Even the Border States, which had not been embraced by the military agencies and federalized machinery erected over the Gulf States, were seriously menaced.

Never did newspaper enterprise set out under gloomier auspices.
There was a party of reaction in Kentucky, claiming to be Democratic, playing to the lead of the party of repression at the North.

It refused to admit that the head of the South was in the lion's mouth and that the first essential was to get it out.

The Courier-Journal proposed to stroke the mane, not twist the tail of the lion.

Thus it stood between two fires.