The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-02-23
a Heavy bid nv Gen, Thomas.

arbitrarily arrested at Rome, Georgia,
by the military, and imprisoned at At
lanta, Gen Thomas makes the follow
ing bid" for n comfortable political
position, on which he has an eye
Beast Butler Is looking in the same
direction, and the former would do
well to "look to the laurc!s,' The
order Is dated on the 9th inst.
The sole cause of this and similar
olenscs lies in the fact that certain cit
liens Of Rome, and n portion OF the
people Of the States lately in rebellion
do not and have not accepted the sit
%vation, and that is, that the late civil
war was n rebellion, and history will
record it. Those engaged in it are
and will be pronounced Rebels; rebel
lion implies treason, and treason is a
crime, and q hcinous one too, and de
serving Of punishment, and that trait
ors have not been punished is owing to
the m%agnanimity Of the conqucrors.--
With too many Of the people Of the
South, the late civil war is called o. rev.
.o!ution Rebels are called 'Confeder.
ates !" loyalists to the whole country
arc called id Yankees and traitors,
and over the whole great crime with It's
accused record Of slaughtered heroes,
patriots murdered because Of their true
hearted love Of country, widowed
wives and orphaned children, and pris-
oners Of wal slain amid such horrors
as find no parallel in the history ofthe
world, they are trying to throw the
gloss Of responsibility, and thrusting
with contumcly and dcrision from
their society the men and women who
would not join hands with them in the
work Of running their country. Every
where in the States lately in rebellion
treason is respectable and loyalty
odious. This the people Of the
United States, who ended the rebellion
and saved the country, will not permit
and all attempts to maintain this I'M
natural order Of things will be met by
decided disapproval.
As, however, tits pretended by the
friends of the citizens arrested, that
they were so innocent as not to know
that it was wrong for paroled prison
ers and mpunishcd traitors to glory in
their shame, and liaunt the symbol of
their crime in the face Of the country,
they will be released from confinement,
with the understanding that no act Of
treason will be passed unnoticed when
detected, and may they and others, who
think like them, profit by the lesson
they have received.
am respectfully your obelient ser
want,
WM. d. WHlppLU,
Brcv't. Maj. Gen. L. S. A., and
4. A. G.
OFFICIAL; ALFRED L. HouGu, Brv'tLt.
COL, qnlA. A, G..
The readers of the Home journal
will remember that the offence Of the
Rome prisoners was displaying the
Confederate flag at u tableau or enter
Lainment in Rome. Ga. This was i'm
in the "boys" but it was con-
.emptible in the military to make so
much fuss ovcr it.
But Gen. Thomas, it seems, would
make it crime for southern people to
;all Southern soldiers Contedcrates,
md the war for Southern independence
Reoolution, and goes on to speak of
slaughtered heroes on his side of the
question. Perhaps a gag law" may
soon be passed, but as long as there is
my vestige of freedom left, we hope
he Southern people will have respect
enough for themselves and for the
slaughtered heroes Oh our side Of the
question, to. always say Confederates
lot rebels and call the war q revo-
not q rebellion. All we have
10 complain of is that we too frequent
ly hear Southern people speak Of Con
fcderates as rebels. Now, as for our
self, we say Federals when we speak
ofthe forces opposed to the Confed.
crates, and they fought for their idea
and we for our idea Of government
did think Gen. Thomas had u mind
and heart above the littlcness 0 ftrying
to make capital out Of mere "tcrms
without distinction If he were 4 lib
eral mar in his views he would not
want us to stullily ourselves, which we
do when we speak of our action as
treason. No sir, Gen. Thomas to the
contrary, we believe, and think we
shall always believe, the war for South
crn independence was right, its soldiers
were patriots, its dead glorious martyrs
and are believe them to he traitors no
more than we believe Jehovah to be !
or Heaven Il place of misery. {
Washington was more Il rebel, if pos '
iibic, than President Davis or Gen. .
zee, or their followers. And we even i,
it was noblcr to make the at {
empt and fail than to have made no a
tempt at all. And we think the Fed |
after conquering us by force of ,
umbcrs, and d~epriving us, under So
red terms of surrender, of all means G
+ resistance, ought TO adhere to the
romise they made to not modest us as !
ing rs we obeyed the laws IN force .,
rior to 1861. And the imposition of s
enaltics not mentioned in the surrcn- 9
er, and arbitrary commands we did |
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