The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-02-23
Shirt OF the New York Press.

The "WoRLD is showing up the real
character Of the
INFAMOUS LOUISIANA (~ELIor) BILL,
which tho Radicals rushed through the
Rump,--and shows also that it Is in
tended only to exclude the Southern
States from all participation | N the next
Presidential Election, so that the
Radicals can hold on to the Gov1rl'
ment for another four years. We
quote:
"By taking q single State and at,
tempting to reorganize that in advance
as a precedent to be hereafter followed
in the case Of t.le others, nine-tenths Of
the whole business is kept in obcyance
awaiting the result Of this preliminary
cXpcriense. The electioneering agita-
ton Of the Republicans will be made
to revolve around the New Orleans
riot, as It's central topic. The consti-
t%utional question will be merged in i'm
FASHIONED appeals to the multitude, in
voking vengeance on the perpetrators
Of what the Republicans will call a
yet unpublished wrong, and protection
to the freedmen and Unionists against
q State Government which as the Rad
icals represent it connived at and abet-
ted those scenes of brutal butchery.-
A French wri er NJ. Leon Foucher
who had had opportunities to look in,
to the machinery Of popular emeutes
and the modes Of exciting them, re
marked, with q sort Of picturesque
truth, that " it i, the high intcllects that
"regard the questions Of right; it is
only by spreading "out tile bioody shirt
of some victim that the populace can he
strongly excited" The New Orleans
riot furnishes to the Radicals "Me
bloody shirt," which they will display
as q banner in their cleo N asse nblies,
aad thereby inspire the frenzy requisite
for drowning all reasonable discussion.
BY presenting the case Of Louisiana
apart from all the other States, they
hope to get the popular Endorsement
for the contemplated subversion OF its
State government, and they will as
sumo that they have the popular sane
ton for applying the precedent to all
the others.
Now observe how eflcctually the pre-
codcnt will operate to eXcludcth he other
States from the Presidential elcction.-
The election ofmembcrs Of Conven-
ton to form a new State Constitution
is fixed for the third Tuesday Of Octo-
Der, 1867. The convention will meet
at a subsequent date, and the constitu-
ton it frames must be submitted first to
the people for their ratification, and
afterwards to Congress for its appro-
val. 1t evidently cannot reach Con.
grcss till late in the winter session, and
the State has no chance Of restoration
to its federal privileges until Congress
haj acted upon it. Taking the same
course with the other States, the next
Congress will pass a similar bill for
each of them, directing constitutions to
be formed late in the year 1868, and
submitted to Congress for approval at
the session of 1868 -9--after the Pres
idential election has taken place
Thus no opportunity will be offered
to the nine remaining States TO vote
for the next President. This is the
chief design ofthe laborious procrasti-
nation practiced BY the Radicals.
This exposition Of the intent aud eff
feet ofthe bill cannot, by any ingenui-
ty, be gainsaid. We have laid it bare
to ;he bone, and exposed it as q par
tisan scheme for ~postpon!ng rcstora-
ton until after the Presidential cleo
ton. This monstrous perversion Of
the forms Of legislation, this reckless
prostitution ofthe government to base
partisan uses, deserves epithets which
honest men will be at q loss to apply"
The Radical party hacks, of course,
all think the passage oftlis bill a good
thing. ........
From the Tribune.l
AS a beginning, atleast, Of that great
work Congress has only talked about
for two years, the passageofa measure
which has some principle ofjustice and
permanence may be welcomed. 1t takes
at once the State of Louisiana out Of
the power Of the men who dragged her
into the Rebellion, and who are oppo-
sing the men who opposed Rebellion.
TO which the New York Express re-
plies: Ifthis bill must be defended for
wicked purposes, Through thick and
thin, so be it,--but why have recourse
to these now silly and thoroughly ex-
ploded fabrications about oppression
South, Of the men who opposed the re-
beIlion? There lisa high Republican
authority even, for saying that there is
no truth,-none whatever, in these al
legations. 1t vas only yesterday that
Senator Dixon, of Connecticut, said he
belle red that these oppression re-
ports were stupendous %falsehoods. He
had no doubts that in some parts Of the
wilds of Texas, and some few other
parts Of the South, the negroes were
badly treated: but he utterly denied
that such treatment was general, or
anything like it. We advise the Fri.
bune, therefore, to drop this threadbare
silly trick. 1t can no longer deceive.
1t is thoroughly played out.
The "Times'' is troubled about
GENERAL GRANT,