The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-03-10
From the Nashville Gazette.]


President johnson and the People.
The Presidents veto and his late
trenchant of-hand speech against tue
leading radicals and dead ducks~'6f
Washington, have created a tremen-
dous sensation among the newspapers
throughout the country, The demo
cratic Journals are in the seventh hcav-
en- Of Qualification, while the republican
organs are gloomy, perplcxed, and in
eXplicably mixed up. They seem to
think with Thaddeus Stevens, that
there has been on earthquake, and that
it has turned the world upside down,
while, according to the Secretary of
State, the political situation is as love-
ly as alright May morning, and all our
troubles are imaginary, and will be over
in less than ninety days. We commend
to our doleful republicans n piece of
the magic shirt Of the "happy man"
The tone Of the press OF the veto
message and the Presidents speech
shows how completely the Republican
party is disrupted on the issues raised
by the Radical Congress. or all the
daily press Of New York city, only the
Tribune las taken ground against the
President. That one paper cannot, by
any possibility, represent more than
fifteen thousand voters out Of the ono
hundred and fifty thousand in the met
ropolitan district. The Cincinnati
Commercial, the ablcst Republican pa
per in the West, stands by the Presi
dent; 80 does the Chicago journal
the Buffalo Advertiser, the Syracuse
Standard, the Hartford C%ourant, thu
Auburn Advertiser, the Albany Jour
nal, and about one-third, we Should
Judge, Of the other Republican papers
throughout the country. 1t is very ev
idcnt, as Samuel Bowles ~tclegraphcd t.
the Springfield Republican from Wash
ington, that the Republican party i
"hopelessly disrupted" .... M.
One of our Northern exchanges
gays the Republican preachers, since
the veto message, have omitted tho
President in their prayers, giving all tc
Congress. That is rather n good sign,
People nigh unto death always receive
more praytul attention than others
AS the President does not need praying
for, and Congress does, the preachers
are giving the latter their own undivi'
died prayers. Keep on, brethren, you
may bring Congress to & sensible state
of mind by perseverance in your pres
ent praying attitude, not that we have
any faith in your prayers being heard
in heaven, but they may influence
those for whom they are offered, and
by that means correct their evil pro.
pcnsitics. Speaking of prayers, we see
that DR.. Cheevcrs, in the prayer he de-
livcrcd before his usual Sunday politi-
cal haranguc last Sunday evening, be.
sought the Almighty that, "in case oul
rulers ~(mcaning the President and his
supportcrs) should persist in theil
present career of ~wickcdness, and re-
fuse TO do unto Others as they should
be done by he (God) wouM nhe them
ont otthe moy." Wendell Phillips, who
made a speech in Brooklyn recently, to
prove the President Il rebel and u trait,
or, in the same address spoke signiii-
rantly Of Mr.. johnson as san obStacte
to be remoced." Thad. Stephens, in
open Congress, declared that if the
oman at the other end Of the avenue"
had his deserts, he mouM lose his head
like Charlss The FIRST Surely, the Re.
publicans are becoming desperate
they need somebody to hold them in.