just about what you in Kentucky should want. I understand the controlling of prop- erty means the ... ...ession, which, in us, is so unpatri- otic and heretical. From all this, my Kentucky friends may see that this opinion is heretical in his view only wh... ...ass of men, it is in nowise offensive to him. In this again, my friends of Kentucky, you have Judge Douglas with you. There is another reason why you ... ...uglas ought to be re-elected. Still to heighten the wonder, a senator from Kentucky, whom I have always loved with an affection as tender and endearin... ... found it so. Let us take an illustration be- tween the States of Ohio and Kentucky. Kentucky is sepa- rated by this River Ohio, not a mile wide. A po...

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...ANSION, WASHINGTON, January 6, 1864. 2 P.M. GOVERNOR BRAMLETTE, Frankfort, Kentucky: Y ours of yesterday received. Nothing is known here about Genera... ...derstand how doing so is bad faith and dishonor, nor yet how it so exposes Kentucky to ruin. Military men here do not perceive how it exposes Kentuck... ...- PARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, February 28, 1864. GENERAL L. THOMAS, Louisville, Kentucky: I see your despatch of yesterday to the Secretary of War. I wish ... ...GTON, March 28, 1864. HON. SECRETARY OF W AR. MY DEAR SIR:—The Governor of Kentucky is here, and desires to have the following points definitely fixed... ...ed: First. That the quotas of troops furnished, and to be fur- nished, by Kentucky may be adjusted upon the basis as actu- ally reduced by able-bodie... ...CUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 4, 1864. A. G . HODGES, ESQ., Frankfort, Kentucky: MY DEAR SIR:—Y ou ask me to put in writing the substance of what ... ...lroad com- munication between Knoxville and Cincinnati by way of cen- tral Kentucky would be of great consequence in the present emergency. It may be... ...IVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, June 13, 1864. MAJOR-GENERAL THOMAS, Louisville, Kentucky: Complaint is made to me that in the vicinity of Henderson, our mi... ... the military or naval service; and Whereas, many citizens of the State of Kentucky have joined the forces of the insurgents, who have on several occa...

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...: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it prob... ...here to McClellan, they will let us have Rich- mond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the... ...tin Blair, Governor of Michigan. J. B. Temple, President Military Board of Kentucky. Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee. H. R. Gamble, Governor of ... ...r Johnson, at Nashville, is in great trouble and anxiety about a raid into Kentucky. The governor is a true and valu- able man—indispensable to us in ... ...MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: They are having a stampede in Kentucky. Please look to it. A. LINCOLN. 88 The Writings of Abraham Lincol... ... J. T. BOYLE. W ASHINGTON, July 13, 1862. GENERAL J. T. BOYLE, Louisville, Kentucky: Y our several despatches received. Y ou should call on General Ha... ...T. BOYLE. W AR DEPARTMENT, July 13, 1862. GENERAL J. T. BOYLE, Louisville, Kentucky: We cannot venture to order troops from General Buell. We know not... ...ongress deciding in advance that they shall be free. To the high honor of Kentucky, as I am informed, she is the owner of some slaves by escheat, and... ... J. T. BOYLE. W AR DEPARTMENT, August 31, 1862. GENERAL BOYLE, Louisville, Kentucky: What force, and what the numbers of it, which General Nelson had ...

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... drink In a pint pot, Some like to think; Some not. Strong Dutch cheese, Old Kentucky rye, Some like these; Not I. Some like Poe, And others like Scot...

