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A CAPITAL AND CUTTING BUILLESQIIN
"Mack," the Washington, correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial (Repub
lima) furnishes the following document to
that paper, " in advance of all competi
tion : '
THI EXPORT OF THE SECRET COMMITTEE.
The Special Radical Committee on Re
construction, intend, it is said, to visit the
Southern States, to investigate their con
dition, and report Whether they are fit
for admission into full communion in the
sisterhood of Union. As most of the gen
t'emen • composing this committee have
already made up their minds on the sub
ject, I don't see the use of the contempla
ted tour; especially as the report has been
agreed npon. As the document will be
looked for with considerable interest, I
have procured a copy of it, for the publi
cation of which j trust I will not he ac
cused of a breach of good faith. Here it
is :
WASIIINGTON, Jan. 6, 1866.
To the Honorable Senate and House of Rep-
resenfulivea
Your committee, appointed to visit the
States lately in r ebellion, and investigate
and report upon the condition as to the
loyalty and fitness for re admission into
the Union, have performed the duty as
signed therm, and beg leave to make the
following report :
" Naturally, the first place visited by
your committee was Richmond, Virginia,
the capital of the late Confederacy. Our
coming had been heralded in the newspa
pers there, and the demonstration at the
railroad depot on our arrival may be ta
ken as, in some degree, indicative of the
popular sentiment in that city. We found
a large concourse of citizens of African
descent awaiting us, and as we disem
barked from the cars, they hailed us with
shuts of welcome, mingled with, 'This I
way to Spottswood House," Here's your I
buss for the Continental,' Here's your
cab for any partof the city.' Baggage
to the hotel, gents,' etc. It was grateful
to the hearts of the loyal men to be thus '
welcomed in a city so lately the head
quarters of the rebellion, . while at the
same time we began to feel convincA al
ready that the only truly loyal people of
the South were of the colored race. We 1
could not decline the hospitalities so gen
erally tendered us, and accordingly we
selected ' two carriages from the large
number placed at our disposal. We were
driven in the Spottswood`by our hospita
ble friends, who charged us two dollars
apiece and half a dollar extra for bag-!
gage. After so much kindness from the
col,red race, we were unprepared for thei
harsh treatment we subsequently received
from the white oligarchs of Richmond.
The proprietor of the Spottswood gave I
us rooms in the fifth story, back, saying
ti his clerk, as we have been informed by I
a faithful African who blacked our boots I
for a quarter a pair, that they were good
enough for Yankee radicals. The same
spirit of disloyal hate was manifested to
us in the dining room, where, in response
to our repeated calls for codfish and
pumpkin pie, we were served with noth
ing but bacon and hot cakes. We asked
' why this was done, and were told by r a
loyal waiter, to whom we had just given
apo4tal half dollar, that , Mr. Spottswood
said he didn't keep a hotel for the accom
modation of Yankees, and therefore, per
sistently excluded codfish and pumpkin
pies from the bill of tare. Your commit.
tee do not deem it necessary to dwell up
on this evidence of smouldering disloyal
ty, nor to compare it with the hastily form
ed opinion of Gen. Grant respecting
Southern sentiment. Our object west()
get beneath the surface of things• in the
South, to find the true 'character of the
sub stratum. We remained in Richmond
a few days to study the character of the
people. On all bands we found evidence
of distinction on account of color, except
in a freedman's colony, where the blacks
received the whites 'on an equal footing
with themselves, We also noticed a dis
loyal disposition to speak of Stonewall
Jackson and Gen. Lee in terms of praise
'and commendation, while .Gen, Butter's
name was only mentioned in contemptu
ous connection with silver • spoons, and
occasiotiallya little plated ware, and he
himself seemed to better known as the
Buttlo Imp of Bermuda Hundred, than in
any other.
Our next visit was to Atlanta, Geor
gia. Here we had a long — consultation
with a Treasury agent, who had had am-
Tle means of information on the subject
LOlGeorgia loyalty.
.He gave his opinion
that to admit the Sonthern • States to rep
resentation at this time wonhi be highly
injudicious. He did not belitie there was
a white native in the State loyal. "enough
to take•his place, and asserted that to re
move him and - others - . similarly situated,
would-note.beunty-dangertins to the wel.
fare of the country,' but would also be the
heigbtvf iogratitude.•"lo.' men who had
riske&Character ane'reputation for the
patriotic cc use of cotton and. t en or. twelve
thousand dollars • a year. Your Commit
tee:,coneurred entirety in his opinion:
. 01 -While in Atlantal. - :your committee
beard many ..expressions -442 sentiment
which .go sOw. how fps , : Gen. Grant, is
mistaken in what he says in his report,
!!=M^=MME=I:M=MM
On one occasion especially 'we-heard what
convinced ns that the lava secession still
burned in the Southern bosom. The case
was that a young gentleman from Massa
chusetts, of poor but honest parents, who
4ad come to the South ih the capacity of
a freedman's school teacher. He had cas
ually made the acquaintance of a South
ern lady of two score and ten, whose hus
band bad fallen under the rebel flag, leav
ing her a widow of a handsome estate.
