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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, SEP TEMBER 20, 18C6.
Appeal of the Loyal Men of the
South to their Fellow Cltl
' zens of the United States.
Following ia the appeal of the South
era Loyalisitf lately in convention in
Philadelphia assembled, to the people of
the United States. It is the most formi
dable impeachment of President Johnson
and hU policy that has yet been framed,
' and its severity," says Hon. John M.
Bottf, the staunch Virginia loyalist, 'cou
bists in its Iruth :"
The representatives l6f eijjht millions of
American citizens appeal for protection
aud justice to their friend:? and brothers
in the States that have been pared the
cruelties of tho rebel!ioi and the direct
horrors of civil war. Here, on the pot
where Freed tin was proffered aud pledj'd
by the lathers of the liepublin, we implore
.your help asjainsta r?or;aiiizod oppressitui,
whose sole objt ct is to n tuic the control
of our destinies to the contrivers of the
rtbfllioii after they have been vanquished
in honorable battle, thus at once to punish
ui for our devotion to our country id to
in'rench themselves in the official fortifi
cations of tlie Government. Others have
related the thrilling fctury of our wrongs
from readiui; and observation. We come
before1 you as unchalleiiicl witnesses, and
?peak from pcr-onal knowledge our sad
experience. If you fail u-j. we nro more
uittrly deserted and hotrajed, than if the
contest had been decided against us ; for,
in that eae,even victorious slavery would
have found profit in tf.e speedy pardon of
those who had been aino.itr its bravest
foes. Unexpected perfidy in the highest
place of the Government, occid jntally
filled by one who adds cruelty to ingrati
tude, and forgives the guilty as lie pro
scribes the innocent, h.-is Mimulated the
almost cxtinuihcd revenue of the beaten
conspirators, and now the rebels who of
fered to yield everything, to save their own
livrs, are seeking to consign to bloody'
gravjs. Where we expected a benefactor
we II ti I a per.-ccutor. IIaviur !j-t our
champion, we return to you, who can
make Presidents ai.d punish traitors
Our last hope under (tod is in tho unity
and firmness of the S'ates that elected
Abraham Lincoln and defeated Jelfer.on
Davis. Tt'e best statement tf our case i
ttf' appalHiii yet vue(n-ciou" confession
of Andiew Johnson, who in cavtgc hatred
of his own recoid proclaims his purpose
to clothe 'our millions of traitors with the
power to impoverish and degrade eight
millions of Ijyal men. Oar wrings bear
iiikeon all race", aid our tyrants, utchcck
t.d by you, will award the same fate to
white and black We can remain as we
are, only as infeiiors and victims. We
may fly from our homes, but we should
fear to tru.-t our fate with those who after
denouncing aud defeating treason relused
to light thoe who have bravely assisted
them in the. good woiL. Till we are
wholly rescued, there is ueither peace tor
ji.'U nor prosperity lor us. We cannot
better define at once our wrongs and our
wants than' by declaringthi.t since Andrew
Johnson affiliated with his eurly slander
er aud our constant enemies, his hand
ha been laid heavily upon every earnest
loyalist in the South. History, the ju-t
judgment ol the present, and the certain
confirmation of the future, iuviteand com
mand us to declare,
That, after r jecting Ins own reni'dies
for restoring the .Union, he has resorted
to the weapons of traitors to bruise uud
beat down patriots.
1 hat, after ueclanng that none but the
hva' should
govern
the
reconstructed
South, he has practised upon toe maxim
that nouo but traitors shall rule.
'I hat, while iu the North he has removed
conscientious men from office and filled
many of the vacancies with the sympathi
zers of treason, in the South he has
removed the proved and trusted patriot
and selected the equally proved and con-
victeo traitor.
That, after brave men who have fought
for the old flag have been nominated for
positions, their names have been recalled
and avowed rebels substituted.