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... Lincoln’s in wretchedness. He first saw the light in a miserable hovel in Kentucky, on a farm con- sisting of a few barren acres in a dreary neighbor... ...usly of his outward appearance. So far he had been content with a garb of “Kentucky jeans,” not seldom ragged, usually patched, and always shabby. Now... ...politi- cal distinction before him, he paid his addresses to Mary Todd, of Kentucky, and was accepted. But then torment- ing doubts of the genuineness... ...ccommodated themselves to those of his more highborn wife; and though the “Kentucky jeans” apparel had long been dropped, his clothes of better mate- ... ...-roomed cabin without floor or window in what was then the wil- derness of Kentucky, in the heart of that frontier life which swiftly moved westward f... ...to his soul. No boy could grow to manhood in those days as a poor white in Kentucky and Indiana, in close contact with slavery or in its neighbor- hoo... ..., being about to pay a visit to her father and other relatives residing in Kentucky, proposed to me that on her return she would bring a sister of her... ... happiness. A gentleman had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky, and was taking them to a farm in the South. They were chained six... ... affairs; and if she has not, do not let her. I do not think I can come to Kentucky this season. I am so poor and make so little headway in the world,...

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... me as trying to sustain the doctrine that we have a right to quarrel with Kentucky, or Virginia, or any of the slave States, about the institution of... ... the belief in the existence of, the right to interfere with the States of Kentucky or Virginia in doing as they pleased with slavery Or any other exi... ...on of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a general declaration in the act announcing to the world th... ...on of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a gen- eral declaration in the act announcing to the world ...

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...n — no alkali spider about her, I can tell you; she was of the best blood of Kentucky, the bluest Blue grass aristocracy, very proud and acrimonious —... ...hose skeletons were two million years old, which astonished her and made her Kentucky pretensions look small and pretty antiphonal, not to say oblique...

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...d one died in a lunatic asylum. It was in the blood. She was from Lexington, Kentucky. Name was Horton before she was married.” And so on, by the hour... ...d. First, the new railroad stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger trav... ...elp prospering. When I turned out, in the morning, we had passed Co lumbus, Kentucky, and were approaching Hickman, a pretty town, perched on a hands... ...as at a landing called Compromise. Half the church and half the aisle was in Kentucky, the other half in Tennessee. Sundays you’d see the families dri... ...d orderly, one lot on the T ennessee side of the church and the other on the Kentucky side; and the men and boys would lean their guns up against the ... ... miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, heavily timbered, and lay near the Kentucky shore—within two hundred yards of it, I should say. Now, however... ...left of it but an insignificant little tuft, and this was no longer near the Kentucky shore; it was clear over against the opposite shore, a mile away... ... the wide river is without obstruction. In this region the river passes from Kentucky into T ennes see, back into Missouri, then back into Kentucky, ... ...you grant that you have seen something that is worth remembering. We had the Kentucky Bend country in the early morn ing—scene of a strange and tragi...

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... himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, —or the Lord knows The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Was...

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...sissippi, and the brothers Harpe, the Thugs of the Green River country, in Kentucky—creatures, with others of the sort, one and all exterminated at th... ...ped blankets, and Broadway bucks in cravats of cloth of gold; fine-looking Kentucky boat-men, and Japanese-look- ing Mississippi cotton-planters; Quak... ...e, and, having been subpoenaed as witness in a stock case on the docket in Kentucky, has his transfer-book with him. A month since, in a panic contriv... ...e,” said he, “but, if I err not, I was speaking to you the other day;—on a Kentucky boat, wasn’t it?” “Never to me,” was the reply; the voice deep and... ... established themselves near the south- ern frontier of the Bloody Ground, Kentucky: ‘They were strong, brave men; but, unlike many of the pioneers in...

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...ied at Nagasaki, while I roast a battered heart before the shrine of a big Kentucky blonde, who had for a nurse when she was little a negro “mammy.” B...

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... not some races—the artistically non creative—born as irremediably blind as Kentucky cave fishes? The answer might be yes, in the case of the wholly n...

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...President on what he had to say, and wouldn’t bate him a grain. Another, a Kentucky farmer, six feet six in height, with his hat on, and his hands und... ...we shortly afterwards had a new kind of visitor in the person of a certain Kentucky Giant whose name is Porter, and who is of the moderate height of s... ... being versed in the vagabond arts of sleight of hand and hocus pocus. The Kentucky Giant was but another illustration of the truth of this position. ... ...the following negroes: Randal, has one ear cropped; Bob, has lost one eye; Kentucky Tom, has one jaw broken.’ American Notes – Dickens 247 ‘Ran away...

