The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-04-21

H"Nc c'cr cAlDlteu more OF the nclllSll
spirit OF treason than lie. lie publish.
ct the internal language that we have
cited, when perhaps no other mar in
all the world would have dctilcd his
mouth or paper with it to save his neck
from the hangman's halter. lie showed
himselfa walking volcano, with snow
upon his peak and all hell in his bosom.
1t is most extraordinary and most
~disgraceiul that any portion of the
people ~ofTenncssee, knowing this man
as they all did, voted to make him Gov
ernor of that State. Their only eX-
cuse must be, that they were under
military law, and so not really free
agents in his election. No other State
was cvcr afflicted and d%isgraced and
cursed with such an unmitigated and
mmitigahlc, such IN unredgemed ana
irrcdeemable blackguard as her CHIEF
Magistrate. He is II parody, q carica-
turc, u broad burlcsque on all possible
Governors. lie is II monstrosity. He
is n thing rs much out Of nature MS
Barnum's woody horse or his giants
and dwaris or his calf with two heads
and eight legs-four Of the legs point
ing toward the zenith. This blood is
hell broth, which Satan will II day
sup with II long spoon. They say
there is fire in him, but it is hell-fire,
every particle of it. Though he is but
Il single swine, there are rs many devils
in him rs there were in the whole herd
that "ran violently down II steep place
into the sea-" His heart is nothing
but u Kissing knot Of vipers, rattle
snakes, cobra and cotton-mouths. He
never argued 4 question in his life, APP
preaching no subject but with fierce,
bitter, coarse, low, and vulgar ohjur-
cations. His tongue should be bored
through and through with his own
steel-pcn heated red-hot.
This man, AS we have said, calls him
self Il clergyman. He holds forth in
pulpits. lie breaches, prays, and eX-
horts, draws down his face, drops the
corners of his mouth, and undertakes
to look sanctimonious. And yet he
seems always trying in his pulpit dis
courses to see under how thin Il dis
'guisc he can venture to curse and swear
and blasphcmc. lie can't offer up Il
prayer in the house Of God without
telling the Lord what an Internal scoun-
drcl, damned thief, orcurscd vagabond,
this, that, or the other ncighbor is.
From his youth up to his old age, he
has had no personal controversies
without attacking the wivc', fathers,
mothers. grand fathers, granu-mothers,
brothers, sisters, children, mcles, aunts,
and ncphcws of his opponents. He
has sought to strcw his whole path Of
life with the dark wrecks of wantonly-
ruined regulations. He has never had
an hours happiness except in the I'M
happiness of others, lie has even
said to Evil. "be thou my good! lie
has always carefully jotted down all
that he heard unlaNorable to gentlemen
while protesting to he their friend, so
as to be ready for the day ofalicnation.
lie bowls venom, talks venom, brcathcs
venom, bclchcs venom, coughs venom,
sneczes venom, splits venom, drools
venom, sweats venom, stinks venom,
and distils venom from his nose. Not
the fuliginous cXhalations from the
hottomless pit, not the lire-md-brim-
stone fumes from the sooty throat OF
the Devil, were yer more blightine
and blasting than his accused serpent,
breath. lie never had Il friend on earth
outside of his own family. No doubt
there arc those who fear him for his
ficndisll tcrocity, hut no human being
not of his own household cvcr loved
or respected him. lie will yet have his
reward. Sowing in wrath, he will reap
in agony. Fury and hate may stiflc in
his heart the feeling of remors for n
time. but Nemesis, with her horrid
whip, will yet scourgc him around the
whole orb of being. All the hairs
upon his head will seem to him to be
snakes like the kissing and forked-
tonplcd nccks ofthc Eumcnides. Whel
he shall retire, as he soon must, from
the noisy and tumultons striics tina
have ever engaged and still engage Al
his thoughts, he will not have u solita
nv pleasant and serene memory OF tn
past. On the contrary. Il store OF bit
ter and dcsolatc and torturing rccollcc
tons will corrodc and cat up his yer,
heart, until, cut Off from all human
sympathics, cxiled from the pale of al
the beautiful gcnialitics Of life, havin!
no friends or companions around hin
to soothe him in his moral and plysi
cal solitude, deserted by mankind who's
cncmv he has been and loatled by Go'
whose holy temple he has sacriligousl,
dcsecratcd by his horrid mockcries O
religion, fostering from head to foo
with the polluted and poisonous puddle
water in his veins, standing as an ont
5 cast and paria on the lone desert q
) despair, shrinking from the past, az
, onizcd by the present, and not DARN!
: to gaze into the future, beholding
| fancy upon the door Of his own sol
the words ''IIope comes not here tn;
comes to ALL" shut out by murkie'
clouds from every star that to Other
Y lights the path to the tomb, and writ
ing under myriad curses and cNccr'
tons piled like n mountain of Twin
II Goals upon his head, he shall long
! last to make his escape from earth
scarcely asking to what o drcadf
destiny.
cI DIX. JRviSG, on the Cooper rive