The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-02-20
How They Lie.

l. How They Lie.
The Jacobins are now asserting tina
one cause ofthe failure of the Black ant
Tan Constitution in Alabama satrapy
ruled by niggers, is that in some coun'
ties no elections were held, the loyal
voters being frightened off by threats
of vengeance of unregenerated Rebels
In these counties, it is said that Gen.
Meade will order Especial election and
see that voters are protected, &C. Now,
the assertion that unregenerated Reb-
els drove off loyal men we believe most
emphatically to be an unregenerated
lie. But Gen. Meade, the autocrat of a
Bump Congress will, most likely, avail
himself of this subterfuge to make such
arrangements as shall consummate the
intended but temporarily frustrated
Radical Outrage. You see that the de-
cent white people of Alabama didn't
vote at all upon tire iniqulty, and it
lacked the number requisite to make 1T
the law.
But about driving off loyslists, go
called What huge lie! Hardly any
one voted save negroes, and it seems
strange that the negro loyalists could
not he driven away from the polls
while the white loyalists could 1t is a
monstrous lie, and all sensible men
know it. Let's see how the thing work
ed in our county: In the Presidential
election in 1856, Buchanan received
1927 votes, and bis opponent, Fillmore,
331. Total white vote, 1858. In 1850,
the next Presidential election, Breckin
ridge received 1926, Bell 1888, and
Douglass 26. Total white vQte 1910.
At the last election for Sheriff, in 1865,
under rigid disfranchise law, Murrell
received $50, and his opponent, Custer,
494. Total white vote, under the first
Radical disfranchisement, 1924. In
none of these elections did negroes
vote. In the election last year for
Governor, Brownlow received 702, and
Etheridge 3l3. In this election all the
negroes voted, and with very small
exception, they all voted for Brown
low. Very nearly all the whites voted
for Etheridge. Now, figures do not
lie. We may safely assert that there
were over fifteen hundred aohits men in
this County who we're not allowed to
vote last Gubernatorial farce. They
made no effort to vote after they had
been refused certificates. Brownlow's
militia, with bayoncts fixed, with box
es of ammunition at hand, and with
uniforms on, ruled and controlled to
their own will the ballot.box and we
will make affidavit that one negro went
up and voted for Brownlow "bocause,"
said he to us, elf ! does not they'll kill
me-" And VIC will swear that old "un-
cle.Gabriel," (since dead who profess
ed to be conservative, told us on the
day of election that he. had concluded
to vote for "Mr: Brownlow case they's
gwine to glib me forty acres OBJ land ifI
does" And thus these poor, ignorant
negroes were bribed and cajoled and
intimidated. and although there were
fifteen hundred disfranchlsed "rebels,"
in this most notoriously rebel county,
who we're not allowed to vote, and who
were able with sticks to have driven the
last militiaman and JacObin devil out
of the county, not single demonstra-
ton of resistance was made. The Jac-
obins, with fife and drum, and niggers
on horseback commanding Brownlow's
militia on foot, ruled the day. And
don't you remember the pole that was
raised at the court yard gate 1t stands
there to-day, unmolested. 1t will stand
there until it rots. 1t is bending like q |
drawn bow, and reminds us Of the Peo-
pie of this whole country bending under
Jacobin Usurpation, with this differ
ence: The poor pole has no elasticity,
and is like waning Radicalism. The
People haze elasticity, and we warn the
Usurpcrs to look out for the rebound. |
After this dirty pole was raised a
guard was stationedto see that no Reb-
el should molestit. What fools There
is no Rebel in this county mean enough
to notice it with an eye Of envy. Wet
only feared that some Radical would
cut it down and swear that the Rebels
had done it--just as they are running this
land and swear that the Rebels are do
ing II.
We mention these things in connec-
ton with the unregenerated, unmitiga-
ted, unconscionable, unholy, unmanly,
unpalatable lie about Rebels driving
loyal men from the ballot-box, when,
God knows, the brave men who fought
under the Confederate Aag, and did not
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