The young gentleman, desirous of matri
mony, and plantation?, pressed his suit,
and was progressing, as be thought, most
favorably, when one evening the widow'
told him at a tea party, in the presence of
a large number of people, 'that she'd rath
er be buried alive than marry a Yankee.'
Tne patriot school teacher no longer plies
the rod of chastisement over refractory
freedmen. The star of his hope has gone
down, and he has gone back to Boston, a
' wreck ofhis former self.
" Your committee went to Montgom
ery, Alabama, where, as at Richmond,
the colored citizens flocked to meet us,
and vied with each other for the carrying
of our baggage. We paid them fifty cents
a carpet sack from the depot, and they
were enthusiastic in their demonstrations
of loyalty, in receiving the currency from
us. In this city evidences of disloyalty
meet us on every hand. A Vermont mis
sionary had been insulted a few days be
ti-ire our arrival for attempting to intro
duce 'John Brown's Body,' and We'll
hang Jeff Davis on a sour apple tree,' as
Sabbath school hymns. A' hop had just
taken place at the leading hotel, to which
whites only were invited and from which
the freedmen were excluded on account of
color. The consequence was indignation
meeting of the freedmen, at which equal
rights were demanded. A repetition of
balls and hops exclusively white in their
character, wi , l lead to Jainakta insurrec
tions and Ilayi ien rebellions magnified a
thousand times in their dreadful results.
At Montgomery, as at Atlanta, we met a
Treasury Agent, who was opposed to im
mediate re union, and warmly in favor of
a territorial condition for the Southern
States. He mentioned incidentally that
he had a son in law in New Hampshire
who would make an excellent Provisional
Governor, and a cousin who would do for
a territorial delegate to Gong' ess. Above
all things he hoped Congress would not
listen to the hypocritical cries of Alabama
loyalty. He ;INNIS ref/ us tnat - Mere was
no loyalty in the State, except in his of
fice, and said it would be base injustice
to supersede him till he had finished the
making of (4100,000.
"We next proceeded to Charleston,
South Carolina. Here we had a long in
terview with a Northern gentleman whom
we knew to be in every way reliable. He
had responded to his country's call, in the
early days of the war, with a sutler wa
gon full of Yankee notions, and had been
unvarying in his devotion to the cause ev
er since, except at intervals when Gener
al Grant had ordered sutlers to l 'ile rear:
Since the cessation of armed hostility he
had been down South to see what could
be done in the way of buying Southern
lands. He had found the people of South
Carolina so rebellions at heart as to refuse
to sell their plantations for twenty cents
an acre in Federal currency. He 'con
vinced us that an armed force ought to be
kept in Charleston for many years to
come, and that he ought to be appointed
staler, as he had had much experience in
the business. He found in this hot bed
of secession and cradle of rebellion a de
cided preference for gray over blue,
which extended itself even to the ladies'
petticoats, many of which your commit
tee carefully examined. It is proper to
state that the articles thus scrutinized
were hanging on a line to dry and had no
ladies in them.
Your committee next visited Savan
nah, where they found disloyalty manifes
ting itself unmistakably on all sides. We
met an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau,
who gave it, as his opinion that the war
was only half over, and that unless the
powers of the Bureau - were enlarged, so
as to give him control of all the cotton
exported from Savannah, the glorious em
blem of our national liberty would not
float unmolested very long. He had not
been invited to a single tea party, though
he had lived in Savannah for a year, while
returned Confederates were cordially
greeted by brothers, sisters, mothers and
sweethearts, Ile himself had been on in
timate terms with a young lady who rep
resented many thousand bales of cotton,
but of late a one armed rebel bad come
home, and he of the F. B. had been dis
carded in favor of him who had raised his
parricidal hand against the old flag. Here
was preferment for services rendered to
the rebel cause, and there are many such
cases which your committee regret to
find Gen. Grant ties omitted entirely.
" Your committee do not deem it no
cessary to go into further particulars to
show that the spirt which animated the
rebellion still exists in the South; and that
the litne ha; not fret come for the read
mission of the Southern States to the Un
"TIIADEITS at CO.'!
tairA wag having married s girl
named Church, lays he has enjoyed More
happisess sines be joined the (Aura than
be ever did 'before.
