Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-03
VIRGINIA.
IF. F. y,"-Crops-Politics. &c,

Mr.. EDITOR; You are not aware,
VS." True as preaching. Why not
| first saw daylight in the "Old Domin
| ion,' breathed its "chivalrous atmos'
phere for a number of years, and how
| could it be otherwise, that | should be
| anything else than sprig at least OF
| Thoroughbred stock? My long stay, how.
ever, in Tennessee has made me plebiau
and identified me with the common
herd" What sad misfortune The
proudest thought of Vireinian is his con.
nection with the F. f. VS." This is his
third hraven." He swells and he struts.
selfacomplacent. The "conmon herd i"
he looks down upon with supreme con-
tempt They are "unclean" in his eyes
too nauseating to contemplate. By the
way, this individual" is playing-Gut in
the "Old Dominion" He has become
seedy, and the bottom rail is getting on
top. The large landed estates owned by
the wealthy men of the State are being
divided aud sub divided and passing
into the hands of those who, before the
war, were regarded as rather poor and
unable to get hold of respectable posses
sions. These are now rapidly becoming
the ruling element of the State-;he bone
and sinew" of the Countrywide strong
men in politics, education. manufacturing
and agriculture. They will, in the future,
be the guardians of Virginia's honor and
great trouble heretofore has been her
aristocrstic element-her lordly and super>
cilious population-oply, however, small
proportion of her population. The people
are fast becoming more and more homo>
geneous = more cosmopolitan more united
and more determined to make their
State happy and prosperous.
thing else than happy family" They
are cut to pieces. This is specially SO
with the Democratic party. II is rent in
twain. l fear hopelessy SO. Is prospects
are gloomy in the extreme. Its future
is a dark one. A disinterested
spectator can better Judge OF
its condition than one living in the
the unfortunate Struggles of the two fac
tons. The fight has assumed Kilkenny
proportions. Every day and every hour i,
is becoming fsrcer and fercer, and thu
yawning chasm between them getting
wider and wider There is now no chance
for reconciliation. All hope of such a re.
suit is dissipated. and the fight will go OIL
| TIL one or the other of the factions goe.
under Which will it be7 Daniel is max
| n 6dilhut uShts ChdIulDk lMucuse
crowds with his eloquence. Cameron ii
holding bis own by bis logic and his schol
orly bearing As far as can see and learn
the two factions of the Democratic party
are nearly equally divided, the prepender-
auce of wealth and intelligence being OF
the side of the Daniel or Funder faction.
In the meantime very large proportion
of the Republican party are identified witt
the readju ster faction, including almos
the entire negro population. Under
| these circumstances, | can see but
little or no hope of the Thunder " faction
Cameron, think, is bound to be elected
The odds are decidedly against Daniel.
hose I may be mistaken, for would re-
gard it as great calamity to defeat him
as he is the exponent of the States honor.
The drouth, the drouthl The country
from Bristol to the top of the ALLEGHENY
Mountains is in distressing condition
I learn that the whole State is ia the sam,
condition. The fine blue grass fields o
Western Virginia are as brown as snuff
| There is not live sprig of grass. Thou
sands of cattle have been sent out of th,
State-anywhere, indeed, to find something
to live on. Corn fields are burnt up. l
the approaching winter is a severe one thu
farmers of this State will be hard put to i
to take care of their stock. Old corn il
current at eighty cents bushel. It il
| thought the new crop will command on.
dollar at the crib. BUT ENOUGH.
| September l, 1881.