That every original Unionist in the
South who stands fast to Andrew John
sou's covenants from 1S61 to 18G5 has
been ostracized.
That he has corrupted the local courts
ly offering 'premiums for defiance of the
laws of Congress, and by openly discoura
ging the observance of the oath against
treason.
That, while refusing to punish one
single conspicuous traitor, though thou
sands had earned the penalty of death,
more than a thousand of devoted Union
citizeus have been murdered in cold blood
since the surrender of Let, and iu no sasc
have their assassins been brought to
judgment.
That he has pardoned some of the worst
of the rebel criminals, Non.V and South,
including some who havo take human I
life under circumstances of. unparai'.eleti !
atrocity.
That, while denouncing and fettering
the operations of the Freedmeu's Bureau,
l.p.with a full knowledge f the falsehood,
has charged that the black men are lazy
and rebellious, and has concealed the fact
that more whiten than blacks have been
protected and fed by that nolde organiza
tion ; and that, whilT deolarins that it
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. He ry Cut.
was corruptly managed and expeusive to
the Government, he has connived at a
system of profligacy in tho use of the
public patronage and public money wholly
without parallel, save when the traitors
bankrupted the Treasury, and sought to
disorganize and scatter the army ami the
navy, only to make it more easy to capture
aud destroy the Government.
That, while declaring against the injus
tice of leaving eleven Stale? unrepresented,
he has refused to authorize the liberal
p?an of Congress, simply because it rec
ognizes the loyal majority, and refuses to
perpetuate the traitor minority.
That in every State south of JIason
and Dixon's line, h:s "policy" has wrought
the most deplorable consequences, social,
moral, aud political.
It has emboldened returned rebels to
threaten civil war in Maryland, 3Iissouri,
! West Virginia and Tennessee, unless the
! patriots who saved and sealed these States
! to the old flag surrender before their
arrogant demands.
J It has corrupted high State officials,
elected by Union men, and sworn to en
l force the laws against returned rebels, and
! made them the mere instruments of the
authors of the rebellion.
It has encouraged a new alienation
between the sections, and by impeding
emigration to the South, has erected for
midable barriers agaiust free and friendly
intercourse with our couutrymen iu the
North aud the Wet.
It has allowed the rebel soldiery to
persecute the teachers of the colored
schools, and to burn the churches in
which the fteedmen have worshipped the
lining God.
Tha- a system so barbarous should have
culminated in the frightful riot at Mem
phi?, and the still more appalling massacre
a New Orleans, was as natural as that a
bloody war should flow from tnc teachings
of Johu C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis.
Andrew Johnsou is responsible for all
thee unspeakable crimes and cruelties.
As he provoked, so he justifies and ap
plauds them.
Sending his agents and emissaries
into this icfincd ami patiiotic metropolis,
to insist upon making hi reckless policy
a test upon a Christian people, he forgot that
the protection extended to the 1.4th of
August Contention iu Philadelphia was
nut only d-n'u J to the f rev p"jpie oi" Ner
Orleans 00 the 30th of July, wheu they
assembled to discuss how best to protect
themselves, but denied amidst the slaugh
ter of hundreds of innocent men.
No page in the record of his recent
outrages upon human jus'ice ami onsti
tu'iooal law is more revelling than that
which convicts him of refusing to arrest
the preparations for that savage carnival,
and not only of refusing lo puoish its
author, but of toiling to throw tho guilty
responsibility upou the unoffending and
iunoceut Ireedmen.
The infatuated tyrant that sto.id ready
to crush his own people in Tennessee
when they were struggling to maintain a
government erected by himself agaiust
his and their traitor persecutors, was even
more eager to illustrate his savage policy
by clothing with the most de-potic power
the impenitent and revengeful rebels of
New Orleans.
