The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-07

no quarter to either officers or priyates who
shall be guilty of habitual drunkenness.
In testimony whereof, / have caused the
great seal Of the State TO be attach
ed hereunton this Goth day of Feb
riary, In 1860; and l order that
II. ST. the SAME be inserted three times in
each of the newspapers entitled to
publish legal advertisements.
w. G. BRowNLOw,
Governor Of Tennessee.
Whereupon Gen. Cooper issued his order
and deprived those counties even of the
right to open their courts, suspended the
writ of hdbeds corpus, and put his soldiers
over them. That document is as follows.
General Order No. AZ
HEADQUARTERS TENNESSEE STATE
GUARDS, NASHVILLE, Feb. %, lSG0.-in
obedience with the proclamation OF Ills
Excellency, the Governor, dated Feb. 90,
1869, Lieut.. Col. l.. b. Gamble, command
ing First Regiment Tennessee State Guards,
is hereby ordered to move the five cOmpan-
les composing the right wing OF his regi-
ment to the town Of Pulaski, in Giles
county, where he will establish his head
quarters. His district shall comprise the
counties of Maury, Giles, Marshall and
Lawrence. He will suspend civil law in
the limits of said district. Any person or
persons disturbing the public peace will be
tried by a military court, and slimmarily
dealt with. Col. Gamble will hold his com
mand under strict discipline, and will
severely punish any officer Of enlisted man
who may be detected in any violation OF
the Rules and Articles of War.
All supplies of quartcrmaster and com.
missary stores will be furnished when prac-
ticable by the Q~uartermaster General of
the State. Should it be necessary in any
instance to send out a forage party, they
must be accompanied by the regimental
quartermaster, who will receive written in
structions from the officer commanding the
battalion.
ANY offer or enlisted man detected in
pillaging, marauding or many manner what
ever disturbing any peaceful citizen pursu-
ing the ordinary avocations Of life, will be
tried by a drum head court-martial and
promptly punished. The General CON-
manding, feeling the responsibility of his po-
sition, earnestly exhorts each officer and
enlisted mar to aid him in preserving the
peace of the country and restoring law and
order.
The Quartermaster Department will fur
nish the necessary transportation.
BY command of Brig. Gen. James A.
Cooper, JOHN COOPER,
Lieutenant and A. ID. G.
In testimony whereof hereunto set my
r., r., hand and atix my seal Of office at
lh''l Nashville, Feb. 10, 1872.
JOHN S. WILKES,
Adiutant General Tennessee.
These things were done when the Governor had
been advised by the authorities at Washington
that sufficient military force 10 aid the civil gov
ernment would be furnished blythe United States
That series OF wrongs and expressions made II
plain to the people Of Tennessee that they coulo
expect no protection from their State Govern
ment: they were crying out and rising every
where, protesting against the way in which they
were treated. DISTINGUISHED, held under the
bayonet in subsection to an irresponsible power
the Governor himself n candidate for Office, AM
the members of the Legislature candidates fol
Ohicc-the people kept in silence, and
BAYoNETs AT THEIR TnROATs TO ENFORCE IT
Therefore | submit with all confidence to this
House and to the American people that my state
ment that the State of Tennessee was a Pande'
monium, made so by the arbitrary and despotl'
edicts Of her Governor and his worthless Legisla'
| ture, was true.
For that / was assailed. / was charged Will
being one of the yilest and basest Of men. l
was charged that / had left the pursuit of a host
Ter in q livery stable, and
A UP THE sLAvE-DRIvER's LASH,
and that L was the scOrn and contempt OF MI de
cent men. That was the substance of the charg
against me, made In n high place, whore mon ar
presumed to speak the truth and to scorn Stand
er. L would not notice 1t but for the fact tina
what has been said IN that Hall Will 60 TO I'll
ends of the world, and l know that truth neve
catches talseh0od unless it follows quickly.
am willing to stand upon my record before IN
people at home. They know me; they hav,
trusted me; they would defend me-; but they can
not speak to the whole American people, as ] car
to-day in this Hall through their Representatives
When men rise In their places anywhere, / carr
not where, and charge that l am a mai so dc
graded, either from my past associations or con
duct unworthy of gentleman here or elsewhere
in the past or now, L den0unCe the MAI Wht
makes the charge rs
A LIBELER AND A sLANDERER.
/ denOunce all such charges and insinuations
| on my own behalf, and in behalf of the peOplt
who sent me here to represent thom.
l know why these charges are made. What
said about the State Government OF Tennessee
was also said about the men who hold the rein
of government in the other States, and said
| good deal more about some Of them. Ono MAJ
Gov. Davis, Of Texas-was, as l afterwart
learned,
STANDING IN THIS HALL LOOKING NIX IN TIL
when [ said it. L said more Of Gov. Bullock, o
Georgia, when he sat ON this floor in the last Coz
grcss. l have said more about nearly all of thu
others;
THEY ARE NOT ALL cRIpPLEs AND IMBECILEs
l have never told q lie about one Of them. | an
| prepared to prove every fact which | have stated
here or elsewhere about the tyranny Of thu
usurpers In the Southern States. And 1t will no
do to put up a man to Willy me and then say
"Oh! | am a cripple; l cannot write; l. cannot
walk" and vend their malice by making hin
their mouth. piece. Are all Of these Southern
Governors Of whom l spoke cripples? | am pre-
pared to prove all | have said against every one
Of them. Audit Is because
THE KNOW 1T WILL BE DONE
Read, of Florida, Scott, Of South Carolina, ant
Davis, Of Texas, Bullock, of Georgia, all know
1t will be proved, and the gang that are trying tC
cover up their ~0utrages for they know it.
L know 1t has been proved that they are win
cling now. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ste
venson) knows 1t Is all proved, and that | was
prominent In getting up the proof which will bf
laid before the country in less than a week. That,
sir, Is the reason they arc
%oUNDI ON AN OLD A
to malign me so that they may be able to say at
is that fellow Beck, a nigger-driver, who said it
he Is not worthy of credit, his are not
entitled to consideration against loyal men,"
That is the game that Is the reason l am ma
ligned that Is the reason | am set upon, and
they select q poor old imbecile to attack me.
Ihad said that | was willing, II this language
had been used In q place and at a time where my
constituents, and they alone who knew me, could
have heard 1t, to have passed 1t by with the sc0rn
1t deserves; but when 1t has been used In a place
and at q time when the whole American people
can hear 1t, and when the
sCURRILoUS
bear upon what 1 may have said In my official
position here, and on what l am about to do or
say and am doing, as o member Of q great com
mittee Of this House, so as to belittle and put mo
down because of the assumption that the men,
Der who says 1t is unworthy Of confidence, con-
sideratiOn, and the respect OF honest men, then
1 SAY that / have a right to stand up In my place
and sav To the RenresentatiYes Of the nennln and