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

more ~partizan. more yindictive, more
hypocritical, more vacillating in all the
requirements Of its own e%nactments,
even, never existed on top OF Goods
green earth" W. could fiji this issue
Of the Home Journal with proof that
we are speaking the truth. But let 1t
go. Paramount to all other consider
atoms, oycrshadowing all other Ques'
tons, is the question of Peace God
knows we, speaking for ourself as the
conductor Of a public Journal, are will
ing that the Jacobins shall hold AL the
offices and iatten OF, lacm 10 their fill
aye, willing to pay taxes and let igno'
rant Negroes do the voting, although
they are as lily qualified to tamper
with the work Of Washington, Jetfcr-
son, Madison, and their c%omputriots,
as so many Brazilian balloons would
be, and know about rs much Of Law
Us Il hog does Of Hebrew. All this we
are willing to submit to while there is a
hope remaining that passion and preju-
dice and error will yield to reason and
sense and justice. But save the checks
Of government! Do not follow Longer
the advice Of your leaders who boldly
yet reasonably declare they are acting
outside Of that Constitution they sol
EMMY swore to support. This asser,
ton Of Sumner is the very essence OF
rank Treason, 1t is q Declaration OF
War, and all the Ethics that we have
been able to cram into our brain Justify
us in saying that if the .Iarobins are
acting outside the Constitution, then
the People, who elected them to OBEY
AND OBSERVE the Constitution, are
NOTBOUND LEGALLY OR NOR
ALLY to obey their enactments, and
he who obcys them, except under com
p%ulsion, is guilty of q great CRIME,
Elsewhere in our paper will be found
extracts from Influential Northern pa
pcrs in regard to The Situation. Even
Republican papers, Ike the New York
Times which is edited by Henry j..
Raymond, who is q membcr Of Con
gress and voted Tor the Military Re
construction Bills, arc decided in op-
position to the late iniamy in Congress.
The Times says:
"Bad as arc the measures now in mo-
ton for a%ggrayating Southern disor-
ganization, they are especially alarm
ing as signs of the reck!cssness which
distinguishes the. course Of the Con
grossional majority. What may be has
ever greater terrors than what is
There can be no confidence felt in the
honesty of policy which is changed
as often as partisan leaders consider
change cxpedicnt. And the usurpa-
ton which dictates to the Supreme
Court its decisions, and seeks by legis,
Iation to overshadow the Constitution,
may, if necessary, close the doors OF
the Court, and by ajoint resolution ex
pc! the occupant of the White House.
There are no limits to the excuses of a
body which, for its own party purpo-
scs, creates n military despotism and
asserts authority oven a coordinate
branch Of the government. Nothing
is safe in the presence Of this defiant
ENTHUSIASTICALLY speaking-this
lawless power. While it remains in
session, no extravaganza in legislation,
no ultraism i'll principle or rcckles3uoss
in action a be considered impossible.
The effect Of all this is most disas
trous. Capital, SC far from acquiring
confidence, is fast losing the little it had
left. 1t cannot realize safety when cy-
erything else is endangered. Com
merce grows more timid than ever. Its
calculations prcsupposc iixedness, CON
~stitutionality, and peace, and these items
are just now excluded from the Radical
theory of government. Industry, al
ways the first to suffer and the last to
receive relief, struggles under u load
which no people Oh earth could carry
long and live. 1t sees promised re
dress postponed indefinitely, its suffer
ings overlooked in a.struggIc for pow
cr, and its prayers for help lost upon
politicians who care for nothing but
partlzan advantages. Their greed may
prove to be as mistaken as their poll
cy for any accession Of voting strength
which may accrue to them at the South
will be more than counterbalanced by
the losses which they are surely expe
ricncing at the North"
So it is. The Jacobin party are on
the brink OF q p%recipice. They once
had o chance for q long run of power,
but that chance is now gone. save what
lies in the bayonct. In a party view
w would rejoice at the blind madness
which has carried them so far as to in
sure an overwhelming verdict against
them as 500 as the PEOPLE can get
to speak at the ballot-box up North
But we fear that the Scoundrels will
involve us in a civil war in anticipation
of this certain popular verdict against
them. No one need tell us they
do not see what is the probable conse
quences of their infamous course
been seduced by their greedy
passion for power and lucre, like IN a
bandoned strumpet they will drain the
cup OF degradation, and it were useless
to remind them that the whole world is
of little consequence if the gain there.