Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-07-18

the exercise OF your last remaining
right, to employ whom you please
to labor on your farm, or in your
workshop-to require you to feed.
and clothe, and shelter the man
who will vote to deprive you of
your inalienable rights, to strip
you of your liberty and property,
You are not sufficiently humbled
even yet to tremble at the petty
threats of insolent officials and
venal editors. The man who
votes the Radical ticket in this
election, votes that you shall nev-
er be allowed to vote-votes that
you shall be taxed without repre-
sentation-ground down with tax
alton as only the unrepresented
can be taxed. He votes to continue
over you a mercenary militia of
outlaws, who search your houses
without warrant, seize your prop
erty and appropriate it to their
own use, insult your wives and
daughters, and murder unoffending
citizens with circumstances of cru
el barbarity scarcely exceeded in
the history of the most savage
races. He votes to sustain the
man and the, party which speaks
Of marching across your now un-
happy land once again with the
sword to kill, and the torch to
burn, ard the surveyors chain to
divide out the desert which shall
remain. He votes to sustain the
party in your midst which invites
"a rapaciouS and cruel faction in
the North to take possession of
your estates and confiscate the
same without the least regard to
your lawful rights, and in violation
of the plighted faith of the nation.
And, fellow-citizens, if this scheme
of c6nfscation, so much desired
by those who think ''the late war
ended too soon," should be put in
force, we can tell you now whose
property will be taken. 1t will
be the property of those who have
it. This faction cares nothing for
loyalty or disloyalty. The man
who has whereof to take q spoil,
will be to them disloyal. You can
hardly escape by timid subservien-
cy to their arbitrary will. The
man who votes the Radical ticket
at the coming election, votes in
favor of, or to give satisfaction and
countenance to, these acts of tyr
amy and oppression, "unequalled
in the annals of civilization"
And yet the insolent miniOns
of tyranny threaten you, that un-
less you continue to patronize and
employ, and feed, and clothe, and
shelter the men by whose instru-
mentality they seek to perpetuate
their power, and to continue your
humiliation, and to bring upon you
these other and greater indignities
and calamities, they will mark
you, and visit you with assessment
after the most improved rule of
military rascality. Take no coun-
sci with your fears. Cowardly
highwaymen rob the timid. Let
these men know that the war is
over; and not till the war is re-
sumed again will military assess
ments come in use again among
us.
On the first day of the present
month, the Governor, who now
seeks his reelection by all manner
of unlawful and unfair means, IS
sued his proclamation, which most
of you have seen with Indignation.
In this Gubernatorial proclama-
ton the dictator boldly assumes
to the Executive department,
from which the constitution has
expressly withheld that function,
the authority to declare, construe
and expound the law. He utters
his opinion like the rescrlpt OF o
Roman Emperor, and arrogantly
threatens the Judges of the Coun-
ty Courts with punishment if they
shall presume to perform those
judicial and ministerial functions
conferred upon them by the consti-
tuition and laws. The law shall
be according to his Interpretation,
and vengeance shall fall on the
heads of those who disobey. He,
the Governor, is a candidate for
reelection. He has the power
to appoint the commissioners of
rooistration in all the counties.