The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-12

Co' ANU Wnuu was Tie answer Iliht We
received? Why, then as now, our adj
versaries had their clap-trap words, and
when a man got up and spoke with the
eloquence of Patrick Henry and the pa
triotism Of Washington, and invoked
the testimony of Washington, of Jack
son, Of Webster, Of Clay, and of every
great man almost the country has ever
produced, to allay this storm, this agi.
tatiou which was threatening to dis.
solve the Union Of these States and de-
stroy the Republic, when he did that,
what was the answer RECEIVED from
Radical speakers? Why, you are a
"Union shrieker." Union shrickcr was
the slang word then, just as Copperhcad
is now.
WHAT IS THE UNION OF TO DAY?
They told us that the South could
not be taken out Of the Union; they
ridiculcd our fears for the perpetnity
Of the Union; they said it was mere
ele%ctioneering clap-trap on the part Of
Democratic speakers /; that there was
no truthCin it, for the South could not
BE- kicked out of the Union. Very
well ; they erected their sectional par
ty they got into power in IN evil day
for this country, and they pretty soon
found whether or not the South could
be kicked out of the Union. They
pretty soon found that it cost this oun
try a world Of blood and treasure to
keep her in; but nov that this blood
and this treasure have been expended
and the South lies PROSTATE at our feet,
these men who insisted that the South
could not be kicked out Of the Union,
have most etlectually succeeded in kick
ing her out. She is kicked out this
day. This is now Union where ten
States are pinned down by the bayonet,
a Union where the negro is placed
above the white man, to rule over him;
a Union where the white man is dis
%franchised, and the stupidest, most ig-
norant and degraded negro that ever
trod our soil is elevated over the intel
ligencc, the education, the wisdom and
the virtue Of the country. That is q
pretty Union. They call themselves
Union .savcrs-God save the mark =
Union-savers, indeed! They have q
Union between Northern Radicals and
Southern negroes, to rule the white
men ofthe country. Call this the Un-
ion of Gcorge Washington, call this the.
Union of Thomas Jefferson, call this
the Union of Madison, of Jackson, Of
Webster, OF of Clay? Why, it is to
p%rotane those great names; it is bias
phemy against them to call this such Il
Union as theirs. No, this is the I'm
ion of the Wendell Phillips, the Fred.
Douglass, the BENZ. +. Wade, the
Charles Summers, and the vilest and
most ignorant negroes upon the face
Of this continent. That is the Union
we now have held togethcrby the bayo-
net and enforced by setting aside all
civil governments, and placing the heel
of military power upon more than one
third of the Republic.
FINANCIAL.
| come now to speak, though with
comparative breyity, upon some other
topics-some that concern rs n great
deal more than this history l have been
over. And, first, / have to speak Of
the financial condition of the country.
You all can remember, even the
youngest, almost, Of these little boys
that sit before me can remember when
We used to pride ourselves upon the
fact that we were the least indebted and
the most lightly taxed people on the
face of the globe. Every Fourth Of
July orator called upon you to render
your thanks to your forctathcrs who
freed you from Great Britain, and cv-
cry one ofthcm, when congratulating
you OH the free institutions you had
and the freedom you enjoyed, also took
care to contrast your lightly taxed and
little indebted condition with the hcavi-
ly taxed and monstrously indebted con-
dition ofthe old mother country. Then
you were told what a glorious thing it
was for you that you had got rid of
poor, indebted, taX-riddcn Great Bri-
tian. What is the condition now?
Great Britain has subject to her sway
tliirty-six millions ofpeoplc within the
limits Of the BEtish Isles, and in India
and her colonies two hundred millions
more, making two hundred and thirty
six millions that bow to her sccptcr.
She owes Il deb. Of four thousand
millions of dollars. We have thirty
one millions Of people, two hundred
and five millions less than Great Bri-
tian and we owe, according to Mr..
Thaddeus Stevens, between four and
five thousand millions ofdollars. With
two hundred and odd millions less pop
ulation than she has, we owe as much
as she does according to the great lead
or of the Radical party. According to
the official returns of the Treasury we
owe an audited debt of two thousand
five hundred millions, and | have seen
no man, who made the least p%retensc
to veracity, who has estimated our
whole debt at less than three thousand
millions. AS 1 have said to you, MIR.
Thaddeus Stevens says that it is be-
tween four and five thousand millions.
But take it as three thousand millions,
and We owe more this moment than any
equal number of mankind. Now that
is only the debt of the General Govern
mcnt. Ifyou addto that the debt OF
the States and the counties, of the
towns and the villages, to say nothing
of the debt of railroad corporations and
other great corporations, but only the
Government debt, and you Owc more
than Great Britain, and far more than
any other equal number of mankind,
The value ofproperty ofGreat Britain,
!, real and personal, within the British
Isles, is estimated at thirty-six thou.
9 sand millions of dollars. Her annual
t taxation is three hundred and fifty foul
q millions. Wchave ~apropcrty, real and