The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-11-15
JONESBOROUGHt TENN FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15

been sown with dead heroes during the reE
belliou will have been made memorable Ii
vain.
ig Why all this carnage and devastationH II
was that treason might be put down and trail
tors punished, Therefore | say that traitors
should take a back seat in the work Of res
toration. j! there be but five Thousand men
in Tennessee loyal to the Constitution, loyal
to freedom, loyal to justice, these tFuo and
faithful men should conttol the work of re-
organization and reformation absolutely.
Gtoud and prolonged applause say that
the traitor has ceased to be citizen, and In
Joining the rebellion has become public
enemy, He forfeited his right to vote with
loyal men when he renounced his citizen
ship and soughtto destroy our Government.
Treason mugt be made odious and traitors
must be punished and Impoverished. Their
great plantations must be seized and divided
intC email farms, and sold to honest indus
trious men. TIE day for protecting tho lands
and negroes Of these authors Of rebellion is
past. It's nigh time it was ! have been
most deeply paihed at some things which
have come unde. my observatioJ We get
men in command who, under the influence Of
aatttefy, fawning, and catessinoy grant pro-
lection to the riGh traitor, while the po6r
Union man stands out in the cold, often UT
able 70 get a receipt or . voucher for his
los5es, Cries Of I" That'9iso ri '' .na.N
This was Andrew Johnson's way Of
reconatructing Tennessee. What Is
the present condition Cf. Tennessee !?
! he IntsIigsncer in the article which
we quote, charges that the Radicals
are constantly menacing the whites
with "confstatioh. and consequent
penury snd destitution, want, bauish.
ment from hearth and lands and homes,
and the consecrated spots where, shall
we not say fortunately, sleep their
last sleep, the. loved ones of other
and brighter days" Now this is not
OILY true of the Radicals, but it would
have been. true of Tennessee if the
remedy suggested by Andrew John
son in the last paragraph above quot
ed had been applied His medicine
persistently presented up to the very
moment when, undoubtedly falling
under the very fatterers to which he
alIudes, he suddenly changed front
and began hls career Of treachery by
putting the knife to every man that
wonM not dehounce his cwn plan
of reconstruction as utterly infamous
and abhortent We proudly present
the example Of Tennessee to the 9TH
er Southern States, because it posses
ses none Of the despotic and savage
features Of Andrew J0hnson's own
scheme. eli that is good in his sug.
gestions has been carefslly preserved
by his followers, while everything up-
becoming q stat esman and q Christian
has been carefully discarded; and it ia
the State reorganized dpoH q constitu.
tion like this which the National In
telligcncer, speaking for Andrew John.
son, calls upon tie Southern rebels
to reject. It is the system which has
thus reorganized and redeemed Ten
nessee that is denounced as a system
of africanization, degradation, and of
acknowledgements. While the Presi.
dent has presented the very best ar
gumerk in favor of reoonstructing the
rebel States in the spirit Of genuine
repub ubliCanism, he has also furnished
another overwhelming evidence of
his own desertion of the most solemn
covenant ever entered into by living
man. .1f