The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-05
THE POLITICAL SITUATION

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We propose to give the readers of
the Home Journal q very brief nara
ton of the political situation outside OF
Brownlow-cursed Tennessee, and will
state that our remarks are based main,
ly upon what we have CLEANED from tho
columns ofthc New York Express
journal which is not surpassed in tn
North for accuracy Of statements, o
ability Of reasoning.
The relations between Presiden
johnson and Gen. Grant continue tt
form the staple of editorial remarks il
most of the newspapers. The NcS
York Times, edited by the turncoa
Raymond, and the Tribune, edited b,
the truculent Grecly, seem especial.
anxious to p~recipitate q conflict be
tween Gen. Grant and the President
and so far, have good grounds to con
graduate themselves upon the result o
their infamous efforts. President John
son.. after an inaction and q timlditJ
which seemed to have fastened him il
the gives Of his enemies, and the enc
mics of the Constitution, at last awok'
to the importance, the duty, Of seeing
the laws faithfully executed, and there
fore ordered the removal oftlic satrap!
Sheridan and Sickles. Against the re
moyal Of King Sheridan, whose ruI'
was a disgrace even to the mcohSllGu
tional and almost unlimited powers
with which q conclave at Washington
invested him, Gen. Grant protested A
correspondence between the Genera
and the President cnsucd, in which The
President maintained his ground and
Gen. Grant, under Il second protest
proceeded, as Secretary Of War, at IN
terim, to garry out the order removing
Sheridan from command Of Military
District No 9, and sending him to Kan
sas, and the removal also OF King Sick
les from command in the Carolinas.--
This is the conflict with the Presl-
dent, and it would be astonishing that
the Radical party are attempting to en-
courage and force the General Of the
armies of the United States to disobcy
the President, who is by the Conslitu-
ton, Commander in chief, and who has
the righl to command Gen. Grant-wc
say, it would be astonishing that such
insubordination should be encouraged,
if we had not already seen with what
utter contempt the Radicals treat the
most sacred of laws, both human and
divine. They desire agitation. Peace
and tranquility, and f%air-dealing, woulo
be death to their party, hence, ii IS not
to be wondered at that they seek by
every means to get up strife. But We
are Just u little surprised that Gen.
Grant-thc man who refused to take
the sword of Lcc-thc man, of all 9th.
ers, who had q chance TO make himself
beloved as the Savior ofllis Country
the man who, of all others, should re
we're implicit obedience to the com
mands of q superior-that he should
be found ready TO accept the position
as Secretary Of War, by the call Of the
President, oaly to use the tenure OF Of
flee against the command of his supc-
rior. This we regard as q bid by Gen.
Grant for the Presidency, but it is most
likely the Radicals desire to use him as
u tool to help Wade, or Butler, or some
one of like calibrc, into Office. Failing
to supcrccde the President by Gen.
Grant, itmay be expected that they will
push their impeachment conspiracy
with renewed vigor. They are deter
mined to hold on to power, at all haz-
ards They are afraid of the People,
and hence, they do not intend to wait
till the regular Presidential election
comes along, to obtain n successor to
Mr.. johnson. That Presidential cleo
ton is some fifteen months remote yet,
and the People, by that time, may be
in no mood to continue the Debt-and-
Taxation party in power for another
term OF four years. Hence, they have
concluded to steal q march upon the
People, to see if, by the process of i'm.
parchment, they cannot put Ben Wade
some other demagogue Of that de-
scription in the Presidential CHAIR
That now would seem to be the pro-
yramme.
The situation is, indeed, n perilous
,ne, but the President has right on his
iide. Whether or not the American
,eople are prepared to bend their nccks
0 a Dictatorship, or have the Chief
set aside by 4 subordinate
or not they are prepared for
and despotism, and the degre-
of the white man in a blind IA.
laticism which c~levates the negro to a t
unnatural and unnecessary,
and that must result in his ruin-in
short, whether or not 100000 off
whites are TO be kept in a state of trou-
BILE and uncertainty, subject to the will r.
Of a sett Of desperate demagogues bent, +
upon rule or ruin. are questions now =
must soon be determined.
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