The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-11-07
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1t would ne cause Eor rejoicing II We
could establish quarantine regulations
against the spread Of false dogmas, 70.
~natical IDEAS, bigotry, &c., just as we
fortify ourselves, by legal enactmcnts
against the spread Of contagious. II
We could, VIC might save Our South
from tho blight of Puritanism, which
cver since tls Mayaower touched the
American coast, has been guilty OF syn
crctism in attempting to rule us oil
down TO its mode of thinking and act
ing. 1t has been said that great ideas
make great peoples. Conversely, then,
the rule will work, and w are left to
bemoan the future Of Tennessee under
Radical rule Pnritanism, true to It's
nomadic character, sccms to have left
New England and invaded the halls OF
our Legislature, MS every 4lspassionate
reader Of the Home Journal must con-
clude, who read the Infamous proceed
ings Of that body, as panphrased in last
weeks paper. We alluJe particularly
to the passage of Il bill forcing social
equality,-miscegenation in one sense
AMONG the passengers on railroads.
in hacks, and in all the vehicles OF
common carriers, Bearing upon the
subject of consideration is the follow
ing extract from 4 late number Of the
New York Round Table, an able Re
publican journal, Which seems to speak,
always without fear or favor, upon all
subjects that exercise the people. In
the article from which we extract, the
writer is taking issue with the attempt
to New Ehglanlizc the recalcitrant
States, and is gratitied chat the late
elections North give evidence Of an in
disposition on the part Of the Ameri-
can people to force AS a whole upon
the ,uth m outrage they will not ac-
cept in detail, and measures in which
party and prejudice have so muchmorc
interest han patriotism and Justice
THE Round Table says:
The whole theory o. Interference, the
theory Of maxim! people drink alike,
cat alike, dress alike, move alike, think
alike, practice obligatory uniformity in
:; word, in all conceivable respects, the
Puritan notion of compelling people to
do what we choose to think right and
not what they choose to think right,
has II ceived in these elections q signal
rcbuke, and one which it was not pre-
mature to administer. The passion for
carrying all things to extremes, for ap.
plying the untcnahlc and preposterous
dogma of universal equality in every
%lmpolitic and silly direction, seems to
have had its swing, and the common
sense OF the people to have recoilcd
lust this side Of destruction. A warn
ing has at least been given which, from
the nature of our situation, is likely to
prove quite as eilectual rs the strong
arm. Wha We require in this coun
try is not uniformity, but variety; not
legislation to repress individuality, but
absence Of legislation to encourage it,;
not protection bringing %impoverish-
ment, bnt Tree trade bringing prospect
ty; not canting pr~ovincials thinking
their W little corner the centre Of the
world and themselves the wlseat
who live in it, but generous hearted,
clearheadpd patriots who think OF the
interests Of the whole country, who
know the incoming Of the golden rule
and who strive to act up to it: not lg-
uorant and degraded voters who bring
baskets and tn pots in which to carry
away their rights Of suffrage, but in
teltiaent and fairly educated citizens
with sense enough to know and laugh
at Il selfish demagogue or a spurious
humanitarian when they see him; not
parsons who spout politics and Tux
about good works, but pastors who
teach charity and do good works; not
4 capacity to hate and curse and strive
to oppre $ our conquered brothers
even when we think them WRONG, but a
disposition to forget their faults, to
think only Of their nobler qualities, to
remember how human is error and how
divine is forgiveness, For these rea-
sons snd not out Of regard for any po-
litical party w are glad Of tic result
. fthe lasa elections, and shall not he
sorry to see the next ensuing ones of a
similar complexion. New England is
very Will in her way, hut ii will be bet
ter for all sections--in the lrng run
even for her own-that the New South
shall not be altogether "New Englanl
led either now or hereafter.