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, FM. 6, 1866.
TOR THE DEMOCRAT.
Andres , Jackson accused the Aboli
tionists of attempts to stir up Ser
vile Insurrection in the South.
In justi6eatlon of the fonr year's war
just ended, and the pouring out of so
much blood and treasure, the party in
power maintained that a dissolution- of
the Union, or a• separation of the States,
was destructive of the Nation's life, and
that all who were not in favor of the war
were in favor of the destruction of our
government, and were therefore traitors
and copperheads. To prove their sincer
ity they took ,for their war-cry the senti
ment of General Jackson : "The Union
must bepresetVed.” As that great states
man has been many years in his grave, it
would imply that even in hie day there
were signs of its dissolution, that he
feared for its safety, and had resolved
that it should be preserved.
If the dissolution involved the destruc
tion of the government, then every patri
ot would be on the side of Andrew Jack
son aiding in its preservation, and every
traitor would be on the opposite side, en
couraging and assisting its enemies in its
overthrow. Patriotism, then, did not
commence with the commencement of this
war but when danger to the Union com
menced. Treason also began when trait
ors began to plot the overthrow the gov
ernment of our fathers. Who then were
these traitors ? Did they live in the South
or in the North ? What. were their names,
and what the names of the pati iota who
opposed them ?
At the great Disunion Convention held
in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850—it
was boasted that " letters were received
from prominent citizens of that, and oth
er States, members of Congress, dis
tinguished clergymen and others, in reply
to invitations to be present; all treating
the movement and its authors with such
courtesy and respect, as, judged by the
"Union Saving" standard, must amount
to moral treason at the very least, not to
say must augur deadly peril to a Union,
whose value, we are told, "it is danger
ous to calculate. Indeed in most of them
were admissions of which the logical se-.
quence would come little short of fully
justifying the disunionists."
Who "told" these disunionists it was
dangerous to ca'culate the value of the
American Union ? The very people whom
they have tried to brand with infamy du
nng the ronr 'ears or war by c. - 4111g,•• them
disloyal, traitors and copperheads ; the
people from whom they received no let
ters justifying their treasonable proceed
ings, but who had a Union saving stand
ard, tried by which, these disuniouists
were convicted of treason and all their
eiders, abettors and sympathizers were
pronounced guilty of moral treason
against the Union of oar fathers. Who
were these people,
found carrying a Un
ion saving standard in 1856, while a large
army was seen with a disunion banner,
which gleamed forth in characters writ
ten with blood—" The Constitution of
the United States is a covenant with
Death and an agreement with Hell !" Let,
Wm. H. Seward answer. In the United
States Senate, February, 1860, he says:
" I know the Democracy of the North—
I know tbetit now in - their waning
strength, and I do not know a possible
disunionist among them all."
In one solid phalanx the Democracy of
the North bore aloft the standard of the
Union . of our fathers, yet Henry Wilson
would go up and down through the State
of New Jersey, and for the sake of carry
ing the election in favor of the Abolition
ists, would utter the foul slander that" a
man bad to be a Democrat before he
could become a traitor." When did these
Union men become traitors, and when did
the disunionists turn patriots ?. At. the
moment when they refused to throw
down their own standard and fight under
that of. Wni. Lloyd Garrison the Denio
crats became "traitors ;" and the moment
the disunionists thought they bad a chance
to overthrow the Constitution and gov-
Wnment of our fathers by force of arms,
they became " patriots."
Where did the Democracy find their
Union saving standard ? Who committed
it into their hands? Andrew Jackson be
queathed it unto them with his last fare
well, when he Paid, "The Union must be
preserved." When he gave it into their
keeping, ho told them be received it from
Washington, and by adhering to that
standard, the Union which he founded for
his people would be , preserved from de
struction.
Peruse the inscription upon the stand
ard which the Father of our country told
us was to save the government, and
which he indited in his parting address to
the nation for their guide in all coming
time. He first called down " the bles
sings of Heaven upon the people of his
beloved country, that their Union and
brotherly affection might be perpetual ;"
that the free Constitution, which was the
work of their hands, might be sacredly
maintained." "
He then says to thew " It is of in
finite moment that you should properly
estimate the immense value of your na
tional Union ; that you should cherish a
cordial attachment to it, as the palladi
um of your political safety and prosperi
ty; the main pillar in the edifice of your
real independence ; the 'support of your
tranquility at borne, your peace abroad ;
your safety,your prosperity, and of the ve- 1
ry liberties which you' so highly prize.—
Watch for its preservation ; discounten
ance whatever may euggest even a suspi
cion that it, can, in any event, be aban
doned; and' indignantly frown upon the
first clawing of every attempt to alienate
any portion of our country from the rest,
or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now
link together the various parts."
