The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-26

Last Saturday there was q ballot in
this county for County Judge. Rev.
Silas Scarls was the League nominee,
and John w. Williams was his oppo-
ncnt. Mr.. Williams has always been a
Union man. We remember that last
year his recommendation was consid-
cred Sufficient to secure n Certificate
We confess that he was nota secession
list in days gone by, but he is a
Of fine sense, honorable reputation, and
as well qualified, perhaps, for the posi-
ton as any man in the county. His
opponent was Rep. Mr.. Scarls, and that
very name in this county is sufficient to
tell his character, for if there ever was
. nan obnoxious to oil decent people
in this county, this Rec. gentleman is
the man. We have never heard but
one white man, Radical or Conscrva-
tive, sJcak in his favor, and that nan
afterwards said he was joking that
Scarls was a dirty puppy. Although
he processes to follow that meek and
iowly Savior who said, "Father forgive
them" although VIC have heard him
pray in church in Winchester; al
though We have seen Him invited into
the pulpits Of the churches Of our
town; although he pretcnds TO be one
of those whose special mission is to
try and save souls from damnation, yet
we do verify believe hell is full Of the
damned who arc less yindic,ivc, less
hlood-thirsty, less lille in all that goes
towards making up the man morally
and socially, than is this Reverend ST.
las Searls. We cannot, for the life of
us, imagine why . man should be so in
corrigibly mean 1t does seem that
there is something wrong in God AL
mighty's plan that II man could willfuI
" make himself so utterly dctestable to
every impulse Of humanity. We know
ave are all sinners that none OF us are
perlect--that VIC are sinners from our
birth, and are oil that the Good Book
and the good Preacher tell us VIC are,
but we never knew the depth of human
daprayity until We knew this Reverend
S:las Searls, who used to be a Chap
lain in the Federal army and is now a
seeker for Office in this poor, down
,rodden county, where negroes are e1-
rmptcd from paying poll tax, yet do
nearly all the voting. But even the
negroes hate Searls, and those who do
not hate him do not know him. This
earieuture. upon manhood--this bur.
lesque upon humanity--was the oppo
nent of John w. Williams. He re-
ceived SO votes and Williams received
1888, making Williams majority lO2.
But in this count the votes polled ut
Decherd, at Salem, and at the Pond,
are thrown out, because there was no
return from those precincts according
~ law. Indeed, tits said BY parties on
both sides that the voting at Decherd,
which Is In this precinct, was altogeth-
CT illegal. Yet, we should not be sur
ifBrowblow should set the whole
matter aside as null and void, and Or
ler q new election. Searls has done
100 much dirty work not to have an
,hicc. and we suggest that be be ap-
Dictator for this county, 10
Which sad catastrophe we who think
ourselves better than negroes and time.
white men, might expect to be
,urnt At the stake, and SsarIs would ap- I
the torch to the mggots. Wouldn't
% best Jefffeys % . Judge! We think
.. Good Lord deliver " from the
unlimited sway Of this profsssed fol.
over ofthe meek and lowly Jesus! III q
70 vould only stick 70 bic profession
here woGld b no necessity for bis car q
ying two huge pistols bpch!ed arousd =
im--4isdecd she!si b no Necessity ssIt