Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-09-16

CONFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky,)
August 27, 1880.


August 27, 1880.
1 sigh ez did the late Henry A Wise,
Nv Virginny, for kentry in wich ther
| amt ne nOOSepapers. Newspapers beV
bin the Gus of Dimocrisy, and the one
thing that stands i'll our way. Moose
papers and free skools are wat kills the
Dimecratic party. They can't git along
together nohow. Wat the DinOcrisy
wants is Il seckshun in wich there amt
no n0Osepapers, ceptin them witch is
publisht by authority, and whose con-
tense are soOperyised by a committy be-
fore publicashen.
Two weeks ago we he'd a meetin at
the Cross Roads to reconcile a difference
that he'd unfortoOnately sprung up in
the ranks NV the DimocriSy. The trOu-
BILE wuZ this:
The Corners he'd ishood its bands to
build a Court House, q Markit House
and other Improvements, wich BaScOn
he'd took, he bein the principle capital
ist. He bot EN- up at about 10 cents on
the dollar, and holds to em to-day.
Now comes the trouble. The citizens
Nv the Corners don't want to pay the
bonds at all. They hold that they heV
the buildings, but that ther is some legal
flaw in the contrack, wich don't compel
EN- to pay, and they perpose to take ad-
vantage Nv it.
1mmejitly there wuZ split among
the citizens. Them wich holds the
bonds insists that suthin should be paid
onto EN-, and them wich don't hold EN-,
but wich hev to pay taxes, insists that
they shan't pay anything.
The question hez gone into pOlitix,
and the result is two tikkitS liable to be
nominated, and the Dimekratic party di-
Vidid.
1t wuz my dooty to pervent this, and
l called the Corners together and made
speech to EN-. he'd the meetin house
decorated the same ez alluz do on i'm
portant occashuns. l he'd on the pulpit
the skulls NV the Fedrel soljers from
Bull Run, the thigh bone Nv the Fedrel
sOljer starved at AnderSonVille, and the
skeleton Nv the Niger killed at Fort
Piller
Friends" said l, ain the presence Nv
these reliks l implore you to pause.
Wat is bonds, wat is taxes, compared to
a Dimekratic triumf? You are quarrel
in over purely lokle ishoOs. Before yoo
divide and endanger a Dlmekratic trl-
umf, consider wat Lee wood heY done,
wat Jackson wood hev done he'd they
bin in yOor places. Remember that the
principles we are fitin fur to-day are the
principles they fit fur, that the idees un-
derlying the COnfederacy did not die
with the surrender Nv Lee, but they are
in eggsistence now, and that this eleck-
shun decides whether the South or the
North triumfs."
went on in this way an hour, and f.
nally got the people satisfied to settle
the matter without any trouble, and
went home feelin good.
Now wat happened? There happened
to be present that mite cousin Nv q
farmer in the naborhood, who is the ed
itor NV a Radikel paper in Injeany.
That feend TUX down in short hand my
edtire speech, and sent it to his paper
in Injeany, and published it in full, with
illustratshins Nv the bones NV the Fed
rel soljers, and everything eonneetid
with the meetin. And the Republican
press NV the North is usin it to show
that the old Rebel spirit amt ded yit.
This is wat bothers me. What rite
hez that man to send speech North
that wuz intedid solely for the South?
| didn't want that speech publisht in
Inieany. 1t wuZ intendid for Southern
eonsumpshen only. 1t wuz made for
the Corners, and for the Corners only.
1t is a trubble with the Dimocrisy, that
you hev to hev speeches for every differ
ent lokality. Eff make speech at the
Corners don't want it sent up in 1nje-
any or Ohio, and red there, for DimOcri-
sy at the Corners and DimOcrisy IN tie
North is two distink things.
l don't know ez it will do me eny good
to deny it, ez Wade Hampton does, for
the cussid speech wuz reported in full,
and is korrect. But it is raisin blaZes
with us. 1t is being used to show thai
we NV the South hev not lost eny NV
our old ijees, and the worry Nv it is that
it does show that very thing.
Hereafter when l make a speech 1
shell be shoor that ther amt eny report
ers or noospaper men present, ceptin
such ez are in our interest. Hereafter
l shell hev the report Nv my speeches re-
vised by myself afore they are printed,
and shell know wher they are goin.
Then things will be safe. This trou-
ble hez worried me more than anything
dOOrin the campane.
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