The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-07-25

will approach near the centre OF the
room, and salute the Post Command
ant in the usual way, ahd then take
your seat.
WORK OF THE ORDER.
This consists in the "muster of re-
cruits," mutations, the usual business
Of the organization, and 'drillihg,'
The members are, from time to time,
drilled in the squad and manuel drill OF
Casey's Infantry Tactics.
TIE pERvERsIoN OF THE ORDER, AND
IT'S DANGERS.
! will now state, Messrs. Editors,
the facts which lead me to believe that
the present leaders Of the q. A. X. in
this section are pervcrting the objects
of the order, and converting it into an
engine Of oppression, injustice, and
crime. In the first place the order, it
was said, was intended to embrace on
" ex-Federul soldiers. 1t now invites
and receives the soldiers of the regular
United States army. | believe this is
wrong and dangerous, for the reason
that it imposes on the regular soldier
two obligations, which may come into
conflict, as will be made apparent by
what I am now about to disclose.
PREPARATIONS FOR BLooDsnED IN
NASHVILLE.
Some Of the leading members of the
G. A. r. in your city arc now cxerting
their power, as far as it goes, in an eff
Tort to secure the election of the Radi-
cal ticket. TO accomplish this result,
they are unusually active, in and out
of scamp" They arc drilling and ex-
the members with the most in
aamnatory appeals to prepare for VIC
lence and bloodshed. They are i'll
structcd that all who are not Radicals
are Rebels, and deserve the severest
and even death. They
are active in inducing the regulars,
now stationed in your city, to join the
order, so that, it there should occur
violence, the forces of the regular army
will be bound to side with chem and
if called upon to. preserve the peace,
they will be sworn not to do SO before
hand. | do not say that all the sol
diers of the G. A. r. at the Nashville
post are active in this conspiracy to
produce strife and bloodshed on the
day of election. But l do say, that
the active and leading men in that or
.ganization are at this time, and have
been for weeks past, zealously prepar-
ing for this result,
THE G A.. II. AND THE LEAGuRS.
I say further, that these leaders of the
N .shville Post, G.. A. r., who will con
troll the entire camp, if they can, to the
same end, have been aud still are Co
operating with the Loyal Leagues in
preparing for riotous violence, blood
shed, "death to Rebels and destruc-
ton to Rebel property on the day cleo
ton. On the night of Thursday, July
the 18th inst, Il meeting was held at an
office on Church street, by Il committee
composed of representatives Of the G.
A II. and the five Leagues in Nashville.
Bloodthirsty and iiendish addresses
made at this meeting. Resolu-
were offered and adopted to carry
out the general purposes Of that meet
ing-which were to organize the Loyal
Leagues into companies, to be drilled
and armed for the occasion. The de.
clarcd object of this preparation. is to
intimidate or drive from the polls, ev-
mau who dares oppose in any man
ncr the cause of Brownlow and his par
~. They will, as far as it lies in their
they carry out the plans al
ready discussed and adopted by them
prevent the ~peaceable citizen from
to the polls and voting his sen
.imcnts if they be against their party.
In ease of a collision between individ
ials of different sides, they are sworn
take the part of the Radical man,
whether he is in the right or wrong. If
he work is begun, and they meet with
resistance from any quarter, they are
pledged to STAY without mercy all oppO-
'ers; and if necessary to burn houses
md destroy property generally. My
conviction is that these iiendih men
would not hesitate to slaughter without
discrimination of sex or condition, or
lay the city in ashes, or permit their
'ollowers to engage in rapinc and plum
Ter, when one Infatuated by the spill
ne of blood.
sPoTTING THE People, 800.