The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-03-16
"Whitcd Scpulchers."

How can the Louisville Ledger ex.
,cct TO retain its position ne a red hot
ioprboh organ, while declaring, as il
locs, that "tts war decided secession
o be dead ~ This won't do. The
Jouyier-Joumal also says so; and
after all, the only ~perccpliblc difference
between the Ledger and the practical
Conservative journals seems to be that
while they discussed certain issues
when they were living, it goes down
into the earth and vigorously assaults
their dead bodies. Our ~impracticab,o
Kentucky friends who expected to find
in the new organ an advocate OF seccs-
sion, of the notification Of the three
amendments, and Il restoration OF sla-
very per consequence, have rcckoned
without their host, They have been
cruelty deceived. We advise them to
import Brick Pomeroy. He is the
clap to dispense a Democracy snfli
GENTLY red hot for the most ardent,
Uucompro1nising Bourbon in the coun'
try. But if his services canuot he pro-
cured, VT suggest the brilliant editor
OF the Winchester Tenn Home Jour
nal, u paper Of ovcrsbadowing in
nucncc somewhere up in the wilder
ness, At present he is focusing his
gigantic intellect on the proposition
that the Memphis Avalanche, Detroit
Free Press, and other "%pletendcd'
Democratic journals, are "whited sep
ulcherg.' The gifted editor once read
something Anna Dickinson said OF
"whilcd scpuIchcrs." and considers
them n good thing for general applica-
ton. Hendricks. Cox, Frank Blair,
and every Democratic politician and
Journal in the county possessed OF
two grains OF common sense, is 4
"whitcd scpulchcr.' 1t is a very sad
thing to be a whited scpulchcr and
wclake pleasure in stopping the press
TO announce that the proprietor of the
massive intellect which dawns on Win
chester once 4 week, at reduced rates
to clubs, is not a ''wlnted sepulcher."
He is what might be termed q "ring
tail snortcr,' dnd we salute him.
The editor of the Home Journal po-
litely returns the salute Of his able co.
temporary, and r~eiteratcs the charge
heretofore preferred against him.
Now let US see if we cannot satisfy
any candid mind that the Avalanche is
u "wLjted scpulcher.'
That paper pretends to he Demo.
cratic, and at the same time denies that
n State has the right to sccedc from
this Union under any circums tanccs,
One Of the greatest statesmen in the
Nation-Hon. Alexander III, Stephens
that the right Of a State to
from the Union is "the prin-
which lies at the foundation Of all
Federal systems"
And Montesquieu AYERS that Federal
Governments are the only kinds which
have saved the human race from uni
yersal monarch ical rule.
Putting these two propositions to.
we are obliged 20 arrive at the
conclusion that we cannot have 4 Fed
eral 81 stem Of government without the
recognition of the principle which lies
at the foundation of all such systems,
The soundncss of this principle was
never questioned by the National Dem.
ocratic Party.
Thomas Jefferson, the great apostle
of Democracy, believed in the perfect
and absolute right Of each party for
itself to Judge as well Of iniraclions OF
the Compact as the mode and measure
D rrcdress.
And yet, in view OF all This, tho eli.
TOR Of the Memphis Avala nche.has the
,lrontery,-while pretending TO DO n
Dcmocrat,--to wage relentless wal
against the fundamental principle OF
all Federal systems Of Government
And were he to succeed in his design,
and this principle be ignored, the Dem
Party would soon cease to have
an existence, State Governments woult
be abolished, State lines obliterated
and ii Central Despotism erected upor
the ruins of the glorious fabric crcatet
by our forefathevs.
Are VIC not right. therefore, in say
ing that the Memphis Avalanche is {
whited sepulcher2
And so far as Frank Blair, and I'll,
other gentlemen alluded to-, are con
cerned,. if they profess to be Demo
Gratis, and yet deny the Fundamental
principle Of all Federal systems, ther
they are simply "whited scpulchers'
also.
1t is impossible for any II to lie
Democrat and deny the Sovereignt,
of the States and the Right of Seces
sion. And though every newspapeI
in the land was an Avalanche, WI
could not be movcdsa single hair.
breadth from this position.
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