The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-19

and l don't bleve dey is gwine to
cher glib us any land at ALL" This was
what he said to us, and the remark
showed the imposition made upon his
bcnightcd mind that if he voted for
he should have 40 acres Of
land. Was ever such rascality practi-
ced, and to make the matter worse,
poor, ignorant beings are the deceived,
Accused be the man who imposes up
on ignorance, and seeks to obtain pow
or for himself by the sacrifice of such
ignorance to the rctributivc consequen
ces which must inevitably follow upon
the heels of ignorance carousing over
the stihed power of outraged i%ntelli-
gence and moral worth.
Now, this negro element is a power
the Jacobins cannot long CONTROL
They must either lose the support Of
the negro through a failure to fulfill the
odious and impious promises made
him, or pull down the temple ofliberty
upon their own heads in the attempt to
fulfill them. They may worship the
black idol, with q mock worship for
awhile, but this idol will prove a drawn
elephant, and they will not know what
to do with him. Who is so stupid as to
believe the Jacobins will give up Office
and power to the negro! Before high
Heaven we believe they would disfran-
chise him tomorrow in this\State if
they thought he could not be controll-
ed by them. But the negro is free
so-callcd. He is not free unless he has
the right to hold Office. They dare not
much longer deny him this concomitant
of freedom, and equally fear to invest
him with it. They may attempt some
additional crime to bolster up crimes
committed, but ever that must be done
quickly, for crimes succeed by hurry
and dispatch. In this dilemma is the
Jacobin party to-day, and the demo-
cratic success in California and Monta-
ma, fall like death bells upon their. ears.
They read the handwriting upon the
wall. They bid the ghost of murdered
liberty to down, and it will not. They
may wash their hands of the blood of
their country, and cry "Out, damned
spot" but we think all the perfumes Of
Arabia, ofAfrica, will not sweeten those
bloody hands, or kill the scent Ofinno-
cent blood.
W. are not capable of drawing apic-
tnre strong enough to reveal the awful
blackncss Of this. Jacobin party. 1t
seems to us that our people, even good
men, are dumb, founded, holding their
hearts in Il sort of catalepsy, while crime
is walking abroad, and our country
sinking beneath the yoke of despotism
weeping, bleeding,
- "and eachne day a cash
Is added to her Wounds"
Hon. Ben. Hill, OF Georgia, whose
great "Notes on the Situation we have
been and are still publishing in the
Home Journal, to the dislike of some,
no doubt, who will not see the brink of.
ruin to which the Jacobips have
brought our countryside, and a few
like him, have the courage to skeak out,
even under the threat of Punishment,
and parrot-like cry ofdisloyalty against
all who do not help to ruin the land,
but too many Others whose power for
good is needed, are fearfully SILENT
Yet, withal, our pen, ever SO humble, is
enlisted on the side of the Constitution,
and policy may go to the dogs. Taere
is but one lamp to guide our feet, and
that lamp is, Tho Constitution. Too
many are ready, with fippant, if not
wicked, tongues, to boot the idea that
the Constitution should be held up as
q relief, but VIC agree with Mr.. Hill that
it is the compass to guide us in safety
over the troubled waters. We agree
with him when he says: "The time
Will soon come when not q decent, re-
spectacle man will be found in the Rad
ical party" We believe there is Just
enough common sense and virtue left
in this country to save it from anarchy,
which ever follows the boundless in
temperance Of tyranny and disregard Of
written and divine law. Those who
imagine there is immortality in life sup
ported by crime and outrage are more
foolish than the builders at the tower
of Babel, and are the worst of infdels.
Aye, We digress toNdssert that it is a
mystery more intricate to us than the
origin Of the negro-mOro incompre-
hensible than the idea Of eternity how a
christian car belong to a party built up
on prescription, and usurpation. Yet
we have heard Of men called preachers
who are jealous co-laborers with the
Jacobins in the crime of driving from
the ballot box white men, who con read,
and forcing negroes who own nothing
and connot read, to tax those white men.
If there is christianity in this God for
give us if we never embrace ,hristiani-
ty. We are willing to risk a chance for
Pluto's dominions If such christianity
is winked at by our Heavenly Father