The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-09-04

You have withheld even the salaries of
judges, and made the tenure of their Off
ces dependent alone upon your despotic
will.
You have called into existence multitude
nous new Offices that your swarms of para
sites might fatten themselves upon the peo-
pie, and eat out their substance.
You have pinned down with bayonets the
people of sovereign States, ell ct peace with
themselves and the rest of mankind.
You have rendered the military indepen-
dent Of and superior to, aud destroyed, the
civil power of sovereign States.
You have protected murderers and ruff
ans, in the persons of officers and troops,
from punishment for committing the most
hideous crimes of which the inauguration
can conceive.
You have stricken down the inalenable
birthright of every citizen to a trial by
jury ofhis peers.
You have fettered the judicial mind and
arrested the smooth current of justice by
the military arrest of judges for deciding
questions of law against your Infamous,
unconstitutional null and void enactments.
You have suspended the writ of habeas
corpus, and in times of profound peace,
placed the lives liberties and property of the
people at the will of drunken, brainless
military satraps.
You have, at unreasonable hours, with
out legal writ. warrant or authority, torn
from the family circle our fellow citizens,
and without trial or conviction, sent them
into banishment OF consigned them to loath-
some dungeons.
You haze condemned and punished our
fellow citizens under er pos .factO laws,
having 20 existence at the time the offence
charged was committed.
You have controlled elections by the
bayOnet to give place and power to your
negro allies, carpet-bag asPirants and scala
wagian adherents.
You have taken the private property Of
the citizens for public use without compen-
sation, and heaped insult and contumely
upon the owner simply for demanding his
rights under the law.
You have committed the most stupen-
dous national robbery known in the history
of the world, in the emancipation of slaves
without compensation to the owner own
ed mostly by non-combatants, helpless wo-
men, minors, the idiotic and insane.
You have, by your oath bound sscrei
leagues and societies, instigated your bands
of prowling negro janizaries and white cut
throats, to the commission of the most hor-
rible crimes upon the unarmed, defenseless
citizen.
You have, in concentration of your iufa-
my, manacled the white race in the South
DISTINGUISHED the heart and brain of soYer-
eign States, and at the point of the bayoue
subjugated them to the domination of bru
tai, ignorant, half civilized negroes.
Your leader says, "Let Us have peace
Instead of peace, hope and the blessings 0
liberty, you have given them the sword
despair and the lowest and most vulga
despotism. You cantiDg, lying hypoeritea
Y ou claim to be the friends Of liberty; yoI
claim to be imbued with the spirit ant
teachings of the Savior, and yet you seel
to degrade the caucasian, which has givel
the world it's civilization, to the subjeetioI
of race but little above the baboon.
We swear, by the great God, that SO loni
as we have tongue to speak or an arm t
strike, we will urge incessant war upO
your Infamous, nefarious schemes.