The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-02-13
Going to o Funerx.

MIH|NNE
Going to a Funer%n q,
The Republican State Cone btt
New York met at syraous, was te
instant. Part of its buy Conven
choose delegates to ape for Presi
non to nominate a capbress, "a pa
dent, The New YoHes) thus re
per the Home Joury
minds the delegatR are fully per-
These gentlemS a funeral. The
suaded, are goi96ave something to
people are goiYfresidential election
say in this copals last went into q
when these Yvass, the proceeding,
PRESIDENTIAL ber, was but an idle
Us we all reelection Of abraham
form. IRa pre.destined and pre-
Lincoln Inclusion. Wherever there
oraalnebosition ola formidabls char
was aAamany OF the States the bayo,
acter,Nthe aorders" Of the military
net took good care that it should
sat1Amount to anything. Whoever
ny ma Democrat was disloyal, and who
,Nr voted anything but the radical
lcket was asympatizer with rebels, and
therefore ineligible to the exercise Of
Z the suffrage. In short, pretty much oil
OF that election, in those States where
the Republican janissaries were posted,
was a misersble farce, and nne which,
in many Of its features, even the Mexl-
can would be ashamed OF.
But all this is over, now'-ahu tAc
.Jacobins and Terrorists may as wen IN
derstand, that the game cani!ot oe re-
peated. They cannot cheat themselves
into power. twice in q lifetime. They
have had their day and the People in,
tend to have theirs. This PresidentlN
election, now approaching, mnst DO q
free election, without any attempt at
intimidation anywhere, either on the
part of creatures in shoulder straps, or
the minions of the War Department.
Let there be on all. all hands a clear I'M
Outstanding to this effect. Let it be
known that must be no further cheat
ing around the board, and that the
country has seer its last Presidential
election, achieved through the instru-
mentality Of Terror, Fraud and
Force.
This being the determination, then,
we feel pretty sure, in advance, what
the result ofthat election is going to
be. AS we still have confidence in the
intelligence, patriotism, and common
sense of the people of these States, it
is impossible 10 imagine that they will
not rise up as one man, when the time
comes, to stamp into the dust, the par
ty which has thrown the Government
into the hands Of as daring a band OF
U%surpers as ever once free country
was cursed w%ith--whicn is c%ountcnan-
cling the deliberate subvcrsion OF the
Constitution, which is justifying the
high-handed attempts upon the indie
pendence of the Judiciary, which sup
ports the infamous military dictator
ships in ten States Of the Union. which
take millions and millions from the
Federal Treasury, for the maintenance
for an electioneering and spendthrift
Freedmen's Bureau, and keeps in place
an army Of public plunderers, who are
daily adding to our burdens of taxa
ton, and placing the labor and indus
try of the country under contribution,
for the benefit of the rag-barons, the
manufacturing lords, and the shoddy
ar~istocracy of New England and the
North. 4
This State of New York has already
condemned the party, and the policy
Of that party. by an overwhelming ma
jority. If another election could be
held to-day, we believe that condcmna-
ton would be reatllrmcd even more
emphatically. as, at all events. 1t is sure
to be, in November next.
Hence, we say, these camp-followcrs
of the Radical party, in going to SYRIA
cuse, are but going to a funeral. Their
party was struck with death last fall,
and the early frosts of next winter, it
is morally certain, will see it finally re-
manded-
-"tot the vile dust from whence it sprung.
Unwept, %unhOnOred, and unsung."