The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-07-14
CORRESPONDENCE.
COLUMBUS, Ga, July 10, 1860,

tar IN the rear should be possessed o.
information which would be news tc
those at the front, The people Of Ten
ncssee are at the front; were so, geo
graphically, during most Of the late
war, and, since the Radicals will not
have peace, poor Tennessee is still the
"bIoody ground" Away down here
thc people are in the real of trouble,
and you must not expect me to tell you
the latest from WashingtOn--that cen
ire OF despotism, from whence enc
nate cdicts and $50 called constitu.
~tutional amendments, affecting n peo-
pie who are not aIlo wed the voice they
had prior to the failure Of the South to
preserve our political institutions by
the exercise Of that craftsmanship
which, with Roman sagacity, was ever
ready to sacrifice personal interests
and advancement rather than sec Re
publican institutions destroyed.
! said: the people down here are in
the rear of trouble, by which ! mean
that they have NO Brownlow, and no
Radical bcvy Of petty tyrants, upheld
by bayonets, to rule over them. Hence
they are comparatively happy, and
glad am | they are, but the bitter rcfec.
ton will comc--why should poor Ten
nessec, which bore the brunt of the
terrible clash Of arms, be still the suf-
fering one. State sovereignty is a Gu
riOus thing. 1t works to our detriment
as carried out by Brownlow Il Co., but
Congress will not allow it to work any
other way. Verify, it would be better
to have u King-some one master
spirit whom we could look up to as Il
great and acknowledged superior-aye,
have a Caesar than Il Senate to com
mand US.
1t would astonish you to know how
utterly dctestablc the petty rulers Of
Tennessee have become. People here
often look surprised when | tell them
my home is Tennessee. why don't
you leave there" some will say, and
then comes to my mind an incident re-
lated, i~fmemory serves Alright, by Alb
bolt in his Life of Caesar. The Roman
conqueror ordered Cato, on n occa-
sion, to be arrested in the Senate and
sent to prison. Another member of
the Senate rose and was going out with
him. Caesar asked him where he was
going. lie said he was going with Ca
to. lie would rather, he said, be waM
Cato in prison Maa in tie Senate miM
Caesar. This love for Tennessee
cannot help, and the day will soon
come when her people, who only desire
to cultivate the arts OF peace, and live
in happiness with their wives and chill
dren, will be free from the paltry few
who hrandisl the sword q little brief
authority" in order to ~tyrannize over
supcriors, earned only with
crooks"
But, politics aside, affairs in Georgia
look prosperous, The crops will turn
out a handsome yield, except corn,
which cereal will be inferior, and the
will look to Tennessee for a
lam told that cotton will do =
veil, but the enormous tax upon it, and
he full supply in Europe, added to the
act that cotton can be obtained else
where than from America, may cause
he stock here TO be n 'dcad weight
the market.
The freedmen turned out en- maese
the 4th of July, and | found it difficult
10 get along the streets of the city on
account of them. They had been
hoaxed by a report that II dinner was
10 he given them sin town on the 4th,
n Mrary, now that they have no mas
Icrs to provide for them. How true
it is that the slaves have been "freed to
and il is no uncommon occur
for negroes to ''hilnt ronnd' in
search of II mastcr-one who will do
by them AS they were done by before
brought it's train of evils. I
am glad to see the willingness which is
exhibited by the people to have the
negroes educated. The other evening
| met a little charcoal fellow, walking
along intent upon his spelling book.
| asked him how far he had gotten, :
md with 4 seeming consciousness of /
extraordinary progression he replied 1
ITO Baker," that mile post which all
teachers point out rs the goal for be- J
How wildly do we all re- +,
member our days of labor, and when we /
our Webster's Elementary, it +,
opened at baker, for there we |
,ad pondcred longest, aud there was
he dirtiest evidence of thumbs fresh
rom ball and marbles. /.
I am painfully reminded of one evil !
c.rnni u ,nnl.Hinn no a unrI Of oH,ol