The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-10-31
Tennessee Legislature

We heard n very intelligent gentle
man remark, the other night, that II n
nrrson were to be sent over the whole
State Of Tennessee to hunt up fools Tor
LEGISLATORS, he could not make n bet
ter selection than the body at Nashville
now. This, ct first glance, may seem
. wild assertion, but witness the fol-
lowing bill, introduced into that detect.
q@le body orlaw-giyers
By Dir. Mason: A bill to increase
aaa protect loyalty. The bill ln!lIcts Il
penalty on all persons selling or mar
boring photographs or pictures oiJeh'
Davis or Robert +, Lee.
Such buGoons to be attempting to
make copital for themselves by the in
tyodnction or passing Of such q child'
ish bill, is supremacy ridiculous. 1t
will only tend to create disgust for tAc
men who vote for it, for, all the enact
ments Of oil the lceislqturcs to assem-
BILE in the future cannot eradicate the
love every Southern patriot ~H feel
for such great men as Jefferson DAVIS
and Robert L. Lee. But Radical ia
ng,icism is 50 UNANIMOUSLY sectional and
cowarlly IS to exhibit its ba0eJY by
~slandcriag men whose shoes it is IN
worthy to clean and it cannot consent
to allow Conservatism the privilege Of
exercising its secret, heart fe!t, emo
tons. Bat we arc not going to get
mad because some fool introduces n
foolish bill, and calls il "a bill to IN
crease and protect loyalty" We only
laugh at the f%oolishness of the fool who
thus ~sguanders the time for which the
people are taxed. Mr.. Mason, no
doubt, thinks to provoke us beyond
folbcarancc, and make Us say or do
something that viii Justify some add,
tional measure Of hate and cOwarlicc.
But we axe serene As . Nay morning.
We don't care how many bills Of this
kind are passed, They will not 2jate
one jot or title our love for President
Davis and Gen, Robert L. Lee, or our
disgust for the contemplate pigmics
who W their petty elevations to the
supremacy Of toadyism, dcsertion, COW
ardice and revenge. On the other
hand. all such bills will tend to increase
the sale Of such pictures, and it would
bo q better title for the bill to call it
"A bill to increase the sale of pictures
Of Jefferson Davis and Robert +. Lee
A few hours since VIC heard a party Of
ladies and gentlemen sGy that they had
no photographs o feither President Da-
Wis or Gen. Lee, but if the Legislature
Of Tennessee ~(so-callcd,i passed this
bill, they would each one purchase a
picture Of the so-called rebel Chief.
tains.
Such is human nature. If the Legis-
lature were to pass n bill to the effect
that no person should read n copy. of
the Home Journal, we will wager that
VIC could not supply the demand. But
there are fools in the worll yet, and
Mr.. Mason must be one. Or, it may
be, he has been "bought' by the pho
t~ographers of our "common country
and is working for the sale ola super
abundance of pictures, as aforenamed,
in the possession of some Radica! pho
t~IgioJier.
And here is another important bill
which has passed one reading in the
House, and is intended--ot course re
CARELESS of the Constitution, to secure
70 Jacobins all the offices in the State
BY MI. Stone: A bill to secure the re-
moval of Rebels from Office. The bill
provides that the Governor shall de-
clare vacant, after the first Saturday in
1865, all Offices held by dis
persons.
Rebels in Office! H~owlong, oh!
Common Sense! shall these destroyers
Of Peace and Union be allowed to car. l
~ on their hellish work of hate and )
revenge, under the cry of "rebel,"
"copperhead," "traitor," and SO forth 7
Rebeb in cdieei And who have we in
Office in Tennessee2 A sett of trick.
sters, Inconsistent political gymnasts, '
who are not the choice Of one tenth OF 8
the respectable white people Of our
State-our Brernlow monarchy, We
should soy. This is RECONSTRUCTED"
Tennessee, and il the people Of the five
noAarchies South Of US have any sense,
they will not hope for any peace or
justice by Yielding an lola to Radicol
dsusOds Of promises. II the niger
ste he fercsd above ahem, have moth
ias " do rith such q wicked usurpa.
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