Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-12

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The Convsntion adjoarnsd Friday, 70 NEST
u Washington o. The Oh Of January nsxt.
PresaAsna johnson, - ~ APPEAR
- = FEaenAly SPecsator.
The New York Esesiag Psss, which in it,
anxiety to abolish al tariffs has given great
deal of aid and comfort to the Democratic and
johnson party. snd has said many very severe
things Of the Republican party, and the Con-
gressional policy, l. quite out Of patience and
temper with the humble individual who was
formerly an alderman in Tennessee" and
Who has been the chief actor in the recent
slsetionseEing touE-or perhaps it would BE-
more correctly described - drunken wake
from Washington to Chicago. This il what
the Psst says:
rous language and injudieious conduct be il 80
riousy increasing the difficulties under which
the country already staResrs? II he does q 1t,
it would be we'll for some judicious frisnd-i be
has any such left-to tell him this.
1t would be we'll for him to know that he il
very fast making himself personally odious.
The loyal people Of the Northern States, those
who stood by The Union when it vas attacked
BY rebels, SEQ with dissa tisfaetion and alarm
which il no longer concealed, that the Presi-
dent, whom their votes elevated to his position,
surrounds himself by his own choice apparent
ly, with men like Tom Florence, Garret Davis,
Saulsbury, and others, who, like these, during
the war. never concealed their symyathies with
treason. They see Mr.. johnson. further, re-
moving from Office men of ability and Of un-
doubted fidelity to the Union, and putting in
their places not var democrats, not republicans
Who agree With his views ON the ousstion Of
representation, but coppsrheads, sympataisers
with treason, persons whose course during the
war made them forever hateful to the loyal
people.
They have seen him but lately, in Louisiana,
violate bis often declared policy in regard to
the Sou thern States, and violate it in favor Of
boastful rebels, and to the injury Of men who
were known - union men and they ask why,
if the law 10 to be stretched, if what the Prssl-
dent asserts to be the true policy is to be vio-
lated, why 10 it only in the interests Of men
who are glorious - haters OF liberty and
union They have seen him pardon many OF
the most 1agrant traitors-such men - Mayor
Monroe, men Of . temper which makes them
bad citissns, and whom it would certainly be
more judicious to leave unpardoned. Finally
they are alarmed and hurt ct the indscorou,
language which Mr.. Johnson uses towards Con.
e sss they are disgusted to hear him on every
occasion dsnouncing Congress, among Whose
members are men of spOtiess honor and long
tried loyalty, - traitors, rebels, usurpers, hang
ing on the skirts of the Government. They
hear him speak of Q " subsidized press," anC
they ask, w no subsidizes it when Mr.. John
son has all the PATRONAGE"
But A. J. is on his high rebel horse. ant
neither the Pot nor any other respectable
paper can keep him from continuing the dis
gushing exhibition of himself
The Last Philadelphia Conven'
den.
We have given elsewhere ct some length
statement of the proceedings of the Conven
ton of Southern Unionis,s ct Philadelphi,
last week. That assembly brought togethe
for reunion and consultation and mutual en-
oouragement the men who never bowed tn
knee 10 the Baal of rebellion, either North O
South, and who have no purpose now of SUI
rendering ct the bsllot-box what was con
quered in the field. The Convention afforde'
the smplest occasion for the freest speech, an
the occasion was fully improved. This die
cuesion disclosed the fact that the Unionist
in the States whose Representatives and Ssna
tors have not yet been admitted into Congress
were almost unanimously for universal sui
frsge, Is the only sure safeguard against rebe
rule in those states. What have been Gale
the Border States were not yet ready to insis
on suffrage, but seemed afraid that such q d.
mand would weaken them politically at home
Some Northern States were represented thor.
BY those who deemed their own localitie
sursr of . republican triumph with nothin
but the Congressional plan of reconstruction
than BY adding anything to that policy. Th
policy of silence ON the subject of sofrag'
through these influences, prevailed in bot
Conventions, except in the supplemental
action of q part of the Southern Loyalist
The chief importance of this national asseu
blage is to b found in the interchange
greetings and ideas which the occasion fu
nished opportunity for. Unionists South ar
North met, shook hands and talked +
eether. The terrible effects of tho Preside
tial policy upon the suffering Unionists of Il
South were, more. vividly than pen could d
brought before the eyes and ears of mar
thousands of the northern people. The n
oesity for equal suffrage in tho southe,
states, - the only defense of the real Unio
son would entrust tho whole political pow
ct the South, was clearly set forth in the q
peal of the Unionists now under the feet
the rebels in the Cult States. The impe
tance that the Republicans Of the count
should keep control of Congress, thus int
posing that body as check to the usurp
tions, in the interest of conquered treaso
of the sposta.e who occupies the President
Office, was made startlingly apparent. T
southern need of help on the one hand, a
the northern pledge of aid ON the other, We
made more clear and moro binding upon t
conscience of Republicans, as these southe
and northern friends of equal rights, in t
precincts of Independence Hall, shook han
and bound themselves to stand BY each 9th
, to save the country from misrule and rui
pledging TO each other and to the country,
> this new and grand declaration Of freedol
their lives, their fortunes and their sacr