Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-09-13
Fulton; Delaware, Jacob Moore; Florida
Col. @. b. Hart; District Columbia, DR..


Fulton; Delaware, Jacob Moore; Florida
Col. @. b. Hart; District Columbia, DR.
Boyd.
A GREETING FROM CINCINNATI.
The following dispatch from Cincinnati
was then read:
To tie President ofthe Loyalisfs Conven
tion PHILADELPHIA.
At an enthusiastic meeting Of the Unior
citizens of Cincinnati it was resolved tha
we send our heartfelt greetings to oul
brethren in Philadelphia assembled.
[Signe1 JoHs j. HOOKER, Chm n.
THIRD DAY.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 6-The Southern
delegates met at the National Hall at 10: &c
A. NJ. Prayer vas offered oy Rev. DIR.
Bedill.
A telegram was read from the Republican
State Convention at Syracuse. congratula
| ting the Convention upon the favorable
auspices under which the sessions were
being held. II was received with great ap-
plause. ...t.
Mr.. Creswell, Of Maryland, presented the
report OF the committee on the address.
Mr.. Bolts desired to know how the re.
ports of the committee were to be received.
He thought it proper to settle the question
as to how the votes were to be taken,
whether by yeas and nays or otherwise.
The chairman suggested that the dues-
tion Of voting should not be raised until it
was seen whether there was anything objec.
tioDable to any delegate in the address.
Mr.. Bolts said that with the understand
ingfthatsif there was anything Objectionable
to him or any other delegate in the address,
vote would be called, and he would waive
his question for the present.
Mr.. Creswell then proceeded to read. He
read from the Presidents desk, introducing
it with the remark that il had been unani-
mously agreed upon by the committee ap-
pointed to prepare it. ..,
Appeal Of the Loyal Men of the
South to their FellOw-Citfzens
of the United States.
ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY.
The Representatives of eight millions of
American citizens appeal for protection and
justice to their friends and brothers in the
States that have been spared the cruelties of
the rebellioH and the direct horrors of cival
war. Here, on the spot where freedom was
profered and pledged by the fathers of the
Republic, we implore your help against
reorganizod oppression whose sole object is
to remit the control Of our destinies to the
contrivers of the rebellion after they have
been vanquished in honorable battle; thus
at once to punish us for our devotion to our
country, and entrench themselves in the
official fortiications of the Government
Others have related the thrilling story of
our wrongs, from reading and observation.
We come before you as unchallenged wit
nesses, and speak from personal knowledge,
our sad experience. IF you fail US, we are
more utterly deserted and betrayed than if
the contest had been decided against US, for,
in that case, even victorious slavery would
have found profit in the speedy pardon of
those who had been among its bravest foes.
unsupported perfidy in the highest place of
the Government accidently filled by one who
adds cruelty to ingratitude and forgives the
guilty as he proscribes the innocent, has
stimulated the almost ex tinguished revenge
Of the beaten conspirators, and now the
rebels who offered to yield everything to
save their own lives are seeking to consign
us to bloody graves. Where we expected
benefactor we find prosecutor. Having
lost our champion we return TO you, who
can invoke Presidents and punish traitors.
Our last hope, under God, is the unity and
frmDess of the States that elected Abraham |
Lincoln and defeated Jefferson Davis. The |
best statement of our case is the appalling |
yet unconscious confession of Andrew John |
son, who in savage hatred of his record, pro-
claims his purpose to clothe four millions of |
traitors with the power to impoverish and |
degrade eight millions of loyal men; our
wrongs bear alike on all races, and cur
tyrants unchecked by you will award the
same fate to white and black. We can remain !
as we are only as interiors and victims. We |
may fly from our homes, but we should fear |
to trust our fate with those who, after de- |
nouncing and defeating treason. refuse to
right those who have bravely assisted them
cued there is neither peace for yeu norpros,
perity for u.s. We cannot better define at
once our wrongs and our wants than by de-
,laring that since A drew johnson affiliated
with his early slapderers and our constant
,nemies, his hand, has been laid heavily mp
On every earnest loyalist in the South. His
.ory and the just judgment of the present
and certain confirmation Of the future invite
md command us to declare that after reject
ng our own remedies for restoring the
Union, he has resorted to the weapons of
raitors to bruise and beat down patriots;
That after declaring that none but the loyal
men should govern the reconstructed South,
,e has practiced upon the maxim that none
cut traitors shall rule;
That while in the North he has removed
conscientious men from office and filled
many of the vacancies with the sympnthizers
# treason, and in the South he has removed
be proved and trusted patriot ard selected
he equally proved and convicted traitor;
That after brave men who had fought for
he old flag have been nominated for posi-
ions, their names have been recalled and
vowed rebels substituted;
That every original Unionist in the South
Who stands fast to Andrew Johnson's cove
rants from 1861 to 1866, has been ostracis-
ID;
That he has corrupted the local courts
~ Offering premiums for defiance of the
avs of Congress, and by openly discoura.
ring the observance Of the oath against
reason;
That while refusing to punish one single
,oDspirator, though thousands had earned
he penalty of death. more than q thousand
leyoted Union citizens have bcen murdered
n cold blood since the surrender of Lee,
md in no case have their assassins been
,een brought to justice;
That he has pardoned some of the worst
ebel criminals North and South, inolu-