The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-08-09
1T Is OVER.

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since she has been embraced within the
orbit of > State and formed a Star in the Rr-
Of this Union, has there been such
an overwhelming majority in favor Of the
true principles Of Republicsnism. Through
the Christening sorrows Of the war our States
intellect has grown clearer to see the right,
and we can do that which we know to be
right, without waiting to consult passion,
prejudice, or ignorance.
Notwithstanding this whole country has
been flooded with lying rebel newspapers,
and low-down and obscene circulars endeaY-
oring to deceive the honest people Of our
State, a voice has gone up from Tennessee,
compared TO which the successive thunder
bursts of Grant and Sherman's artillery were
but the mnsic Of a dream. The frst day Of
August 1867, is the brightest epoch in the
history of our State and that days proceed
ings will not only be celebrated by our own
down-trodden and oppressed soma, who have
suffered the extreme penalty Of having been
loyal to the Government during the dark and
bloody days of the Rebellion, and since its
close have had heaped upon their good
names, every opprobrious epithet that malig-
nifty could invent or SANDER fabricate: but
from every valley and hilltop ten thousand
blazing bOn-fres together with the bursting
hallelujahs of the loyal millions Of this ma
ton, from the ice-bound regions ofthS North
to the blushing orange groves Of the sunny
South, and on the wings of the wind these
glad tidings will be borne over the sweet
fields of Oregon and down the Eldo5ndOes Of
California, that Tennessee has espoused, and
e~ternally and irrevocably pledged herself to
the great principles enunciated BY the Radical
Congress of the nation.
1t has sent a dagger to the heart Of rebsll-
ion in Tennessee more cold and deadly than
was the cleaning blade Of the memorable
Brutu,, which sent Caesar from the throne
and Senate to the grave. That days trans
action has redeemed the old Volunteer State
from the embarrassment Of having been
leagued with the rebellion, and from this day
hence forward era after era rs she decends the
track Of time, the laurels Of that peaceful
triumph will wreathe in s~plendor around the
columns Of the glory she has already achiev-
ed under the administration of Gov. Brown
low and The Radical Legislature. What a
to traitors ( How men who claim to
be loyal to the government, but act 10 The con-
must burn, wilt, and withsr, at hear
ing the trumpet-tongued eloqnence Of one
hundred thousand brave Tennesseeans speak
ing as the voice Of one man from the ballot
box and saying, "that there is but two par.
in this State, the Radical and the Rebel
The time has now come VIXEN men can no
90 behind conservatism to aid t%rnitors
who are endeayoring to wrench the State
Government from the hands of its true friends.
a ~lenient and for bearing people
rave been willing to throw arc und them the
broad mantle of charity, with an ardent hope
hat they would see tho error of their way,
ind return and unite their destiny with that
rue aud tried party that crushed the rebel
ion, and saved the country from ruin and
destruction but If they still persist in
heir mad career with the light oflast Thurs
lays demonstration before them, we say to
hem, your career is short, and soon you will
ink into a lone ami solitary grave dug by
'our own hards, one too which posterity
will never water with a tear.
We have never for a moment feared the re-
ult Of the election, we knew too well the
.haracter of the loval people of this State
o apprehend that they would 80 soon forget
be past, and bury in an obliyiouS grave the
emembranoe Of our fallen warriors, whose
Hood cries from the silent chambers Of q
uudred CORY battle. fields to us for ven
1t has hitherto been said by many that the
egroes in Middle and West Tennessee would
ote for the rebel such sOphistry rs this we
ismisqed as sheer nonsense, because we re-
iember TOO we'll whose muskets they fred
the days that tried their %soulsj and we
re truly glad that the Legislature walked
p to the line Of its duty and rescued our
from rebel domination, protected the
egro population and treated a body Of sixty
thousand frierds, whose interest and princi-
it is to 6ght for the supremacy Of the
States, and to-day we see the d~isloyal
ristoeraeieS are broken down, and the terri
le unity Of the rebel vote giving away be-
ore the loyal negro ballot. We rejoice at
bis not only because Il heralds the victory OF
be Radical party, but because It is a fl6ll-
tent Of Gods law and = Growing triumph
DR. the laws Of humanity. ~DsmAgogus5 may
rake light Of the bond-man'S two hundred
nd City years Of u%nrequited toll, they may
lay lightly with this question, but deep with.
the bosom Of every American freeman. 10
raven the eternal principles Of justice for al.