The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-04
KrntmcI,n PoIItIcs.


The following letter written by pri-
yate citizen Of Montgomery county, Ken
lucky, man Of character and iutclli-
gence, and addressed to gentleman in
this city, will be read with interest
The writer is not a politician, but plain,
staunch Kentucky farmer, and his letter
was written with not the least expecta-
ton that it would ever meet the public
eye. 1t is all the more valuable for this
reason.
August %, 1868
Dear Sir,--As the smoke and dust has
passed away, from the result Of the con-
test in this State we can pretty accu.
rately sum up all the killed. wounded,
and those badly crippled in the land.
The killed outright are those who start
ed of after the fortunes Of old Granny
WicklifIe The wounded are of that class
Ike your --- -. The crippled
are actual sympathizers. In our cleo
| tons of members of Congress, there is
| Gen. Smith, B. j. Clay, and w. Ii. Ram
dali are for any thing to kill rebels, and
Anderson is also 80 | understand. The
| others you know their status as well as
l do. Are you for the government Of
your Fathers or Jeh's? Bramlette, whose
speeches you have read, has led the
ticket all over the State. Our great, 81
loss Ia votes is in Louisyilc--that i5a
greater per cent. This is the fruits of
the Louisville policy. They the lead.
ers, are an abomination to any party.
Their principles are in their breecbes
pockets. The old Hunkers in our State
are completely routed. Look at Frank
fort, the vote Of the county under the
control of Gov. Robinson and his fac
ton, we lose largely. In Lexington and
Fayette county the same restlt. The
aristocrats are all beaten, and hence
the small vote around their homes. still
Bramlette has got the largest vote in our
State for any one, except the old p L. of
Wheatland. The people in tits State
have concluded to select for themselves
who shall hereafter go TO Congress. Leg
islature, etc. The old rats, who live by
fat offices about Frankfort, are all whip
ped and cleared out and | hope not one
of the miserable crew will ever get into
power while the world lasts They have
well mig ruined us as people do know
the masses of our people have always
been true as steel, but our papers have
placed US before the world as a set of
faulttinders and in a word disloyal TO a
great extent We ought to have a first
class paper in our State to represent the
Union sentiment of Kentucky. The
Western Citizen, at Paris, Ky, is the on
ly one, and it is only county paper.
Bramlette's vote will be near 10000.
We expect much of him-he will cali out
the militia of the State to put down this
,, horse stealing and robbing. He can eff
fectually put stop to it, and all this
guerrilla business. lie says no quarter
shall be given them, and no prisoners
shall be taken, unles they are regular
soldiers He talks right, and if be ia
not mesmerized by the cursed influence
about Frankfort and its adiaCencies we
will be free from depredations in a short
time. | regard this favorable time for
us to loose all our dead weight, that the
truly loyal have had to pack for these
two long years The Onion men of our
State are 100000 strong, the antics, all
told, number 40 600 TO $4,000. | do not
+ see very well what is TO become of our
= rebellious States, or how they ever can
be granted the privileges they have lost
There is but one way, and that is to take
n bold stand. Ny voice is for total ex.
It clusion of all privileges save the right ia
: breathe and to live, at'the mercy of the
:. Union men. 1t they were restored to al
t. their rights they would soon get inso.
n lent and abuse their privileges TIL,
2, leaders ought to die as enemies to theil
y race. The Presidential campaign will
o soon open think d. S. Dickinson, o.
: Gov. johnson would make good officers
: especially your Governor. He has tn
nerve, l think, and is well suited to tn
d times. remember a long time back, HI
n wGs for the "Whte basis" in Tennessee
in contest for Governor These woult
d be admirable antecedents to start with