The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-13
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The Nashville Press and Times, Rad.
ical organ Of this State, in abiding to
General Orders No. g" of the "Com.
mander-in-C Chief" ct cetera, alias Rev.
Gov. W. G.. Brownlow, appointing Gen.
eral Joseph A. Cooper to take the over.
sight and command of the State mill.
tin, and which order we publish in the
Home Journal this week, makes the
subjoincd remarks as to the late murder
of Mr.. Brown in this county. The
Press and Times says:
The appointment of General Cooper
gives universal satisfaction among all
men who intend to obey the laws, and
will be a source Of just dread to those
who desire to follow in the steps ofthe
s%editionists of Franklin and Obion
counties. General Cooper is as gentle
as he is firm and brave. He will be
slow to strike, but if provoked to strike,
his II blow will ''leave little work for
two" Governor Brownlow finds no
difficulty in raising troops for service.
He can get twenty thousand volunteer
militia before the LIST July, if he should
need them, to make rebel bushwhackers
and their advisers in higher circles obey
the law, but he gives assurance to all
that he will call out no more troops
than the seditionists compel him TO en-
ploy. lie would gladly stop where he
now stands in this respect, but at the
same time no apprehension will deter
him from marching boldly up to the dis
charge of memorable duty.
The men who engineered the lawless,
reasonable and seditious mob meeting
at Winchester, in which the insolent
threat was made that if the Government
did not afford the remedy demanded by
the rebels, the latter would take up
arms to "assert their rights" have com
mitted an outrage, atrocious in itself,
and the more abominablc when their re-
bellious antecedents are considered
No gang Of Missouri bo%rder-ruflians
ever detied the law more i~nsolently.
Their language was insulting and in
cendiary. We trust that Franklin coun.
ty will be left to enjoy its infamy in ut
ter solitude. The laws will be strictly
enforced, in spite of their threats, and
the more violent their mad resistance,
the more signal and egectual will be the
triumph of the State Government.
Now, VIC do not choose to handy
words with a man who in his ignorance
of the facts could find it in his heart to
denouncc as "lawless, reasonable and
seditious" the peaceable assembling of
an outraged people to petition for a re-
dress of their grievances. The Press
and Times, it seems, does not want us
to exercise this sacred right of the peo-
pie under any form of government.--
must not open our mouths when
our neighbors are robbed and murder
ed-when men are driven from home
and forced to seek security of life in the
wilds of the forcst-when women are
insulted, and every guarantee of civil
.aw disregarded. Our people met in
and petitioned for redress.
Where was the treason in this? Had
lot Brown been murdered, and had not
others been robbed and insultcd2 In
support of this assertion have been Civ.
the aiildavits of about twenty high.
oned, worthy citizens. TO the petit.
ion for relieffrom the terror with which
his militia we're filling the country, and
he crimes they were committing, over
600 names were signed. But all this
nothing againsta Radical Off
ial, whose report is based upon what
le murderers said! II such evidence is
D rule in our Courts, then indeed may
rhine and murder revel in security
heath the glare of MONDAY sun, for
heir Owl statements would bring them
# clear. But the Press and Times
SKIS no better evidence as justification
Or this vile SANDER upon u people,
he editor may publish that our Of. ,
'rts for self-preservation were incen- 4
larry, and may exult in saying that our e
ounty should be left ito enjoy its in. '
my in utter solitude" but sos say that l
lie infamy ofthe heart that could in
lite and publish the above Islander is -,
'meting that we can hardly seperate
ON cold blooded murder for money, q
!, far as intent is concerned. IN