The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-31
BITS FROM THE MAGAZINES.
GEN. BRADLEY JOHNSON TELLS
OF BARBARA FRiI CHE.
A Famous Kentucky Pond-senator Nor
gan ON the Negro Prcblem-The Amer
can Globe Trotter-Dragon Flies versus

n amous Hen'u'hN N"hu-ooh"'"' ''"'
gan ON the Negro PrcbIem-The Amer
can Globe Trotter-Dragon Flies versus
Mosquitoes.
The road Travelled was that great high
way between Kentucky and the South which
at various times within a hundred years
has been known as the Wilderness road, or
the Cumberland road, or the National turn
pike, or the "Kaintuck Hog road" as II
was called by the mountaineers. 1t is i'm
possible to come upon this road without
pausing, or to write Of it without a tribute.
It led from Baltimore over the mountains
of Virginia through the great wilderness by
Cumberland Gap. All roads below Phila-
dephia converge at this gap, just as the
buffalo and Indian trails had earlier con-
yerged, and just as many railroads are con-
verging now. The improvement of this
road became in time the pet scheme Of
the State governments OF Virginia
and Kentucky. Before the war mil
lions of head OF stock-h0rses,
hogs cattle, mules-were driven over IL 10
the Southern markets; and thousands OF
vehicles, with families and servants ana
trunks, have somehow passed over 1t, COM
ing northward over into Kentucky, or gong
southwark on pleasure excursions. During
the war vast commissary stores passed
back and forth, following the movement OF
armies. But despite all this-despte all
that has been done to ciyiliZe it since Boone
traced its course in li9O-thls h0nOfed MS
toric thOrOughfare remains to-day as II was
in the beginning, with all its slougbs and
sands, its mud and holes, and juttlng lodges
Of rock and loose powders, and twists and
turns, and general total deprayity.
Ii is not surprising that when the original
kentuckians were settled on the bluegrass
plateau they sternly set about the making OF
good roads, and to this day remain the best
road-builders in America. one such road
was enough. They are said 10 have been
notorious for profanity. those who came
into Kentucky from this side. Natural
lv. Many were infdels-there are roads
that make a man lose faith. II Is
known that the more piOus companies Oi
them, "a they travelled along, would
now and then give up in despair, slt Gown,
raise a HYMN, and have prayers before they
could 90 further. Perhaps one OF the provo
cations to homicide among the mountain
people should be reckoned this road. l
have seen two Of the mildcst oil men, aiter
riding over it for few hours, lose their
temper and begin to fight-hght any thlns
eight their horses, fight the flies, night the
cObwebs on their nOses.-from mountain
Passes of the Cumberland" by James Lane
Allen, in Harper's Magazine for september.
senator Morgan on the Race Question.
Every day the distance increases between
these races. and they are becoming more
Jealous and intOlerant of each other. ms
condition is disclosed in the schools.
churches. and in every industrial pursuit.
| The field for negro labor except IN the
heaviest drudgery and in mental occupa-
| lions. is constantly narrowing, until their
presence is not tolerated in the higher
commercial pursuits, or in the use OF IN
portant corporate franchises. ms
| is more distinctly the result OF race
aversion than Is the exclusion OF the
| Chinese from our country. The political
power given to the negro race. no matter
| how they may use it, only increases race
antagonism. That power has, SO iar
| greatly aggravated the opposition to them.
| Ii can never make their presence IN TINS
country, which mas always been a cause OF
dissension, welcome to the white people.
| The separation of the races under dit
K ferent governments Will alone cure TINS
| fragrant evil by giving TO the negro race an
tOppOrtunity for self-gOyernment, ana 10 tne
white race an unobstructcd course IN the
\ accomplishment " their high destiny. Inc
/ feeling of unrest among the negroes Wnich
| has made them homeless, and sweeps them
| in revolving eddos from one state to an
fother. is plain indication that they are
! preparing for a general exodus.
| As soon a. they have determined the way
they would 20, and have, in their own free
will. concluded to depart 10 some other
country, justice to them and ourselves and
the behests Of peace and prosperity to both
races. will call forth freely the financial ana
| Of our people and government, for their de-
| liyerance.
For n Great deliyerance it will be,->ena-
tor John f. Morgan ia Arena Tor >eptem-
| hpr