The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-23


letter had been forwarded to the Execu-
tive, copy Was obtained from Gen.
Moody, with psrmission to publish the
same. Believing it will be of great in
terest to your numerous readers, res
peetfully present the same for publica
ton in the GAZETTE. aeg.s4-
Respectfully DC,
Aug. 9, 1866. PIQuA.
ProUA, o., July IL, '66.
His Excel2escy, Andrep johnson, President
Of the United Stotes: ~
DEAR SIR: Pardon this intrusion on
your precious time. My sincere regard for
you personally, urges me to give you this
warning Of danger.
This impression, yes, the conviction,
is abroad l.. the land that the announced
Philadelphia Convention is designed as
the inception and nucleus Of a ''new
party" designing to draw you into its
circle, and If possible use you and your
official influence in furtherance of it's par
tisan designs.
The facts that every Copperhead in
Congress has rushed into it, and that the
rebels of the South are jnbilant over
it, indicate its composition and its de
signs.
1t doubtless intends the admission
Of the eleven States which we have
subjugated to the authority of tie Uni
ted States, without indemnity for the
past or security for the future, and
without the conditions precedent Of any
kind.
Now, my honored friend, affirm that
no living man has stood by You more
firmly and sincerely than have. and
cannot think of your being drawn into
that whirlpool where you will 60 down
with certainty, without lifting up warn
ing voice.
I am among the people, day by day; ]
know their feelings, their modes OF
thinking, their talant and their active pa
triotism And I know that if you iden
tify yourself with that party you will be
ruined.
see the end with a prophets eye.
The grave Of every Federal soldier, the
ghosts OF our starved prisoners in Belle
Isle, Libby prison, and Anderson prison
pens Every manned veteran, every
widow in her weeds, every orphan, every
dollar Of extra taxation, caused by trait
ors and their allies, the Copperheads;
every humiliation we were compelled to
submit to from foreign nations, enlisted
against us by the South; every recollec-
ton Of our past renown; every battle
field where our glory was won; every
wrong visited on the freedmen out Of
spite to the Yankees, as VIC are called by
the Southern traitors and rebels; every
principle Of sound statesmansh ip, every
cherished hope of the future for our in
stitutions; every obligation we owe to
the dead and the living, and those yet
to live, and our paramount obligation 5
to the God ofjustice and of nations, will
be trumpet tongued against this union o.
Copperherhesds and traitors, rebels who
combined like Herod and Plate did ,wher
the hope Of humanity was to be sacrific
ed
tell you, President, that the excite
ment among the people is intense, and
the tide sets in no uncertain direction
And the greater the elements that gath
er around that Philadelphia speculation
the greater win be the power aroused to
resist it.
"He who Of old would rend the oak
Dreamed not Of the rsbound.' /;
All, sir, we suffered too mueh-inves
ted too much in the integrity Of this ma
ton to hazard its interests by any maud
lin sympathy with the men who, if they
had power, would be in arms to-da,
against that flag, that You proudly sale
should not come down from the Capite
your native State, when God gave yo,
infailible directions TO maintain it, a
every hazard, which you most nobl.
did a '""'7
Listen not to the mermaid song-rath
er copperhead and peiican-that come
from that Philadelphia speculation. Tn
sunken rocks of ruin are there, an,
your noble craft which has weathere,
so many storms and tornadoes, will g
to pieces there, /" where two seas meet
1 assure you that the infallible il,
stincts Of the people are against that con
cocting Of the party which declared 18th
war for the maintenance of the Unto