Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-09-06
The New Rebel Conservative
Programme.

.Rebels each day grow bolder In
their demands. At the close OF the
war they pressed to Washington,
anxious suitors for pardon from the
-penalties of the law which they had
violated. Ts day emboldened by
the aid and comfort furnished them
by the Democratic party Of she North
and the Chief Executive of the ma
ton, they present to the world the
strange spectacle of rebels and in
surgents beaten, defeated and taken
with arms in their hands, now dc
tating terms to the Government
against which they rebelled- They
have thrown aside the mask of 10y
atty which they at first assumed, and
now boldly proclaim their programme
of action. Nothing viii satisfy them
except the entire possession and
control of the Government. To Sc
cure that end they are using every
effort and means in their power. By
threats and intlmidations they are
striving to influence q sufficient num-
ber of votes in the coming Fall cleo
items to give them the control of the
next Congress. Through the press
and their public speeches they de-
clare to the people of the North, that
if they dare return loyal men to
Congress, they will inaugurate anoth-
er civil war, and boast that in such
an event they will be supported by
the Democratic party of the North
and the whole executive power Of
the Government. If they fail in
controlling the fall elections, and
the Union people Of the North have
the hardihsod in the face of these
threats to return true loyal men to
Congress, then their programme is
for the President to recognise them
selves and the Democratic members
as the only lawful Congress of the
United States, thus ousting the I'm
ion members from their seats in that
body. This is nothing more nor less
than conspiracy and revolution, and
yet such measures are openly avowed
and advocated by these men who as
sumo to be par ereellence constitution
al Union men. The Congress of the
United States, duly elected by the
legal voters of the country and quail
fed in accordance with the constitu-
ton and laws of the land, is by them
denounced as a body without law
full authority, a "r1mp" Congress;
and they confidently point to Andy
johnson as the coming Cromwell,
who with sword in hand is to dis
solve it.
Grave issues are thus forced upon
the consideration of the American
people. 1t is the old policy of the
South re-enacted-the policy Of in
fluencing Northern votes by threats
of civil war and secession. In 1860
the people of the North for the first
time emsncipated themselves from
that influence, and elected Abraham
Lincoln, the man of their choice,
President of the United States. To
day the supporters of ''my policy"
anxious to have control of the next
Congress, threaten the North with
renewed civil war, if they re- elect the
present Union members of Congress.
Will the free North succumb to these
threats, or will she, as in 1860, exer-
else her right of suffrage boldly and
without fear, electing to Congress
such men as she deems worthy and
fit to represent her in that body?
Will the braYe soldiers Of the North,
who for four years past have met
these same men upon hundred bat
tie fields, and in every contest come
off victorious, will they now be in
timidated from voting for the men
of their choice, and exercising that
right Of suffrage guaranteed to them
by the Constitution and laws of the
land7 We think not. Men, who
have braved death upon the field Of
battle for liberty and equal rights, as
they have done, can not easily be
threatened and forced into support
of rebels and copperheads. They
will stand upon their rights as Amer
ican citizens, intelligently and fear
lessly cast their suffrages for tried
and loyal men, and will demand at
the hands of the President that he
recognize as the true and lawful Con-
gress of the United States the men,
whom they legally and constitution
ally elect as such.
We are now in the midst of great
national crisis. Having subdued
one Of the greatest and most wicked
rebellions the world has ever sees,
we now stand in imminent danger OF
falling under the rule and power of
the very men who lnaugurated and
carried on that rebellion. The Pres
ident, whom we elected as a loysl
man, has deserted the house of his
friends, and is to-day using the vast
power and patronage of his office to