The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-02

chances for the highest prizes Of pc
IitIcaI lilc."
This, we take it, is q gross insult to
intelligence Of the great masses Of
The people Of Tennessee, who have so
frequently given their sulragcs to the
lamcntcd deceased Senator, The Day
Book says, in substance, TO the Dcmoc
racy Of the State, "You have been en-
gagged, for the past twenty-five years,
in clccting n man to your State Legs
%laturc, your Gubornatoriol chair, and
10 a seat in both branches Of the United
States Congress, who, because OF his
lack Of culture, would not be permitted
TO vote in Massachusetts, and who
never could have reached II higher
point Of elevation anywhere in The
North than the State Lcgislaturc,'
II is Il great mistake to suppose that
in order TO acquire an education a man
must necessarily go through q course
Of collegiate instruction, Although
| Mr.. johnson never went TO college, il
will not be denied by those who knc"
HIM most intimately that he wasa self
educated man, and that he a y man
well posted on almost every branch OF
the sciences and, although poor,
he was strictly honest, AT least,
be was moro than a match for any Of
your KID sIovcd, %aristocratic, college"
bred purilans, in The discussion Of ANY
subject Of national import; and when
compared with Lincoln or Grant, wa,
a better educated mar than either.
The Day Book finds cause Of ohjec-
ton to Senator JOhnsOn's last speech
in the u. S. Senate on the misrulc OF
Grant and his miniOns in Louisiana.
We suppose that joH"S Iaced sheet oh
iccted to the declaration OF Senator
johnson that he intended, in the fu-
turc, to act for The good Of his whole
country, without regard to party. No
honest man, or truly national man, can
object to this; aud we only find Office
tons coming from vile partisan i'm
prqc,ir@bIc7, whose ~vasaoIagc to party
ia as base a5 il is dangerous 10 the per
pcluity Of republican government
The Day Book las heretofore been
cking out a miserable existence by
keeping alive, 90 much as lay in It's
power, bitter ani,nOsitic, between The
two sections, and now, finding that the
North and South will come together in
y spirit oruoiionNl brotherhood, it be
gins to count the patronage Of the pco-
pie Of the North, and hopes 10 DO this
by publishing such insults to the intel
OF the Southern people as
that copied above. We know we lack
culture in some rcspccts--that our
school system is not 50 popular
rs in the North, but the reason is, we
have been robbed of our properly by
the educated rahblc of the North. Our
slave property was, by force of arms,
wrcstcd from us by these Boosting
.raggarts. They got rich while we
were being thus robbed, and now they
turn in their easy chair and pronounce
us Il race Of i~llitcrates without c%ultiya.
ton, with no social distinction except
that Of race; and they brand us with
these insulting cpithets for %elevating q
self educated man to the office Of IT,.
$ Senator after they, themselves, had
made the same man vice President OF
the United States.
The Day Book ought to have at
least n decent regard for its Southern
subscribers. 1t seems totally destitute
of gratitude for the generous support
it has received from the South.
In concluding this article, We will
say to the Day Book and its Northern
readers, that we may not be as tho
educated or refined rs the
Massachusetts voters, but We do claim
to possess some little respect for the
christian religion and for good morals.
will remind them that no polyga
nous Society n eve organized in the
South as il vas in the North that no
Free Loycism Is tolerated in the South
as it is in the North that such an in
stitution as the Oneida Community, in
the great State of New York, could not
find q foothold on Southern soil. No
Beechcrism is tolerated here. Instead
of increasing q minister's salary who is
guilty Of the crime charged and con.
clusively proven against Beecher, the
is hurled from the pulpit in
disgrace, and is never reinstated. No
where except in the cultured North are
guilty of the hypocrisy Of
preaching up honesty and christian
and at the same time engaging
the grossest frands-stcalings, m
,haritablenpss, Mormonism, Free