The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-02-06

room sCfibbllnG these thoughts. but
we hope the trouble and perplexity OF
our business will save us from taunts.
Until then we shall have no more to
say about Valentines Day.
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There are many poor, foolish per
sons in the South who have been led
into acquiescence in the schemes orthe
Jacobins because, as they say, if the
South does not accept those terms she
may have to accept worse. Now, if
there was any faith possible in the in
fernal Usurpers who have lied them
selves into the control Of the country,
there might be some shadow of a C 4
son for accepting the Infamous terms
of reconstruction proposed. But we
all know there is no hOnorin a scoun-
drcl who makes u base proposition, and
surely after the Southern people have
seen how the Jacobins have lied from
beginning to end, they must be stupid
dolts if they place any confidence in
their promises. We all were told that
the Sberman-S hellabargcr bill was to
be q fnality, but when the liars who
compose Congress in the main, found
that it would not exactly accomplish
their damnable wishes when they found
that their former schemes of iinality had
failed, they do away with the Executive
and judiciary checks of government
and make that poor, imbeclle, silent
and wonderfully -overrated person, U
S. Grant, Dictator over ten Sovereign
States. We say, there is no faith TO be
placed in any promise the Usulpers
make. Any set Of men who could go
10 the extreme lengths of dcspotism
that they have gone, and could act as
internally mean towards brave South
crn white men as they have acted, We
would not believe upon theirpaths, and
the Southern people are u set Of fools
to be placing any confidence in them.
We do wish, before God, that no South
ern white man, who is opposed to the
Jacobin party, would enter the lists a,
all for any Office, or to help any one to
an office. Whenever the day comes,
land that it will come wc.are willing to
wager our head against a copper that
white men can be allowed to vote who
dissent from the Mongrel idea Of gov
ernment--wlienever the day shall come
that a few men shall not have it in their
power to allow those only to vote who
will vote a certein way, as was the case
in Tennessee last election for Cover
nor; whenever there shall be something
like fairness and freedom in elections,
and bayonets are not kept at the polls
as was the case in Tennessee last Cub
ernatorial election; whenever honesty
and republicanism shall rule instead of
fraud and tyranny, then we shall be
happy to 60 up and deposit our ballot
mot before. A man having served in
tho Confederate army vas no reason he
could not get a certificate last election
provided he intended to vote for that
great burlcsque upon humanity-Wil-
liam Goddess Brownlow. And old men
in this State, who were not engaged
in the "rebellion," so-called. could get
no certificate because, rs we verify be.
lieve. they might vote for Etheridge.
Well, tho Conservatives were a set Of
fools, and they arc not yet much smar.
ter. This entering the lists for Office,
VIXEN we know that the Loyal League
has il in It's power to say who shall be
elected, is on evidence that the fool,
killer could And q number of subjects in
country. We have no patience with
the nan who is trying to get the vote
Of Loyal Leagues and niggers. The
truth is, the niggers have allowed them.
to be made tools Of in Cypress.