Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-22


by the habits Of the surrounding society.
l saw Col. GOOdloe fOl a minute or two
in Twenty-thiId street, New York, some
or several months ago, and said:
81 see that you and Col. SwOpe have
had a falling out?n
Il would have killed him, answered
Goodloe, IF they had not taken him out
OF the room"
Little did I think that this remark
meant more than talkingst distance; the
sequel makes il melancholy recollection
to me that such a spirit of light, progress
and grace should have been able to enter
tain the idea OF murder with so many
pleasing mental contents, and to have car
ried it around in the same mental reticule,
with the ideas of wife, daughters, public
utility, friendship, and empire.
Yet il was a deadly guest IN that bosom,
as the madness and perseverance of the
killing shows. GOOdlOe killed him like a
Long Kuife" of the dark and bloody Ken
lucky days, embracing around the neck
the savage Indian whom he stabbed.
That victim, whose offence was 'irsult-
ine' Col. Go0dloe, believed in all that he
believed in. He was his fellOw-soldier,
his plebeian contemporary, his constructive
rival They fell back into the infamous
habits OF bloodshed and arms carrying they
had so long been retresting fiOm.
THEY DIED LIKE BULL NELSON,
by mutual hatred, within the fraternal lie
Of soldiership. II they had generally made
good examples of their lives, they threw It
all away in dyiug-the Union stripes COW
cred the tigers strips all the same. Cad
help Kentucky when ambitious men most
kill each other without crime, and the
hsngmsn only is allowed TO kill nobody
In the city Of Washington and District
of Columbia the only people whom l can
recall as trying TO introduce of late years
the ARRAY system Ia that neutral region are
Virgiuiaus and Kentuckians.
Since the var the Carohnians have be
haved there with reference 10 the propr
ETY. of a new national opinion, but the
time-killiDg duellists, the lazzaroni OF the
brave clas,, who killed 30 many before the
war about Washington, have few times
tried to turn that peaceful capital into q
place for their egotistical and barbarie
brawls.
1t should be the fixed opinion of the
land that thanksgiving fer Kentucky or
Virginia reasons about Washington be
punishei with common sure, criminal
hanging Had the haDgman done his Work
properly in those States on the bull 0aiters
Of their species, he would have discour-
aged the class Of murderers and they
would be gambling and shooting nearer the
frontiers Of the world.
Colnnel Swope, not real colonel l be-
lieve. as GOodlOe was, said to me in Lax
ington, about the year 1877;
"This is the most wicked town in the
United States"
He was a religions bred person, 1 sup
pose, and expressed h mself severely upon
the gambling habits of many well-raised
persons there who gambled for a living;
upon the prostitution of the public hotels
to gambling ends such ss running faro
game right 10 the principal house, and sell
ling horse-race pools where the ladies had
to walk to get to the diniug-rOOm; upon
the practical miscegenatiOn which existed
IN epite OF the talk against the niger
and upon the want Of gsllantry of crowds
of men going 20 horse races with great PTS
tolls strapped upon them, aud IN their
whisky cups opening fire right before the
ladies' stand, "a Indifferent to female as to
male life.
never talked with SWope again. What
he said made such an impression upon me
that without referring 10 any offender by
name, preached the sermon S"oPe had
uttered, though he was probably uncon-
soious Of having aroused any newspaper
theme.
Among the persons he severely reflected
upon was relative of GOodlOe, who had
separated from his wife, and
KILLED A oOLOROED MAN.
lie did not mention GOOdloe at all, l
think. but have wondered if his rItlec-
tions upon the other person were remem
bered.
Mr.. Swope was one of the ultra good
men Of the South, fierce as a Pdritan to
denounce sin. lie regarded Lexington as
a voluptuous, reckless, God-defyiDg place
Of Hesry Clay he aaid; Gentlemen, that
man waa one Of Gods children" He was
pupil Of Henry Clay, and Gcodloe was
nephew Of Cassius Clay, distant relative
Of Henry.
In the course Of time Mr.. Swope, through
the moral hold he had upon the society,
succeeded Goodloe in the greatest govern
mept Office Of the South, supervising the
whisky excise of the Federal State. This
office. with its "courtesies," was very desr
to a man of GoOdloe's cavalier nature; he
sent presents of whisky to all people whom
he liked or wished to depend upon. Swope
saved his salary, showed all the arts OF the
ambitious poor man, developed In public
oratory, and had the emphatic support Of
his parents sect. the Oampbellite Baptists,
or christians, of whom we're Garfield
and Mr.. Bowman, the President OF Ashland
University at Lexington
Swope was the great rising public man OF
this sect.
think he was not always sincere and
conld MOI afford to be in that society. He
,vonld have bsen turned down and sssas-
sinsted long sgo if he had spoken as freely
ss he did to me and Col. Clarke, Of Wash
iroton. at the time have referred to. On
that occasion he ran away from the ap'
nearsucs of danger, and l eXOnsrated BIN,
but lost some OF my respect for him.
The beginning of the offence which
caused this Malay butchery, of which the
principal sufferer is Rhode Island wife,
YVES Goodloe needlessly saying in great
that half the people of Lex
ington did not speak to Mr.. SwOpe on the
stieet. This man who cOuld so ruthlessly
wound Mr.. swope, ST EDWARDS killed him
bsesuse. as he said This is the second
insult from you, sir" S~Ope had bFo'ded
upon what he must do, and hsd made mp
his mind to face GOOdloe and say,
"you are liar" This he did.
The settlement should have been
= final one, as it was apparently frankly
made. But GoOdloe was OF 8 rtyengeiui
makeur, in spite Of a most fascinating gem
erel address. The lsst time | saw him ne
was bent snd his skin waI of the whisky
tint and stomach I think, was reflected IN
a sonrish countenancs. The recovery OF
me rfice of collector of Internal whisky IN
the bourbon distric. Of Kentucky had
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