The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-11-21
The Election of q President '


Does it ever occur to the reader, asks
the New York Express, that it IL now
about eleven years since we have had
II Presidential election in this country 2
The popular frenzy in 1850, which seat
Lincoln and Hamlin to Washington,
ran scarcely he called u sober or dclib-
crate expression of the will of the PEG.
pie. 1t was only what the Indians
would call a big Drunk and rs the
'drunk' led rs into Il four years civil
war, q condition of things succeeded.
which made the next 20 called Presl-
dental election in 1864, Il melancholy
farce, in which the voice Of the people
was stihcd, by the exercise Of rs vi
lainous Il military despotism rs ever
supervised the "elections'' which Louis
Napoleon ordered in France, when, af-
ter having upset the Constitution ofhi.
country, he desired to go through the
forms o! q mock popular election, in
order to obtain some seeming sapetion
for the fraud he had practiced upon the
nation.
We are now approaching another
Presidential elccti0n,--one in which the
People OF the North, at least, will have
an opportunity 10 give formal express
sion to their wishes and their will,
without being ovcrawed by shoulder
straps, or intimidated by the knavish
cry of "disloyalty' or "trcason." The
Southern States. however, will have to
bear it little longer The day of their
redemption is drawing nigh,--lut it
will not he here in season to relieve
them from the wrctclled military DIES
potisms which the Jacobins have set
over them, expressly to enable them
1.-THE Jacobins) to retain the admins
tration of the Government for four
years longer. But reliefwill come with
the success which is destined, n twelve
months hence, to crown the efforts OF
the Democratic and Colse vativc mas
ses OF the North and West, to restore
to these people their constitutional
rights, which wicked denagogues have
. long withheld from them.
Under no circumstances then, as tl,ings
stand at present, can we have another
Iuil and free Presidential election, AN
election in which al sections of the
country may particjpatc,-,lntil lS72,--
five years hence. The Southern peo.
pie then, in point Of fact, will have
been dcharred from having any vote IN
the deliberate choice Of Il Chief MagiS-
tratc for 4 period oftweive years,--Ior,
we repeat, the popular irruzy which
brought MIR. B%uclanan's administration
to a conclusion, was not in any trne
sense, a Presidential clpction,--nothing
but a Big Druah,--tlle South beng H.
Intoxicated, after its fashion, Is the
North, the East and the West,
These reflections ought to bring
home to every considrrate mind the
narrow escape This government has had
under Radical domination, from being
4MericGnlzed-or converted by the 81
lent proc sses Of Jacobinism, with an
overs!ladowing military power in its
hands--with RS rigid Il despotism as
that which exists in France at this mo-
nent, and which was created through
the forms Of fraudulent elections. Oh
elections in which good care was takc!
by an cmnipre:,nt, and omniponenJ
military machinery. the People con!u
have no ALTERNATIVE hut vote Tor the Iy
rant who had them by tue throat.
We Think we have now passed thai
p~erilous crisis. The t. >art h,r. has
lost, or is losing, his opportunity
The People, it is true, ere not yet alto,
sether free from the touch OF his bayo
nets, yet. heaven be thanked, there are
enough Of them free to insistupon it. a
the proper time, that the rest Of their
co%untrymcn shall be free also,-und
that, in all future time, Presidential
elections, in this country, will be con
Quoted on the American, not on the
French or Mexican plan,--anl especial,
ly not on the worse than French or
Mexican plan, which came in vogue
with the accession to power of North
ern and Southern extremists.
Captain II. A. Davis, q nephew of