The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-07-18

that such is the character of a comb
nation which bids fair to rebaptize oul
unhappy Southern soil with blood
such arc the willing or duped instru
ments ready to carry out the will ouI
modern Jeifreys and Dalrymples, Mas
tiers of Stair Glenlyons and LindsleysS
such are the Loyal Leagues which II
darkened rooms, before blue mystc
rious looking fires, cross swords ant
psalm singing humbugs, have sworn IL
" about forty-fve thousand simple
freedmen, and taken from each n mise
rable half dollar for initiation fee
Those poor creatures have stood be-
fore that blue flame and all the Other
grim %paraphernalia Of this dark room
humbug, with q superstitious awe, min
gled with fear. 10 them it was the
"Carloo Ditha" of their native jungles,
the "Obi Man," with his poisoned Goa
conut. They will never forget that
blue flame, those crossed-swords, the
wild up.turned eye Of "Forty Acres
with ominously up.lifted finger Of the
worthy "Millcr," as he pronounces the
"Anathma, Maranatha'' on all who Sc
cede or break the terrible pledge
Poor, simple, wronged creatures. In
the wild storms of midnight, when the
blue lightning thrusts its fingers thro'
the storm-tossed cloud, their magma
ton will bring out, clothed with hor-
ror, that darkened roomDhat mysteri-
Gus flame, the upturned &C of "Forty
Acres,' and the $50 mfeit be" Of the
mixed multitude.
Gentlemen, fellow-citizens, freemen
look at this mummery--this politi-
cal humbug, and think that men OF
rank, of standing, of fine intellect and
kind hearts are there. How can you
account for it, in this nineteenth ccntu-
ry? What does it mean? Has the
Lord, our God, forsaken us? Are VIC
a people? Has he made us blind that
our ruin may be more sure? Leaguers
and madmen, beware! Like blind
Sampson, you now sit beneath the
tower, not Of oppression, but of human
rights. You are madly grasping the
wv and the charlottesville ure col
umns Of liberty. If you bow yoursel
YES as he did, the beautiful structure
will fall, and you and your children
will perish unwept under its ruils.
Leaguers, beware! A day of retribu-
ton is coming. Blind guides leading
the blind. how a you escape? Every
act OF your own and of your leaders is
calculated to provoke blood. You
know this. DO you think to grind the
Anglo Saxon race beneath the heel of
your deceived colored dupes? You
thrust them once into the fiery furnace
Of war to save your own children.
You cmancipated them as Il military ne
cessity. AS the last hope Of II tot
tcring government, to save yourselves,
you and your party laid violent hands
on the ''colored clement and now
you say that it was all for love of that
element.
Let us look at Mr.. Lincoln's letter
to A. G.. Hodges, Esq, Frankfort, Ky,
dated April 4, 1854:
81 believed the indispensable neces-
sity for emancipation and arming the
blacks, would come. 1t came, and |
was, in my best judgment, driven to
the alternative of either surrendering
the Union and with it the Constitution,
or Of laying strong hands OH the col
ored element and arming it. l chose
the latter
Further quotation is unnecessary,
comment uscles. And now, dear
Leagucrs, remember, when you tell the
poor freedmen that it was your love
That made him free, you speak not the
ruth. When you gave him the right
If suffrage on the same account, twas
o save your bacon, and you care no
more for the poor freedman than Ba-
aam did for the poor brute which re-
to carry him.
Finally, "Loyal League No. l." ]
leave to say to you, Wien you are
bout to turn n member out without
ause, as Paul said to the ,%jailer, "Do
lyselfn no HARM There was not one
in my letter which merited the
ct Of "EXpulsion." You kicked y
ole in the wall, and l let the world in,
Ire of the approval Of honest men,
ld regardless of all you threats.
/ am, respectfully yours,
WILLIAM DRIVER.
90. rI., N., % nI,,.o