New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-23
TuE JOHNSON SOLDIERS.

Gcns Custer, Dix &c, urge their fellow SOL
diers in the late Civil War, TO unite with them in hold
ing Convention at Cleveland intended to pave the
way for Rebel opperhead triumph in our approach
ing elections Contrary to the most notorious iaots
they assure those soldiers that the late Rebels have
! IN good faith acknowledged that they were wrong IN
forcbly resisting and seeking tosubvert the authority
of the Union in the South when, nearly every
prominent journal in the South emphatically denies
and scouts that assumption. Assuming, IN dehance
of facts as notorious as the sum- that the late Rebels
are now all loyal and wc-disposed toward Union
lists. Dix & Co, plead their cause as follows:
But though individuals may be tried convicted and pun
shc commn ites esnn%,i nor Gan ,s he denied
The rrht Of through personally qnaihedn
The councils the nation The intention OF CONGRESS seems
IN no 10 DEPRIVE them Of just 80 LONE az suits
The purposes Of Radical party Macy assert That u WIZ
concedc the right whenever the constitutional amendment
ha have adope and each prescribed state shall have
ratified Bat il is quite certain nat he emenimen WI,
that IL vii not be adopted Some perhaps many. OF the
Nor,hcrnISatcs will rel ct it, aud we cannot expect It's Legal
there were no other reason why souhcr States should
reject it enough that pep,t' 70 diassl', rea'ly s t
pos II were to be disrncsei except officers OF the
Rebel nrmy si could not expect the south TO adopt u Tor
n large mnjoiiiy Of in tie lniey insur dictionary
States through Compusn or choice served IN te haos'
nrmy and their votes alone would 1yerwhemingy dsiest H.
Unon soldiers TO pl cal privileges dlsiran
cbc their leaders whom they love and revere for their heroic
virtues, How then expect Southern soldiers To dis
franchise and degrade their old commandment As there u no
iurihs OF the states The plan restoration which Congress
appears to have determined al best impraccaha"
That is to say: The plan of reconstruction pre-
scribed by Congress is impracticablc because the
Rebels will not assent TO it, And rhy will they not
Because it proposes to dslranChise nearly all the
men in the South who have influence over the masses
of the People" No, it does not. IL proposes that
certain Of the more conspicuous and culpable Rebels
shall be excluded from Federal Office uut Congress
shall sec fit to remove the prescription. Is not that
cgite another thing
Bat we take Gems. Dix Custer q Go. on their own
ground. They ask soldiers 10 put themselves IN
the place of the Rebels against whom they fought,
aud say whether hcy would vote to dsiranchisc their
leaders and comrades in arms. Now. it il notorious
that some Two Hundred thousand Blacks fought
against the Rebcllion-fought prively and well; so
that many Thousands OF them sealed with their life
blood their devotion TO the Union. Nearly oil The
survivors it is perfectly notorious, are doomed to per-
petuil d,franchisemcut and 10 be lcf without any
political rights whatever. If the johnson policy OF
restoration is successful You say, gentlemen that
the Rebel s0ldisrs cannot b. expected 10 sustain or
acquiescc in policy Of rccon-tucton that divests
their comrades Of political power Are you not then,
by your own confession base aud reacherous hounds.
in thu, YOU being triumphant, willing TO do By your
comrades in the a.e struggle what goa insist thai me
Rebels though defeated, must ocorn 70 do by theirs