American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-07-26
VOLUME 2.
Let us Clearly Understand Each
Other.

been legally buried, are invoking the
name and authority of President John-
son as an apostle of their school, without
So far as we can learn, one particle of au-
thority for so doing. The Copperhead
remnant in Vermont indorse and culo-
.gize President johnson; SO does The
World so do the fve-dollar-per month
fossils of the Silurian era in Virginia ;
so does acting Gov J. NJ. Wells of Lou
siana, who. in speech at New Orleans
on the 18th inst, said
at must be perceptiblc to every one
who is at all conversant with the political
history of the country, that the radical
abolition party is broken up, disoreaniEed
and demoralized, despite their apparent
success during the present war.
"The official corruption, unequaled by
any party which has ever preceded or
nay ever succeed it, has rendered them
obnoxious to the American people.
"The heavy taxation which must neces-
sarily follow to pay the enormous debt OF
this war, and which mnst continue for
the next halfcentury, fires an oot'""' mp
on the party rhieh 'ciU outiiee the parry
ITSELF
"Then to whom are we to look for the
healing of the national wounds Is it
not to those who have taken national con-
servative grounds, and who have eyer,
during this war, advocated conservative
priuciples-those principles advocated IN
past years by the old Wing Party, and
more recently by the conservatives OF the
Republican party and OF the Democracy,
and under whose benign teachings we
have grown and prospercd as nation
"Gur President. Andrew johnson, has
ever been conservative Democrat. In
his hands is placed the destiny Of this
nation. and from him we have nothing to
fear, but everything to hope. besperk
for his A administration one of the bright
est pages in our history /; and under this
Administration fellow citizens ooking to
him for protection and taking his policy
as our guide, must we organize our State
Government Every effort will be made
by the radical Abolition party to prevent
the return of power to the conservatives
of rhe South, and all the elements of OPP
position will combine to prevent Their
success aud one of their formidable
auxiliaries, as they suppose, is to extend
the right of suffrage to that class of per-
sons recently put in possession OF their
freedom.
"This has been too clearly foreshad-
owed by the political advcnturers who
have come among US to have escaped at
tentipn.
"This, then, will be question for youi
future action; and if, after having taken
this country from the Red man, aud hol.
ding it for more than century, yon have
become so charitable as to give 1t to the
Black man, | can only submit, and bow
to the will of the people The power
granted to the several States by the Con
stitution of the United States to regulate
this question of suffrage is plain to all,
'It clearly belongs to the People, anc
| shall abide their decision"
The hopeful eleUc of the !"Nationa
Conservative" party of louisiana vii
doubtless succeed in persuadiug his pa
irons that the blame and the cost of the
war should ell be saddled upon then
"Radical Abolition" antagonists, who
were never in power at Washington, mol
vet in the "restored" State of louisiana
OF course, if the Radical Abolitionist'
are to blame for provoking the War, tht
Rebels cannot be; and if the forhel
haye been in power for the last four o.
five years, it seems odd-nay, 1t as odd
that no restored State has conceded the
Right OF Suffrage to one single negro OIL
mulatto, and that GoFernors of the Well
pattern rule over every one of those
States. They do say that the constitu
tional convention which restored Lou
siaua was an expensive body; but it new
er wasted a cent on granting Suffrage t.
negroes, nor yet on putting Radical Abo
litionists into power.
The Cincinnati Gazette has letter o
the 2lst inst. from Decatur, north Ala
bama, which says:
'The coutraband is the most interest
ing feature Of this country. lie is nu
merously represented here, and at thu
contraband camp, two miles north, there
are over six hundred, of all ages and
shades of color. Here, about the militia
ry post, they are crowded into ten-by
twelve shanties, two or three families il
each, and, although they have almost
nothing to eat or wear, they are univer
sally fat and generally contented.
''Their former masters seem to hat,
and despise the poor creatures as soon al
they learn of their freedom. A few day
since, an old colored woman made com
plant at the Provost Marshars Office tha
her master had turned her off without
cent of money or any means of support
simply because he had finished working
his corn, and dida't need her any longer
An old man of sixty years, who had ser
we'd his master since he vas old enougl