The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-04
\ Lesson Not Yet Fully Learnt

From the New York Express, Democratic.
The white men Of South Carolina
who have seen and felt not only. the
dcs"lation of the civil war, but the
worse than civil war, viz, negro gov.
eminent led by robbcr whites, seem
well to comprehend the Greelcv-G Grant
crisis we are in and so does Virginia,
u border State, terribly suffering from
the border warfare. There is an ele-
ment, however, in Georgia, and some.
thing OF an element in Alabama, which
does not AS yet fully co .nprehend, that
we have had a civil war, and that tha,
war not only overthrow slavery, but
substantially abolished the Constitution
OF the United States, which the strug-
gle is now to restorc--alas! not in full,
for that is hopeless after the war, but
that part Of it which secures personal
liberty and in some degree State Rights.
In Georgia, we regret to see, that
the bonds Of the past are 80 strong
upon such men as Alexander Stephens
and Linton Stephens, that they can
not open their eyes to the present, and
That in Alabama, such clever men as
John Forsyth do not yet see quite clear.
Says the latter in the Mobile Register:
"Mcn who will walk up in the defence
OF their principles for twenty years. to be
shot down only to come again, without A
ray ofhopc of victory. are men who can be
trusted in their politics.
We'll, that may be true--but such
men are very silly men, as practical
men, as statesmen, as men of the world :
and the fun OF being thus shot down,
with their principles, is not very com
prehcnsible. Craftsmanship consists
Of making the best Of the men. means
and things about you, and of convert.
lng them to the public use and public.
good, as far as it may be in your pow.
er, Being shot down, every year
with ones principles, too, is not only
'ensclcss. but silly-and as ~unavailing,
IS u~seIess-more especially, when it
s in your power to use the means and
he instruments Providence gives you,
'oth to preserve your principles and
iOur lives.
The few Southern public men who
IRE resisting the Greeley movement
'ecm to have little faith in the New
ork Democratic instinct, which on
he instant forgot. or forgave, all Gree
past, and acted only for the coun.
rvs present and future good. We,
Who have lived with Greeley for forty
ears, feel and know we can trust him,
md have faith in his word. and the
Of his Cincinnati letter. We
eel and know we al through him Sc
ure the State against Grant by an i'm.
nense majority-50,000 we think, and !
We thus see in him IN instrument Of I
.'roVldcnce to rescue the country. |
ience, the unanimity of New York, u
nd its eacnestncss,'t be followed, we |
.ope, by other States, especially by the d
outhern States, with which, almost /
ways, during the existence of our Z
'cpuhlic, the Democracy here have v
cen in sympathy. Then, again, we 4
Jason thus, and VIC think all Southern u
zen should also reason thus: /
"Grecley, if elected by the Democracy !,
no Liberal Republicans, will bring in u
It'll him from 100 to 1870 anti-Grant Rep
'Sentatives in Congress. The Senate
DIV stands II Democrats; s or 9 Liberal /
epubllcans. There are Y Senators Of the
nltcd States; 81 is Il majority The adj
tIohal twelve we need can only can only
to us from victories, as in New York. ~
ihns.ylvania, and elsewhere, or from the V
eat turn the carpet bag element in the c'
'ialc would Il on Grcrley's Election. n
lie senate Will be against us for 10 or 10
airs, unless through some such movement a
thlS. when Congress is ours, we have En-
ntrol OF the Government. Wecan pacitv "
"a purify the country, and maintain what
lett in the constitution. a Democratic /.
ticket would render all this =:
ubtiul, we think, impossible, Hence, W
IN New ork' by instinct. as in Tcnnes- p;
= ratified the Cincinnati Greeley move sc
INT. The rest of the country has moved or
rapidly, but quite as surely" 90
When extreme Southern men are IN
in the spirit of the age, and of the sh
mes, they will think Just as we do. h1
e are only thirty OF forty days ahead ur
them, because of the trituration and nj
sympathetic illusions OF a an
preventative metropolis, which is wi
Ter of the Western and Southern, oh
of other people, than ofNew York IN,
!, even. La