Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-09-07
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tiou vt Syracuse, Gongra'u.aisHg The Ton
yent;on upon tue favorable auspices und r
which its session was being heli /; VAS
read amid great applause. Nh eidaes "
/ rel resolution lpr the aEpU.a' inent oi =
COMMITTEES Il i've 10 raise funds ~ deirsy
IpE the expense II tie Convention, @h ch
aas adopted 4 resolution FOX the APP
pointmeut Of a committee 81 iise TO prepare
an address to the Southern people WAS or
tered and referred.
bingham, OF Alabama, offered 4 resolution
declaring that Congress should appoint o
to investigate the alleged frauds
Of otiicers connected with the Treasury Dc.
partment, engaged in The collection of Con-
Iedei ate cotton. On motion Of Mr.. B0rs.
man the above was ref FRED 70 the commit
tee On resolutions. The committee OF five
appointed yesterday to take action on the
weico,ne extended 10 the Southern delegates
Ly the Ma, or and city Of Philadelphia, made
y report expressing their high appreciation
of the Hospitable and geneI oss manner IN
which they had been received by the citi
zens and authorities u Pinls!elphIa
Cresswel OF Maryland presented the
report of the Committee IN tie address
lott. desired to know how the rehpTts II
tie ouimi tee "erc IL DC iece'vet lie
thought IL p.opcr to settle the question As
TO hos votes were 10 be AIKEN. whdhc. b,
yeas or NAYS. OF ntt fwlse. The chair sug-
-cs,rl thai tile qa,s''c. Of voting should
not be raised untl it was seen whether
there VAS anything Objectionable to any de-
.,gats IN the address. R0th said that with
! Ne understanding ,int il there was any thing
obiecli enable il the address, . vots would
nc called; he would waive his question for
the present.
AZ. Gresswcll then proceeded l."
rca.iirom the Presidents desk, introdtlc-
ing it with The remark that it Ind
been unanimously agreed upon W the
Committee appointed 10 prepare IL. The
appeal of the loyal men Of the South ~
their fellow citxens OF tho United States.
the representatives u eight millions ot
American citizens, appeal for protection aud
Justice 10 their friends and brothers "a the
States that have been spared the cruclties OF
he rebellion and the dircct horrors oil the
civil war lie there on the spot wherc free
dom was proilcred and pledged by the iatli.
crs OF tue Republic, implored your help
against recognized oppression whose sole
object is to resist the control OF our destinies
to the contrivers OF the rebellion alter they
have been vanguished IN honorable battle,
thus at once To punish us for our devotion
To- our country, and To entTeat themselves In
4 he Official tortliications Of the government
Others have retold The thrilling Story OF our
wrongs from reading and 0bseI Walton. We
come before YOU MS uncballengcd witnesses
and speak from personal knowledge OF Onr
RAd experience. II you fail US, We are more
utterly deserted and betrayed than il the
contest had been decided against us, for IN
that case even victorious slavery would
have found profit in the speedy pardon oil
hose who had beclA among the bravtst foes,
,Rrtidy IN the highest place ot
the government, accidentally filled by one
who aids cruelty to ingrntitude and toreives
the guilty Ms he proscribcs the innocent has
stimulated the almost extinguishcd revenge
Of he beaten conspirators, and now the II
bells who oilcrci to yield everything To save
heir own lives are seeking to consign us u
bloody graves, when We expected benefhc
tor We finI a persccutor Having lost our
champions W. return tn you who can in
woke the President and punish traitors. our
las, hope unGe, God is the unity and firm
ness %, the States that elected Abraham
Lincoln and defeated Jeif Da,is. TIL, best
~ta,t ns.Ilt ii our case is the appalling, yet
confession of Andrew Johns 4,
VINO ia Wage haired u Ills own uccori pro
claims hrs purpose IL ch'tlIe tour millions at
traitors with the power Ia impoverish AM
de sladc 5000 900 of Loyal men. our wrongs
he ,r alike ON all races and our tyrants un
CHI cktj, by you viii awS ID the same fate TO
white and black Wee , remain rs We ATE
Onty rs interiors ami victims, We may fly
from our homt ., bur We should tear 10 trust
tat q, hn
and defeating treason, refused TO right these
who have Draw ~ assisted them in the good
work Until We are wholly rescued there Is
mel her peace tor ycu nor prosperity for US.
