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

the wrong WAS done, and we want a
remedy, and we only find it in undoing
every thing that has been done by the
Federal Government since 1861. Sla.
very in kentucky was abolished by
such scoundrels as Rousseau and Bram-
lette, and not by the people OF the State.
If we succeed in the contest we will
undo their work. too" d is7l fa87
"But suppose the people of the North
should object to such course. then
what?"
ave would be carrying out the su.
preme law OF the land, and If they at
tempted resistance it would be II eason,
and we would soon take that outof them.
We would then have the army and
navy. Grant could be put arrest
If he refused to obey, TO the letter, the
Presidents orders, and IL the other
Federal Generals refused to obey or
ders, their places could be supplied
with better men from the South, who
would obey orders" .a el ~
"And have you no fears that the
Senate will stand In they way in that
work ?" f-+
."What can the Senate dor If the
negro governments are dispersed, it
will vacate the seats of the Senators
from those States, and when we have
started the old State governments they
can send Senators there, and we will
have majority"
"But suppose the Senate won't admit
them to seats ?n queried.
''The President can settle that. BE
can call together the newly elected
Senators. and those from the North
who Take constitutional view of this
the whole, can letthe Radicals in or not
as they please"
This idea seems to be the prevailing
| one among the Democrats in every
place have visited in this State. None
OF them seem to care anything about
the platform of principles adopted at
New York; they only see Frank Blair's
letter, and they all seem determined to
urge its practical adoption. ,---s
Upon my return to Covington next
day, met an eX-Confederate officer
recently from Georgia. He said he had
come to Kentucky TO find home for
his father and mother, as he regarded
il the only free State in the Union, but
that he was so much encouraged by
what he had heard since he came in the
State, that he thought he would wait
until November, in the hope that Geor-
gia might. too, become free! 1 agreed
with him in the hope, and left him, to
take the afternoon stage from Newport
for Alexandria. r.---...
The ride from Newport TO Alexan-
dria was very pleasant one, the stage
being well filed with ladies and gem
tlemen. soon got into conversation
with an attorney from Newport, who
reiterated the ideas advanced by the
gentleman with whom spent the pre-
ceding night, with this difference: He
believes that secession was a crime, but
that those who fought for it had been
pardoned and amnestied, by which not
only the penalty of the law was stayed,
but the crime itself was put away, and
the late rebel now stood before the law
as innocent of any faint of crime as II
no war had occurred.
was somewhat eStonished TO learn
from reliable source, while on this
trip, that when John Morgan made his
escape, or, to use his words, twas bribed
out" he did not cross the river below
Cincinnati, as was reported, but above
the city,a had passed through Camp
bell county. Murder always will out,
and the lesser crimes, too; so we may
reasonably hope that time will reveal
who the "intluential persons" were who
were the chief instrument in effecting
this bribery. AT Murfreesboro, Tenn,
it is well understood, and not denied,
that Morgan's Democratic friends in
Ohio and Kentucky paid large sums of
money for his release, and that some
body else did the digging.
To go further into the details of the
different conversations which had
with different people, and which over
nearuI WOulQ only De a repetition OF
what have already written.
The sight OF the stage upon which 1
was TO return to Cincinnati was a well
come one, on Saturday morning, and
was soon being whirled over the pike
toward Goods country" Seated next
to me was an Episcopal minister, re-
Gently from VirIinia. AS we neared
Newport pointed cut to tho earth
works on the hill and said:
"There are the Qualifications we built
in 1862 to defend the people of Newport
and Covington from their friends"
Yes, and you did it successfully" he
replied but if Seymour is elected we
Will try the thing over again, and per-
haps the result will not be SO favorable
TO your side"
AS a summary of what saw and
heared in Kentucky, can only say
that if the people over there mean any
thing mt all by their talk, they mean
fight, and in the event of Democratic
victory, will inaugurate it at once.
They seem to be desperate over the loss
of slavery and political power in the
nation, and they now feel like doing
what they did not in 1861, going into
the fight as State rs well as individ-
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