The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-09-20
The First National Bank, at Washington.

The First National Bank al w WaSh1ngton,
sdyertises in the Latelligencer, of the last
week its desire to buy on order mode
rate amount of the eight per cent. bonds
of the Confederate States, at ''the best
rates. We publish elsewhere. the entire
advertisement as it appears. The Radical
press, through many of the Northern
States have already exhibited signs of
sort Of hydrophobia over this publication
and rave about it as unmistakable evidence
that the rebels" as they term every body
opposing their destructive policy, whether
living North OF South, are endeavoring, in
this manner to excite another rebellion
against the United States. 1t is a pretty
sharp dodge for them to make Just at
this time, but like all others very open to
detection President johnson during the
last month, has awakened to the fact that
he occupies position in this Government
which entities him to certain powers to be
exercised in protecting the rights of the
people at large, and IN communities IS
States. Radicaisu has ignored such fact
for many months, and has overriden all
bars this facts existence placed in the way
! ofthe progress of iawless despetisIn. To
prevent the President from doing just what
he has most commendably done, conspira-
cies were concocted to connect him with
the plot to assassinate his predecessor in
office, and with other and lesser crimes,
for the purpose of hurting him from power.
These damnable designs fell, through ex-
position, harmless to the ground, at the
very moment when Mr.. Johnson commenc-
ed to illustrate that he is really Chief Mag
istrate of republican people. Radicalism
was then forced to other tactics to hold its
unlawful and ill-gotten sway. Assassina-
tion conspiracy and impeachment being no
longer useful levers, because Thad. Stevens
has said SO, the next best lick must be
struck to keep the plunderers' hands in. the
pockets of the already impoverished and
down trodden Southern people, to pay for
| fostering hate towards them, which would
otherwise die out. C9nfscation, then, is
next in line, and is what such fends as
the Stevens and Ashleys insist upon
But the President threatens general am
nesty, which would preclude a sweeping
confscation of T'rebel'' property TO Radi-
cal avaFice. To flank this move. "loyal"
brains set to work. and we believe we per-
ceive the result of their labor in this pro-
posal to purchase "eight per cent. Confed-
crate bonds at the "best rates" The
whole world knows that these and all other
bonds issued by the late Confederacy are
utterly worthless, and not third of them
we suppose, has shared any sort of preser-
walton. But Yankee cupidity has fallen
upon the plan 10 make whatever number of
them is left subserve the general confsca-
ton of Southern lands and wealth. by get
ting them into Yankee possession ); and
this being accomplished, their partisans in
1 Congress, both from hatred and interest,
will insist upon the passage Of law to
make the "rebel' portion of the South re-
sponsible for the bonds they had issued,
and which will be held by ''lOyar' citizens
to the Government. Much, very much,
more danger is there of this result than TO
suppose that any ybody in the South, by such
a thing, means another armed attempt to
separate from Federal control. Rascality
upon rascality is the soul of Radicalism,
and this is its last illustration of it.-Ava-
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