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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13

The FRANKLIN COUNTY P%ETrTIoN.-
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the Sth,
speaking of the political condition in
Tennessee, says of the petition recent
ly forwarded by the citizens of Frank
lin county to the authorities at Wash
.ington:
The petition is a paper which will be
famous in history. 1t embodies the
very spirit of manly fortitude and pa
triotic devotion. Briefly and simply,
but eloquently, recounting the wrongs
that the people of Tennessee have SO
patiently borne-alluding in terms that
will touch all manly hearts to the ear
nest wish Of the people to restore peace
and good will throughout their State,
and forgetting the dead past, faithfully
observe the allegiance they have sworn
to the government Of the United States
simple, unexaggerated, heroic, this
cry ola brave and suffering people for
justice must evoke a hearty and univer-
sal sympathy, if the American people
are not callous to every sentiment which
has ever adorned the national charac-
ter.
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Keep it before the people,
that crime has increased since
the organization Of Brownlow's
militia.
Truths"

The New York Express says: Ma.
jor General Butler, in a | letter to a iolli-
fication Black-and White meeting in
Washington, over which a negro pre-
sided, (aJohn t. Cuok), among good
many other wicked things, wrote as
follows to the colored gentleman:--
us it not a self. evident political
truth, where the land is held in large
tracts by the employer, and to be till
ed by the employed, there can be no
just and true field for the exercise of
republican citizenship? And it is one
ofthc pressing e~xigencies o fthe coun-
try, as the very basis Demonstration,
that some plan must be devised by which
the lands of the South may be divided
among those who shall! occupy and till
them"
And is it not self evident truth, that
q man that holds about a million ofdol-
lars,-as tits said, you do, ifnot over.
has more than his share, and that so
much money should not be held in so
large a " tract?" And, is it not Just
as self.evident,-that while land can be
had, in any abundance, from 10 cents
per acre, to 1876, 1.-THE very richest prai-
RE land and "a Homestead for moth
ing, that you. and other holders of the
two billion debt, to say nothing of the
town and county, and State debts, which
the white laboring men of the North
are working hard to pay only the inter
est on, with no hope Of paying the prin-
cipal, are having little larger '4racts,"
than under agrarian systems, you have
a right to? And can any plan be dc
vised for the white working man to
have his equal Republican citizenship,
unless these 'tracts' are made smaller
by some agrarian divisions? When
thus educating negroes into plumber, is
there not danger of also educating the
white working men of Boston. and, in
factories ofLowell, and Lawrence,
they would be better citizens, ifin.
stead OF being spun round there, IA or
l6 hours per day, they could divide,
and become the real Lords of the loom
and the %spindle,-no more their tools !?
The Republican holders of our two
and q hall billions of Federal Debt, and
our millions of State debts, and the
hundreds Of thousands of city, town,
and village debts, may find in
zen. Buffers mere suggestions, mate
'ial for an infinity of thinking.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
The World Abroad.

The threatened war between Prussia
and France having passed away, for
the present, things on the continent
are relapsing to the ordinary dull level.
The Paris Exposition is an unfailing
fund for the quid nuncs, to be sure, but
even that is in some danger of being
overdone by the newspapers, and the
newspaper correspondents.
The Queen of England has persua-
dcd Bismarck and Napoleon to sheathe
their swords. Her Cabinet are now
making an etfort-doubtless under her
inspiration, also-to induce all hands
to consent to q general disarmament,
so as to make peace permanent. These
good intentions, however, do not APP
pear to be zealously responded to, as
yet-the Continental governments look
ing upon their armies as England looks
upon her navy, and the cost of the one
is like the cost of the other-the money
which is paid to insure against inva-
sion. Moreover, armies on the Cont
nent do, to a large extent, supply the
place Of police; with the Britishers
they are wanted to keep the peace at
home, as well as to guard against wal
from abroad. So there is small chance
of Lord Stanley's proposal being &C
cepted, supposing it to have been
made. The Berlin correspondents of
the French papers fully bear out this
idea.
Even the Independence Beige, inva-
as it has insisted upon the main
tenance Of peace, is compelled to take
note of the great military preparations
which are being made-"mutual pre-
,autions," our contemporary terms
hem. "All depends" we are told, up
III the impression which the Emperor
will make upon his royal guests, and
hat which they will leave upon him.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
IteVcrsiOn,

Our exchanges notice the fact that a
more liberal policy is prevailing in Eu-
ropean countries than over before.
The people are obtaining more rights,
and despotism is on the wane. 1t is
really strange, this reyersion Of the nat
uralorder Of things, liberal policy oh,
tanning in Europe, and despotism flour
ishing in this country. However, we
find our consolation in the fact that here
as elsewhere, the rulers will learn, soon
or or later, that the will of the people
is law.
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Henry SinglctOn.

