The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-07-19


With your hands and fingers downward in
the chest, the thumb thrust into the vest
or waistband, across the body, pronounce
League
There is great deal of other 'tomfool-
ery'' of the same character unworthy of
place here. Suffice tito say that such is
the character of the combination which
bids fair to rebaptise our unhappy Southern
soil with blood-such are the willing or
duped instruments ready to carry out the
will of our modern Jeffreys and Dalrym-
pies, Masters of Stair Glenlyons and Linds-
leys such are the Loyal Leagues which
in darkened rooms, before blue mysterious
lookibgsfres, cross swords and psalm-sing-
ing humbugs. have swornin ''about forty
five thousand" simple fFeedmen, and taken
from each miserable half dollar fee of in
itiation. Those poor creatures have stood
before that blue fame and all the other
grim paFaphernalia ofthis dark room hum
bug, with superstitious awe. mingled
with fear. TO them it was the "Carloo
Dithaa" Of THEN. native jungles. the "Obi
Man, with his poisoned coconut. They
will never forget that blue fame, those
crossed swoards. the wild, upturned eye of
''Forty Aeres,.' with zominously uplifted
finger of the worthy "Miller, as he pro-
nounces the "Anathma, Maranatha" on
all who seceed or break the terrible plege.
Poor. simple, wronged creatures ] In the
wild storms of midnight, when the blue
lighteding thrusts it's fingers through the
storm tossed cloud, the imagination will
bring out clothed with horror, that dark
ened room, that mysterious fame, the up
turned eye of ''Forty Acres," and the
SO mote Il be- of the mixed multitude.
Gentlemen, felIow-citizens, freemen-
look at this mumery-this political hum
bug, and think that men of rank, of stand
ing, Of fine intellect and kind hearts are
there. How can yau account for it, in
this nineteenth century? What does it
mean Has the Lord our God forsaken
US Are We people Has He made US
blind that our ruin may be the more sure?
Leaguers and madmen, beware Like
blind Sampson. you how sit beneath the
tower, not of oppression but of human
rights. You are madly grasping the Law
and the ballot box, the sure columns Of
liberty. If you bow yourselves as he did,
the beautiful structure will fall, and your
children will perish unwept under its ruins.
Leaguers, beware A day of retFibutiOn
is coming. Blind guides leading the
blind, how can you escape? Every act of
your own and of your leaders is calculated
to provoke blood. You know this. Do
you think to grind the Anglo-Saxon race
beneath the heel of your deceived colored
dupes You thrust them once into the
fiery furnace of war to save your own chill
dren. You emancipated them as mill
tary neces sity. AS the last hope of our
tOttering government, to save yourselves
you and your party laid violent hands on
! the "colored element" and now you say
that it was all for the love Of that clement.
Let US look at Mr.. Lineoln's letter to A.
G. Hodges, Esq Frankfort, KY, dated
April 4, 1864:
- believed the indispensable necessity
of emancipation and arming the blacks,
would come. Il came, and l was, in my
best Judgment, driven to the alternative of
either suTrendering the Union and with it
the Constitution, or of laying strong hands
on the colored clement and arming it. 1
chose the latter
Further quotation is unnecessary, COM
ment useless. And now, dear Leaguers,
remember, when you tell the poor freed
men that it was your love that made him
free, you speak not the truth When you
gave him the right of suffrage on the same
account, twas to save your bacon, and
you care 10 more for the poor freedman
than Balaam did for the poor brute which
refused to carry him.
Finally, Loyal League No ], / beg
leave 10 say to you, when you are about to
turn a member out without cause, as Paul
said to the jailer, ''Do thyself no harm" I"
There was not one sentence in my letter
which merited the act of Expulsion. -
You kicked hole in the wall, and I let
the world in. sure of the approval of hon
est men, and regardless of all your threats.
80 7 am, respectfully yours,
.-sr.s WuLLiAM DRIVER.
#See McCaulay's Massacre of Glencoe.
Read and tremble for the spirit is here.
We commend the following from the
I Radical paDer. the Springfield Mass Re