The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-08-08

The Nashville Press and Times il
ierce in ~denouncing as prescription
ats all who do not choose to employ
negroes who voted to keep nearly one
undrcd thousand white men in this
state DISTINGUISHED. 1t wants all ne
yroes who may be dismissed, put into
regiments, with guns in their hands,
md the expense Of feeding and provi-
ling for them levied upon those who
,urn them of. We are told, says the
Banner, that if We prefer Patrick, a
worthy Irishman, for a porter, to Pc.
Ter, q man Of color, the Freedman's
Bureau will send n guard around and
lax us with the support Of the latter
# we discharge DinaA as chambermaid
and take Bridget in her stead, we may
expect II visit from the Loyal Militia ;
If we find Sambo lazy and impertlnent,
giving his attention rather to politics
than potatoes and cabbages, and if we
conclude to dispense with his services
and commit our garden to the care OF
a skilled and industrious German, our
land will be c%ondscatcd, and we our
selves put out Of doors. In q word,
we must not only be loyal in public,
but loyal in private; we must not only
vote the Radical ticket, but feed, clotht
and encourage all Radicals; we mus
make a household as well as a patriotic
duty Of our loyalty, and be Radical a
home and abroad, otherwise VIC arr
damned, and all that we have, OF hope
to have, is to be scquestercd for the
benefit Of those who have the power
and only wants prctcxt to use il.
The Gazette asks, very pertinentl,y,
How many Conservatives are employ.
ed in the Press and Times office, or in
the Frecdman's Bureau. How many
Conservatives have been appointed to
any State Office? What Radical gives
preference to u Conservative in any
business transaction?
But, continues the Gazette, and We
most heartily concur, These Radicals
have prescribed white men, dcpriving
them Of al! their birthrights-of all the
privileges Of a lrcemaI. And now, be-
cause u man does not wish to feed
those who haze wrOngcd him so deep
lV, he is denounced and threatened.
There is something exceed! o.y ab-
surd and ridiculous in all this cutlery.
The st. Louis Republican asks very
justly, which is the most "proscrip,
tive" to refuse Il man employment, or
to drive him away from the polls and
deny to him the exercise Of Il privilege
which is his birthlight? The vaga-
bond white Radicals persuade the ne
gro to go to the polls and vote against
all Conservatives, to pcrpetuate their
disfranchiscmcnt and exclude them
from all participation in the Govern
mcnt. These same negroes go to the
polls, iusolcntly bid Conservatives
get out Of the way" vote for their
enemies, who impose upon them de-
grading disabilities, and make them
aliens in he lald where they were
born, dcpriving them Of a voice in
matters il which their property and
their lives are involved. And this
most utrocious and unprecented pros
cription Of American citizens, calls
forth not Il word of condemnation
from the Radicals. But when those
thus prescribed and outraged say: we
will give neither employment, nor
money, mol shelter, to those who thus
prove themselves our deadly enemies,
the Radicals are shocked at the "pro-
scriptive' spirit displayed. Let them
correct their own vices before they be-
come virtuously indignant at the vices
Of others. If it is unjust and proscrip,
tive to refuse Il man employment be-
cause fhis alliance with Il bad party,
it is infinitely more so to disfranchise a
! citizen, dcfraud him Of his vote, deny
him the RIGHT to choose his own rulers
and make his own laws. When the
Radicals cease this sort ofproscription,
then they may ask Conservatives to
give bread and butter to negroes. RBut
it is the very sublimity of assurance
and impudence for them to demand
that Conservatives should nourish and
support the very agents who are used
to in6ict upon them the greatest politi-
cal outrages ever suffered by q free
people.