This colored man, whose upright
course in this. community for many
years has o for him Il good charac-
ter, was refused Il certificate because he
was in the Confederate army rs q ser
want, but does any man Of three IDEAS
above y brickbat suppose for one mo
ment that he would have been refused
n certificate if Nc had been n Radical +?
If report be true, every Conservative
negro, so far, has been denied a certili-
cate, We are not surprised, however,
for all sensible men knew the pro-
grammo of the Radicals was to make
the negro vote for nrownlow, or deny
him the right to vote for any Conscr-
vative. or all the ridiculous rarces in
the annals of legislation, this corrupt
AMI political thrilling with liberty,
a Registration, is the most dew
For the sake of truth the law
ought to have read that every man who
would go for Brownlow could have n
and every one who squinted
.owards Etheridge, or any Conserva.
i've, should not vote. But we shall
AVE some rich developments to make
'oon in regard to this Radical iniquity
zen. Pope and Gov. Brownlow both
ay we are to have u free press, and as
ong as the Radicals continue to out
age all who oppose them, our cry
hould he LAY on McDuf."
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ThA Pic Mic.

The annual celebration Of the M. E.
Sunday School last Saturday was pleas
ant as it will be prolific Of good. Ear
lyin the day the Sabbath school scholars
and teachers met at the Church, where
classes were examined and essays read.
1t was announcement for us to be present
at tho exercises IN the church, but con
trary circumstances did not cheat us of
a share in the happy enactments under
the ''yast contiguity of shade" which
darkcns the bosom of "Sharp's Spring
Branch" and seems to invite to its m
brace all who delight in::Arcadian love-
illness. Yes, we were there. And ma
ny pretty faces were ~there-pretty not
only in the roses Of youth, but in the
light Of kindness, and good. will. Sev-
eral appropriate speeches were made by
several appropriate persons, and then
we all partook Off feast ofgood things,
spread in one general p~rofusion, and
moi selishly scattered and partaken in
squads, 1t WAS Il social, happy, feast,
And this over the pretty faces, old and
young, scattered away with reverent
and merry hearts, and some with
"Thoughts and fancies light
As May-leaves wavering between sun and
shadow"
Whether the
"Sunny bl idg, between
The lip and heart, When childhood builds"
was broken, we know not, and if we
did, we would not say. But it was a
pleasant occasion. All went merry as
that marriage bell you hear poetical
people talk about sometimes without
credit to Byron.
We would be glad if we had room to
publish the excellent essay of Miss
Anna E. Hall, read by Miss j. c. Black
1t the church, but have not.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
HO ! for a !

Saturday there will be an excursion
Of everybody who wants to 60 to Tracy
City, on top of the grand old Cumber
land Mountain, which almost encircles
our lovely town. The cars will leave
Winchester about 7, a. NJ, and return
the same day about 7, P. NJ. Here is a
chance for pleasure, if it be in studying
the wonders of nature exhibited in
great rocks tumbled in magnificent
style; towering oaks, stretching forth
their mighty arms; bubbling springs,
babbling adown the mountain side pic
turesque scenery seeming to invite the
whispered VOWS of love, and, when the
mountain top is gained, the grand pan
orama that n backward glance will un
fold to the enraptured eye. Aye, there
will be enough to lead the reflective
mind up to Natures God" who
holdcth all these things in the hollow
of His hand. Then, the mighty a.
complishments of man Is demonstra-
ted in the building Of a railroad up the
mountains side-what can he not do If
he have the mind! Then, the many
ct eeteras Of social commingling-|
oh there will be fun enough! Take
your wives, your sweethearts, and
look out for theengine when the bell
rings or the whistle blows"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
The Five Monarchy System-Who
Pays Expenses?

