The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-12-22

One of the Louisiana Radicals re-
Gently declared in a speech to his frl-
low Radicals at Washington, that the
right of suffrage in the South ought TO
be restricted to negroes and whites OF
unimpcachable "loyalty,"
We learn from the New Orleans re.
ayune, says the Nashville banner thai
this is the individual who, when the
Federal feet was IN front of that city,
ravcd like a lunatic about the disgrace
of submitting to the vile Yankees
and wanted to raise \ body Of volun-
teers to board the ships OF war, or set
fire to them, or do some other impos-
sible thing. Certainly the "loyalty' OF
that person, in the Radical sense OF lhc
term "loyalty," cannot be considered
unimpeachablc.
"But, after all, inquiries the Picay""e'
where are we to 60 to find this "nnIm'
pcachable loyalty" In Mr. Cutler
who was u Jealous member OF inc
Southern Rights, or Secession Asso-
citation, until expelled from that organ
ization; and who raised a'Contederate
company which he baptized the "h'ng
Cutler Guards after his own sweet
p~atriotic name? Or in Mr.. Fish, whose
name stands eighth on the roll OF the
Southern Rights Association? Or IN
Michael Hahn, who sqnandcred a pro
fusion of Confederate rhetoric in the
presentation of Confederate flags
And if not in these, where shall we
find that sacramento quality of "unlm-
peacllable loyalty" Our own expert
ence leads us to Observation-Disclosures
Certainly not in Tennessee. Ii our
list of white voters were to be reduced
to those whose Unionism never wa
vered who never rendered allegiance
to the "~socallcd :" who never presented
Confederate flags, or took Confederate
oat!.s, or subscribed to Confederate
loans, or helped to raise Confederate
companies, or enlisted in the Confcd'
crate service, or held Confederate office
we should not have more than half {
dozen voters in the city Of Nashville
and our Legislative halls would presen
nothing but n beggarly account o
empty seats. Yet to such q condition
would ,he anarchists and inccndiarie'
exposed by the Picoyune reduce tn
State Of Louisiana. In their address
to Congress, they say:
"We do not ask for vengeance OF
our enemies though they would dcstro..
us; we ask for justice only; we as
you to give us a government in thi
State, in which only the loyal, bot
white and black, shall participate, an
we do solcmnly declare that in on
opinion there can be no peace, no 81
curity, no real liberty in Louisian;
until such a government shall hay
BEEN established, Willing as we al
to forgive the past oticnscs OF thot
who having sinned against the govern
mcnt, are now sincerely r%cpcntant, "
are at the same time opposed to an
compromises with its known enemie
We do not believe in submitting col
stitutional amendments to rebel lcgi
Iators, who glory in having served
the dcfunct Co%ntcdcracy. We protc:
against the continuance Of the prcsel
so called State government Of houi:
lana. We ask you to abolish it, nm
substitute one composed of those VIII
require no executive pardons bcfol
they enter upon the duty of their oil
CcS.
Do these things, and the loyal poop
Of Louisiana will even hold in gratcf'
| remembrance the members Of the 39'
Congress-
The loyal people of Louisiana, lii
their sympathizers in Tennessee, are |
all odds the most modest of mankin'
>. Give each Of them an office, with fir,
access to the treasury and the emit
control of political affairs, and IL
DISTINGUISHED rebels are welcome to IL
nest.