Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-05

the etuaiiy pTVNeu Nuu cOnfiStcu ti"s
ors THAT after brave meli who had
fought for the old flag have been NOM
mated for positions, their names hnvo
been recalled, and avowel rebels sub
stituted; that every original Unionist
In the South who stands fast to Andrew
j Johnson's covenants from 1851 TO 1899
has been ostracised; that he has cor.
rupted the local courts by offering pre-.
miums for the defiance Of the laws Of
Congress-, and by openly Encouraging
the observance of oaths against treason,
conspirator, though thousands had
earned the penalty Of death; tmore than
n thousand of devoted Union citizena
have been murdered In cold blood
since the surrender of Lee, and in no
case have their assassins been brought
to judgement y that he has pardoned
some of the worst of the rebel criminals
ofthe South, including some who have
taken human life under circumstances
of unparalleled atrocity; that while
dcnouncing and lettering tho opera
tons of the Frecdmen's bureau, he,
with full knowledge Of the fnlshood,
has charged that the black men are Ia
~ and rcbellious, and has concealed the
fact that more whites than blacks have
been protected and fed by that organi-
zation, and that while declaring that 1t
was corruptly managed and expensive
to the Government, he has connived at
n system of proiligacy in the use of tho
public money wholly without parallel
save when. tho traitors bankruptcd the
treasury, and sought to disorganize and
scatter the army and navy only to
make IL more easy to capture the Gov
erument; that while declaring against
the injustice of leaving eleven States
unreprescntcd, he has refused 10 author
iZe the liberal plan OF Congress, SIM
ply because ii recognizes the loyal ma
jority, and refuses to perpetnate tho
traitor minority; that In every State
south of the Mason and Dixon's limo
his policy has wrought the most do
plorable consequences, social, moral,
and political. 1t has einbollcred re-
turned rebels to threaten civil war In
Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia,
saved and sealed these States to tho
Old Flag surrendered before their arro-
CANT demand. IL hns corrupted high
State officials, elected by Union men
and sworn to enforce the laws against
returned rebels, and made them the
mere instruments Of the authors Of re-
bellion. 1t has encouraged new alien
alton between the sections, and by im-
pcding emigration to the South, has
erected a formidable barrier against
free and friendly intercourse in the
North and West. 1t has allowed the
! rebel soldiery to persccute the teachers
of the colofed schools, and burn the
churches In which the freedmen have
worshiped the living God. .|#
That n system SO barbarous should
! have eliminated i'm the frightful riots
of Memphis, aud the still more appall-
! ing massacre OF New Orleans, was as
natural as that a bloody war should
! flow from the teachings Of John e.
Calhoun and jeff Davis. s..s. ........,.
| Andrew Johnson is responsible for all
these unspcallable cruclties, and, ns ho
provoked, SO he justifies and appla,ids
them, sending his agents and emissa-
ries into the refined and patriotic me-
tropois to insist upon making his reck-
less policy a test upon Christ lin peo-
pie. He forgot that the protection ex-
tended to the nth OF august COnven-
ton was not only denied to the FREQ
people of New Orleans on, the 3Oth Of
July, when they assembled to discuss
how best to protect Themselves. but de-
MED amidst the slaughter Of hundreds
of innocent men. No page in the rec
ord of his recent 0ntrages upon human
justice and constitutional law is more
dark than that which assisted In the
tltab aWtu cutuhke,
and not only refused to punish, but
toilcd to throw the responsibility up
OH unofiending and innocent freedmen.
The infatuated tyrant that stood
roa' Y to crush his own people i'm Ten
ncsscc, when they were struggling to
maintain u Government, erected by
himself, against his and other traitor-
ous prosecutions, was even moro eager
to illustrate his savage policy by cloth
Jag with the most despotic power the
rioters OF New Orleans.
The rebe's have lost African slavery
by name only. AS soon rs the tocsin
OF war ceased-lS soon as the clang OF
arms was hushed-they raised the cry
of immediate admission, and with that
watchword hasted to organize their un-
bridlcd sway. They now deiiantly en-
! ter the lists i'm the loyal North and seek
to wiring from freemen an endorse
mcnt Of their wickedncss. Every foul
agency Is at work to accomplish this
result. Falsely protesting to assent to
the abolition of slavery. They are try
ing to regain their detested power.
But all Southern men nrc not yet
awcd into submission to treason, and
we have assembled from oil these States
determined that liberty when endan-
gered shall hnd mouth piece, and that
people, and for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
+. Our last and Only hope Is in the unity
and fortitude of the loyal people Of Am
erica, in the support and vindication Of
the Thirty-ninth Congress, and the cloc-
ton Of a controlling Union majority in
the succeeding or Fortieth Congress.
! While the new article amending tho
Constitution offers the most liberal cons
ditions to the authors Of the rebellion,
and does not come up to the measure Of
our expectations, we believe its ratif-
cation would he the commencement Of
n complete and lasting protection to all
our people, aud therefore We accept Il as
the best present remedy, and appeal tn
our brothers and friends In the Nortl,
and West to make 1t their watchword
in the coming elections.
The tokens arc auspicious of over
whelming SUCCESS. However little tho
verdict Of tho ballOt-box may effect the
reckless man In tho Presidential chair,
VIC cannot doubt tho traitors and sym.
pathizcrs will recognize that verdict ~
the surest indication that the mighty
power which crushed the rebellion r.
still existent, and that those who at
tempt to oppose or defy 1t will do so at
the risk Of their own destruction.
Our confidence In the overrulinH
Providence OF God, prompts the prcdic-
| ton, aud intensifies the belief, that
when this warning Is sufficiently taught
to these misguided and reckless men,
the liberated millions of the South will
be proffered those rights and franchises
which may be necessary to adjust and
settle this mighty controversy in the
spirit OF the most enlarged and Chris
tian phiIanthrophy. (Signed.l
George w. Pascal, af Texas, Chm !;
Atkinson, Of West Virginia John H,
Aldendice, Of Delaware; A. w. Hnw-
kins, ofTenncssee; Samuel Knox, Of
Missouri; Wright II. Fish, of Louiai-
ana Milton J. Stafford, OF Alabama !;
Phillip Frazer. Of Florida u. II. Good.
loe, Of North Carolina: b. e. Forney,
Of District Of Columbia; John A. J.
Cresswell, Of Maryland: q. Washburne
Of Georgia.
Il An AMEN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.