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

lntelligentl,y, Il the programme a
been that when the wal was over, by
usurping the powers Of the States to
disfranchise Southern white people and
cnfranchise the blacks, and confscate
the lands, your bloatod manufacturers
from the East, who gathcrt the profits Of
your hard earnings under the tariff
laws, will go South and buy those
large landed estates. Around such as
these the enfranchised blak man will
settle, and thousands Of them will be-
come voters under his beck and bid.
ding.
The plan is to transfer New England
~aristocracy to the South, and there es-
tablish such an oligarchy as the South
never thought of or dreamed of for
themselves. This is no conviction of
my own l have heard it from their
own lips. 1t Is the boast OF their
leading men.
When you shrink back from the ne
gro suffrage in the District Of Column
bia, you must not imagine you see the
horrid thing in all its proportions.
They say everywhere he is a man and
a brother. Equality before the law is
what Sumner has inscribed on their
banner, and what Congress indorses'
You will find them skulking and dodg-
ing here at home, but you must hold
them to the record. Congress has
voted for negro suffrage, and there is
no propriety in forcing it upon the
people of one section, who are opposed
to it, and Withholding it from those OF
another section.
He called upon the Orths and the Ju-
lians, who had voted for negro suf-
frage in the District, to come home
and make the issue here; to force ne
gro suffrage upon the people of ldiana,
as they had forced it uponthe District
of Columbia. 1t was not manly to cram
the loathsome pill down the threats of
q helpless community a thousand miles
away, which they were afraid to offer
to their own constituents.
MI. Voorhees, then considered the
character Of the Freedmen's Bureau
bill, and extolled the President for We
toing it, saying:
l care not for past affiliations. !
hailed him as q friend of the people, as
taking a step in the right direction to
preserve constitutional liberty. You
indorse CONGRESS-, do YOU! Cries of
"No, MOI" ! was speaking of the
Convention that met here some weeks
ago. They Endorsed Congress. Let
them indorsc the Freedmen's Bureau
if they dare. will pay any mans en-
penses who will 90 with me as far as
the President said in his speech OF
February 90. am in the field once
more, and will discuss that bill before
the people. This little Frcedmen's
Bureau bill called for an appropriation,
not six weeks ago, Of Sl2.O0O,000 OF
the peoples money to support niggers
and the agents Of the bureau. Will
some loyal, patriotic man go with me
to defend Congress by telling the pco-
pie that it is their duty to work from
sun to sun, denying their children the
comforts Of life, for the purpose of
supporting the a~ble-bodied and strong
boned negroes of this country in idle
ness? They wanted Sl2,00o,0OO OF
this overburdened peoples money
more than it cost John Quincy Adams
to administer the Government year by
year.
NV friend Ross, in the House, moved
to set aside one day in the week to at
tend to the white mans business.
saw one such day, 1t was when TIT
President gave to the country that no
Bile veto message, not merely crushing
n monstrous usurpation of power, buI
enunciating the grand and wise prin
ciples Of just government.
On the 22d of February his friends
rallied to that great meeting which
closed himself stepping out and laying
aside the President for Il while, telling
these scoundrcls that they were traitors
; to their teeth. Men walked the street,
that day with tears in their eyes 70
gladness. shouting, Get out of tn
way, niggcr and Yankees this is tn
, white mans day once more in Wash
ington." Let us celebrate the whit
mans day in Indiana. Let them TAX
i, their side ofthis issue and we will TAX
ours. Let them tic to Congress, an
we will, step by step, keep equal pac
with the wise measures given to tn
country by Andrew johnson. We wi
go no faster than he goes. But / wi
give my opinion that he will astonis
you with the speed and power wit
=, which he will make war upon them.
. A man who, elected by a party
could in six months make himself S
:, secure as to take off his coat and wal
= out and call the men by their tru
name, of traitors and disunionists-
: this is a mar not to be trifed with. !
. all your calculations take him into az
, count. / know it makee our Republ
i, can friends sleep bad of nights. The
. have not only drawn IN elephant, bt
an uncaged Numidian lion. Like Be
= shazzar, they have their feast befor
them. They legislate for the principl
. of hate, and upon all such Providenc
:, visits q just retribution. That whic
' sweetens the cup | drink now, is tn:
which most embittcrs the cup no
q pressed to the lips of these Radical
= 1t is the thought | have heard the
). utter about the Presidents speech
, y, "Just to think that we elected him.
!. Yes, they elected him, They Gale
= him into Presidential existence, and
= is a retribution for their crimes. II
uses up their grim and terrible d.
stroyer, denounces and scatters then
:, Why, they plod along the streets, cha
y tering and gibbering like ghosts at da,.
!, light. Don't let these men for a MI
- ment imagine that they can cry goo
u ~ -. .1al nou;I NVnu oor