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...ation of happiness that was high as the highest pinnacle of the caverns of Kentucky; raising me from the depths of Chimborazo.” Tom meant to reverse t... ...ou,” she said. “Chimborazo is not particularly low, nor are the caverns of Kentucky so strikingly elevated.” “Ascribe it all to that fatal, heart-thri...

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...vertheless did mean to go on the banks of the Ohio and throw missiles into Kentucky, to disturb them in their domestic institutions. I said in that sp... ...e the institution national? Not war. There is no danger that the people of Kentucky will shoulder their mus- kets, and, with a young nigger stuck on e...

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...en; And thought how sad would be such sound On Susquehana’s swampy ground, Kentucky’s wood-encumbered brake, Or wild Ontario’s boundless lake, Where h...

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...m- mon in most animals that live largely in the dark—the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance. Then, those large eyes, with that capacity fo...

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...e I WA S the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia And Thomas Greene of Kentucky, Of valiant and honorable blood both. To them I owe all that I bec...

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... of North Carolina, art. 31; Virginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, art. 2, Section 26; Tennessee, art. 8, Section I; Louisiana, art.... ...s the name of the river. These two States only differ in a single respect; Kentucky has ad- mitted slavery, but the State of Ohio has prohibited the e... ...er to New Or- leans across five hundred leagues of continent. The State of Kentucky was founded in 1775, the State of Ohio only twelve years later; bu... ...in Europe, and, at the present day, the population of Ohio exceeds that of Kentucky by two hundred and fifty thousand souls.* These opposite con- sequ... ...of employment. Thus the men whose task it is to cultivate the rich soil of Kentucky are ignorant and lukewarm; whilst those who are active and en- *Th... ...844; Ohio, 937,679. [In 1890 the population of Ohio was 3,672,316, that of Kentucky, 1,858,635.] 398 Democracy in America lightened either do nothing... ...he State of Ohio, where they may work without dishonor. It is true that in Kentucky the planters are not obliged to pay wages to the slaves whom they ... ...ssed in New York in 1786, and have since been abolished in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Missouri. In V ermont, Indiana, Illinois,... ...astly, in the States of Missouri, Alabama, Illinois, Louisi- ana, Indiana, Kentucky, and V ermont, the conditions of vot- ing have no reference to the...

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...he new ideas in his scien- tific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave- fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no u... ...ay’s sturdy brougham-horse was carrying them northward as if he had been a Kentucky trotter. Archer choked with the sense of 203 Edith Wharton wasted...

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...ery state of the American Union, where slavery exists, except the state of Kentucky, there are laws absolutely prohibitory of education among the slav... ...e finest feelings of human nature are expressed in them. “Lucy Neal,” “Old Kentucky Home,” and “Uncle Ned,” can make the heart sad as well as merry, a...

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... a negro of the Jim Crow order, one or two foresters of the Middle Ages, a Kentucky woodsman in his trimmed hunting shirt and deerskin leggings, and a...

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...feet, it probably did not extend much farther. The immense mammoth cave in Kentucky is of gigantic propor- tions, since its vaulted roof rises five hu...

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... propping the tatter’s pretensions, I was throw- ing out a hint concerning Kentucky, as a land of tall men, when our Vine-yarder turned away abruptly,...

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...ver seen. The stranger had killed this man’s friend in a fight, this man’s Kentucky training made it a duty to kill the stranger for it. He neglected ...

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...great names which in our faces stare, The General Boon, back woodsman of Kentucky, Was happiest amongst mortals anywhere; For killing nothin...

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...mpletely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But let us hold on here by this tooth...

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...mpletely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But let us hold on here by this tooth...

