The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-07-18
"Forty Acres "and the Miller y
at their Posts.
Full Details of How the Brown
low Hell Fire is Manufactured.
"Lcasucrs Beware !"
\ Telling Expose from Captain
Driver.


Many OF your readers Will doubtless
remember my letter Of June 9th, which
was largely circulated by the press o.
this and other cities Of our State. II
there is one sentence therein not in &C,
cordancc with law and the true princi
pies Of liberty and human rights, !
don't know what constitutes those
safeguards Of man and having been
"raised II fool" For writing and pub
fishing that letter [ was at once EEK
pelled' from "L0yal League No. IT,
where / had been sworn "to do even
unto dcath,' all in my power to 'kcep
ever burning on the altar of the Amer
lean heart the sacred flame Of Liberty
Let the world sit in judgment on my
life Of siXty-live years and particularly
on the part Of it embraced in the past
seven years, | court its investigation
and will abide chccrfully by its a
ward, Indifferent alike to hattery or
abuse. lshall do my duty even though
asses bray, and dogs snap and howl.
Expelled from .hc Loyal League !
Now, gentlemen, permit me to intro.
ducc you into that sanctum sanctorum
of political humbugs. l promised this
I'll DO it.
At the first door you give two light
taps and whisper through Il hole there
in, "Loyal Men" The door opens.
You move on to y second door and
give two taps. A loop-hole is opened.
You whisper "Mu5t rule and are
then marched around q darkcncd room
anu welcomed BY the "Good Chair
man." in the following words-"Tho
good and true are always welcome"
You have now marched round the
room and are placed before IN altar on
which is spread the American flag.
Here also lies open q Bible and q book
with the old, original, Wnaltcred Consti-
tuition ofthe United States, gift Of our
Fathers, as ii was, is and cvcr should
bc-'mchanscd.
There, too, lie crossed two common
swords, such rs are worn by army sur
gcons. Between the points is Il mystic
riOus looking bronze chalicc, filed with
something, the smell of which reminds
you o. "Old Robertson"
On your right. at u small altar,
long, lanh, lean "Forty Acres"
you, at another desk or altar,
II once Provost Marshall
this long, dark, dirty room,
the "Loyal Lcagucrs,' some black
md some white, and among them
ONE Of Our most worthy citizens.
here are also not 4 few whose .'cop- ,
err sticks out through the whitewash
iven by this Loyal League. ,
The gas is now darkcned, and "For
Acres, with eyes upturned like a
luck in u thunder Storm" his lean
.nds opened out towards Heaven, ,
unbles oat u prayer! This done, y
e Chairman, (the jolly, g%ood-natur- ,
!, Eind-looking Hillcr, not of "Mans. !,
ID" though quite as portly,) steps l
rward with book and watch in hand, l
d fires the mysterious looking cup, ?
itch darts up Il pickering blue flame, /
oh rs is represented us burning in -,
@ Eternal lladcs.' With your y
hit hand on the book, and the left in U
C air. you now take the "Oath of al b
y%iancc," known to all, and are most f
rticularly required to ''dcfend the Z,
institution of the United States I'M v
erred, on which your hand rests, and
c Constitution OF the State of Ten G.
What is the latter Constitu ii
m? Who can tell?
\ Oh are also sworn to keep tile Sc. -
cts ofthc League, "to vote for none T.
II loyal men," &c. In that long. u
TX, dirty room, on the right side of al
itch stood about osc hundred old O,
mnskets, i'll such presence, before
Pickering blue flame, which but ~,
'de darkness visible" with the Nasal
''ng OF Forty Acres, voice in PRAYER "
IL sounding in my ears, / was with h
lers, made Il Loyal Lacquer. Sur az
lnded with such paraphernalia of n,
we were sworn also, as before
d, to do cyen unto death all in II
wcr to make Liberty eternal, to vote ~
none but loyal men, etc. TIL
We were next initiated into the signs til
| passwords. dc. Let one suffice n,
if you wish you can have them all.
pass yourself as n Lacquer, when
STONED, give the "Four L's", as fol an
8: Right hand raised to Heaven. hi
NIB and third finger touching their wi
$ owe the palm, and pronounce m,
bringing the hand down -,
a line with tho shoulder pronounce "
ncoln." Dropping the hand open cq'
our side, you pronounce ''Loyal" cq1
h your band and fingers downwsr
he chest, the thumb tlru, into the NJ,
:, or waistband, across the body,
lounce League" ma
here is o great deal Of other "tom- pri
of the same character unwor. ded
OF place here. Suffice it to say tiol