, 1868-12-04
NUMBER 6I.
Crushed Homes.

~ hNeNAuH AuO uCOOuuNo VI lut NOW0lblOu
Of the Southern people under military rule.
or under BrownlOwism, we can but admire
the spirit of pagnanimiiy which dictates
patience, hope and forbearance toward the
tyrants who are just now lording it over the
people. In Tennessee, we see disposition
on the part Of the conservatives not to make
canvass, for fear of producing a collision
between the contending political parties,
thereby giving seeming cause Of complaint
toward those who have been crushed by
overwhelming power. The great majority
Of the white people have been DISTINGUISHED,
thus securing to the negro and lower classes
the preponderence Of power, which gives full
sway to the meanest instincts of the human
heart-revenge Thus we see one of the
most beautiful, fertile and healthy States in
the South, given over to despotism her in.
telligent people forced to submit TO every in
dignity which cruelty, envy or malice can
invent; men like Brownlow, elevated to
power, incapable himself of feeling the hal>
lowed influence Of generous impulses of the
heart he uses his accidental elevation to
power for the baser purpose of crushing that
intelligence which refused to recognize 10
him the true gentleman. but surrounds him
with the low and vulgar, aud stands like
Nero, and beholds his native land crumbling
to ruin under his beastly policy. Such is
Brownlowism-su is the boasted recon-
structiUn of radicalism, which will. if per-
mited to prevail, cause one-half of this fair
land 10 degenerate iuto drkary waste.
The people there feel that their only hope
is in the returning sense of justice in the
mind Of the Northern people. They had as
surances from the President, from Congress
and the Generals of the Union army, that
when they surrendered, laid down their arms
and acknowledged the authority of the Gov.
ernment, they would be received as coequal
States, and be protected by the Constitution
and laws of common country. Every prom
ise has been violated, every constitutional
guarantee has been disregarded; even tSe
civilities which should ever distinguish Ame-
rican people, crushed beneath despotsm,
which, if permitted longer to curse our land,
will make us all nation of towards and
slaves.
When we read Of Poland, of her heroic
men who met the enemy of liberty, who
struggled long and faithfully for nationality,
but we're crushed by overwhelming power,
we shed the tear of sorrow, and feel proud Of
her heroic deeds, and hope that crushed
Poland will yet rise, Phoenix like, from her
ashes, and assert her godlike native inde.
pendence, and take her place among the ma
tions of the earth. Hungary has our sym.
pathy, and Greece, the land of poetry and
the home of heroes, is our idol; while Ire.
land, the gem of the seas, the home Of En-
NETT and Curran, and the birthplace Of genius,
occupies prominent place in each and every
heart, and every throb Of patriotism beals in
unison with the spirit of liberty which ani>
mates and energies true Amercanism and
yet, we forget that here under the benign
influence of the spirit of Liberty, here in this
land of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and
Clay, we have Poland, worse than Hum
gary, and rival for the despOtism of crushed
Ireland.
Men of the North, sons of patriot sires,
who love liberty, and hate tyranny, will you
longer permit this great outrage against God
and man ? Hear the wall of crushed hopes
as it comes On every breeze, from the heart
of suffering, ruined and conquered people
in the South, and while we charge you to
cherish the hopes for a regenerated Poland,
a restored Hungary and redeemed ireland,
10 Gods name remember our own brethren
of the sunny South, and swear upoI the
altars of your country to redeem our own
land from the tyrant's grasp or perish on the
field.
Enemies in war, in peace frieDds, was a
noble sentiment in l776; let it be remem>
bered in 1868. He that would enslave his
brother is ct subject to be slave himself,
and while we cherish the wish to crush our
neighbor we ourselves may be crushed be-
meath the power prepared for him-Harri-
sonidn.