The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-26
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TheProgramme OF Revolution.


"a Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.
To many of the good people of Ohio.
a week spent in the border counties of
Kentucky might not develop anything
that they would consider OF political
signihcance; but should they leave
COvington on Monday morning, and
spend six days riding on horseback
Through four countless and tnlk with
every person ofintelligencew whom they
should meet or sojOurn a night with,
upon the condition of the country, the
probable results of the election, and
what would be done in case the
Democratic party succeeds in tho COM
ing election, the person who will make
such a tour, viii certainly feel upon his
return that he has known nothing of
the spirit of the Confederacy which
lives at his very threshold, and only
awaits political victory, TO make a
bloodier war than that which stamped
Kentucky as the dark and bloody
ground" in early days.
My object shall be to state what saw
and heard, and leave the readerto form
| his own deductions and opinions.
On Monday morning i mounted my
horse, in Covington, and started out
upon the road TO Florence, in Boone
county. The road is fine turnpike,
and full of travel, SO that one cannot
ride any great distance without meet
| ing some person who is willing 10 in
dulge in conversation of general
character. This good fortune was mine,
for had not passed Lewisburg until l
overlook a party of three gentlemen,
all residents of Boone county. Alter
the usual courtesies exchanged, we
were. not long in dropping into that
general groove ofconversatlon, the po-
| litical condition of the country.
| tina nF09nnCE of 0uiet
condition of affairs is not very favora-
| ble," remarked In the course of the
| conversation. .-sl.s t .....
"No," replied Mr.. W, of P,
sand we don't want any such condi-
ton. The Northern Democrats are
talking about restoring pea ce, and set
Ting the troubles OF the country at
once. They are fools, and know well
enough that the people of the South
| can not afford peace as matters now
stand. Pence, hill with Radical mig
ger government in the Southern States,
with a id niger bureau fastened
upon the country, to be retained there
| by the Niger Senate-no, sir, we don't
want any such peace, and we don't in
tend to have IT,"
| But" asked, '.what remedy have
| you TO offer? Itseems to me that the
people are getting tired OF agitation,
| and then the whole Democratic party,
II
handing that the Radicals give them
peace, ever since the end of The war"
| "My remedy, sir, is the remedy that
| Thu whole Democratic party would ap-
ply. We can not afford peace for the
| very reason that il would be the death
OF the Democratic party, and all our
| hopes for compensation for slaves anu
other property taken from us by the
thieves whom Lincoln denOminated the
Union army. It would leave negro
suffrage in the Southern States, would
leave those States in the hands OF the
id carpet baggers aud low thieving
whites OF the South, who pretended to
be 'loyal,' while il would disfranchise
the good and pure men. the heroes OF
the war-the men who, above all others,
should be rewarded. The id fool
Democrats of the North are willing to
reward them-eXpressed TINT Wiling
ness at the New York COnVention-and
they talk about doing it peacefully, just
us though they had all the say In the
matter"
=" Yes, that may be all true" said,
"but certainly there must be- some
remedy for ali the wrongs that may
have grown out of the war, and that
remedy, should think, could be better
applied under u peaceable condition OF
! affairs than any other" Hfa4.4t.
"There is no remedy in peace for us, y
he answered. "Don't you see II we did,
| the Radical Senate would prevent us
from undoing what the internal rascals
have done, and we would be no better
of than we are now. live succeed, We
must set that Senate aside"
But will not the North oppose that,
and both parties there insist upon mat
ters remaining just aa they are ?i i
asked.
"Give us power" said he, and what
the d-l do VIC care what the North
wants. They have gratitied their wants
| about long enough without consulting
power again, lUe'U crafty them"
"Yes sir" said another one of the par
" land il all the country was like
Kentucky they would. all have been
gratilied in he'll long ago. In our coun-
~ the Yankees got by draft and niger
stealing about nine hundred men but
they didn't convert any of them. Why,
at the election there were but one hun
dred and thirty votes polled in our
county for the Republican ticket, aud
they all lived down on the river at Big
Bone Spring and the precinct above
it," EE fh
"They were rather, bold. were they
not, that one hundred and thirty ?" /
asked. a'
"They WERE" he replied, "but they
were all spoiled men. Kentucky has
some of that class, but they have stayed
here just about "a long as they will be
allowed TO. We intend to purify until
the election, and then fnmigate after
ward" alr r8l..t1l=1s
"And were there no Radical votes east
at the precincts along ibis road?" |
| asked. III EflE Ia.
"Only five between Coyington and
Crittenden, and they had better have
Imoved from the country than have
done it," Eaf
Then, gentlemen, you do not seem
to think there is much prospect ofa
speedy settlement OF our troubles grow
ing out OF the late war;" remarked.
lt"Why, don't see how we can settle
anything by success in the coming
election" replied MIR. w. 1--WE can not
and will not consent to take the South
ern States, and leave them as ths Radi-
Gals now have fixed them up. To do
that would be an acknowledgment that
they were in the right, and / know
our Kentucky people we'll enough 10
say for them that they prefer war to
l.making any such concession. 30 We
must undo every thing that the Yam
KEGS have done if we do not, we might
just as we'll not go into the election at
all and to do this we may have TO
fight, but we are ready for that. We
WON'T make war onthe stars and stripes
this time. We will mako war on the
id Radicals, and think in this tho
Northern Democracy will aid u.s."
1 rode up to the Union House in Flor
lence, got adrink of water, and sat down
for rest in the shade, near the bar
room, which is a little building detach-
ed from the hotel.
Florence is a historical place, having
Teen the advance post of the rebel army
under L. Kirby Smith, in 1862.
l. While 4 sat there 1 was RECALLED by an
Intellectual conversation between a