The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-04-07


which the man shows himself. ont and
out, We wish we had room for it this
wcc,, in the Home journal we know
our readers would laugh at the high
capcrs cut by our grip snortin Guver-
uer.' lie attributes all the evils that
have ever afflicted the country to the
Democratic party, but has no word OF
rGbukc for the abolitiOnists whom he
used to FIGHT and curse before the war
looks upon Summer and Stevens as
~eXtrcmcn men, whose views are MOI
in accord with those Of even the "ioyal
men" Of Tennessee, but then they are
men of"cXtcnsive reading, ofgrcot gooa,
ness of heart, and of Ncm E"qlond rcltg
ious iraining, entertaining KIND FELL'
INGS TOWARDS THE SOUTH, but seek
inc to keep rebels out Of Congress, -
Senator, Fowler and Patterson, amt
Stokes, Maynard, Cooper, &r', we pre-
sumo. lie thinks the Presidents plan
Of reconstruction a failure, (though 1t
has not been tricd,) and he intends TO
stand by Congress. The "ncgro
equality question:" he thinks, IS one
purely of tastc,"-and smell, too, we
reckon, Durran seems to have thought
50. He thinks respectable negroes
ahead of rebels. But he is Still op-
posed to allowing them universal SUI
Trace nnt1 they show Themselves rop"o'c,
which time will never come, if brown
low was RIGHT aS TO negro capacl'.S
when he lampooncd Prync 50 before
the war. But we suspect the negro Is
much more God favored now than then,
hence Il change has come over ON
Governors mind.
Asto the Frccdmcn's Eill. he don't
exactly say he is for it, but he does say
That President Johnson was for it, and
so EXPRESSED himself To Generals Fish
and Howard, and even defended il
against some objections urged by Gen
Fisk. This was before it was intro
duccd hy Congress-. but the President
after promising his signature, got III
10 quarrel with Mcssrs. Summer and
Stevens, " extreme men Of the North
md he ..tIrnrtl about TO affiliate with
extreme men of the South The Coy
ernor says there is every little true
Loyalty in the South,' and that "if the
Federal bayoncts were all withdrawn,
Union men could not live in any safe
tv." We fear the Governor never
heard Of Franklin county--o"r cdnnly
the one that tried to scccdc-lrom The
State in 1861. We have no bayonctS
here, and yet the Northern men and
Union men who have come into our
midst are not mistreated. All is peace
and quiet. and a desire to work and pay
taxes. The freedmen are kindly treat
ed, all at work, their little cabins spring.
ing up about town, 'pd We hear Of no
complaint. They seem to be getting
along as ~CH utmost as they d"t "he@ Trey
haa masters 10 take care 81 mem, ana
Parson Brownlow was giving the abo-
%litionists thunder. But then we don't
intend to hug the freedmen to our
bosoms, and play Du%gan with them,
and throw up our hats Tor their en-
reimbursement while the whites are dis
i%ranchiscd Any law to THIS elect
would have about as much force here
as the Popc's Bull rers"s Comet. But
the Governor says "the feeling OF
hostility toward the Government is
now greater than it was at the time OF
Lees surrender This is an unfortu-
nate confession, for it shows in its true
light the effect of the Radical policy OF
reconciliation, which is the policy that
has been pursued in Tennessee. But
the Governor certainly did not mean
the hostility was towards the general
Government as represented by Andrew
johnson. On that point We are a unit
almost in harmony. But if the Cover
nor means to style himself and the
Radical majority in the Tennessee Leg
i%slature the Government, he is right in