The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-11-07
National anksgiSi

President JohHson's proclamation,
wherein he sets apart Thursday, the
2Sth of this month to be observed as 4
day o fgeneral thanksgiving. The Gus
tom Of rendering thanks is Il good ono,
and We have nota word Of objection to
n universal Offering up Of thanks on
said day. Certainly we have much, as
individuals and as a nation, to be thank
ful for, and we, as an individual do
thank God Us the author Of our exist"
ence and the great natural laws which
govern that existence, and these great
laws involve all blessings and trou.
hlcs. We ought to be thankful fol
health, homes, families, friends, food,
and raimcnt, and it is right that tie
President %cnjoin upon us as Il people
to express our thanks,
But we have much to our over
W, of the South and it would seem
aDropo for the President to appoint n
day Of General Mourning and Prayer.
Perhaps he considered it useless to ap-
point a day of Mourning, for every To-
ycrof his country has mourned ever
since the Jacobin party turned the re
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preston in order that it might hold of
lica, and there will be many days OF
mourning until that party is displaced,
and magnanimity, instead OF ianaticism,
shall rule. The President warns us
on the appointed day to "not fail to
implorc Him that the same Divine pro.
lection and cnrc which We have hither
10 50 undeserycliy, and yet so con
stantly enjoyed, may be continued to
our country and onr people through
out all their generations forever The
President must have forgotten that
there were six or eight millions of peo
PIE embraced in the satrapics Of th,
five Kings appointed over them BY 4
Rump Congress, who want, and pray
for, a little better protection than has
been given them $50 undcscrycdly an,
yet 50 constantly since they surrcn
dcrcd upon certain terms. and we, iOl
one, in the fear OF God. and with al
honest heart, most decidedly assert
that we cannot faint the glorious at
tributes Of Deity by believing or as
sorting that lie had anything to do in
such prOtecti0a-sO called, Om read
inc and reflection lead Us to believe that
''IIc from whom the whole creation
springs" is Goodness withoul bicmish,
and cannot act
From cruelty or Mrat' -
that lie always was good, and will be,
and does not purposely atllict y people
"To suit some wise design"
There be even afflicted, mistrcated
persons, who bend a supplicant knee
MANS ~infumGnity 70 man.
who lick the hand that smitcs them
play recreant to principles which are
no less principles because the numeri-
cal strength was lacking to make them
successful in a brutc-I like contest, and
say in their submission that God had
some rise end, some inscrutable pnr.
pose in view in thus making dupes Of
His chosen people. How true are the
words of the King of poets, who said
'Pcrversc mankind! whose wills created
free,
Charge all their woes on absolute decree
All to the booming gods their guilt trans
late,
And follies are miscall'd the crimes of.
fate"
But we have digrcssed, and recur to
the proposition of the President that
we implore Divine protection. But not
the ''same," for our protection has
been such rs the wolf shcweth unto
Inc lamb, and we have to mourn ma
,ional divisions; the threatened war OF
aces; the supremacy Of the Negro
the White rae by despotic acts Of
Rump Congress; the loss ofproper
y; instability of trade and business
oppressive taxes; disfranchiscment of :
and noble and intelligent white =
lcn, and the cnfranchisement of igno- q
ant negroes; the presence Of hireling u
'responsibles at the ballot-box with u
ayonets in their hands to intimidate b
but ~ostcnsibly to protect SO cal "
ed loyal men and negroes the forma- n
OF falsely-called Loyal Leagues, d
wherein the ignorant negro is taught Il
o disregard the rights Of his best and ii
'nly true friends, and to coYet the 81
ands and other property of those C.
the mephitic influence of agra. Ia
ianism preached in those dark coun. IL
lis of treason; the allegiance Of civil o
NV and the great rights Of Magma +.
the supremacy OF Military c
ule in times Of profound peace, when v
man is at war with the Union except c
hose who pretend to be its especial o
aasoeates; the impeachm INT of Judg- b
es VINO dare 70 keep their official er. "