The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-04-27

ton Of Y military dictator on the ruins
Of the republic. Under the pretensc OF
passing laws to enforce the fifteenth
amendment, ana for other purposes,
Congress has conferred the most des-
potic powers upon the Executive and
provided an official machinery by
which the liberties Of the people are
menaced and the sacred right orlocal
selrgovernmcn, in the States is ignored
if not tyranically overthrow, by laws
SO odious that they are at variance
with all the sacred theories Of our IN
The construction, given ny
these Radical interpreters OF the -FOUR
tcenth amendment, to use the language
of an eminent Senator (Trumbull, OF
Illinois,) is the humiliation OF the
Under the last enforcement
bill the Executive may in his discre'
ton thrust aside the government OF
any State, suspend the writ OF haoeas
CORPUS, arrest its Governor, imprison
or dispense the Legislature, silence It's
Judges and trample down its people
under the armed heel Of his troops
Nothing is left to the citizen Of Il
State which can any longer be called
Il right.
Our hopes for redress are in the
calm good sense and sober second
thought Of the American people. We
call upon them to be true to them
selves and to their past, and dlsregar.
ding party names and minor diiieren'
ccs, to insist on decentralization OF
DC wcr, the restriction Of the Federal
authority within its just and proper
limits, leaving to the States that con
troll of their domestic affairs, which is
essential to their happiness, tranquil
ty and good government. Everything
that malicious ingenuity could suggest
has been done to irritate the people
of the Middle and Southern States.
Gross and exaggerated charges of dis,
order and violence owe their origin to
the miscellaneous minds Of the political
MANAGERS in the Senate and House oil
REPRESENTATIVES, to which the EXeGl
tive has, ne are sorry to say, lent his
aid, and these have helped TO inlamc
popular feeling. In all this curse o.
hostile legislation and harsh resent
mcnt no word Of Cancellation. Of kline
encouragement or frateTnal fellowship
has ever been spoken by the Presi
dent or by Congress to the people o
the Southern States. They have beer
addressed only in language OF pro
scription.
We earnestly cntroat our fellow citi-
zcns IN all parts of the Union to SPAR
no effort to maintain peace and orde
to carefully protect the rights Of ev
cry citizen, to preserve kindly rela
tons among all men and to discoun
tcnancc and discourage any violation
Of the rights of any portion Of the PEG
pie secured undcr the Constitution o
any of its amendments.
Let us in conclusion earnestly be,
OF you not to aid the present attemp
Of the Radical partizans to stir "
strife in the land, to cnew the9 issue
of the war, or to oh5truct the return
of peace or prosperity to the Southern
States, because it is thus that the,
seek to divert the attention of til
country from tire CORRUPTION and cX
travagance Of their administration o
public Office and the dangerous an'
proligate attempts they + maxim,
toward the creation Of Il centralized
military government. In five years o
peace following war the Radical al
mini,tration have expended $1,000,
100000 for ordinary purposes alone
being within 5000, COO, 0O0 Of the ag
grcgato amount spent forthe same pur
poses in war and in peace during sew
cnty one years preceding June SO
1861, not including in either case tn
sum paid upon the principal or inter
est oftl,e public debt, 1t is ~trilin,
with acknowledgement Of the people 70:
the Radical leaders to pretend tina
this vast sun has been honestly ex
pended. Hundreds of millions of i
have been wantonly squandereG. The
expenditures of the Government fol
the fis cal year ending June 80, 1861
were only s62, 00O, 900, while for pre-
c;sely the same purposes the civil list
army and navy pensions and Indians
S16l, 100000 were expended during
the fiscal year ending June 10, 1870
No Indignation can be too stern, and
no scorn too severe for the assertions
by INSCRIPTIONS Radical leaders that
the great Democratic and conservative
party of the Union has or IAN have
any sympathy with disorders or VIC.
lence in any part OF the country, or in
the deprivation of any man of his
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