The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-12-28
The Impending Danger.

Under the above heading the Nor
ristown Gazette prints the following,
which gives our views better than we
could have written them ourself:
There is no Disgusting the fact
that we confront events most fearful
and alarming in their nature. We lace
a crisis fraught with the utmost perils
to our institutions. Bold, bad, desper-
ate men are at the head OF our affairs
of government, and they will stop
short Of nothing to carry out their I'M
hallowed purposes and reasonable dc
signs. They DEFY law. as they love
power and rcvel in corruption; and
they trample upon the aanctlty OF the
Constitution as wickediy as the intideI
scotis at the holy Word ofGod They
are rs dead to q patriotic Impulse Is
the worthless carpet Dagger is wanting
in truth aud honor. They have run
riot in corruption and pro0i9"Cy, sn'
would oOuGr sink the Government
and crush out the last vcBtIGc Of Con
| stiiullonal Liberty than he now thwart.
cd in their reasonable designs. They
dare not have their misdeeds come to
light! They are playing a&ame more
determined than lmperlonS Caesar WHch
thwarted by the sword Of Brutus, and
are as reckless AZ the wicked Belt
shaazar whose impious revelry was
checked by the inscrutable hand
writing upon the wall.
A dark, impending danger hangs
over the Republic at this hour, and
threatens 10 shrewd IN gloom the hap
piness, prosperity and liberties of our
people. Every event that has trans.
PRED by these bold conspirators since
the recent election but confirms the
worst fears the patriot can have of
their dark designs upon the good OF
the country. They mean evil in its
most horrid form. They mean to per.
vert our liberties or to destroy our
Government. They entered the last
Presidential contest to win at every
hazard, and unless checked by tue up
rising of an indignant people, they are
determined to consummate their vii.
lainy. They force the direct issue
that must be either crushed by the
condemnation of a patriotic people, or,
if submitted to, the overthrow of our
liberties and the destruction Of free
government will be the inevitable and
unavoidable result. The usurper cares
naught for law, and smiles contempt.
uously on constitutional restrictions.
These they defy and spit upon.
But this contest, if forced by the
conspirators to al issue, is one in
which the Sonth-the poor, down.
trodden, poverty stricken South-must
stand a silent, bleeding spectator; and
if the country is lost, they can only
weep over the degeneracy OF the times,
and with sorrowing hearts bow sub.
missively to tue DEGREES of q fate which
must consign them to a wide spread
desolation of ruin. If the conspirators
succeed, the country is lost and our
liberties will take an everlasting flight.
If they succeed in rushing the country
to revolution in the consummation Of
their wicked schemes, it will be a con-
test which no government that has ever
existed can encounter aud survive.
The question, then, must be met. Are
the patriotic people Of the nation who
fought to preserve and perpetuate the
Government OF our fathers willing to
stand idly by and see this reasonable
work of destruction done? Let them
pause and think, and then, like men
and patriots, act. Not by force OF
arms, but by the more potent and pow
means OF rising in their majesty
and power and demanding that these
conspirators be hurled from the posi-
ions they are d~ishonoring and dis
and that u dearly bought
ibertics and our institutions I've perpet.
free and untrammelcd forever.
AS Democrats AMI Republicans, We
nay honestly differ in politics, and as
% the choice OF our rulers but our
liberties are endangered, and our free
Institutions put in peril. AS honest
men and patriots. all must hand to-
,ethcl rs one man. II is not the hon
St Republican NORTH, or South, who
would willingly lend a helping hand to
uch a work, but the corrupt and prof
gate politician, y canno.-who'