The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-11-07
Overwhelming ViDdicatiOn
Loyalty.


Home journal synopsis Of the Socia
Equality bill which passed the Tenn,
sec Legislature and is now law o
Brownlow's province. In noticing tn
action Of the Legislature in this mat
ter, the Chattanooga American Union
Il paper published and edited by tru
Irnion men, who were on the Fedora
side in the late war, thus talks, to wit
II seems that that distinguished ant
intelligent body Of loyalist5, not salts
fed with regulating the army and navy
of the United States by resolution, an,
not content with directing the Con
grcss Of the United States how to dis
charge its duties, have come to thu
conclusion that the state Of society il
Tennessee is radically wrong, and have
gone to work to set it radically right
Singular as it may seem, The negro
in Tennessee, up to about 10 O'Clock
last Friday morning, had no rights that
\ white man was bound to respect
True, he could vote, while most of tho
white men were disfrAnchiscd, but that
was nothing. Was there not an aris
tocracy OF color? Did not the proud
Calcasian race disdain to meet upon
terms of social equality tie dark hucd
exile from, "whcrc Atric's sunny foun
tains rol! down their golden sands. "
Weac there not invidious distinctions
made by railroad and steamboat com
panies, whereby loyal black men and
GOOD Brownlow voters were prohibited
from riding in first class carriages, and
from sitting side by side with the fair
and lovely daughters of the white man,
upon the paltry pretencc that tho odor
ofthe loyal black mans person was Of
fensivc to the delicate sensibilities OF
the whites; and the disgraceful subtcr-
fugc that the company OF white people
was preferred by them to that of ne
rroes and all this to the prejudice OF
loyal mon? Yea, verify!
Was il not an insult to loyalty
personifiol, that Sambo and his Dinah
should be excluded from the ladies car,
and from sitting ut the first table on
stcemboats, when disloyal whites could
luxuriate upon the soft cushions of the
one. end the dainty yiands Of the other ?
"To be certainly"
Was not the great progressive party
ofthc age pledged to the abolition of
sll caste distinctions: was it not their
mission to confute the wisdom of the
ALMIGHTY, by setting at nought the in
stiucts Of our nature, and making the
lowest OF the human race, socially and
politically the equals OF the highest;
and was not the great loyal Legislature
of Tennessee the legitimate exponent
of that great progressive party Plaln
ly sos 3,
What else, then, could the Legisla-
tIre do, without being recrcant to their
mission, and false to the great man of
their constituents, than to confer upon
tho negro that same superiority over
the whites socially, which he already
enjoyed politically.
" { '.l ,.l ""i'o',yo ,yh;to man thc rirbt to
%'Vi ~. .os,',e o,'nF ,,mnn thn anciotv Of m.
other. If q white man is disorderly or
EN"e' VAe @ llta.'.'" " ,nc,,ostionnd W. rioht
Fcy"ilcG' INV ,. wv - ''ni,ro hoe o,,r tn
CHARGE them with discriminating against
him on account Of his color or race, to
coiec' olt it"'i,'' m,.'.o Wv tIn no,,luctnr ,o
conp"1y, ~, "~,l Iass 'I"r thon tcn @ nor more than
oc. 80 n',I,i - .U ond 1not or saws the bill
my No:ia,a ;,,,;snno' u" not cwxcccdino * tbir.
az" w ';,tt u, ,,o ,oDn ia;, of tbo comfy where
y oayS II 'l,o ',,t '"' a. for,1 ~ WI
inc i'i''ios''.Imo I,,'tnu 10 ~ y r,iroo1 train
nv a ooa.aU w od,n;t ,ho lowcs, vilcst
WHO WHY, iet"se' ',.oioHt :" % auI most I;ar,s,inn
o ml.,,io's' ,onisL rnS2 INTO thc ladies' car, and
n.y. ~, "oNol onrr,;t , this carir,turc of I'M
:, lelu?ea W 'o,nr oa4 horsn,r NV tbc side his
,''ai,''S ;e i;s w s;atnr % ~ snnc ladv ntrusted
w WV hi' "'1 coro n. # sbn wishes to do so,
..e1oW bs Jernca 0uihy Of a mislcmeon-
s"'', aU1 W. hall shaII W. nunishcd bv fine and
.,,,,r;.nnmon. =" while the negro wench
H. ."'S Al ' Lo naid hv thc railroad company
,ho arn of ono hundred dollars, as
-. n.o a,;obt comncnsation for the eric
-.nr. wr0no done to loyalty, by refi,-
,;.-. 60 oJT,;t bcr to perfcct social
ol,,,oi;tr a,nS II viii, thc white race.
.V4u,tlt uL o,''ta;, "ta nf n steamboat who re-