The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-24
EDITORIAL BREyITIEs.

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The negroes IN Georgia have form.
ed League to protect and defend each
other in hogstealing. 1t is a worthy
branch of the "Union League Of the
North.
Some of the ultra-loyal Mongrels
have discovered that Grant voted for
Breckenridge in 1860. The discovery
gripes their bowels like gambouge.
They not only smell mice, but they
smell legions of long-tailed rats.
They reason naturally that lie don't
believe word of all he processes of
"Radicalism." He plays it for the
nomination. Poor Grant! He is al.
most as badly off as the boy who tied
his neck to bulls tail with rope and
then kicked the bull. The operation
proved an unpleasant one.
The Mew Era (Florida) says that
"The negroes in this section are not
making any contracts for this year."
OF course they are not A law to COM
pei the whte-rascals who have brought
about this state of things to do all the
work the negroes used to do, would
not be unjust. Let us enjoy the imag.
ination Of seeing Sumner, Wade, and
Forney working "wid de shovel and
de hoe" to do the necessary work which
they have put Cufiee in the position Of
refusing to do!
A Memphis paper says there are 20,.
600 starving negroes in that city, who
will surely starve to death, unless they
eat each other. Couldn't the darkeys
cultivate an appetite for our northern
Abolitionists, as Sumner. Greeley,
Phillips, and Chandler? We won't
ask them to eat Old Thad. and Garri.
son, for that would be a little too tough,
and we are afraid that, were they to
eat Chandler, he would make them all
drunk. We have seen boys tipsy eat
ing cherries which had been soaked in
rum.
Two reliefs-Pope relieved of his
command, and the South relieved of
Pope.
The Washington Star has start.
ling article headed, 'look out for
liar" The editor of that paper need
notlook out, we should think, to find
such a thing.
Old Thad. says; "Thc Republican
party must be preserved" Well, the
Democratic party will send it far enough
up Salt River to preserve it, if salt will
do it.
Gov. Chamberlain, of Maine, in his
late inaugural, said: "The property Of
the country must be made to contribute
in an equitable proportion towards
bearing the public burden" But ac-
cording to the creed of the Mongrel
party, it would "violatc the national
faith" to have all property "taxed equi-
tably.' The "national faith of that
party is, that the poor shal! be so tax
cd as to make them bear the burdens
Of the rich.
An exchange says: "The Radicals
are beginning to split hairs already"
We should like to know how such a
Sc, of niggers can split hairs when they
have only uool.
A lady in Florida, who, few months
ago, had over q thousand sheep, has
had every one Of them stolen by the
"mcn and brothers who have become
the ruling class.
Ten deaths to one birth is the ratio
the happy "free" negroes of
Florida.
The papers announce the gratifying
intelligence that brandy forty years old
is made in New York from Jamaica
rum.
The Mongrel party struck boldly out
for negro Suffrage, but found only its
twin sister, negro-sueering.
The Portland Argus (Democratic),
which was one Of 3or Democratic
papers that hoisted Grants name for
President, has at last hauled it down
with sufficient disgust.
The telegraph announces the mclan-
choly intelligence that Brownlow's
health is improving. Heis named for
Vice President on the ticket with Grant.
There is pice enough in the old wretch
to make him run well for that office on
the Mongrel ticket.
Gov. Hamilton, known as "Jack
Hamilton" in u late speech declared
the reconstruction acts of Congress to
be "the will of the conquerors. Who.
or what has the "Rump' ever conquer
ed? One of its leading members was
cancd a few years ago, and he went
yclping all over Europe about it, for a
whole year afterwards. Such coward
Iy rascals would not conquera sheep,
unless they could hire other folks to do
The fighting.
Brownlow's Legislature of Tennessee
has voted to "abOlish all distinctions
Of color" This is worthy of the in
.elligence of that "loyar' body. Why
lon't they vote to abolish the black
ness OF old Brownlow's heart, or the
latness of Maynard's brain2 These
would be pleasant sounding resolu-
ions if nothing more.