When the Five Monarchy bill was
pending in the Ramp Congress, some
of the so-ca!led Conservative Rcpubli
cans used to tell us it embodied a large
admiXture Of the civil clement in the
military administration, so that, after
all, the governments to be established
under it could not with justice be des-
ignated military despotisms.
We arc seeing now, every day, what
that pretencc is worth. We are seeing
how summarily the civil element is be
ing crushed out by the mailed hand,
and how governors, mayors, aldermen,
DC, are being ridden over, rough-shod,
by the men on horse back.
Following up Sheridan's removal of
the Louisiana Governor Welles, we are
now informed that the Aldermen and
Common Council of the City of Mobile
have been removed by General Swayne
and that General Sickles, in North
Carolina has removed the municipal of.
ticers of the City of Fayetteville, in the
same way. Anon, this superscdure of
the civil, by the military authorities,
we presume, will be universal, through
out the entire South. Verify, the Ca
liphs are doing their work with a zeal
and Il zest that quite put to blush the
servile instruments OF despOtism which
we Americans heretofore have known
nothing of, save in Jul books on Tur-
key, Austria, Russia, etc.
1t is a fine thing, no doubt, says the
New York Express, thus to be lording
it over some sever or eight millions of
American people incapable ofresistance
to whatever tyranny the notions of the
Radicals may impose upon them, but
after all, it is the Northern lo5orer uho
must foot the bill, aud pay the piper
These commanding Generals, these,
"a. A. G.'s' and the soldiers who fol.
low them, to execute their commands,
and the mandates of the Jacobins at
Washington, do not work for nothing.
All of them get good salaries, and these
in due proportion, must come out of
The pockets of the hard working me-
chanics and workingmen of the North,
The East, and the West. 1t costs some
hing to enslave Americans who once
we're free, and that we are now in q fair
way to find out.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13

AT the Sewanee Collegiate Institute
last Tuesday evening, a number Of es,
says and speeches, original and select
cd, were read and acclaimed. In the
trial for prizes in oratory, S. L. Moore,
of Memphis, and George Colyar, of
this place, were the successful students.
But they had focmen "worthy their
steel"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
Conservative Platform.

tOIIDSI NSEifS \ 1utiviIH'
We, the Conservative Union men o
Tennessee, adopt the following plat
form Of principlc5:
LIST. We are in favor Of the Union
oftlle States, under the Constitution OF
the United States, and we pledge our
selves to support and defend the SAM.
%. Wcare the friends of peace and
civil law, and that these great objects
can be best promotcd by legislation re
cognizing equal and exact justice to all
exclusive privileges to none.
81. We are in favor Of immediate
restoration Of our dislranchised fellow
citizens to all rights, privileges and i'm 4,
munities Of full and complete citizen.
ship.
4th. That oar colorcd fellow citi-
zcns, being now citizens Of the United
States and citizens Of the State Often
nesscc and voters of this State, arc en-
titled to all the rights and privileges Of
citizens under the laws and Constitu
ton Of the United States and Of the
State Of Tennessee.
9Th. Weare opposed to the repudia
ton of the National debt, and are in fa-
o Of equal taxation as the proper
method Of paying the same.
9th. That the establishment of Il
standing army in our State, in time Of
peace, is a 1agrant and dangerous ell
c%roachment ubon the rights and liber-
ties Of the citizen, heavily oppressiveto
the tax payer and evidently designed
to overawe voters at the ballot box.
7th. We cordially approve of the pa
triotic efforts Of Andrew Johnson,
President Of the United States, in de
Tending the Constitution, preserving
the union Of the States, and maintain
ing the supremacy ofthc laws.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
Public SPEAKING.

