The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-09-12

e'y.n'"S 10 save their own lives, are
seeking to consign us TO bloody graves!
Where.we expected to find benetactor
we lind prosecutor. Having lost our
champion, We return to you. who can
invoke Presidents and punish traitors
Our last hope under God is the unity
ard tirmness Of the States that elected
Abraham Lincoln aud defeated Jeffer
son Dayis.
The best statement OF our case is the
appalling yet unconscious confession Of
Andrew Johnson, whore in savage has
tired OF his own record, he procaims his
purpose to clothe four millions of tral
tors with the power to impoverish and
degrade eight millions of loyal men.
Our wrongs bear alike on all races, and
our tyrants, unchecked by You, will
award the same fate to white and black
We can remain as we are, only as infer,
riors and victims. We may fly from
our homes, but we should fear to trust
our fate with those who, after denoun.
sing and defeating treason, refused to
right those who have bravely assisted
them in their good work. Till we are
wholly rescued there IS neither peace for
you nor prosperity for us.
We cannot better define at once our
wrongs and our wants than by declar.
ing
That since Andrew Johnson affilia-
ted with his slanderers and our cons, ant
enemies, his hand has been laid heavily
upon every earnest loyalist in the South.
History, the just judgement of the pres.
ent and stern confirmation OF the future,
invites, commands us to declare that after
repeating his own remedies for restoring
the Union, he has restored the wea
pons Of traitors to bruise and beat down
patriots.
That after declaring that none but the
loyal should govern the reconstructed
South. he has practlsed upon the maxim
that none but traitors shall rule.
That while in the North he has re-
moved conscientious men from office
and filed many of the vacancies with the
sympatizers of treason in the South, he
has removed proved and trusted patriots
and selected the equally proved aud con-
victed traitors.
That after brave men who had fought
for the old flag, have been nominated
tor positions, their names have been
recalled and avowed rebels substituted.
That every original Uniynist in the
South who stands fast to Andrew John.
sens covenants from 1861 to 1866, has
been ostraciscd
That he has corrupted the local courts
by offering premiums tor the defiance of
the laws of Congress, and by openly
discouraging the observance Of the oath
against treason.
That, while refusing to punish one
conspIrator. though thousands had earn
ed the penalty of death, more thar
thousand devoted Union citizens have
been murdered in cold blood since the
surrender CT Lee, and, in no case have
their assassins been brought to judg-
ment.
That he has pardoned some of the
worst of fthe rebel criminals North and
South, including some who have taken
human life under Gil cumstances of un
paralleled atrocity.
That while denouncing and lettering
the operations OF the Freedmen's
Bureau, he,' with full knowledge of the
falsehood, has charged that the black
men are lazy and rebclious, and has
concealed the fact the more whites than
blacks have been protected and fed by
that noble organization, and that while
declaring that it was corruptly managed
and expensive to the Government, he
has connived at a system of prohgacy in
he use Of the public patronage and
public money, wholly without parallel,
ave when the traitors bankrupted the
Treasury and sought to disorganize and
catter the army and the navy, only to
make it mcro easy to capture the Gov
That while declaring against the in.
ustice of leaving eleven States unrepre.
ented, he has refused to indorse the
lberal plan of Congress, simply because
recognizes the loyal majority, and re-
uses to propltiate the traitor minority.
That in every State South of Mason
md Dixon's line, his policy has wrought
he most deplorable consequ nces, social,
moral and political
1t has emboldened returned rebels to
hrea:en civil warm Maryland, Missouri,
Vest Virginia and Tennessee. The pa
riots who saved and sealed these States
o the old flag surrendered before their
'rrogant demand.
1t has corrupted high State officials,
ected by Union men and sworn to
ntorce the laws against returned rebels.
md made them The meie instruments of
he authors of the rebellion.
1t has encouraged q new alienation
'etween the sections, and by impeding
TO the South, has erected a
barrier against free and friend.
y interests IN the North and West
1t has allowed the rebel soldiery to
ersecute the teachers of the colored
chools, and to burn the churches ia
which the freedmen have worshipped the
wing God. '" -
That a system so barbarous should
ave eliminated in the bloody riot of
lcmphis, and the still more appalling
iassacre of New Oreaps, was as natural
$ that bloody war should flow from
no teachings OF John q. Calhoun and i
eff. Davis. ,
Andrew Johnson is responsible for all /
nesc unceasng crneltles, and as they |
,ere unprovoked, SO he justlhes and ap. {
lands them. sending his .arnnts and I