Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-09-12
WHOLE NO. 26O6

Let it be remembered that the demand
! johnson claimed that the rebellion was
legally ended. 1t was not until the I'd of
April, 1866, that he declared by procla-
nation that the rebellion had ceased in
ten of the States; but even then he did
not consider it ended in Texas. 1t was
not until the meeting of the Philadelphia
Convention, two weeks ago, that he de-
clared the rebellion suppressed in that
State.
Who were these representatives for
whom admittance into Congress was de-
manded? Of the eighty-seVen elected from
rebel States not ten of them ever made
profession of loyalty. Fifteen of them
had been Generals or Colonels in the reb-
eI army, or members of the rebel Con-
gress or secession conventions.
The President did not long leave US IN
doubt. In his address TO a rebel delega-
ton from Virginia, on the 10th of Febru-
ary, he estimated his purpose of uniting
with them, and with them sweep around
the circle of the Union, and put down
certain Radicals, whose policy he de-
noupced as "a rebellion at the other end
of the line.'
On the 22d of February he addressed
vast concourse of Northern Democrats,
of rebels in Confederate gray, and of Sc
cession sympathizers who had never been
out of their holes to bask in the sunshine
of Presidential favor since Buchanan be-
trayed his country, all of whom had as
sembled to thank him for having refused
to give military protection to the freed
men of the South. The utterances IN
that speech are only too we'll remember
ed. will not repeat them here.
| Congress then undertook to extend the
protection of the civil Courts over the
black loyalists The President refused
his signature, but your loyal Representa-
tives were able to pass it over hishead.-
/ About the same time, the men of Con-
necticut were struggling 20 elect, as their
| Governor, a gallant soldier who had
fought for the Union with distinguished
honor from the beginning to the end OF
the war. He was opposed by the whole
strength of that rebel-loving Democracy,
headed by Eaton Toueey, whose bad
eminence" is part of the history of the
rebellion. A Democratic member of the
, Thirty-eighth Congress was their eandi-
, date for Governor, and Andrew johnson
threw the weight of his great patronage
: into the scale, recommended his Federal
> Office holders to work for English, and
sent a score of his new found friends
/ from Washington to urge the people to
: defeat the Union General. Thanks to
: the loyalty of Connecticut, they were
able to defeat both President and Democ-
: racy and Gen. Hawley was made Cover.
q nor by few hundred votes.
q The true men of the Cabinet still re-
3 mained in their places in the faint hope
that he might yet come back to the par
ty. But Andrew johnson was content
, with no half way measure. He resolved
on nothing less than the defeat and over
throw of the Union party. By the ald OF
Senator and an Ex-Governor OF Wiscon-
sin, who had been repudiated by the 10y
al men of their State, a call was issued on
the 9th of June for general convention
of those who would iadorse the Presl-
dent, to meet in Philadelphia on the 18th
of August. The call was indorsed by the
forty-fve Democratic members OF Con-
gress. including such patriots as Garrett
Davis, of Kentucky; Ross, OF Illinois,
Rogers, of New Jersey; FincK and Le
Blond. of Ohio. When the Cabinet OIL
GERS were asked to ioin in the movement,
/ Dennison, Harlan and Speed, responded
by denouncing the Convention and send
ing in their designations
Fhe Convention assembled in full force
and under rules as rigid and with order
and harmony as perfect as ever obtained
under the discipline of the Ohio Peniten-
tiary, they have given US the results of
their Iabors in a decalogue of principles
and an address of four newspaper col
umns. which must now be regarded as
the latest revisal of the Presidents rebel
Democratic policy. To understand the
policy which the nation is now invited
to adopt, it will be necessary to examine
somewhat the parties that composed and
the purposes which inspired
THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION.
Three classes made up the assemblage.
First, the unwashed, unappolnted, pns
forgiven, unrepentant, unhung rebels OF
the South. They were represented oy
such politicians as the rebel Vice Presl-
dent, lately called from the casemates OF
Fort Warren, by his admiring constitQ-
ants To represent them in the Senate of
| the United States; by such gallant Gen
erals as Dick TAYLOR, who, when his brig
ade had captured in battle Seven Union
men who had escaped the rebel conscrip'
tiou in louisiana, and had joined Yer
r.ont regiment to fight for the Union,
sorlpelIed them to dig their own graves,
and ordered them shot in his presence;
by such eleFgymen as the Rev. Jesse b
Ferguson, who, years ago, (possibly IN
authorization of the wants Of his brother
1 Champ, lately hanged in Nashville tof
twenty Union murders proclaimed
post nlortsm gospel, glad tidings for the
dead and damned, who gave the weight
of his ministerial character to aid IN the
l destruction of the Union, and now speaks
ItouehingIy of the .'lost cause" and last,
but rot least, by Gov. Orr, who taught
the blessed lesson, that if South CarollnS
would ioin the arm-in-arm embrace OF
Massachusetts,, she must first slarghteE
rI 25. .OOO sons Of the Bay State. rms hTst
class formed the great, dumb. 'herolc ele,
ment of the Convention. Inc secono
class was the dishonored, depraVed, de-
faated remnant of Northern Democracy.
THE divine Fernando, the sainted martyr
VaIlandieham, the meek eyed 'Rynders5
and The patriotic H. Clay Dean were
there. and their past distinguished serVl-
oesin the cause of their country were on
Iv eeualed by the self sacrificing sprlR BY
which they preserved the harmony OF
the Convention. The part played oy the
Danoeraey in the Convention was num-
HE one. They could not have looked
mon their brother delegates from the
\ South without feelings Of reverence and
admiration for the heroism which led
them to battle in the field to sustain a
cause for which they 1.-THE Northern De-
mocracy) had dared to do no more thar
speak and vote and pray. Third, last
and least, were all those apostate Union
men who hunger and thirst after office
and the spoils thereof; who greed4y
gather up the crumbs that fall from the
9oliticaI table. That class was not the
lazarus of the Convention, for though
the Democracy did not hesitate to hex
their sores and make them the chlef
managers, they still lacked the Plety o.
the Jew. They were paupers, disinherlt-
ed by the party of freedom, and are nov
begging their political bread from door 70
JooT, There were men whose presence IN
that Convention was painful surprise to
their Union friends; men of whom high
i nr and nnhlar things were expected; mem