Hon. Ed. Cooper, candidate for Congress.
f. A. Loughmiller, candidate for State
Senate, and t. Z. Mosely, candidate for
Representative, will address the people As
follows:
Winchester, Monday, June 9th. 1867,
Crow Creek, Tuesday 25th.
Hockeryille, Wednesday 26th.
Wint0rd's 18th Dist. Thursday 27th.
Marble Hill, Friday 2Sth.
Salem, Saturday 10Th.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13

1t is with pleasure We announce that
all of our exchanges continue TO give
the most encouraging accounts of the
cereal crop in their respective sections
Of country. In some counties the
fields Of golden grain are already invi'
ting the rcapcrs to come with their
sicklcs. The heart of the farmer has
ample cause to be grateful for the re-
ward that has followed his labor, and
we all should join in thanks to Him
who sendeth the rain and the sunshine,
in mitigation of that primcval curse
4" In the sweat ofthy face shalt thou eat
bread, till thou return unto foreground"
In this county w can report favora
bly, upon the crops.
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Another County Gone,

Gov. Brownlow, with one fell swoor
of his omnipotent pen, has crossed on,
another county in our State, and or.
dcred Il new registration. Poor old
Warren is the yictim-a county where
the prospects were not favorable to
the Radicals. But think! If Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton,
and their compatriOts, could rise from
their graves and behold the mockery
of government now practiced under the
of r~epublicanism, would they not
beg to return to the dark and silent
tomb in all haste, rather than reflect
upon the depths of folly and iufamy
to which party will lead? Would they
not wonder by what strange freak or
%conjunctnre a man, full Of passion and
revenge, tickle as April weather, vim
as Nero, cruel as Tiberius, and
incompetent on a thousand other
scores, for the place of Ruler, could
possibly have become possessed of
such absolute power? All! they would
lot only Wonderfully would grieye.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
MIX. COLYAR IN NASH
His Speech at the Nrorlo.

His Speech at the Market Hons.
The Nashville Gazette of tho ,o"'
inst says: A@u
!dle announcement that Hon
Colyar would address the peonls a. D.
Market House last night, drew r. :" a tle
place a large and enthusiastic mat
who, through a speech of three hovwa'
gave the distinguished speaker '
tient and attentive hearing. M. pa
var gave Brownlow and bis eol'
despotism the most thorough md ~"u
plete castigation it has rcceivsd ou'
the woods were burnt" His S H'uce
ers gave unmistakable evidence Of te ai.
appreciation Of the eloquent and t uaelr
patriotic speech, and ali evidentIv " e'I,
that it was "well for them to br !, .eit
AT tho conclusion of Mr.. Colvo.;,
speech, there was an almost ,moniy ars
call for Hon. S. Foote, who resnonTas
in a brief speech, full of earnest sIa
qucnce and feeling. We regret r .io'
much that the lateness of the bour siy
babe him speaking more at length O'
We observed goodlynumber Foo,
ored men in the crowd, among who"s
were Elias Polk and other Con0 "mom
lives Of their race.
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House and Lot for Sale.

by virtue of an execution IN my hands,
issued from the Cliancey Court off'ranklin
county, Tennessee, and in favor of III. X.
Estiil, Receiver, DC, VS. James II. Davis,
ct. ais, | will on
Tuesday, July ID, 1887.
before the courthouse door in Winchester.
sell for cash to the highest bidder. the
house and lot now occupied by Fl. L. Tur-
ney, situated in the town of Winchester.
bounded by the lands of VI. Porter and
w. W. Estill, containing one acre, more or
Sold as the properly Oft. i. Estill
decd, to satisfy said execution.
w. l.. MURRELL, Shf.,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13

a large audience patronized the ex-
hibition at the Sewanee Collegiate In
stitutc on last Friday night, given by
the students Of said Institution. We
have heard general satisfaction expires
scd. We know that some who are not
much prone to benefit themselves with
a good, hearty laugh, could not keep
down Il few smiles on this occasion.
And who wouldn't laugh at Drum
mond his inimitablc dclineations?
Well, the young men will give
another entertainment on tomorrow
and will present an entirely new
bill, one that will, we believe, give
more satisfaction than the other. Let
US give them a bumper" at parting.
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VALUABLE PROPERTY IN
WINCHESTER FOR SALE.
Mary Sharp College and Board
ing House.

BY virtue of two executions to me di-
rcctcd, one In favor of Joseph Wassimer,
the other in favor of Robert Houston and
Wife, issued from the Circuit Court of
Franklin county, Tennessee, I will sell to
the highest bidder, for cash, before the
Courthouse door in Winchester, on
Monday, the LIST day of July, 1867,
the building known az Mary Sharp Col
together with the land and Board
ing House thcreunto Notwithstanding
about four acres. Levied on to satisfy
said executions. W MURRELL, Sh'f,
by D. j. MARTIN, ID. 5.
June l3-tds 6 90.
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Remember,
That for one dollar We send the Jour.
nal to any address for four months.

