The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-04
The Lincoln County News.

''e'c WIS ''ellHcr neat nor tail to poll
I'cs IN lennessee-that every ma,
seemed to he going "upon his ow,
'ook' BY way OF proving or Illus
'rarlng onr position We alluded to the
TACT that several papers were advoca
ting Horace Greeley, yet d]euouucin,
Ahdrew johnson, and we cited anon,
Others, the Lincoln County News. eli
ted by our friend and comrade durip,
The war, Capt, W. p, Tollcy. We sal,
mat politics were in n middle. Th,
SlleIbyv!lle Rescue and 4 few Other
newspapers denounced all supporter,
OF Horace Greeley as apostate Demo
Gratis worse than Radicals. Yet the
Rescue Haunted the name of Andrew
johnson rs It's choice for the office O,
Congressman from the State at LARGE
lhe Lincoln County News, per contra.
Haunted the name Of Horace Greeley
for PRESIDENT but was violently on
posed to Andrew johnson, We ask
then, if the Home Journal was not
right in saying that "politics are in a
muddIcT' Wcdid not say that We we're
for Andrew Johnson. Contrariwise,
1t might have been inferred that we
wore opposed to him, inasmuch as we
were nonplnssed as TO why the Rescue
could support him, and advocate him,
when no sNch necessity existed to de-
mand sHch support, as in the case of
Horace Greeley. Nevertheless the
Lincoln County News devotes about
one column and n bali to uq, and I'M
der the head OF Weakness I~nexcu.
sable says:
"lf the Home Journals failure to
tell which side of Andy he is on, is to
be nnstrucd into Il disposition to sup.
port 'lm, his Inconsistency is in sup
porting the Greeley ticket, True his
support is uttered in feeble tones, for
Slater IL n candidate for the Lcgisla-
turc from Franklin county. And it is
the habit Of little politicians to touch
mootcd questions very gently. We
are not surprised at our friend Billy's
seeing Il muddle in our opposition to
the arbitrator Andy, at the same
time we favor the Greeley ticket. Billy
'sgood at poetzing. 1t was during II
canvass a couple Of years ago that we
had the inexprcssiblc pleasure ola ride
around the base Of the Cumberland
mountains with him. The golden rays
Of a reclining sun fell gently upon the
widespread valley before us and daz
lied and danced against the mountain
cliffs OH our lett. An autumn zephyr
famed our heated brows. Presently
the Lord Of Day resigned his supremacy
to pale face Luna, who came p%ccring
up from behind the mountains in the
east and ovcrspread all nature with her
most lovely hucs Of silver. The noun
laIns and the moon in the east, the
dim y skatcllcd valley stretching away
to the west, intcrspcrscd with field and
forest made just such Il scenery as can
no where be surpassed by that Of the
table lands o! Franklin county, that lie
The base Of Cumberland mountains. |
II lldc was propitious to an out J
Of the mind Of the writer, try, t
ing to grasp the grave questions Of |
State that agitated the public mind at
Tue time, But poet Slater run OFF in ,
A different direction. Suddenly he
broke forth to poct;zine and apostro
first the moon and then the ,
mountains, and occasionally he would ,
turn to the valley with its fields and |
ard not untrequently he would \
address some unknown nvmph of an c
other CLINE. He was then a widowcr. @
'hakcspear, Byron, Moore. Milton and =
Ill the distinguished authors were quo =,
ed c%opiously. In a word. the whole '
ALLEY was flooded with poetry. !
1t is not strange that Il man who has o
IS much pocsy and fantasy in his era +
lium as friend Slater, cannot compre, :,
lend as simple a political proposition y
$ that disappearing the Greeley tic ket Z
When the highest and greatest public II
.ccessity requires it, and opposing il
andy Johnson when there is no public II
ecessity on earth demanding his sup h
,ort, when orr choice is unrcstrict. =
d as between him, who has SO often "
etravcd those who confiGed in him, CT
nd our truest and best men, who being W
preventative men oftheir people can f.
ave ten fold more influence in pre-
our interests and exposing '
adlcal corruption than the traitor" q
Now the burden Of all we have writ
II heretofore goes to show that we
Ipport Horace Greeley as a choice be-
zen evils. just as We supported Sen. Ut
r as against Stokes. and in view of the ~
that half or moro of the Democrat
newspapers and leading Democratic o.
.tesmcn had gone off like madcaps =.
behalf of the Cincinnati movement,
Without III il or and )" that the Ten .o
ssee Democratic State Convention h'
commended the support of the Gin ,".'
matt nominees, the journal, like NO
III the Apostle, could see no use in CIV
against the pricks," hence o'
pro'1unced for Greeley as against '''
ant. hnd va here reiterate our be. qua
f that the 1,uthern people will prove 'o'
emse'Ves 'ne most incorrigible of "pp
if they shonl allow personal dis. Tue
IN n IA,