Brotherly affection and not a brother's
blood was the cement of the Union foun
ded by Washington. An indignant frown
was to be given to every attempt to al
ienate one portion of the people from an
other, or enfeeble the sacred ties of love
and friendship which bound them togeth
er. Then who were the men entitled to
the first indignant- frowns of the Ameri
can people, and whose conduct was to be
discountenanced ? Andrew Jackson ad
dresses the people of the United States in
1835, and says :
" I must invite your attention to the
painful excitement produced in the South
by attempts to circulate through the
mails appeals addressed to the passions of
the slaves. There is doubtless no respec
table portion of our countrymen who can
be so far misled as to feel any other sen
timent than that of indignant regret at
conduct so destructive of the harmony
of the country—so repugnant to the prin
ciples of our national compact, and to the
dictates of humanity and religion. Our
happiness and prosperity depend upon
peace within our borders, and peace de
pends upon the maintenance in good faith
of those compromises of the Constitution
upon which the Union is founded. '
"It is fortunate for the country that
1 the deep-rooted attachment of the people
of the non-slaveholding States to the Un
ion, and to their fellow-citizens of the
same blood in the South, have given so
impressive a tone to the sentiments enter
tained against the proceedings of the mis
guided persons who have engaged in
these wicked and unconstitutional at
tempts, end especially against the emissa
ries from foreign parts, (Geo. Thompson
and Sable,) who have dared to interfere
in this matter, as to authorize the hope
these attempts of these fanatics will no
longer be persisted in. But if these ex
pressions of the public will shall not be
sufficient to effect so desirable a result,
not a doubt can be entertained that the
North, so far from countenancing the
intarfikranaw with the ennstit n
tional rights of the South will be brought
to exercise its authority in suppressing,so
far as:in it lies, whatever is calculated to
produce this evil!"
Now, who did General Jackson mean
by those fanatics, who were engaged iu
unconstitutional and wicked attempts to
incite an insurrection among the slaves ?
He meant the Abolitionisti, who were en
listed under the disunion banner of Wm.
Lloyd Garrison. He told the people that
the conduct of these fanatics was destruc
tive of the peace and harmony of the
country—that ittwas repugnant to the prin
ciples of our national compact, and to the
dictates of humanity and religion, and if
his advice had been heeded, these distin
ionists or traitors would have been
"crushed out" in the beginning of their
rebellion. It, is boldly asserted that
slavery struck the first blow against the
life of our nation, but here is the proof
that Abolitionism was the first traitor
against the government of our fathers.
The Abolitionists were the people whom
Washington would have called upon the
nation to indignantly frown upon, in their
attempts to alienate one portion of the
people from the rest, and to enfeeble the
sacred ties which bound them together in
the Union. For proof of this, hear Gen.
Jackson again. Two years after address
ing the people of the North as above quo
ted, he gives them his solemn warning
against the Abolitionists in his Farewell
Address. He says:
" The necessity of watching with jeal
ous anxiety for the preservation of the
Union, was earnestly pressed upon his
fellow citizens by the Father of his coun
try, in his farewell address, and he there
told us there would be reason to distrust
the patriotism of those who, in any quar
ter, may endeavor to weaken its bonds.—
When we look upon the scenes that are
passing around us, and dwell upon the
pages of his parting address, his paternal
counsels would seem to be, not merely
the offspring of wisdom and foresight,but
the voice of prophecy, foretelling events,
and warning us of the evil to come. We
behold systematic attempts to sow the
seeds of discord between the different
parts of the United States, to excite the
South against the North, and the North
against the South, and the possible episso
lotion of the Union has at length become
an ordinary subject of discussion. Has
the warning voice of Wasbingten been
forgotten, or have designs already been
formed to dissolve the Union ?"
Who were endeavoring to weaken the
bonds of the Union but the Abolitionists?
Who Were trying to array the North and
the South against each other but the Ab
olitionistp ? Whose conduct seeoledin
the eyes ofJackson about to producv the
very evils which Washington f o r e told,
an d w h ose vo ice of prophecy warned his
nation as 4 The etnidnet of the Air
olitionists. =Who *ere freely'. dimmable
the disoolution of the tfnion tont the *err
I VOLUME NI:J*I(iBEA 6.
who soonl, afterwards got tap'•.diiinniou
Conventions, and passed ,resolutions- that
" the slave States should be expelled honk
the TJnion ?"
