The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-09
The Cost Of Tyranny.
From the New York Exprcss.l

HE IL IgFITA Ffs A.EM.f
A day ortwo ago, attention was call
ed to the enormous appropriations TIL,
Satraps of the Military Provinces were
calling for, to defray the current ex
p.nses OF working their respective DIES
potisms, ! TWAS rather hard for thu
Fifty Thousand white men and women
out Of employment here, to eontem
plate those figures without q feeling OIL
Indignation that all that money should
be wrung from the People. for the ben,
eft maikly of the hangers-on Of the
Freedmen's Bureau, and of the mdolent
negroes whom it was designed to main.
tain-wrung from them, too, at a time
when labor is scarce here at the North,
and when thousands, if not tens of
thousands of.families find it dificultto
keep themselves from starvation. =
This Indignation is intensified by
some things that were done in the
Rump Congress yesterday,--notably,
the reporting by Butler of bill, ma
king applications for executing the So
called Reconstruction Bill, thus:
Quartermaster's supplies $4,000 900
Incidental expenses 100000
Cavalry, artillery. DC 100000
Transportation of troops 7,350,00
$l2,0OO,OOO
Other items not specified G67, 900
-----
Total $l2,G67, 900
Nearly Thirteen Million Of Dollars
to prop up tue most despicablc despot-
ism, or series Of despotisms rather, ev-
er witnessed in Il civilized country!
Nearly Thirteen Millions to keep in
clover the Internationally loyar' lea
gners from the North New England
ohiefy,) who go strutting about in
feathers and shoulder straps, with moth
ing to do but to draw their pay, and
take sides with the negro, whenever the
negro takes it into his head to pick a
quarrel with.the white. Nearly Thir-
teen Millions taken from the pockets Of
Northern and Weslern Labor and In
dustry, in order that these Southern
provinces" thus %negroized, should
come ic as Rotten B~oroughs, to count
in the approaching Presidential cleo
zion. In other words, nearly Thirteen
Millions to enable the negro, in o Ger
tain contingency, to dictate to us white
men who shall administer the Federal
Government, for the four years, fol.
March 4th, 1869!
Enormous as are these %appropris-
tons submitted by the hero Of Fort
Fisher, however, it must. be borne in
mind that they are but a drop in the
bucket, compared with the grand az
gregatc that will be required for similar
purposes in the course Of the year. The
President, in his message, says the an
nual cost ofthese mongrel military des-
potismsi is about Two Hundred Millions
per annum. The twelve or thirteen
odd millions which the modest Mr..
Butler vents, hence, is but the begin
ming.
A crrtain ancient philosopher. once
laid it down as,axiom, that ''thc majori-
ty are wicked, We cannot say how
that was in regard to the a~ncients, but
we do say that, as rcguards us mod
crns, the majority are very fools if they
put up with this sort Of robbery mo-
ment longer than they can sec their
way to get rid Of it. The Radical pau
who are backing up this Military
Reconstruction Bill, and taking all this
money out of the taxpayers pockets,
for worse than useless purposes, are,
in PLAN English, nothing bnt Robbers
as well as Tyrants and
is about timc--is it not?--that the
learned to deal with and speak
Of them as such.