We cannot better define ut once our wrongs
and our wants than by declaring that since
A. johnson affiliated with his early ISLANDERS
and our constant enemies, his hand has been
laid heavily upon us IN the South -
History, the Just judgment OF the present
aud ti.e cont. nations oil the future, advise
and declare that after rejecting his own
for restoring the Union, he has
r.sortcd to restoring the weapons ii traitors
10 bruise and beat down patriots; that after
that none but the loyal should
govern the roConstructed South, he ha
practiced upon the maxim that none bu
traitors shall rule; that, while in the North
he has removed the proved and true patriots.
he has selected the equally proved and con
victed traitors that, after brave men who
have fought ior the old flag have been nom
mated for positions, their names have been
RI called, and avowed rebels substituted;
nat every original Unionisi in the South
stands fast to Andrew Johnson's cove.
n,nt from 1851 Ia 1856 has been ostracised;
hat he has corrupted the local courts by
,fiering premiums for the defiance of the
avs Of Congress. and by openly discour-
aging the observance Of oaths against trea.
son; while refusing to punish one single
traitor, though thousands had earned the
,enalty Of death. more than y thousand Of
devoted Union citizens have been murdered
n cold blood since the surrender Of Lee.
md in no case have their assassins been
brought TO Judgment; that he has pardOned
,Omc Of the worst Of the rebel Grim
mails Of the South, including some
\ no have taken human lite under cirCum
stances of unparalleled atrocity; that while
and lettering the operations OF
Inc Frecimcn's Bureau, lie, with full knowl-
edge Of the falschood, has charged that the
black men are lazy and rebcllious, an | has
The TACT that more whites
than blacks have been protected
and fed by that nol,le organization
and that Will declaring that il was
managed and expensive 10 the
government he has connved at, u system
81 protl,gatory in the use If the public
money, wholly without PARALLEL have been
The traitors bankrup,cd the treasury and
sought to disorganize and scatter the army
navy only TO make it more easy to capture
the government, that while declaring
against the Unjust Ce OF leaving eleven states
lie Aas refueed to authorize
The liberal plan Of Congress, simply because
i rsco8nizes the loyal majority. and refuses
y pefpetnate the slaitor majority, that in
Every State south Of Mason and Dixons
ins. his policy has wrought the most dc.
plOfoble 0Onsequences, social, moral and
,olisical IL has enAboldcned returned
ebels to thssaten civil var il Missouri,
Maryland, West Visgiaiaa and Tennesee,
lniess the patriots who saved aud sealed
hese States TO the old nag surendered be-
ore their arrogant demands, II has cor
upasd high state officials, elected by Union
nen. and sworn 10 enforce the laws againsi
eeusnsd rebela, and made them the mere
Instruments Of the authors Of the rebellion.
I has encouraged . new alienation between
'etwecn the sections, and by impeding emi
ration to the South has erected a t0rmid
biz barrier against Tree and friendly In
crc"ursc in She north and west. 1t has
llnwed the rehel soldicry To ptrsecutB the
sachtrs of coloscd schools, and burned the
hnrches in which the freedmen have wor.
hipped tine living god. Tina, system so
raarous should have eliminated in the |
rlehiul riots If Memphis nn'tthe still more
ppaling massacre OF New Orleans, was as
a,ural as that 4 bloody war should flow
rom the teachings cf John G. Calhoun and |
eif Davis. Andrew johnson is response
le for all these tnsrcsk ble cruelties; and as
z nrnynkcl 81 he inst lies and annlailhs