The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-01
anemocratic Rebellion in Kentucky.

: The Union Democrats of Kentucky,
during all the years since the, war, have
occupied o humiliating. and pitiable po-
sition., They have been of mo conse-
.quence except to vote for the nominees
of the Confederate Democracy. Thus
have they stood for seventeen years, ap-
sparently apologizing, for having opposed
secession and stood by the Union II q
Union Democrat aspired to a nomins-
ton for Office, he was, ,sternly told to 90
back into the ranks and be thankful for
the privilege of voting for some leader
OF Confederate guerillas, or officer, un-
der Heod, Bragg or Johnston. When
election day came around the party
rdrillmasters were out in force whipping
in Union Democrats to the support Of
Confederate BrigadiersI and Colenels.
They always suceeeded- Meekly and
submissiyely. the humbled voters who
had been indisereet enough to enlist in
othe Union army marched up to the polls
and cheered for the candidates who
gioried, during the war in making life
burden to- Union: men, Il was q
strange spectacle There was noS Sdivis-
ionaof Offices between Confederate and
Union Democrats Such PROPOSE
ton was ahooted, although the latter
far outnumberedi the former. To
have been in d the Union army, was
disgrace and . .diseredit and fatal to
the aspirations of any soldier. On the
contrary, the rank and achievements of
a Confederate Demecrat--his success in
killing Union smen--wass his greatest
claim ona Democratic Convention, and
gone ON for seventeen years, simply be-
cause gConfederates held the political
wires 3 They ruled the ri Democratic
press, the caucuses, cliques and con-
ventions. ! They manipulated the wires
with the skill Acquired by long expert
ence. Il seems that ct last there is q
prospect, that this iron rule of the Con-
Z pfederate Democracy will be broken. A
few Union Democrats have dared to as
sert their Independence. They are tired
/ of the abject and humiliating position in
which they have so long been placed.
] They have walked up 10 the fact that il
was not q slife-long disgrace to have stood
by the Stars and Stripes during the re-
bellion. Whether theyican be scourged.
scajoied, driven. or coaxed back into the
shameful attitude of party serfs 10 Con-
federate chiefs is an interesting ques-
tion. The Louisville CoR1BsereiGl says;
D There wers about leoo0 eona-f3de soldiers on
the Confederate side from this State, and ovel
svo ennstea thst In IN tne Unon ,d nk 1t s seems
POSSESSION of the State Since the war, controlled
public sentiment divided the ofices, heaped
ad red the ts
9 ss a al % the power
The Democrats Of the modern school. who have
and acknowledged their necessity. their wis
dom, their utility, and who have placed them
that governs and directs the whole Republic
have been nodded like potters' clay % the use
OF smalhbody OF men who seem 70 have for
stalled In Richmond They have long frettet
under the, yoke They have protested tha
there was nothing In the Democrscy Of Jeffer
| pei men forever 70 antaeonizel liberai ideas
and. be hostile % progress. but year BY yea
beenderided as silly malcontents, or sreeres
at as halfway Republicans r-4
! This Is affair Statements of the case
JEFF Davis recent declaration that the
Lost Cause was notdead, but sleeping
has received no where better confrma
tion than in Kentucky. !. for there . hand
full of Confederate soldiers held the en-.
tire Democratic party in. perfect sub
jection. There, Heyer since the rebel
lion, it has been accepted that no Demo
crat WAS Democrats enough TO be in.
trusted with an Office If he had moi
served in the Confederate army or beer
IN ayowed secessionist> Surfing the war
But the light is breaking, even in Ken
tucky.l The serfs are rising They
have never dreamed of their power, OF
they would have arisen long ago. The
time may come when they will reflect
with astonishment upon their long anC
shameful subsection. -s Ludidnapoli
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