The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-23
Kentuckians and n ssVery Low Glass OF
Western Virginia HOosfers.,,
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~ OAHAWBA, AIa., reD 70, 1901.
To the Eslitors Of tie Louisville Journal 1-i'si ssi
GENrLKNES-You may exult As much a. you
please at what you call the conservative action
Of Kentucky in the present crisis-out here We
are not much disappointed. We expect no bet
ter from State settled BY hoosiers from Wes.
tern Virginia, very low class altogether You
have behaved like dastards and deserve to be
slaves. Lincoln is welcome to you, and as many
more such as you and Tennessee have shown
yourselves to be. That State was settled by Q
poor class of North Carolinansa I do not be-
lieve there is a particle of well descended, chi
valrous blood in the whole of Kentucky or Ten
nessee. If the old State Of Virginia should fol-
low your example she will be beneath contempt.
So you may glory in your accursed Union and
your miserable rag with your stars and stripes.
We will punish you by not allowing you to sell
your negroes out here-the most you make Is by
raising them for sale, and when we stop that and
refuse to buy your corn and pork We can reduce
you to starvation very soon, you will then wish
you had joined our glorious and powerful Sou
thern Confederacy, but it will be too late
Aii NO ear sd L. B. NAMING. 5l
What think you of this, Kentuckians; you the
descendants of "a very low class of Western
Virginia Hoosiers," and you Tennesseeans the
descendants of "a poor class of North Caroli-
mans ?" You whose fathers were the pioneers
of Anglo.Saxon Western civilization, when Al
ALBANIA was overrun by .flibustering Spaniards
and French traders, will Of course be gratiied
with the eulogistic heraldry Of Manning, the
Garter Knight.at. Arms. The memories Of Blue
Lick Springs and Boonesborough, the repulse Of
Duquense with his Canadian and Indian army,
and the perils of Kentucky pioneers used to
claim for you "well descended chivalrous blood"
The early struggles at Fort Loundon and the
many intervening glories down to the time when
the Hermitage and the name of Andrew Jack
son were deeply engraved upon the APerican
heart were formerly proudly associated with Ten
nessee, this "accursed Union and your miserable
rag with your stars and stripes" Now Boone,
and Shelby, and Coffee, and jackson, and Grun-
dy, and Polk, are "a very low class and "a very
poor class" of men, and their descendants are TO
be punished BY Alabama BY her not allowing
| them to sell their negroes out there; not only
punished, but starved into recognition OF the
;.glorious and powerful Southern Confederacy,'
when it refuses to buy our corn and pork
| Did mortal man ever before write such nonsense
as this fellow Mannings Why he's . perfect
| ninny, and We don't believe he ever had grand
father! He exaled from cypress swamp or
was spawned in Niger Jacks Cave on q bed Of
saltpeter. He may look down the visits Of the
| past for his family tree without finding it, but
as to his future destiny, the gallows tree looms
up with beam sinister, a traitor pendant, and
the motto from Alabams's name, "Here We rest. =
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