The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-11-02

Letter from West Virginia.
Kanawha G. H., Oct. 30, 1866

l'lOIllNtAt iliib III All9 WYNN Nh
least refer to the white man.
] intended to speak mainly of his
condition since tho war; Of the crops,
the spirit of the people, the manner of
life, the state of society; but the times
are too full Of political interest just
now to admit of this
We are in the stress of the conflict
here; in three days our election takes /
place An election on which the des- 7
tinics of this State much depend For
our institutions are not like yours, es-
tablished the formative period is not
even passed, and You can hardly Judge
of our anxiety over the issue of next
Thursdays work.
The voice of the millions. speaking
as they spoke in the great States the
other day, has filed us with glsdness
and condolences Thank God the
great demagogue, the mean malgRer
Of freemen, and apologist for those
who despise him the President of
great people, who does not care for
his dignity; who handles epithets with
mob; who returns from his mad cru
SADIE against the faith he once stroye
to defend, to the seat OF Washington
and Lncoln-reeling back the shame
of his people, and the scorn Of the
world been answered, and ans
wered in voice that even Andrew
Johnson, willing or unwilling, drunk
or sober, must hear The grand
dead march was hardly still, when
the freemen of this land with NAL
ace towards none with charity for all,
vet with q voice that fairly shook the
hills, declared that governments of
the people, for the people, by the peo-
pie, shall not perish from off the
earth And that voice which rose in
your mountains, which rolled ON until
the nations shall hear it, will find
echoes here, and strong echoes too 49,
For in these hills, and by these rivers,
there are rude but strong and true
hearted men who have learned les
SOL in these terrible years that cannot
be neglected or unlearned, lesson of
betrayal by trusted leaders, of great
sufferings and deiiverance; they can
not forget who betrayed and who de-
livered, and they are in little haste to
trust in maligners, rebels, or accnrsed
copperheads, though they have stolen
colors they once betrayed, and taken
" the livery of Heaven to serve the
devil in" In the pending elections,
cur candidates for Governor are A. j.
Boreman, the present incumbent, an
earnest honest man of moderate abil
tiles, and pleasant manners, with warm
friends and bitter enemies in per-
sonal appearance closely resembling
Mr.. Rankin, formerly of your place
and Benjamin H. Smith, man oven
seventy, some six feet four inches in
, his stockings, straight as an arrow
q vigorous as at twenty, one Of the ablest
= lawyers in the State, and strona
$ man politically, but unpopular with
} his present supporters because of hi,
y Union antecedents, and unpopular
+ with the Union men because of hi
;. present company. The pride of hi:
8 life is that he was true wing for hal
a century, and keen sense of ingrati
tude only, has driven him to his pres
ent position. He opposed secession
- from the first; lost $4,000 worth o
6 slaves without muTmur, and has seel
his estates, covering perhaps 1000
d acres, devastated by the armies, anC
o had he remained with the Union par
J. ty, would have held their sympath
IS and gained their support, but he i
d now exposed to almost certain defeat
% The excitement in this district final
n ly eliminated in grand barbecue til
e other day, which was to me a noyelt,
)f The stand and seats were arrange
1t much ms at one of your camp meetings
Of and back of these a short distance
lie the table, behind which was the roast
IS ing. Long trenches, some four fee
tie wide and two deep, were fenced wit
ut stout poles some three feet from tn
ut ground, and across were drawn wires
l. from which hung long wire hooks
ID suspending quarters of lamb and grea
We pieces of beet over the red Goals. Til
j. meat had been roasting some twenty
d, four hours, and | never ate meat roas
I'd ed so deliciously The speakers wei
ry Gov. Boreman and Senator Willie
" the latter one of the most eloquel
is men | ever heard. The day was fin
ce and the affair success politically.
THE SEASON.
1t cannot be that you are havin