The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-30

Industry, was accumulating Il comp'
tence. The most exrravagant predi'
tons of greatness made by the foun(
ers Of our government were realize
and more than realized.
But in an evil hour-and it depend
upon the next elections if l may nc
say fatal hour--theS friends of thi
system of government became divided
and minority party, led by fanatic
and demagogues, seized the reins G
Government. They were a minorit
party that day, they are q minorit
party this day, and they have been
minority every day from that to this.
They commenced at once insidious
ly to undermine the Constitution; Il
first timidlv proposing amendments
but as they progressed, boldly and dc
family trampling it down.
l do not propose to enumerate al
their reasonable outrages, or to folio,
their progress from the time they wer
an incendiary torch applied to the fall
ric of our Government, to the present
when they are great condasration de
stroying all before them, but merely tt
call attention to the condition Of th
Government now, and to its effects up
on the people.
The people of ten States of the I'm
ion are robbed of every right and pow
er guaranteed by the Constitution, O.
reserved by them in their sovereign ca
pacity. They have not to-day singl,
representative in the legislative, execu
tive or judicial branch of the Govern
mcnt. They hav not even the poo
privilege of territory, that'of having
delegate on the floor of Congress te
speak for them Slaves have become
their voters, and strangers and enemies
their rulers. Their wealth is in ruins
and the proceeds of their labor is at the
mercy of barbarians. The history O
the last seven years warrants no mar
in saying that the remaining States may
not soon be in q similar state ofvassal
age. There is no hope for the people
of those States, or safety for the peo
pie Of these, but in the restoration OF
the Union upon the bats of the Consti
tuition; and the Union is practically no
nearer restoration to-day than it was
when Lee was in Pennsylvania, or Nc
Dowell was flying in dlsmay from Bull
Run.
The majority of the fragmentary
Congress have bolted their doors
against more than hafof their oppo-
nents, in order that they might over
ride the executive veto, and, if they
should deem it expedient, drag down
the President himself, and place ono
of their number in his stead. They
have robbed the President of every i'm.
portant power and preroyativc. They
have made his subordinates independ-
ent Of him, and held out rewards to
them for lisoheying and defying him
and finally one fragment of Congress
has dragged him before another frag
ment for trial, as if he was apickpock-
ct and they were Police Court.
Their schemes for destroying the ju-
dietary branch of the Government are
almost matured. They propose by
law to require a majority of three
lOurths of the Judges to concur before
judgment can be given for the rights
Of the States or the rights of the peo-
pie, while minority of one-t third shall
be sufficient to sustain their usurpa-
tons; thus placing false weights in the
scales of justice-making six of them
count no more than three in their IA
vor. Not content with this, they fur
ther propose to forbid the Supreme
Court from exercising jurisdiction in
any case which the majority Of the
fragment may choose to declare polit-
ical in its character. Under this ar
rangement the fragment may abolish
the judiciary entirely, abolish the Ex-
ecutive, or establish an order of nobiIi-
ty, and they have only to declare those
acts political in their character to pre-.
vent the people from obtaining any re,
dress from the courts. They have al
ready smuggled through an act forbid,
ding the Court taking any cognizance
OF cases arising under the reconstruc
ton acts. This is equivalent to bold
declaration that they know these
acts to be unconstitutional, that they
know Court of their own party mus,
declare them so, but that they are de-
termined to enforce those acts in
defiance of courts or constitutions
Forney, who is Secretary of the Sen
ate, and has greater facilities than any
other outsider for knowing the designs
of the fragment, fully confirms this in
ference. He gives notice by letter to
the Press that Congress will pay no
more attention to decision of the Su
preme Court declaring an act of theirs
unconstitutional, than they would to
the proceedings of town meeting.
The L .gislative branch of the Gov.
ernment, which has virtually usurped
or destroyed the other two divisions
of the trinity, is controlled by the rep
resentatives Of less than one-third oil
the white people of this country. The
whites in the nOn-represcnted States
number at least half AS many as the
entire Radical party and the elections
of last fall disclose the fact that the
friends of constitutional government
are in majority Of scores of thous
ands in the represented States; so tina,
by no process of calculation can it be
shown that the rulers of the country
represent more than one third of its
people.
These minority representatives are
themselves controlled by q caucus
which meets in the night time, concoct.
its schemes. and launches them upon
the fragment to be rushed through by
applying the whip and spur to theil
fellow fanatics. and the gag to theil