Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

tHdt, WDlfe tflc IreSlucilt udHeT6S
to free elections, and is seeking to
the rule of the laws for
the sway of the sword, he is enti-
tied to whatever aid we can bring
to his support. The decent peo-
pie of our State, | am sure, will
concur In this opinion; nor will
they pause to discuss past wrongs
real orsupposed. 1t
is with the living present they now
have to deal, and in SO doing
they will seek to, strengthen the
Executive in every effort he may
make for the practical enforce
ment of the policy avowed in the
message. And the President will
soon know, what he has been too
slow to believe, that it is to that
portion of the people of the Uni
ted States who opposed his cleo
ton he must, to great extent, look
for reliable and intelligent aid
Such q view of things may be
suggestive of painful political col
lisions but if the country is to be
rescued by adherence to princi-
pies, neither party, nor party or
CARNATIONS will be permitted to
impede the work. 1t is well
known that Brownlow and his crea-
lures are now engaged in writing
letters to prominent Radicals in
this city, urging a continuance of
military commissions, and asking
that the Southern representatives
may be refused admission. Their
opposition to free and legal cleo
tions is notorious, while their de.
nunciations Of the principle of the
message are wholly undisguised
The same may be said of the
seedy political adventures, who
for while held high carnival in
Louisiana, and the like of whom
are now claiming, with less than q
thousand constituents, to be s.the
State Government of Arkansas
1t is a notable fact, that in every
instance throughout the South
where the elections have been free
or conducted under the auspice:
Of the President, the people have
chosen those who heartily approve
the policy enunciated in the mes
sage. Every would-be official who
does not sustain this policy is the
appointee of some military or 9th
er despot who knows that peace
and plumber are incompatible
things. It's only from these mil
itary appointees who hate and
fear the people in proportion az
they have wronged them, that the
President may apprehend any op
position in the Southern States
And | now venture this predic
ton. In Tennessee, where almos
all civil power is in the hands of
this class; where we are insultec
and oppressed by ignorant and ir
responsible usurpers; where W.
daily confront the sickenirg ''scun
which rises when the nation boils'
in this State we will soon behold
the united power of the so-callel
State Government (save only
few members of the Legislature,
directed ignorantly, but spitefully
and theoretically, against the aims
and purposes of the President
Within the next year, or irnmedi
ately after one free election, the,
will below for negro suffrage, ne
gro equality, freedmen's bureaus
and military posts as permanent
and necessary things. In all THU
they will have only proved true
to their instincts, and will have
made public the secret motives
which control them now. Bitter
Indeed, but impotent will be theil
excavations when some one shall
read them the message which the
President, yesterday, TRANSMITTED
to the Senate, and in which he of
ficially declares ''that the rebel
lion waged by portion of the PEG
Iple against the properly constitu
ted authorities. of the Governmens
has been suppressed" The Pres
Iident we'll knows that his power
to suspend the writ of habeas cor
| pms rests solely upon the act of
Congress of I'd July, 1868, and
that his power by the expires:
terms of the act, is limited to the
termination of the then existing re
hellion. This message restores the
constitutional writ to the people of
the United States; and though
military commissions for the trial