Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-11-03
The Louisville Journal on the
Presidents Treatment of the
Tennessee DeputatiOn.

That bold and able Old-Line Wing and
Union organ, the Louisville Journal, makes
the following singing comments upon Lin
coin 5 treatment Of the Tennessee deputa-
ton 1t says:
And let all such of the people of the I'm
tied States as are not as utterly sold to Pres
ident Lincoln as the Dutchman' shadow in
the German legend was sold to the Devil,
who rolled it up aud put it in his pocket,
read the documents on our first page in re-
lation to the Andy johnson proclamation
to disfianchisc all the conservatives or Nc
Clellan men of Tennessee at the election of
President and Vice President. We have
spoken more than once of this measure, but
we have at our command no language strong
enough to express half its Satanic atrocity
Words sufficiently descriptive of all the my
riad political vilainics of times past are poor
and week and feeble when applied to this.
1t is villainy belonging exclusively to the
nineteenth century and to the year of Grace
1864. We mentioned. the other day, that
Il conservative committee had gone from
Tennessee to Washington to lay the matter
personally before the President, and to ask
relief from the unparalleled act of his sa-
trap, aud the telegraph subsequently repor-
ted, that, while denying relief, he treated
the Committee with respect. But even
this small and pitiful merit was falsely ac-
corded to him by his lying creature who gets
up or superintends the Washington dispat.
ches. The committee bore to him a long,
powerful and overwhelming letter. letter
from ten of the most distinguished men OF
Hon. Ballie Peyton, Hon. Il. A. r. Nelson
,nJ Han E,,o,.n,, E,bnr;Jro ,,,n, l,oun
personally to himself and, on its being
presented to him by John Lcllyette, of Nash
Vile, his first remark was, 'How long did
it take you and the New York politicians to
concoct that paper p If Abe Lincoln had
been only Abe Lincoln, if he had not been
through Gods wrath, President Of the Uni
ted States, John Iellyett would have knock.
ed him down for his brutal insolcncc. The
only answer that the President would give
in relation TO the vastly important subject
matter Of the able and dignified Tennessee
lremonstrance, the only response that he
designed to AXE to the appeal against the
exclusion from the polls Of all Tennessee
citizens who would not take upon themsel
| yes Il solemn oath to vote for Lincoln and
johnson, was, Il expect to let the friends
of George b. Mcclellan manage their side
Of this contest in their own way, and | will
manage my side in my way" The un.
matched and unmatchable despot, feeling
the power of his position, knowing that the
armies of the nation are at his control
doesn't design to hold out the slightest ex
pectation or hope that the friends of his
competitor shall not be dsfranchiscd every
where, as be and the base and corrupt usur-
per at Nashville have DISTINGUISHED them il
Tennessee. He will manage his own side il
his own way torsooth And his own way
seems to be to allow the people Of the Uni
ted States no more free agency in the elec
ton than is enjoyed by cattle and horses?--
His own way Not the way prescribed by
the Constitution and the laws-oh no, mo-
at all, but his own way Think of a quiet
unarned traveller, who, being confronted
| by robber with drawn pistol remonstrate
against being, robbed when he gets only fo
an answer, 81 expect you to manage youl
side Of the contest in your own way, anC
| will manage my side in my way !" If thu
free men Of the country can stand sucl
things, the noble and bounding blood tina
they inherited from their fathers has turn
ed to red puddlcs in their dishonorcd veins