The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-03-10


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vived and forwarded such q besotted
telegram to the Presidential leader OF
the rebel and coppsrhead forces Of the
country. loud cheers. God may
forgive you; but "a betrayed people
never can. Renewed applause,
7 A BACK.HANDER AT BEECHER., A.
But what shall be said or what shall
be thought of lecture delivered here a
week ago by the gifted, eloquent, able,
warm hearted, well-intentioned, but
strangely out Of the way pastor of Ply
mouth church--thatpOrtion Of 1t which
spoke in eulogistic terms of President
johnson in connection with his veto OF
the Freedmen's Bureau billY The
speaker then read an extract from the
Herald, commencing the utterances Of
Mr.. Beecher. ], happened to be in
Washington when the veto was read to
Congress; and Us soon as / heard it,
spewed it out of my mouth with unut-
terable. disgust. The. speech of my
friend, MIR. Ward Beecher, last week,
reminded me of what Peter Pinder said
of matrimony, taking the first part OF il
and comparing it with the, Last He
says: ooh, matrimony! thou art like
'Jeremiah's figs; the good, very good,
and the bad too sour to give to the
pigs" The latter part Of the speech
does not tally with the first part, and
there are some things in it that show
its Inconsistency. Mr.. Garrison quoted
an extract from the speech Of the Rev.
II. w. Beecher. He (Mr. Garrison,
said there was in the North no desire
whatever for vengeance against the
South. They wanted to have freedom
there. ... .... .,. ...
There was at the North no desire on
the part Of loyal men to do anything in
regard to the South except to try and
bless and save her. Itwas the right OF
every man to be in the possession OF
all his civil and political rights under
the Constitution as an American citi-
zen. The Congress of the country
was doing all that it could for the good
ofthe South. Those who had been al
ways the real enemies of the South were
the copperheads of the North
(Cheers. The loyal people Of the
country desired that the South should
have every privilege now enjoyed ut
the North. They were willing to tax
themselves to the extent of millions OF
dollars to make the South very gar
den of God if possible. He was sur
prised that his friend, Mr.. Beecher,
should have given in his adhesion,
somewhat qualified, to the veto. He
did not think he Mr.. Beecher) had
read it over minutely. There was an
immense amount of sophistry running
throughout that extraordinary veto.
He wished Mr. Beecher could have lis
tened the next day after the veto to the
mastery speech delivered in refutation
of it by Senator Trumbull. Cheers
A speech which showed that the Presi-
dent had either grossly misconceived
or wickedly misrepresented every por-
ton of the Freedmen's Bureau bill-a
speech which broke to pieces every
portion of the veto. Mr.. Garrison read
an extract from that portion of the
Presidents speech in which he had
characterized Sumner, Thad. Stevens
and Wendell Phillips as traitors to the
Union. ........... ...
H STEVENS AND SUMNER.
Here is an attempt to brand some of
the noblcst men our country boasts OF,
whose loyalty is beyond all suspicion Of
doubt, and they are only fit to be put
in the category with Slidell and Toombs
and jeff. Davis. That is to say, that
Thad. Stephens and Charles Sumner
are traitors. .. ..'U....
Mr.. Garrison quoted further from
the Presidents speech, ending with the
words, ''do they want more blood?
Have they not courage enough to seek
the end, except by the hand of the as
sassin 7"
THE AssAssINs WITH THE PRESIDENT.
The hands of the assassin on the
side of Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus
Stevens and men of that stamp! ! tell
President johnson that all the assas-
sins, North and South, are with him.
(Hisses and continued cheers. l tell
him that these assassins, many of them,
were in the crowd who shouted trilm-
phantly at every sentence he uttered on
Thursday last, and these are the men
who are seeking the blood of inno-
cence. .-
THE PRESIDENTS ARTFrL ATTEMPT.
And say further, this artful attempt
on the part of the President to assume
to be in danger of his life, is, in my
judgment, simply done for the purpose
of imperiling the lives of Charles Sum
ner and Thaddeus Stevens, and men of
that stamp. Kisses and cheers.
TIE CENTRAL DIRECTORY. H
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, in his late
speech, justified everything that Con-
gress had attempted to do, while Presi-
dent johnson opprobiously calls the
committee of fifteen-appointed by
Congress-a Central Directory. A
committee appointed to make investiga-
tons of the real condition of the South
considering that in its geographical
surface it is larger than the North, con-
sidering how many States are to be an
alyzed, how many witnesses to be ex
amined, the tremendous nature of the
question to be decided as to the fitness
of the South to come in-I would ask
is this brief period indicative of desire
to prolong reconstruction? l say the
committee has not had time to begin