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

the printin offices in the State. Jestis
compels me to say that as the ingineer-
er IVA cussin mersheen you have few
superiors and nary equal this side Of
the place for which YOU seem to have
been practisin all NV your life. When
youused to run that koncern in Nox-
vile and take in cussin, you was at
the he'd of your profession, but ef you
have ever been found fit fur anything
else, it has never yit bin heerd from
And when they tuck you from that
bisncss and put you to runnin the KEN
plercated mershecn of State, they over
krapped you, You ondertuck to run
her jest like you did the old meersheen
you had bin used to--you piled on the
wood and crowded on the steam, but
neglected to open the safety valves and
keep her properly lied and creased, the
fust thing you knowed whole passel
Of the kogs was nocked outen the
wheels, the bands busted and the whole
mersheen kerllummuxcd-all belasc
she want run on the right principle and
the engineerer that had hold Nv her
didn't know how to manage her And
now after You have busted her up and
got the meersheen outen fix and don't
know how to mend her. and would, in
all probability bust her agin, if she was
mended, you go a pirootn round like
an old hen with hawk after her chick
ems, and cussin and a swearin that this
man, that man and tother man done
| it, but youdonc it ityourself. You aim t
got the ability to run her. You was
agwinc good deal faster than the law
allowed, when the smash up tuck place.
You was told over and over agin that
you was krowdin her too,hard, and
want q runnin on the skedule, but you
wouldn't listen to nobody that knowed,
but busted right oRtill the fust thing
you knowed, you kidn't know nuthin,
You needn't ter try to lay it on nobody
fclsc. Read the llth chapter and the
fust part of the 7th verse ord Samuel,
and that will show who done t AMI
when you read in expect it will be
the fust Scripture you have red, sense
you proved irum TIE Bible. in your
debait with ole Pryne, that lavcry was
ordained Of God.
There aint no use er trying to keep
| it 4 secret no longer Your, del
failure as Guerncr. There aint q blind
nigger in the State that don't see that
plain as daylight now. And ifyou h d
cr bin equal to the junctnr you mout
hay imlnortalizod yourself. The war
had just ended and a great many men
as good by natur and far uettcr by
practice than ever You dare to b, was
returnin to thur homes poor war
broken soldiers, that axcd nothin but
to be permitted to return to the homes
NV thur childhood and live the the r..
mainder NV thur days in quiet, and die
in peace, and be buried in thur ole fam
lily graveyards. Ef you hadder bin any
part NV Il statesman you would er seen
at once that the best INTEREST," Of the
State required that these hi souled mon
that had faced death, dieasc and fam
inc fur what they believed to be right,
or to be made the frens Of the euvern-
mcnt and to be met in a spcrit Of kind
ness and generosity. Look at the
course NV Andy johnson, and then
look at your course, and you will see
the difrencc between a statesman and
little stern wheel politishan with tubu-
lar bilers that's always Il BLOWN up and
scaldin somebody. Now thur wor no
man that the Tennessee rebils hated
like they did Andy johnson, and Andy
johnson knowod it as well us anybody,
and he hated them too, and when the
war was ac)in on he used 20 Civ m
the wurds with the bark on and they
give him the same sort NV an artickle
The war wus ragin high and thur
blood wus up. Bat no sooner wus the
war over and the smoke klered away
than Andy Johnson seed that them
rebels was as true grit as ever pulled 4
Trigger or made track on a battle field.
and he sot about to make them frcns of
the government. He trrertcd EN- kind
and ma~nanimous, and told 'em he
wont afraid to trust EN-. They met
him in the same sperit = they were dis
armed NV thur hate and he has done
moreto wipe out the bitterness NV the
war than all other men. You seem to
think it strange that rebels, as you call
'em, should support Andy Johnson
you don't seem to to see that in
that very thing the wisdom of his poll
cy shines bright. You are incapable
NV understandin it. But what was
your colrje? About the fust thing
you done after the war closed, was to
issue proclamashun signiryin to your
blood suckin frcns in East Tennessee.
ef the kourts of the kountry didn'e
decide to suit 'em, to take the law inter
ther own hands and murder the rebels
themselves. Yes, Sir, you done that
in official document. And how men,
ny poor rebel soldiers, with the solemn
pledge Nv the United States Govern
men in ther pockets that they should
not be hurt ef they cum home, has been
murdered in cold blood, under that
proclamashun, God only knows. And
when Judge Trigg sent the Marshal NV
the United States to put you out NV
possession NV some rebels property
that you was about to take in outen
the wet and number among your sacri-
fces fur the Union, you got squad nv
soldiers and overpowered the Marshal
and sed you'd show Judge Trigg
whether the Guvcrnor NV Tennessee had
more power than a one horse Judge
And now, after all this and good deal
more, your late proclamashun opens
the follerin beautiful and affectin
language-''It is my painful d.ltv to an
nounce that civil government is again
imperiled in the State NV Tennessee"
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