Notwithstanding this heartless desertion
and cruel persecution by Andrew John
so't, in the States of Missouri. Kentucky,
Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland arid
Delaware, democratic republican prioci
pies principles which the fathers of the i
Kepublic designed for all America are
now mai-ithg uccrrun.rieu battlo with the
oligarchical enemies of f'reo constitutional
government; and by the blessing of God
these States will soon range themselves i 11
line with the former free Stares, aud illus
trate the wisdom and beneficence of tho
1 i
I great charter of American liberty by their
increasing population, wealth and pros
perity. In the remaining ten States the seeds
of oligarchy pSantt.d in the Constitution
by its slavery featt. have grown to be a
monster power. Recognition thus wrung
from the reluctant framers of that great
instrument, enabled these States to in
trench themselves behind the perverted
doctrine of State right, and sheltered by
a claim of constitutional obligation to
maintain slavery rn the S'ates, to present
to the American Government ihe alterna
tives of oligarchy with slavery, or demo
cratic republican govcrcment without
slavery.
A forbearing government, bowing to a
supposed constitutional behest, acquiesced
in the former alternative.
The hand of the Government was
stayed for eighty years. The principles
of constitutional liberty " languished for
want of governmental support. Oligarchy
matured its power with subtle design.
Its history, for eighty years, is replete 1
with unpara.lefed "injuries and usurpa
tions." . It developed only the agricultural
localities geographically -distinct from
the lree-labor localities, and less than one
third the w!:ole with African slave. I:
held four millions of human beings as
dmltrls, jet made them the baisof unjust
representative power lbr themselves in
Federal and State Governments to main
tain their enslavement.
It excluded niiilfooB of free white la
borers frpui the Vichpst agricultural lands
of the world. Forced them to remain,
inactive and unproductive, on the mineral,
manufacturing and lumber localities
compromising two thirds of the whole
South, in squire miles, and real undevel
oped wealth dimply because these local
ities were agriculturally too poor for slave
labor ; condemned' them to agriculture,
on this nnagricultural territory, and con
signed them to unwilling ignorance ani
poverty by denying cnpital aud strang
ling enterprise.
It repelled the capital, energy, will,
and skill of the free States, from the
free-labor localities, by unmitigated intol
erance and proscription ihus guarding
the .approaches to their slave domain
against democracy.
Statute books groaned under despotic
laws against unlawful and insurrectionary
asseaiblies : aimed at the constitutional
guarantees
of
the right to peacefully
petition for redress of
asscaible and
grievances.
It proscribed true democratic literature
as incendiary.
.It nullified the constitutional guaran
tees of freedom of speech and the press.
It deprived citizens of the other S?ates
of the 4privilege and immunities" in
I these State, an injury and usurpation
alike unjust to Northern citizens, and
destructive of the best interests of the
States themselves.
Alarmed at the progress of democracy,
in the face of every discouragement, at
last it sought immuuity by secession and
war.
The heart sickens with the contempla
tion of the four years that followed
forced loans, impresstrents, conscription,
with bloodhounds a;id bayonet, murder of
aged Union men, who had long laid aside
the implements of labor, but had been
summoned anew to the field by the con
scription of their sons, to support chil 'ren
and grandchildren, reduced from comfort
to the verge of starvation ; tho slaughter
of noble youths, types of physical man
hood, forced into an unholy war against
those with whom they were identified by
every iutcrest ; long month" of incarcera
tion in reoel bastiles, banishment from
homes and hearthstones, are, but a partial
recital of the long catalogue of horrors.
lut true Democracy, North and South
combined, defeated them. They iot.
