The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-24
Brigadier -General and Militia

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Brigadier~ General and Military
: | Governor of his, own State, and bury
5 ing himself in the thick walls of the
capitol, where no bullets could mo-
lest and from which he could tyran-
nize over defenseless women and
old men. No man trne to his State
can object to Gen. Cheatham be-
cause of his military history. An
drew Johnson in trying to array the
people against the leaders of the
! Confederate hosts, knows full well
that there can be no objection to
him because he was a General per
Sc. Rank can make no difference;
it is not the rank he held which
disqualifes Gen. C. The objection
applies (if it we're an objection J
alike to the General, to the Colonel,
the Captain, the private. An idea
erf lie. years aea, was that .sFreassa
should be made odions. Now hesis
trying to, accomplish that very
thing. Now he would have you ego
back on those whom honor would
! prompt you to eXalt; he would have
you to stultify yourselves by re
Fusing to support those in whom
yon trusted in the day of-trial. He
supported jackson, and Pierce, and
never did it enter his head to OBJ
| ject to either because he was a Gen
eraI. No! his idea is to be found
in the following, from his speech at
a meeting in Washington on the Sd
of April, 1865: "Treason is the
highest crime known in the cata-
logue of crimes, and for him that is
/ guilty of it-for him that is willing
to lift his impious hand against the
authority of the Eation-I .wonld
say death is too easy punishment
BIy notion is that treason must be
made odious and traitors must be
punished and impoverished, their
social Po2oer broken, that they
must be made to feel the penalty of
their CRIME. It is not the men in
the field who are the greatest |
tr05t0rsa It is the men who have
encouraged them to imperil theirI
lives, etc. Hence I say The Halt
er' to intelligent traitors. But TO
the honest boy, the deluded man
who has been decei0ed into the
rebel ranks, would. extend lenien-
cy. 1 hold, too, that aoeaZt6y
traitors should be made to re
mas2erate those men who have
suffered as a consequence Of their
crime. II IS qce1E to talk about
these things here today in ad-
dressing the well-informed persons
who compose this audience. You
can, to q VeTy great esctepat, AID /
az MoULDIEG PUBIIc OPINION and
giving it a PROPER DIRECTION. LET
Us COMMENCE THE WORK. We have
pat dorm these traitors iga
arms; let as pit them dorm IN
ZGqo in public jbdgnent and
IN, THE MORALS OF THE WORD"
Within a week Lee surrendered.
Already the hand writing was upon
the wall, too plainly to be interpre- ,
ted that the "doom of the ConfedeF- ID
acy was writ" In another portion Il
of the same speech he says, ''when
you ask me what I would do with /
them, my reply is, would arrest ]
them-I would try them-I would J
convict them, and I would hang !
them" Such is the course advo- t
Gated then by the second officer in !
the Government Speaking his t
true sentiments, speaking the genu I
me dictates of his dark soul, he APP i
peals to his auditors to aid in di- c
reeting public opinion, that The EE
,e0rb may Begin. No denying "
these words, no perverting their e
Yet his apologists say L
1T was he who saved the South; g
had it not been for him our prop I
srty would have been confscated, a
md we imprisoned and executed" v
Such an assertion is an insult to a
your intelligence. Here he, at the u
very close of the war, cries aloud S
1or the blood of intelligent traitors a
and there were thousands such), "
and demands that they ''be impOy- "
.rished and put down in law and d
n the morals of the world. His p
Try is ga hecatomb for meal" and il
heir last hard earned dollar, with a
and disgrace. BE O
'onnd that the public sentimen oft "
he North did not demand It, that I
Congress did not attempt it, p
hat an enlightened public senti- t,
nent opposed it, and that q higher p
order of civilization Ito which he a
S stranger) would not tolerate it. v
Hence it was not done; and no e
hanks to him. Look (a0eLl) upon G
hat picture; now on this. "
In his speech at Gallatin he said, d
The war is all over and the people I
should be brought together, should u
ook upon each other as men and q
,rethrea." Then, aushed with vic 81
oEy, with one foot upon the Key y
tone in the arch of political prefer il
nent, mistaking the demands Of the g
Nation, and blind to, the sentiment 5,
# the age, he enunciates the il
.ourse. he should pursue, and fc
tamps himself a willing execution y
r and plunderer of the people ot n
he South. NOac he wants your d