The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-01-05
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The KnorpiM Daily Wing and R'yis
OF the 3Oth ut, made It's appear
at our sanctum las, Saturday, and,
this was its first visit in several
months, We glanced c%uriousIy over its
columns to discover, if possible, WHY
we we're thus honored. Conspicuous
amid is editorial matter We found the
following:
"The editor ofthe Winchester HONE
journal ought t. rcmu, his paper to
the Lunatic Asylum and publish an
organ for that institution DUrin-
The late canvass h" kept the Virginia
Resolutions OF '9S standing 1T the head
ur his columns, and now str%ruuot~ly
contends Il State has the right to It.
Crdr. III n recent nitirtrr ui hl~ paper
ne makes ont Gan Brown, our Cover
nor elect, Il Webster Wing of 1888,
and consequently a Radical OF t!m
present day. The editor does not be
Iicre in he'll
We would like to know what our
disbelief in a he'll has TO DO with the
Virginia Resolutions Of '9S, or the
Rich. Of "A State to seceds from tn
Union, Our position npon all tie
points mentioned by our contemporary
is imrre9nabIe, and hence no dart
tina: his puny arm may hurl can rutile
our temper.
A little work entitled "Thc Auto
Grat of The Breakfast Table bl Oliver
Wendell Holmes, contains a paragraph
which Is quite appropriate i'll this con-
nection. Here it is:
EVERY real thought on every real
subject knocks the wind out If some,
body or other. As soon as his brcatI
comes back, he very probably be-in>
to cxpend it in hard words. Those ar,
the best evidence a man can have thai
he has said something It vas time t.
say. DR.. Johnson was disapppintrd
in the effect o fone Of his mn l'rt~
Il think | have not le,n attacked
enough for IT, he said - attack is the
reaction; | never thiuk have hit inrl
unless it rebound,
The editor of the Knoxvill' Daily
Wing and Register is an ardent AL
mirpr aud devoted disciple ot Andrew
johnson, the notorious political Judas
OF Tennessee. TiIis onc fact account
for his bitter dislike OF the Home Jour
nal. We have proven by incontcstahl'
evidence and argument that A.dleN
johnson, John {. Brown, the Nash
vile Union and American, Republican
Banner, Memphis Avalanche. anc
Knoxville Wing and Register, As wei
as the open and avowcd members %
the Radical Party. are each and nil IN,
iorsers and advocates Of the principle.
laid down by Webster in 1888 in hi.
debate with John G. Calhoun; that
She principles aforesaid arc tn" fun
damentul principles of the Radical Par
~; and that every man and every
newspaper that endorses them is nee.
essarily Radical. There is no escaping
this conclusion. Governments. you
know, are simply ideas. theories, OF
principles, in active operation, The
tree is known by its fruit. and whether
principles are good or bad is deter
mined in the same way. The princi
pies laid down bv Webster in 1888
constitute the tree Of R~adicaliSm, and
it grew and nourishcd in the Northern
States until its hitter fruit bean to
appear in violations of the Constitu-
tiona! Compact in relation to slavery,
the election of a President pledged to
disregard the Constitution, a war o;
suLjugation against the States which
had always respected their Cnnstlu.
tional obligations, followed by all the
misery. desolatiUn, poverty, and cor.
ruption in high places, which did and
does now ahlict the country. Andrew
johnson, aud his class Of politicians.
would have US believe that the endorse.
ment of the tree does not carry with it
the endorsement Of the fruit. Suci
a position is inconsistent and ridicu.
lous, US every man will admit who is
not a prejudiced bisot.
The "great thought" therefore.
which has knocked the wind out o"
the Knoxville Wing and Register, is.
that Andrew johnson is a Radical
that John c. Brown is a Radical; and
that be himself, our distinguished con
Temporary. il a Radical also. For the
simple reason that esch Of them en-
dorses the fundamental principles OF
the Radioal Party.
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