Keep it before the people,
that the organ of the Radicals
in this State justifes the muir
der of an moffending citizen in
this county, and calls our peo-
. pie seditious because they APP
peal to the President for relief.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13

We are asked TO announce that, on
Saturday, the 22d Of this month, a
meeting will be held in this place for
the purpose of organizing a Horse In
surancc Company, the members of
which will agree to enter into such ar
arrangements rs will lead to the more
speedy apprehension of horse thieves,
and the recovery Of stolen horses. The
objects of the organization will be de-
tailed on the occasion. We have not
room this week in the Home journal to
give such detail. Every owner of a
horse is certainly interested in this
matter, and w cordially give our as
sistancc in trying to secure a full at.
tendance.
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Still mt LARGE.

Hickman, the leader of the militia in
this county, is still at large, and the
Nashville Dispatch says there is no
probability that he will be arrested and
brought to trial. As we supposed it
would, the announcement in Brown
lows Wing that he (Brownlow,) had
ordered Rickman's arrest, has turned
out a Radical trick, gotten up for party
purposes, as everything is which the
Radicals do.
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Institute.

The Examination Of the Donnell In
stitute will commence on Wednesday
the 18th inst, at 8 o'clock, A.. NJ, in
the basement Of the G. p. Church.
The classes will be examined during
Wednesday and Thursday. The Exhi
bition will come off on Thursday even
ing. Friends and public generally are
invited to attend.
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OUR TABLE,

Apress of other matters has proven
ted lis from doing justice to some of
our valuable exchanges, We mean our
failure to notice their reception.
"The Land we Love-" edited by Gen.
ID II. Hill, is an ornament to Southern
literature. It's mechanical execution is
tasty, and its corps Of contributors I'm
surpassed, while for heightened. able
and interesting editorial, Gen. Hill is
entitled to n certificate, if not the pre-
MUM. 1t costs S3 per annum, and we
would be glad to send subscription to
it. Address Hill, Irwin & Co., Char
lottc, N. G.
"Thc Old Guard" for June is u most
interesting number. 1t continues to
stand by the principles Of l776 and
1887. AS a faithful guardian of the
Constitution which the Jacobins Of 'GG
and 81 are trampling under foot, it has
no superior. It's editor, c. Chauncey
Burr, is u Of the truest patriots in the
Union, and ono Of The most polished
writer's. We always greet the Old
Guard with n keen relish ard an intense
anxiety to dcvom its contents. Terms,
So per annum. Address Van Evric,
Horton d. Co., 1862 Nassau street, n. Y,
Single copies sent, post paid, for 50
cents.
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Lana lOr sale.
John Powell,

'AN " ~
John Powell,
Ninty Taylor, ct. ais.
BY decree of the County Court, pro-
nounccd ut its June Term, 1857, / will, on
the
First Monday in August, 1867,
effer for sale, before the Courthouse door
in Winchester. the following tracts of
land, lying in District No. 8, Franklin
county, Tennessee, belonging to the heirs
OF Morgan Taylor, deed, containing about
800 acres. Said land will be sold on one.
two and three years credit, except the sum
ofSI5 to he paid in cash. Note with APP
proved security will be required of the
purchaser, and a lien retained until the
money Is paid. Buildings to at
81 per acre. J. G. ENOCHS, elk.
June l3-5t 0 M
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Keep it before the people,
that over twenty most respect
able citizens of this county
make affidavit as to the con-
duct of Brownlow's militia, yet
We arc called scditious by the
Press and Times for asking
for relief. We want to know
ifthc party sustain their organ.
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BreadstuiTs have again experienced a
further decline in New York. The av-
erage fall of -four for the week or ten
days ending the 9th inst. has been GOA
20 cents per barrel. At this rate we
hope soon to see prices come down to
something like a reasonable level.
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The Nashville Press and Times shows
its consist ,ncy when it urges Union
men to not vote for E~theridge, and yet
is all the while saying that all who sup
port Ethcridge are rebels. 1t is the
old political d~odge--now you see it,
and now you don't.