The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-12-14
Keep up Your Banners.

There is much sense, whether there
is policy or not, in the following ex
tracts from the New York Democrat,
and they tally, to q considerable extent
with views advanced by us in the Home
Journal of last week, For instance
Let the dissatisfied Republicans ask
assistance from the Democrats--not
the Democrats from them. Does the
dissatisfaction Of the Republicans arise
from the crimes Of their party in the
past and the present? If they can be
come dissatisfied why shoul not the
Democrats have their original dissatis-
faction increased Should the crimes
of the leaders Of the Republican party
excite disgust in honest Republicans,
and, at the same time, win the apnro.
val OF Democrats?
But the plan of amalgamat.on IS
based, 80 it is said, upon a desire to
reform present corruption IN the admin
istration Of General Grant, or rather to
put an end TO his power To do mischief.
That's all very well, but are not these
very mischicfs, these plundcrings,
these divers misdeeds OF various hucs
and grades, the very imp children OF
the monster Radicalism And does
not that monster exist, surrounded by
his victims and his votaries in onr SIS
ter Southern States today Did not
one of the spawn o. that foul brood
enter into burnt Chicago and usurp the
powers of the civil law by the iron gril
of the military? Has not another OF
the breed been seen winding along the
back streets of New York on election
day?
These offspring of hideous Republi
canism have been exactly the things
the dissatisfied Republicans have beer
fostering with the pabulum OF thei.
votes aud all eloquent influence, while
the Democrats have in vain attempted
to drive them from the neighbprhoo'
ofthcir cities, and their Courts Of law
:, The dissatisfied Republicans are max
ing use of the popular term Reform, t'
further their individual interests
Greeley tights Grant and not Grant
-, army Of oflice-rogues, because to figil
Grant gives the ~unkempt Greeley
+, chance to fill with his corpuleucy til
satin Chair of State in the White Hous
at Washington, that whitened sepu
chr, of political and personal disgrace
Greeley is a dissatisfied Republican
! but is he dissatisfied with the MOI
strous outrage on God and man j
making that natural savage, the negro
a u legislator, and q contriver Of scheme
= and maker Of laws for the diflcu
problem Ola Republic?
n Is he dissatisfied with his party ina
d much as men are hunted like vii
beasts from their homes in South Care
lima, and with the habeas corpus SUI
pended in half n dozen counties Of
=, State Of the Confederacy?
? Is he dissatisfied because his part
q endorses the doctrine that Congress
supreme over Il sovereign State? Is /
i dissatisfied because Grant ssumes Il
one man power over millions, m
=, holds the lives and fortunes of his fe
low rrcemen in the hollow of his cru,
hand? Is he dissatisfied because wild
: spread plumber Of his party, and TO
:, abuse Of executive patronage NAL
r tins era in America q shame before Il
nations
Is he dissatisfied because TO serve
~ purpose Ge.eral Grant, by advice
. . his party, stocks the Supreme Court
~ the United States with partizan judg'
prepledged to give judgment on beha
20 Of the administration, upon u matt
IT, involving the plishted word OF II
Government to tic creditors? BY Il
means. All these outrages Mr. Greel(
endorses and supports, and he is offe
Ell as a sample of the crowd of dissati
fed Republican leaders. He iigh
within the home lines of the Repuh
y can party, with Fenton against Gran
= and Conkling and Murphey, and glad
would he accept the aid of the Dem
Il cratic party to help him to his POI
revenge and his uncOuth ambition.