The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-09-14
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Address Of the Southern LOyallSts,
TO TuE
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.


adopted at the Convention of Southern 10y
nlis,s. assembled at Philadelphia last week.
II is strong aud stirring appeal
Tho representatives of eight millions of
American citizens appeal for protection aud
Justice TO their friends and brothers in tine
States that have been spared tho cruelties
of the rebellion and the direct horrors of
civil war. Here on the spot where freedom
was profered and pledge by the fathers Of
the Republic we implore your help against
reorganized oppression, whose sole object
is TO remit the control of our destinies to the
of the rebellion, after they have
been vanquished in honorable battle thus
at once to punish us for our devotion to our
country, aud to entrenoh themselves in the
official Notifications of the Government.
Others have learned 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. II you fail us, we are
moro utterly deserted aud 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.
Unexpected perGdity in the highest place
of the Government, accidentally followed by
ono who adds cruelty to ingrattude, ard
forgives the guilty as he proscribes the in.
nooent, has stimulated the almost extinguish-
ed revenge of the beaten conspirators; and
now the rebels, who offered to yield every
thing to save their own lives, are seeking to
consign us to bloody graves. Where we
expected beneGactor, we find prosecutor
Having lost our champion, we return to you,
who can make Presidentn and punish trai.
tors. Our last hope. under God, is the
unity and firmness 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 johnson, who, in savage hatred of
his own record, proclaims his purpose to
clotho four millions OF traitors with the
power to impoverish and degrade eight
millions of loyal men. Our wrongs bear
alike on all races, aud our tyrants, unchecked
by you, will award the same fate to
white aud 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 tato with those who, after denouncing
and defeating treason, refused to right those
who have bravely assisted them in the good
work. Till we are wholly rescued, there is
neither peace for You nor prosperity for us.
We cannot better define at once our wrongs
and our wants, than by declaring that since
Andrew Johnson affiliated with his early
slauderers and our constant enemies, his
hlnd has been laid heavily upon every
earnest loyalst in the South. History, the
Just Judgment of the present, aud the cer-
tain confirmation of tho future, invite and
command lis to declare that after rejecting
l,:r c,
he has resorted to the weapons of traitors,
to bruise and beat down patriots; that after
declaring that none but the loyal should
govern the reconstructed South, he has
practiced upon the max m that none but
traitors shall rule that while in the North
no has removed conscientious men from
Office, and filed many of the vacancies vita
the sympathisers of treason, in the South he
has removed the proved patriots and select
ell equally proved and convicted traitors ;
that after brave men who had fought for
the old flag have been nominated for posi-
lions, their names have been recalled aud
avowed rebels substituted that every orig
nal Unonist in the SOuth who stands fast
to Andrew Johnsnn's covenants from 1861
to 1866 has been ostracised that he has
corrupted the local Courts by offering pre-
miums for the defiance of the laws OF Con-
gress, aud by openly discouraging the OBJ
servance of the oath against treason; that
while refusing to punish one single conspi-
rator, though thousands had earned the
penalty of death, more than one thousand OF
Union citizens have been murdered in cold
blood since tho surrender of Lee, and in no
case have their assassins been brought to
| judgments that he mfs'YStsf{RHiRa,- SaeSJhes %
the worst of tile rebel criminals North Of
South. including some who have taken hu
man life under circumstances of unparal
leled atrocity that while denouncing ant
lettering the operations of the Freedmen't
Bureau he, with full Rnowledge of TIN
falsehood, has charged that the black mel
are lazy and rebellious, aud has concealed
the fact that more whites than blacks have
been protected and fed by that noble organ
ization. and that while declaring that it wa
carrupty managed aud expensive to th
Government he has connived at a system o
prOAigacy ia the use of the public patron
age and public money, wholly without pai
allel, save when the traitors bankrupted tn
Treasury and sought to disorganize am
scatter the>army and navy, to make it NOR
easy to capture the Government that Will
declaring against the injustice of leaving
eleven States unrepresented, he refused t
authorize the liberal plan Of Congress, sim
ply because it reorganized the loyal major
ity aud refused to perpetuate the traitO
minority that in every State south of Ma
son aud Dixon's line his policy has wrough
the most derlorable consequences, social
moral and political. 1t has em6ollened re
turned rebels to threaten civil war in Mary
land, Missouri, West Virginia and Tennes
see, unless the patriots who saved thes,
States to the old flag surrendered before
their arrogant demands. II has corrupted
high State officials elected by Union mel
and sworn to enforce the laws against re
turned rebels, and made them the nero in
struments Of the authors of the rebellion
Ii has encouraged new alienation betweel
the sections, aud by impeding emigration
to the South has erected formidable bar
rer against free aud friendly intercourse II
the North aud West. 1t has allowed th'
rebel sol liery TO persecute the teachers o
the colored sci ools, and to burn the church
es in which tie freedmen have worshipec
the living God.
That a system so arbarons should have
eliminated in the frighful riot of Mem
phs, aud the still more appalling massacr'
Of New o. leans, was as natural as that {
bloody war shoul flow from the teachings
If John q. Calhoun aud Jefferson Davis. An
drew Johnson is responsible for all thess
unspeakahle oruelties and as he provoked
so he jnstlies and spplauds them, sendns
his agents and emssaries into the refined
and patriotic metropolis to insist upon max
ing his reckless policy test rpCn Chris
tan people. He forgot that the protection
extend, d 10 tie IA h of August Convt ion
m Philadelphia. WAS not only denied 10 thu
free people Of New o. ans on the 3 th o