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...thing about her health. I reckon it will scarcely be in our power to visit Kentucky this year. Be- sides poverty and the necessity of attending to bus... ...here were many, but he was very confident there were some. His friend from Kentucky near him, [Mr. Gaines] told him he himself was one. There was stil... ...s tributaries. They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Loui- siana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois... ... all others whom I have heard speak assail it furiously. A new member from Kentucky [Mr. Clark], of very considerable ability, was in particular con- ... ...s may be on their authority to pass any particular act, the gentleman from Kentucky thinks the President must veto it if he has doubts about it. Now I... ...ven bill the President doubts, he is not to veto it, as the gentleman from Kentucky would have him do, but is to defer to Congress and approve it. And... ...wo SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 15, 1849. __________ESQ. DEAR S IR:—On my return from Kentucky I found your letter of the 7th of November, and have delayed answe... ...rd year Mr. Clay was licensed to practise law, and emigrated to Lexington, Kentucky. Here he commenced and continued the prac- tice till the year 1803... ...tinued the prac- tice till the year 1803, when he was first elected to the Kentucky Legislature. By successive elections he was continued in the Legis...

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..., South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky, 118 North America V ol. 1 Missouri, Virginia, Delaware, and Mary... ...rop- erly belongs to the West. As I now write, the struggle is going on in Kentucky and Missouri. In Missouri the slave population is barely more than... ...s by free States of the West, and its soil, let us hope, must become free. Kentucky I must leave as doubtful, though I am inclined to believe that sla... ...though I am inclined to believe that slavery will be abolished there also. Kentucky, at any rate, will never throw in its lot with the Southern States... ...31,565 Delaware 110,548 1,805 112,353 Virginia 1,097,373 495,826 1,593,199 Kentucky 920,077 225,490 1,145,567 Total 2,774,181 808,503 3,582,684 In the... ...he Senate in December, 1860, was at that time one of the two Senators from Kentucky, a slave State. He now sits in the Lower House of Congress as a me... ...e now sits in the Lower House of Congress as a member from the same State. Kentucky is one of those border States which has found it impossible to sec... ...es into which it was most probable that the war would be carried—Virginia, Kentucky, and Mis- souri being the three States which have suffered the mos... ...exas. This might be all very well for Mr. Crittenden in the slave State of Kentucky—for Mr. Crittenden, al- though a slave owner, desired to perpetuat...

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...h, the ground in all directions is cover’d with pine straw; In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace blaze,... ...theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs, To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs, To Texas and so al... ...is, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee, Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light green sheath, Gather the hay t... ...on lit night, The humming bird, the wild turkey, the raccoon, the opossum; A Kentucky corn field, the tall, graceful, long leav’d corn, slender, flapp... ...merica, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places, Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be, Of what a few years will sho...

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...e, and any colour you choose that is not white; and Tweezy, who comes from Kentucky, with an affliction of his left hip, which makes him a little unce... ...ave been misinfohmed, most of your prominent siahs, suh, are impo’ted from Kentucky; an’ I’m from Paduky.” There was the least little touch of pride i... ...e: “I want all you here ter understand thet ther ain’t no Kan- sas, ner no Kentucky, ner yet no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ hor...

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...ng to the most different classes, which inhabit the caves of Styria and of Kentucky, are blind. In some of the crabs the foot-stalk for the eye remain... ...enerations from the outer world into the deeper and deeper recesses of the Kentucky caves, as did European animals into the caves of Europe. We have s... ...ants of Jones, Mr. J.M., on the birds of Bermuda Jussieu on classification Kentucky, caves of Kerguelen-land, flora of Kidney-bean, acclimatisation of...

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...with her daughter, who had also married a mechanic and lived in Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. Then began the hard years for T...

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... that, at this time, there was a company of forty trappers and hunters from Kentucky, with their rifles, who had made their head quar ters at the Pu... ...ening destruction to the rebels, but never stirred from his fort; for forty Kentucky hunters, with their rifles, were a match for a whole regiment o... ...ies.* Lies! thought I, that must be the man who came across the country from Kentucky to Monterey while we lay there in the Pilgrim in 1835, and made ...

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...ad made a pilgrimage of a thousand miles from a village of the faithful in Kentucky, to visit his spiritual kindred, the children of the sainted mothe...