What did ihey lose 'i The cau-e of oli
garchy ? They lot African slavery l
- f"i oa ly. As soon as the tocsin of war
ceased as soon as the clang of arms was
flushed they raie the cry of "i in mediate
aiutision," ,iid with that watch word seek
to organize, under new form, a contest to
perpetuate their unbridled sway. They
rehabilitate their sweeping control of all
local and State organization. The Fed
eral Kxecu'ive, easily seduoed, yields a
willing obedience to his old masters. Aid
ed by his unscrupulous disregard of 'on
stitution and laws, by his merciless pro
scription of true democratic opinion, and
by all his apjdiarees of despotic power,
they now defiantly enter the lists in the
loyal North, and seek to wring from free
men an endorsement of their wicked de
signs.
livery foul agency is at work to accom
plish this result. Falsely professing to
assent to the abolition of slavery, they are
contriving to continue its detestable pow
er, by legislative acts, against pretended
vagrants. They know that any fortn of
servitude will answer their unholy purpose.
They pronounce the four years' war a
brilliant sword-scene in the great revolu
tionary drama. Proscrintive public sen-
titnent holds hig'i carnival, and, profiting
by the example of the Presidential pilgrim,
4
breathes out threateuings and slaughter
against loyalty, ignores and denounces all
legaf restraints, and assails with the tongue
of malignant slander the constitutionally
chosen representatives of the people.
To still the voice of liberty dangerous
alone to tyrants midnight conflagrations,
assassinatiom and murder in open day,
are called to their aid. A reign of terror
through all these ten States makes loyalty
stand siieut in the presence of treason, or
whisper in bated breath. Strong men
hesitate opculy to speak for liberty, and i
deeltue to attend a convention at Phila
delphia for fear cf destruction.
Rut all Southern men arc not yet awed
into submission to treason ; and we have
assembled from all these States, detcrmirir
ed that liberty, when endangered, shall
find a mouthpiece, and that ;'thc Govern
ment of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth."
We are here to consult together how best
o provide for a Union of truly Republican
States ; to seek to relume thirty-six stars j
oc the old flag. We are here to see that
ten of these stars are not tpaque LoJies,
paling their ineffectual fires beneath tho
gloom and darkness of oligarchical tyran
ny and oppression. , We wi-h them to bo
brilliant stars ; emblems of constitutional
liberty ; glittering orb, sparkliug with the
life-giving principles of the model Repub
lic I fitting adornments of the glorious
banner of freedom I
Our last and only hope is in the unity
and fortitude of the loyal peoplo of Amer
ica in the support and vindication of the
Thirty-ninth Congress, and in the election
of a controlling Union majority iu the
succeeding or -Fortieth Congress.
While the new article amending the
National Constitution offers the most lib
eral conditions to the authon of the rebel
lion, and does not come up to the measure
of our expectations, we believe its ratiEoa-
tioii would De the 'commencement .'of a!
complete and lasting protection to all our
people ; and therefore we accept it as 'the
bet present remedy, and uppeal to our
brothers and friends in the North and the
West to make it their watchword in the
coming elections.
Tho tokens are auspicious of over
whelming success. However little the
verdict of the ballot bos may . affect
the reckless man in the 1 'residen
tial chair, we cannot doubt that the trait
ors and sympathizers he has encouraged
will rccoguizo that verdict a the surest
iudicition that the mighty power which
crushed the rebellion is still alive, and
that those who attempt to oppose or defy
it will do so at the risk of their own des
truction. Our confidence in the overruling provi
dence of Got prompt the prediction ami
intensifies the belief that when this warn
ing is sufficiently taught to these mi-guided
and reckless men, the liberated
millions of the rebellious South will be
proffered those rights and frauchises which
may bs nece-sary to adju-t and settle thi
mighty controversy in the spirit of the
most enlarged and Christian philanthropy.
Geo. W. Paschal, of Texas, Chairman.
It. O. Sidney, of Mississippi.
John II. Atkinson, of West Virginia.
Thomas W. Colescott, of Kentucky.
Joux A. Allderdick, of Delaware.
A. W. Hawkins, of Tennessee.
Samcel Kn'ox, of Missouri.
Vrigi:t R. Fish, of Louisiana.
Milton J. Saffold. of Alabama.
Philip Phaser, of Florida.
I). It. Goodloe, of Xoi t Ii Carolina.