General Jackson says, "It is impossi
ble to -look on the eonsecinences . that
would inevitably follow' the destrtiction 'of
this government,. and .not .feel indignant.
when we hear the cold calculations about
the value of the Union, and have before
as a line of conduct so well calculated to
weaken its ties."
Whose-line of conduct was weakening
the ties of the Union but that- of 'the Ab
olitionists? - "Rest assured," says Gener
al Jackson, " that the men foetid busy in
this work of discord aro not worthy of
your confidence, and deserve the strong
est reprobation."
Could it be expected that the Demo
cratic party, to which Andrew Jackson .
belonged, would ever have confidence id
'a-,set of men which he so often- warned
them against ? Did he not tell the whole
nat . ion ? that the. Abolitionists were not
woribY of confidence, but deserved their
strongest reprobation ?
Is there not good reason for Democra
cy and Abolitionism to be deadly antago
nists—for Democrats and Abolitionists to
I hate each other ? And did not these Ab
olitionists hate General Jackson for ex
posing their wickedness, and telling the
people that their conduct was repugnant
to the principles of religion and humani
ty? Perhaps many are unaware of the
abuse he received from these men at that
day. Yet the very same party which iS
now in hostility to the principles of An
drew Johnson, addressed impudent and
disloyal letters to Andrew Jackson. In
an anti-slavery pamphlet printed in Bos
ton in 1836, is the Protest of the Ameri
can anti-slavery society addressed to the
President of the United States, from
which some extracts are here given. The
society says :
" We protest against the jndginent you"
have pronounced ngalnst the Abolition
ists. Fast, because in rendering. that
judgment officially, you assumed a power
not belonging to your office. The Senate
adjudged that tour conduct was uncon
stitutional. You phathe Same judgment
on our efforts. Nay, sir; -yon go further
than the Senate. That body forebore to
impeach your motives, but you have as
sumed the prerogatives not only, of a
court of law, but of conscience, rind pro
nounoo our 4ofrorti9 to be Ivclced as well as
unconstitutional. And is it nothing, sir,
that we are officially charged by the Pres
ident of the United States with_wicked
and unconstitutional efforts, and with har
boring the most execrable intentions ;
and this too in a document spread upon
the journals; .of both Houses of Congress,
published to the, natioq and : the world—
made part of our enduring archives, and
incorporated in the history of the
It is true . that although yon . have given
judgment-againat us, you cannot award
execution. We are not, indeed, subject
ed to the penalty._of mordet:i.buttkeed we
ask you, sir, what { mast be the moral in
fluence of your declaration that We 1134
intended its perpetration'? -
" You assume it as a fact 'that the Abo
litionists are miscreants,- who are labor
ing to effect the massacre of their South
ern brethren. Only proie 'the assertions
and insinuations in your MeS - Stige,'and yeti'
dissolve, in an instant,. every anti-slavery
society in our. land." . .
In the next number it Fill' proven
that President Jackson told . the
,truth ;
that according to the aJtnissioiis of the
Abolitionists themselves, sinee that day,
they have been guilly of the crime of
murder;that John Brown is but anoth
er Nat Turner, whose. exploits , he ad
mired so much that he was resolved to
imitate them, and that , the anti-slavery so
ciety claimed the honor of teaching lira
the sublime and delightful employment
of putting slavehoiders to death by the
will of the Lord ; tbat therefore General
Jackson was right " assuming it as a
faot that the Abolitionists were miscre
ants, who were laboring to effect the mas
sacre of their Southern brethren:" i
What Democrat or patriot, of any
name, thus early acquainted with the
character of the men who composed the
anti-slavery society, would voluntarily
fight under the banner of Abolitionism ?
That was the banner of disunion then, it.
is the same banner still. That is the ban
ner of negro equality, which signifies Oat
the Nat Turners and Toussaint L'OuiTe
tures shall sit in the place now occupied .
by Andrew Johnson. It sig nifies that
this is a black man's instead of a white
man's government, and that "Jobn
Brown was a nobler,
~pnrer and loftier
patriot than Geo. Washington."
profits of the Nattoital Baas.
The Gettysburg National Bank, ‘on
Tuesday week, declared an er(ra dividend
offifty per cent, on the eapitni stock, out
of a surplus fund.'-- This , . dividend iu'frea .
of all taxation, and is payable to stoOlc
holders.in United States 7 3.10 Treasury
notes at par. It will be recollected that
this same institution in May last, declared
a dividend of 8 per cent., and in Noverti
her following another of 10'percent.,mid
now comes an extra.Aividend'of !Miler
cent., paying an iutereaton 4bei,tvatiltal
stook of 08 per cent. aincgcliay*aka - pe..,
'AA of less than eight months.
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