The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-02-16
Loyalty" in Tennessee.


In the way of anti-climax, certain
school-boy composition has been much ad-
mired-''some people prefer spring; some
like summer; others love autumn; but as for
me, give me liberty or give me deathP'-
Now this has never been excelled in its way.
The only approximately successful imita-
tion that we have ever seen is that of a num-
Der of people in this State calling them
selves the "Union Central Committee, - and
the ''German Union Central Committee .
These persons have lately addressed to the
President, and to the Congressional Com
mittee on Reconstruction, memorial which
may be. .concisely rendered irto an anti-cli
max not very far behind that of the Juvenile
rhetorician aforesaid in absurdity an incon-
sequence. Rightly Interpreted, it simply
means: "some people like liberty very
much; some people love law; but as for US,
give us Office and the spOils, or despOtism
and military government"
In the opinion of these patriotic gentle
men, liberty and law may be very rood
things; but liberty and law are good only
for the 'loyal' gentlemen who constitute
the two central committees, and the ''Union
party" par ereellence of Tennessee. These
aniable and worthy gentlemen have underta-
ken the pleasing and patiotc task of govern
ing us in perpetuity; but very much to
their disgust they discover that majority
of the people contemplate dispensing With
their valuable services. The people of Ten
nessee, like the people of our sister South
ern States, are anxious to resume their place
in the Federal Union. They wish to re-
gain their vested rights and their Constitu-
tional privileges, and for this purpose a
grand mass meeting of the1 people is to be
held at Nashyille-on the god inst, and to
which all the counties, including our own,
have appointed delegates. Now will this
great U5aion( } party participate? Itmight
be supposed that the two committees which
assume to indicate their political views and
desires, by the use of the term ''Union'' as
adistinctive title, would gladly lend all their
assistance to the consumation of this pur-
pose. Quite the contrary. Their Union
ism is of the spurious kind. Their loyalty
is the light that shines by not shining
Rather would they stay out of the Union
forever, these intensely 'foyal' creatures,
than return in the company of pardoned
"rebels" and amnestied ConfedeIates.-
Especially since they find that reconstruc-
ton and their own exodus from the pleasant
places of power and profit 8hich they take
SO much pleasure in filing, would be con-
current circumstances. Hence they i'm
plore Cong. .ess and the President to come
20 their rescue; to save them from untimely
ei iectment; to protect them from the pros
pective inundation Of rebel votes. In
their memorial they say, eff to admit our
representatives, will involve the surrender
Of the State to its own goYernment.s your
memorialists prefer, and they are sure the
loyal people of the State prefer, to live in
territorial condition, and even under mi
tary goveI utIrerlV. ssIOther portion
of the same remarkable document, they i'm
plore the protection of the government a.
gainst the ''rebel'' majority which is soon
to resume political control of the Sta te.''
The dissolution" clique of the State have
lifted up their voices, and they cry aloud
forvengeance on their fellow citizens. And
what can be more magnanimous, more self
sacrificing, than the beautiful patriotism
which these faithful creatures exhibit -
They are perfectly willing to bare their cwn
''lieai'' backs to the rod, so that the rebel
ious backs of their advei saries be. scourged
likewise. Military government has no ter
rors for them, so long as it exclude their
opponents from any res tays ton to the rights
and the dignity of freemen. Indeed, they
aee contented to subsist Gu the crumbs of
patronage that may be swept into their be-
seeching neouths, so that their ''rebellious"
neigh6ors be properly starved into respect
full appreciation of their inefable merits and
incompatible claims to Office.
These remarks are susceptible of local as
we'll as general application. We under
stand there is subcommittee of tagenty zone
who have been memorializing the "memo-
Iialists' for another negro garrison to be
sent here A beautiful set, indeed!
Cholera Decreasing
A German scientific paper gives US the
following statistical comfort as to the chOle-