D. C. FottNEY, of Distrk-t of Columbia.
John A. J. Cijeswell, of Maryltfa !.
G. W. Asbtrn, of Georgia.
At Erie Gen. Geary's Sicccli.
A grand Union mass meeting was held
at Eric on the 12ih, whereat Gen. Geary,
our next Governor, delivered the follow
ing able s-peech :
"Fellow citizens : T understand thi
is the inauguration of the campaign in
Erie. You are aware that tho questions
now at issue are cotnpried iu the amend
ment to the Constitution, proposed by
Congress as conditions precedent to the
admission of the Southern States to their
old relations with the General Govern
ment relations interrupted by the war.
liefore the. war the questions which divi
ded the country into parties were differ
ences of cpiuion in regard to railroads,
tariff., 'ind such subjects, but the are
now lor the most art settled, and the
vital questions now directly before .the
people tor consideration are those growing
dirt-cly from the w-ir. As the constitu
tional aioeudme it is an epitome of the-e
questions, I will consider the different
provisions which it contains
"The first propo-itioa of Congress sub
mitted to tint people is that all persons,
without respect to color, born or natural
ized in the United States, shall be euti
tied to receive civil rights in ali
the States and Territories. In Fenn
sylvania and hc Northern States the
people are not affected by this. Long ago
our fathers made this provi-ion for our
people. Long ago they took up this
question aud provided that nil perron,
without regard to color, so far as civil
rights Were concerned, should be equal
before the law. Civil rights and political
rights are two very different thing.
Civil rights affect relationship of individ
uals to each other, and thatalono political
rights affect relationship of individual to
the Government. Civil rights give each
man right to sue and be sued, to testify
in courts, and buy and sell real esta'e
liut opponents say, however, that it affects
negro suffrage. They thrust this question
right out upon the people, and they say
that negro suffrage is to be forced up'i
the people. This is not so. Negro
suffrage is a political, not a civil right,
aud although negroes of this Srate are in
full enjoyment of all civil, rights guaran
teed to its white inhabitants, they cannc
be given the right of suffrage without an
amendment to the State Constitution.
Examiue that document and you will see
that no question like this can affect the
people during the present canvass. Tnc
Constitution of thi State cau only be
amended once in five years. It was
amended in 1831 to allow soldiers to vote,
and cannot be amended again within
three years. It may come up in 18G0,
but not before. You will observe that by
tho second proposition gf the proposed i
amendment tne question or negro suiirage
is taken right out of both Houses of Con
gress, aud vested solely in the people ofj
the several States. 1 tell you that the
question of negro suffrage is not before
you. You know ir, and tho harpings ot
the Democratic party ou this point are an
insult to your good sense. .
"Another proposition of the constitu
tional amendment proposed by Congress
is in relation to the representation of those
negroes freed from slavery by the war and
the National Legislature. Wo want the
Constitution so amended that hereafter
and forever every man in th'o Soutli shall
be equal, and no more. Under the old j
rule, that three-fifths of their slaves should
bo represented, the whites doing the vot
ing, they had twelve representatives in
Congress of constituencies of slaves, not
one of whom was permitted to vote. Now
tbat slavery is abolished, tbey want the
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OO T ADVASGE,
NUMBER 48.
