The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-30
Their Pound OF Flesh.
From the New York EXpress.]


At q time when, we are assured, Fifty
Thousand laboring men, mechanics, ar
tizans, clerks, sewing women, and 9th
ers OF the industrial classes are out OF
employment, in this city alone,-know-
ing not how they are to keep body and
soul together through the winter, we
learn from Washington-on Republi.
can authority--that the Committee on
the Frcedmen's Bureau will report to
the House that the Bureau could be
abolished without injury to the South
ern blacks, but that its continuance is
necessary for the ratification of the
new (negro-created) Constitutions in
the so.calied reconstructed States. The
House, it is added. will undoubtedly
vote in favor ofthe Bureau, and thus
continue to impose upon Honest La
Dor and Industry tax Of millions and
millions of dollars for its support.
What care these Jacobins for the cry
of Want and no Work, and no Bread,
that is coming up in chorus with these
piercing wintry winds from the daily
increasing ranks of the Unemployed
so that tue negro, in the comparatively
comfortable climate of the South, is
we'll taken care of, work or no work.
so that the New England schoolmarms
and the canting, misunderstanding
preachers that have gone down from
New England to live off that Bureau,
on the pretence of teaching the negro
"great moral ideas" ,"-have their sala-
ries, and their usual cmoluments
Nor is this all. Besides the Freed
mems Bureau, which we hard working
foolish white men are, many of us,
stinting our families even, to support,
there are other money demands coming
in upon us from the Five Military Des
potisms which the JacoDins insist up
on maintaining in these Southern
States, alta cost of about Two Hun
dred Millions per annum,--and these
demands must be met by the Public
Treasury and the Public's pocket Pay
MASTER General 1srice calls for Fifty
Th ,usand Dollars to complete the pay
ment of expenses of the Bogus Regis
try and the Bogus Election in what the
Jacobins call the First Military District
but which was formerly known as the
old Commonwealth OF Virginia. Be-
sides that, 1t seems there are "Delicicn-
cies" making the aggregate. 81 ,2O2,254
for which appropriation must be made.
General John Pope, too, made n call
for Fifty Thousand Dollars, "for Re
construction purposes" in what is
known as the Third Military District,
making the total appropriations im'ne-
diately necessary for these two dis
tricts" alone, (there are five Districts"
in ALL over a Million and quarter of
Dollars! When the remaining three
"Districts" come in turn to clamor for
their appropriations, the reader, if he
be a moderately good guesser, will
have no difficulty in footing up the
, enormous total.
Now, if anybody is anxious to see
what we are spending all this hard earn
> ell money for,-this money wrung from
+, the pockets of the farmer, the laborcr
r the mechanic, the artizan, and the poor
f half starved sewing girls, he can see
the whole thing graphically delineated
in the Southern letters, etc, we prin,
, in the Spirit of the Press, on our first
J: page. 1t all goes to build up the Ne
& gro, and put down the White. 1t is
4 the first cash cost OF transforming these
Southern States into. so many Haytis
I Jamaicas, Ashantecs, Dahomeys, etc
|. Nav, more: 1t is our premium fol
/. bringing on war of races, and oul
, contribution to enable the Jacobins tc
play off ten Negro Reconstructed "Rot
ten BorOughs," against white men,
Presidential ELECTORAL votes. in orde
: that they 1.-THE Jacobins) may hold OF
, the federal administration for another
four years to come. That is the whole
story in q nutshell. That is why these
|, heavy appropriations are demanded
and that is why every Radical memoe,
of the Rump Congress will vote u Gu
when bis name Is called. -,
We do not believe the people are all
Fools TO endur, these monstrous as
snmtions of power much longer. We
ID not believe that tue fly thousand
Y white men who are going about here in
\New York to-day, with the thermome.