The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-09-17
LANCASTER, OHIO, SEP. II, 1876
Democracy, alias Rebellion, in
Kentucky.

DcinOcracy. aI1aS tteDeJliOD, III
Kentucky.
The Portsmouth Tribune has
compiled the following:
A correspondent OF the Cine in.
natl Commercial recently spent
several days in the border counties
of Kentucky Immediately back Of
Covington. His detailed convcr.
sations show that The spirit of re.
bellion is as rampant there as ever,
and that tho people are confident.
~ looking TO the election Of Sey.
mour and Blair to restore to them
all their rights" and compensate
them for the loss of their slaves
The correspondent shows concIu
sively that a reign Of terror exists
not twenty miles from Cincinnati,
that no Union man is sale there,
and that another war is confident.
ly anticipated. This is cQnsideta-
bly, later news than the report Of
General Grant referred 70 by the
Times Of last Saturday, and we call
the editors attention 10 it. One Of
the chivalry informed the cores
pendent that although nine hun.
dred men went into the Union army
from Boone county, at the late elcc.
ton the Union candidate for Gov
ernor received but one hundred and
thirty votes
"They were rather bold, were
they not, that one hundred and
thirty?" / asked.
'"Thcy were" he replied, "but
they arc all spotted men. Kentucky
has some of that class, but they
have stayed here just about us
long as they will be allowed to :
We intend to purify until the elec.
ton, ard then fumig gate afterward."
"And were there no Radical votes
cast at the precincts along this
road?" l asked.
"Only five between Covington
and Crittenden, and they had bet.
ter have moved from the country
than have done It,"
There's freedom for you! Speak.
ing of The Northern Dem ocrats,
and being asked what he would do
with them in the event Of the cleo
tion Of Seymour and Blair, another
neutral said
"Do with them," he replied;
why, d-n them, we would put
them in the only position nature
qualified them to fill-the position
they occupied during the war
We would put them under the Ia
Bile and feed them on the crumbs
and leavings. We don't blame
them half as much as we do our
home made Yankees. In the
North the Democracy always fol-
lowed leaders, and those leaders
were Southern men. When the
war came they vert cut off from
Their leaders, and either iell in un =
der the Radicals or stood still and
acquiesced in the action of the Lin
coin Government. They are not
SO much to blame, because they
hadn't sense enough to know what
to do"
Coppcrheads, "put that in your
pipe and smoke it," How do you
like it?
"What do you think ought to be
done with the Radicals, in case Of
"a Democratic victory in the coming
election q
"Sir, they arc all traitors To the
Constitution, and if Seymour does
his duty he will arrest and hang
for treason every Radical member
of Congress. When tho Radical
State Governments are set aside in
tho Southern States these fellows
can not claim to be their legal rep
rcsentatives, and if they do, they
will be arrested as traitors and
usurpers, and, l think, justly con
victed OF treason against the States
and hung for it,"
"And when will peace come
then? ?" l asked.
"Just when the South is PLACED
back where she was in 1860, with al
her rights restored and her losses
compensated"
Pleasant prospect, this isn't it
That is tho feast TO which we in
vite ourselves by the election o
Seymour and Blair.
In one crowd the CONVEX satiol
turned upon negroes as slaves ant
frocmeE:
} zone of our old negroes cam
; back home last night and begge'
us to take him back, said a youni
man Of about twenty-five, but W
> told him to git"
,, IL don't think he is 10 blame,
! said another; "he was coaxod ol
) by the Yankees, and didn't knoy
; any better. / would have set hin
4, at work and made him make up los
Time"
a IL wouldn't" said the first speal
n er; "if he was dying of starvatio
l wouldn't give him u piece OF cor
bread. If he is hungry, let hir
stay with his Yankee friends; he
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