The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-27


%. III. Mason Again.
In last weeks Journal We Published
something 10 regard to an ultra speech
made at Franklin, Tennessee, by one
D. II. Mason, who Is a candidate for
Congress, in the Nashville district,
against John Trimble, the Radical NOM
inee. Mason says Trimble is milk-and-
cider, II not Conservative ut heart. Ma
son is in favor Of con6scation, disfran-
chisement of all who aided the REBEL
ion, and Of course he 10 tho especial
friend of the negroes-wants them to
have forty acre farms in any locality
they may select, and promises to work
for this end il elected. But Mason has
aroused a major portion Of the Radi-
Gals against him in his district, and
why? Verify, we believe it is because
he is opposing Triuble, and that is why
the Press and Times is so bitter on him,
and is led to urge against him some
stubborn facts, supported by certificates
of persons who know all about said
Mason. The Press and Times says he
is trying to swindle colored men out Of
their votes by representing himself as
their peculiar friend. After giving GER
tifcates of two citizens of Rome, Geor-
gia, showing that Mason published in
that town, in 1860, an "out-and-o Sc
c~ession paper called the True Flag
that he supported John c. Bleckin-
ridge for President, and did all he
could to promote the cause of seces
sion in Georgia."-thc Press and Times
editor goes OH to say: .aJ % +,
"We could multiply testimony Of
similar import, without measure, from
the first citizens Of Georgia, who knew
Mason personally and knew that he
was a malignant, fire-eating disunion
list and Breckenridge rebel, a persecu-
tor ofloyal men, and an ultra secession
list. The miserable scamp has been for
weeks skulking among the negroes, and
promising them their choice Of houses
and lots in Nashville, and forty acre
farms in any locality they might prefer,
if they would elect him to Congress"
Now all this, as the Banner says,
looks ugly on Mason. But after all, it
is no worse than similar certificates
brought on Drake, of Mi. Q ouri, and
Caswell, Of Maryland, both rampant
Radical members of the United States
Senate, who were Breckenridge Demo
Gratis in 1850. 1t is no worse than
Beast Buffers apostasy, after presiding
over the seeding portion ofthe Charles
ton delegates who nominated Brecken-
ridge. 1t is no worse than Stokes Dun
can letter; Arnell's leather contract;
Fletcher's ColoneIs commission w.
G. Brownlow's refusal to be a party to
any invasion of East Tennessee by Fed
eral troops at a certain late day and his
advice to the people 10 elect members
to the Confederate Congress; Mullins
proxy speech; or even S. c. MERGERS
quinine speculation only Mason is a
little in advance Of some of the loyal
men bookkeeping time with Wendell
Phillips, Beast Butler and Thad. Ste
ens Why he 80 hard on Mason, be-
cause at one time he was a secession
list, rebel, SCI Surely, there is hard
ly a Union man in the State of Tennes-
see who did not, as MI. Cooper said in
his able speech here last Monday, at
one time or another during the late
war, yield to the pressure of surround.
ing circumstances. Mr.. Cooper never
did, yet he is called q rebel. Andrew
johnson never did, yet he is q REBEL
Emerson Etheridge eve did, yet Asis
a rebel. These men are Conservatives
they are for peace now when wa is
over, but they are rebels. And those
who call them rebels have records which
d~isqualify them for the taking Of the
test oath they have themselves made.
Don't be so hard on Mason. He is
trying to make record of loyalty for
himself, and must be extreme. The
more deeply died in treason heretofore,
the louder must be his voice now for
furnishing poor rebels who needed his
former advice. Wherein does he diff
fer from the powers that ruley
But, the Press and Times says that
Mason has, Tin all probability been
paid by rebelwire-pullers to distractand
weaken the Republican vote in this dis.
trict as far as possible" Now don't. Ac.
your companion, and do not
to evade the responsibility, the obi
Inn attaching to him as q leader in the
party of moral ideas, by saying rebels
would pay him to advocate con6sca-
ion. We are willing to acknowledge
hat he pretended to be with us once.
He is your man now.
WHO are Radicals.
The Greenville Union thus describes
he material out Of which the Radical