same representation. They want twelve
more Representatives than they have
white constituencies, and they also abso
lutely refuse to give these twelve Repre
sentatives black constituencies or any
coiisutucnciei whatsoever. More than
this, the old three-fifths do not saftsly
them. Now that slavery and constitu
tional difference between freeman and
slave are aDolished, they demand a two
fifths representation more than they ever
before received. Reforc the war they had
eighteen Representatives based on white
constituencies, and twelve Representatives
based on a three-fifths enumeration of
their slaves, making iu all thirty Repre
sentatives'. Now'they demand represent
ation for the additional two fifths, which
will give three more Representatives, or
thirty-thr e eighteen based -on white
representation, and fifteen on negro rep
resentation. These last do not represent
the negroes but the white men, so that
while in the North it takes 120,000
inhabitants to entitle a district to a Repre
sentative, in these States the same number
of white inhabitants have two Represent
atives. Congress, in tho second proposi
tion of the amendment, declares that when
the right of suffrage are abridged iu any "
State, renresentation shall be reduced in
the same proportion. " This i one of tho
questions at issue. I wa3 looking over
statistics of South Carolina the other day,
and found that twenty-six thousand white
inhabitants elected four R2presentatives
to Congress'. In this State it takes nearly
five, hundred thousand white inhabitants
to elect four Representatives, and yet this
is one of the principles Andrew Johnson
i trying to force upou you, that one man
throughout toe South should be equal to
thiee or four of you, and men in high
positions in the uational councils also ad
vocate the same doctrine. We want tho
South to come back to its old relationship,
but it must be on terms of perfect equali-
t
v-
"The Democratic party ha abandoned
its old truth?. You cannot get one of
them to sign his name to any of its old
cardinal doctrines.
"All the old Democratic, doctrines and
all the grand old principles of that party
have come out and gone into the Republi
can party. They have nothing left but
the name. I challenge any Democrat to
subscribe to the old doctr;n3 in the second
clause of the Declaration of Iudeoendence.
The South seceded and attempted to set
up a government of their uwu. They
committed treason, hoping that success
would justify them iu it. They tailed,
and uow how are they treated ? I think
too much cannot be said on this subject of
punishment of traitor. You all know
that some six hundred battles were fought,
and three hundred thousand Union sol
diers slain iu preventing their treason,
while with their blood mingles that of
three hundred rlmu-and of those who
vainly attempted to destroy the nation.
How have we profited by this lesson tanght
amid the smoke of battle and the shedding
ot rivers of blood ? We were promised
that treason should be made odious that
traitors should be puuished. The tables
have been turned on us. Instead of
making treason odious, he who promised
so much in that respect now seeks by
covering it with his official robes to make
it respectable. I denounce him wherever
I go. I know that he was never true
from the first. When he Wis nouiifiated,
I was in Tennessee. I knew him to be
insincere, and threw up my hands in .
despair. I voted for him. There was no
other way to vote for that great and good
mau who headed the Uuion ticket ; but it
never entered my calculations that A.
Johnson would occupy hi place."
Ax Affectiox ate Farscwell. Gen.
Miles has been relieved from command at
Fortress Monroe, and the heart of Pollard,
of the llichmond Examiner, is gladdened.
Hear his jubiiatiou :'
"We bid Mi'os au affectionate farewell !
Go and never return coward, inquisitor,
torturer, executioner ! Maledictions upon
you ! and may you feel in your own per
son all the pain you havu inflicted upon
the defenseless ! When you die, may
your carrion be thrown to i-he dogs, aud
may they, loathing your, vile flesh, leave
it to the unfa;tidious buzzard. . You have
polluted our air and soil uo long. Re
lievo us of your insufferab'e presence.
Relievo us of an offensive object that
provokes us to blasphemy. As we revere
aud love Jefferson Davis, so do we dctet
thee, hateful kite obscsnest of bird.
Go.'"
Oattaix Kidd's TitEASUitfi A com
pany are busily at work sinkiug a mine
on a small islaod in South Coventry Lake,
Connecticut, in the hope of finding the
treasure which they suppose Captaio Kidd
to havo buried there. An old mau who
assisted the pirates in the concealment of
their gold, died a few years ago, and the
company are working under tho direcion
of his son, to whom he intrusted tho
information. A similar coupany arc ut
work at Nova Scotia, and Mr. Marble, art
insane old man, has beens engaged in tbo
sanic Quixotic operation for many years.
at the ledges on the coat near Salem
Massachusetts.
Rarey, the great horeskutcr, has had
a stroke of, jaralysi.
T SUMS