The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-08-15
The Tennessee Jlggle.
ON TIE NcW Iork EXnrnss,

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The result ofthe bogus election In
Tennessee ought not--and, it is to DC
presumed, will not-surprise any bod
who has been at the pains to keep him.
SELF informed of the condition orthings
In thlt unhappy State. That Brown
low should have elected himself by
twenty-five or thirty thousand majority
is certainly nothing remarkable. While
he was about Il, hl might as easily have
made it fifty or sixty thousand, or, il
need be, ''unanimOus."
The telegraph tells us the whole OF
the eight Congressman are also elected.
Tennessee has one Conservative mem
Der in the present "Rump," but it looks
as if even he Tin the Memphis district
has been counted out.
Now, we do not hesitate to say that
this so-callcd election is, in all its re-
spects, one Of the boldest and most
transparent frauds upon the people the
country has witnessed since the Access
sion of the Radical party to power
and thai is saying not q little. About
every man Who was not a Radical was
set down as Rebel, aud no Rebel was
permitted to vote. In this way, it is
estimated between fifty and sixty thou
sand white men We're ui5~Iranchiscd*
at the same time, that u corresponding
number Of negroes were admitted to the
ballot box. And, as We have hereto
fore shown, in order to prevent the
possible election ofany Of the Conscr-
vative candidates, in the more scqucs-
tered parts of the State, BrownIow
brought his State militia on the stage
to intimidate, where intimidation was
necessary to secure the Success Of the
Jacobin candidates.
And now, what is the result oft all?
answer,-To keep Tennessee
awhile longer under one of the meanest
despotisms with which eyer a people
were cursed, and to send to Congress
seven fraudulcntly elected members to
help make laws, not for Tennessee alone
but FOR Us, here in New York, and for
all the rest ofthe country. These Ten
nessce radical members of Congress
thus forced into the Capitol. as it were,
by fraud, force, terror, are to sit there.
perchance to make constitutional
amendments tor us, to impose taxes
upon us, to help impeach and remove
President, and to aid the S~tevenses,
the Summers, the Wilson's, and the But
lers, to plan new usurpations and new
e-,r-~ Constitutional Liberty |
and the Right, - -. Is
all this, be it remembered, while Dem
Ocratic and Conservative members from
Kcntucky-of whose regular election
there can be no reasonable doubt-are
not permitted to take their seats. A
State that never rebelled against the
but which sent forty thousand
of her sons to suppress the rebellion.
misunderstanding the negro and
.mean whites Of 'secesh" Tennessee
are permitted to send w~homsoever they
like to Congress provided they be nei-
ther Democrats nor Conservatives), to
strengthen the hands Of the Tyrants
and Despots who are already supreme
The wickedncss Of this pretended
election, and the fragrant outrage itper.
upon the forms even Of SELF
government. may be the means ofrous-
the people Of the North and West
20 the raridity with which these dema-
gogucs are subverting the whole system
Of our government. The addition of
thcse fraudulently chosen members Of
Congress to the existing majority Of the
are but 30 many new links in
the chain they are forging fur us I'll
wiz help them to maintain thoir Five
system throughout the
military dependencies. 1t
will enable them, by end bye. to give
to Maryland what they call a republi-
can system Of government whereby
will be enabled, by the negro vote,
and the Acknowledgement Of rebels. TO
H .Ha. AVN