The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-02-15

Come home! come home come home
Please father, dear father, come home
The Coming storm-Gloud.
From the National Inteligencer.l
Mr. Glenni w. Schofeld, member of
Congress from Pennsylvania, and chairman
of the last caucus of the destructives of
the house Of representatives, in-his recent
undignfed harangue in the national -debat-
ing society upon the state of the Union,
ELECTED the laughter of his colleagues and
| the commentator of his lately discomft
ted leader, by a vulgar assault upon the
Secretary of State.
| There never was a political faction so
completely and irretrievably at fault as this
| cabal of destructrives at the present mo-
ment. They have disregarded the voice of
the Constitution and the fathers They
! have rushed with headlong recklessness
toward the attainment of an unhoiy, un-
patriotic ambition. They have entirely
! lost sight of all the landmarks by which
their course should have been directed !;
and they are now found circling around
in painful uncertainty as to which way to
90. 70 recede or to advance is to them
equally dangerous. They cannot retire
from their position without self-condemna-
ton. They cannot 60 forward without
selfdestruction. They are truly 10 a most
ptiable dilemma. If they abandon the
schemes they have set on. foot they will in
cur the hootiDgs and zexecrations of the
masses they have been misleading. Ii
they eudeavor to proceed in their efforts
they will have to face the financial ruin of
the country and the relentless fury Of de-
ceived, betrayed, and much-abused consti-
tuency. Their scheme for the erection Of a
Congressional despotism upon the ruins of
a Constitutional Government was a grand
one, but the Constitution itself, guarded bv
the executive and judiciary departments,
stands as an impossible barrier to their pro-
gress.
Emboldened by the passive aequiescence
of the people in the extraordinary usu7pa-
tons of the government, to preserve the
life of a nation during the most terrible war
recorded in history, these destruetives
= have madly supposed that the war cries oI
the battle field could be made applicable &c
time of peace. They have believed that
the masses, burdened with almost intolera-
! BILE taxation, with commerce and industry
staguated, could ssill be induced, in tbs
r name of party, to- submit to the abrogator
t of all constitutional guarantees of life, lib
erty and property, and to consent to the in
t stitution of social and political anarchy
and financial ruin, as the means of attain
j ing congressional despotism.
y The very wrongs already inflicted, ant
= those plainly in contemplation, are begin
ming to educate their avengers. They ar
arousing public apprehension of the terri
l BILE consequences of this headlong race t
ruin. The shadows of the coming clout
are beginning to darken the great CONNER
d cial centres. The holders of public secu
IS rites at home and abroad are trembling a
IS the result of the proposed reckless cours
Il of the majority ia Congress. The trades
men and manufacturers begin to perceiv
that it is the conduct Of Congress which
y bringing upon them ruinous stagnation /
70 business and the necessity to suspend ope
rat1ons. The laboring classes cannot ia
81 soon to catch this infection, and then mus
come a revolution in public opinion SO tel
rible and resistless as has never befor
been experienced.
These are no idle predictions. The POI
q. tentious fringes Of the coming storm-elou
Of are even now plainly visible upon .he hor
zon. When it breaks, with all the fury
=. the tempest. terrible will be the fate Of thos
who have invoked its terrors and are In
Id potent to control its ravages.
ri The course ofthe majority in Congress
W in endeavoring to dissever the Union, Il
whose preservation millions Of treasurer an
ut hundreds Of thousands of lives were .freel
given in seeking to destroy and uPrO'
ly the executive and Judicial branches of ii
is Government, and 10 make the constitutIo
itself the mere plaything Of a political fat
:" ton. is rapidly tending to the destruction
th not only of the Government, but Of Il
whole people. L is madly creating