The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25

touching with its golden wand the
highest court Of justice in the lana
We have seen how this great republic
has been transmitted into a ringpnbllc'
while the South has been reduced TO
political %noncnity what "whceIs with
in a wheel" as in the prophets vision,
have been produced from the center to
| the circumference Of the Union.
Look at the succession of these
rings; first, the primary meeting
ring, or the village caucus OF hall a
dozen politicians making up their
- slate" around a gr0cer's cask ol
onions or dried apples, Follow the
series OF political rings from that prI-
mary meeting Of free and independent
citizens up through the State conven-
TOPS to .ae congressional caucus ana
lobby at Washington. Then take the
corporation rings and follow them
from the center to the circumference
Of their power. Do the same with
land rings, gold rings, wheat rings,
traffic and transportation rings, ana
, tariff rings, Look at the great railway
rings that touch with their perime(ers
either ocean, at the Credits Molhl'el
they organize, the Legislation they con
troll, and the legislators they democrat
ize and smirch with the pitch OF dIs'
honest transactions. See what men III
] the highest places of trust have solo
and soiled the characters the pune
had given them, 10y hasling to he ricl
by ~lrcachery and trand. See how inc
c fac gold of political and commercla
| probitv has been dimmed ny thes'
t transactions, and the suspicious the,
. %cugender. What the French mean b,
. bourgeois&. we expless ly shoddy; ant
no word in our language has a NOR
uniformly accepted meaning than tn
D Of recent coinage We all know wHa
f sh0ddv means IN textile lahricy. Blu
o never did it fill such n place or pla.
such Il part in a soldiers coat AS
does in our paper money, in our pape
h characters on Change, and IN the pa
per m0ralitirs which the last few year
II have witnessed.
= 1t may seem Cisloyal to our repu5
lean Institutions 10 say it, hut, vine
o it is said, let the candid reader see
o he can disproye it; what this countr
most needs at the present jnnctule
n the element that has been displaced b
= the political ostracism OF the South.
& do not say that we need n Soulher
aristocracv, but we need one whic
II shall resemble and exercise some :
its best characteristics, and such W
imperalivcIy, North AMI South, Ea'
n oal Yves, We need n class with d
!, fine All espri: de corps, with as hlS
sense Of honor and pers&hN ano AN
., ~ dignity as England ever produce
1t or the South claimed to possess. W
% want such men as tie Jrffcrs0ns, Mac
i>ons, Lpwndes, P%Inckneys, Calhoun
o Claws and Bantons. and other stale
| men whom the South has contribute
! 10 the structure and glosy of the II;
It ton, whether they come from one slo
| Of Mason and DiXan's lines or til
other We want men who shall wal
" tilo'"N tN' l''!iI' VI ''r'|" w
E "..tr The flower Of a hlameless life,
- and of a blameless thought, thong
ID each hall and every step were best
ID with the gift bearing Greeks Of co
IS rupting rings seeking to place the
le gold where it shall do most good
s. You may call such class an arlstocr'
y cy, or hy any opprobrlous name, but
d., is a class we most need in every SCI
81 ton Of tae Union, TO stand as q bulWar
against the overflow Of shoddy, whic
IS threatens to throw down the polite
he p"obit1 and purity Of our national III
l and character. Il Christian Union,