The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-09-19

d. r. NIlCuJlldlh' lh"I bhNg WIZ V'N" ~
seeing Confederate Generals and Colonies
get all the offices when there are plenty OF
p~rivates equally dcScivingand competent
And this argument the johnson men seem
anxious to keep alive. They want TO get
ND Il prejudice against officers, knowing
That priyatcs are numerically stronger.
We pronounce against any such unjust
and ionOble attempt to array 0he class
AGAINST another, or, rather to array the
people against themselves, for certainly
the officers occupied their positions at the
wish of the p~rivatcs who elected them.
We pronounce against it because there
Turks behind such argument 4 species OF
demagogucry such rs influences the great
unimpcached' in his attempt to stir up
strife between the rich and poor, in face
of the social fact that if all men were rich
there would be no one to labor, and II all
were Door there would be no capital
wherrwith to pay for labor. We pro
nounce against it as a species of agrarian-
ism. Haunting itself impertincntly in the
face of God and all his DEGREES, for in their
poverty some men are more blessed than
if they had been born to wealth, and bet
ter. far better. for some men had they been
borne poor instead Of wealthy. But
N'importe. Let us see how the facts stand
in our own county of Franklin: Only two
mcn who held any commissions in the
rebel army have been elected to office in
this county-Capt. Vim. Murrell, Sheriff.
in 1866. and Capt. Glen. Arledge lately
elected County Court Clerk. Capt. c.. II.
Bean was elected to represent us in the
last Legislature. lfthcir positions in the
army were urged in their behalf, it was
done by very few. ID. II. SLATER, a prjUats,
was elected Register, and upon his death
was succeeded by James j. Martin. a
prir0ie and our present Register. W. Il.
Francis. Jr., was 4 prjUate in the army. and
has been elected twice to the office o.,
Trustee. JnO. G. Hannah, a prirate, has
twice been elected TaX-Collector. IIamp.
Stewart, a priUate, has lately been elected
Sheriff, and his deputies were prirateS, we
believe, in the army. These instances
come to our mind at once, and we could
90 on to tortify OurSclt II the position we
assume, to-wit: That all this twatdIc
about privatcs being, or having been over
looked. is an appeal to prcjudiccs which
disappointed and desperate onice-scckGrS
hope to arouse in the bosoms Of the pco-
pie, and thus that they may be enabled to
carry a point they could not carry by the
use Of reason and truth,
As to State officers. John G.. Brown is
the only Confederate that has held the Of
flee of Governor since the close ofthc war.
And he did not seek the position. The
Office was thrust upon him by the people,
who appreciated his eminent ability and
high moral worth. And his admiuistra-
tion was so highly satisfactory that the
people in convention agreed to endorse
tIg same. just rs the people in convention
endorsed the first term Of Andrew john
sons Gu]bcrnatoriai career. What, then.
is the sin OF Coy. Brown that we should
support Il ~disorganiZcr like Mr.. Colypr?
In rhn l,uguowe of an nvcL.ryo .,Lny
o,,,ot ,.r pr,u., r.,. s,.o..f,,;.t ,'r
he stood by the Union until the war Of
S~ubiugation had begun, and then withtAe
orr;, ,,o,I, ,,i.r1,t go, L.,,., ,,,,.,,
hi. holc,, to lo .r,ru, or,,,I, uoI..,l
ro Tri,n Inn, Lo ,o,.d tlo L,,,o. r,,n.
and ,-lon.n,o,o, -, ~. ,..,lo n,
who La. rr,m, o,,nn.oJ9 w.,o -,
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hold gr,t in t,o r,nr,Jom,tn ron,u,.
so f. -. ,~nioo-hoIJinu o,r.,,.,l ia
.Lt,o a., oofo.ro 49,, p.,., adult:
,n}.n ,.os f,r..,. o,oo,, rn,,, ,
ANA Andre" JohhSon-"rIi, he was
neither prtrdte nor GJtcer in the Southern
ranks but he was MiIitory Governor, and
brlgadier General on the Federal side. and
we shall have occasion hereafter to pub
IlSIl ONE OF his military orders levytng
Contributions upon the people who had
once hohorcd hl'l' Yes he wasa General,
ana yer lhere he tlose VINO oppose Cheat
nam Tor having been one III defence of a
mother state that johnson was holding in
Il bondage as cruel as that OF Israel under
l"arao'l!
AS TO inc heh'il' COLI lurhey lS' we
oo'l'Ne' 'hc only rro'l oilir"r OF SIX Su-
Pre'he JUDGES an" "IllIaIlSoh' (Who went