The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-05
A Kentucky Democrats Opinion
of the Northern Democracy.


A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com,
mercial among other scenes and incidents
of the border, gives the following converse,
ton OF one of Kentucky's Union men oil
1861:
spent the night with wealthy old gen
| tleman, who informed me that he was a
Union man in 1861 and 1862, and would
have remained so upto to-day had it not
been Tor Lincoln's emancipation proclama'
ton.
How many negroes did you own?''
inquired of him.
81 only owned nine" he answered and
I got part of them in as substitutes, so that
| only lost about five thousand dollars
" WE'LL" remarked, 81 don't know
whether a ive-thousand dollar loss would
have changed my convictions or not, but
don't think it would"
1t wasn't the pecuniary loss that hurt
me. The truth is, had, all my life, been
accustomed to have some one call me mas
ter, and | can't get along without it now
or his Government, had any right to take
our negroes from us, either by military proc
lamation or legislative enactments, and
| believe that the abolition of slavery was a
violation of law-the taking of private prop
erty without compensation (nothing less
than stealing, in fact,) and if wasn't salts
fled that the Democratic party, if successful,
will restore this property to US, would be
in favor of another fight tomorrow, and |
dom know but that I would any way. Why,
Cd d-n such men as Bramlette and Rous-
seau; they helped bring US into this condi-
ton urged the abolition of slavery in this
State, and carried it at the point of their
bayoents, and now they turn around and
try to curry favor with us. D-n them, they
can never be anything in Kentucky, and
they need not expect to be.
"But, sir, nearly all the late Union men
are with you now," said I.
Yes, we know they are, d-n them but
what use are they to US. All they are, they
made out of our msfortunes they helped
they might get reputation, power, and spoil !;
and now they fall down at our feet and ask
us to forgive them for it but, thank God,
the people of Kentucky know them. and
they will always occupy back seats in this
State"
1t seems to me that the Northern Dem
ooraey did the same thing during the war;
What would you do with them if Seymour
and Blair are elected p
''Do with them" he replied, "why, d-n
them, we would put them in the only posi-
ton nature qualified them to fll-the posi-
ton they occupied before the war. We
would put them under the table 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 Demo
cracy always followed leaders, and those
leaders were Southern men. When the war
came they were cut of from their leaders,
and either fell in under the. Radicals or stood
still and acquiesced in the action of the
Lincoln government. They are not much
10 planie, because they aaun sense enough
to know what to do
"What do you think ought to be done
with the Radicals, in case Of Democratic
victory in the coming election p
@ Sir, they are all traitors to the Constitu-
ton, and if Mr.. Seymour does his duty he
will arrest and hang for treason every Radi-
cal member of Congress. When the Radi-
cal State governments are set aside in the
Southern States these fellows cannot claim
to be their legal representatives and ifthey
do, they will be arrested as traitors and
usurpers, and, l think, justly convicted of
treason against the States, and hung for it.
"And when will peace come, then ?"
asked.
"Just when the South is placed back
where she was in 1860, with all rights re-
tored and her losses compensated"
'Do you believe Mr.. Seymour will be
elected?'
GAS much as believe that l live"