The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-09-13

es in which the freedmen have wor
shipped. the living God.
That a system so barbarous should
have eliminated in the frightful riot o.
Memphis, and the still more appalling
massacre Of New Orleans, was as nat
ural as that of the teachings of John
G. Calhoun and Jeffe son Davis. An
drew Johnson is responsible for al
these unspeakable cruelties, and as he
provoked so he justifes and applaud:
them, sending his agents and emissa
ries into this refined and patriotic me-
tropolis to insist upon making his reck.
less policy test upon christianpeo'
pie.
He forgot that the protection extend
ed TO the 14th of August Convention in
philadelphia, was not only denied to
the free people of New Orleans on the
Both of July, when they assembled to
discuss how best to protect themselves,
but denied amidst the slaughter oil
hundreds of innocent men. No page
in the record Of his recent outrages up.
on human justice and constitutional
law is more revolving than that which
c ,nvicts him of refusing to arrest the
perpetrators for that savage carnival,
and not only Of refusing to punish its
authors, but of toiling 10 throw the
guilt and responsibility upon unoffend-
ing and innocent freedmen.
The infatuated tyrant that stood
ready TO crush his own people in a
time when they were struggling to
maintain government erected by him
self, against his and other traitors
prosecutions, was even more eager to
illustrate his savage policy by cloth
ing with the most despotic power the
rioters of New Orleans. Notwith.
standing this heartless desertion and
cruel persecution by Andrew johnson,
the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Ten.
ncssce, Western Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware, united with democratic.
republican principles, which the faith.
ers Of the Republic designed for all
America, are now making determined
battle with the enemies of fi.oe Con.
stitutional Governments, and by the
blessing Of God these States will soon
range themselves in line with the for.
NOR free States, and illustrate the wis
dom and bereticence of the great char.
ter of American liberty by their in
creasing population, wealth and pros.
pcrity, in tho remaining ten States
The seeds of oligarchy planted in the
Constitution by its slavery fathers,
have grown to be a monstrous power,
whose recognition thus wrung from
the reluctant trainers of that great in.
strument enabled these States to en-
trench themselves behind the pervert.
cd doctrineof States Rights, and shell.
tered claim of constitutional oblpa.
tion TO maintain slavery in the States,
to present to the American Govern
ment the alternatives Of olgarchy with
slavery, or a Democratic Republican
Government without slavery. A for.
bearing Government bowling to q sup
posed constitutional bohost, acquiesccd
in the former alternative. TIE hand
of tho Government was stayed for
eighty years, Tho principles of con-
stitutional liberty langnished for want
OF Government support. Oligarchy
matured its power with sublime do.
sign. Its history for eighty years is
repletc with unparalleled injuries and
usurpations. 1t developed only the ag.
ricuItural localities, geographically dis
tinct from the free labor localities, and
loss than ono third of the whole with
African slaves, 1t held iour millions
OF human beings as chattcl, yet made
them tho basis Of unjust power iol
themselves in Federal and State Gov.
crnmonts to maintain their onslave.
ment. 1t excluded millions of white
laborers from tho richest agricultural
lands Of the world; forced thom to re.
main inactive and unproductivo on
mineral, manufacturing and lumber
localities comprising two.thirds of the
whole South. real undevolopeJ wealth,
simply because tho localities wore ae.
ricnlturally TOO poor for slave labor,
and condemned them to agriculture on
this unagricultural territory, and con,
signed them to unwilling ignorance
and poverty by denying capital and
strangling enterprise. 1t repealed tho
capital, energy and will Of the FREQ
States from tho free labor localities, by
unmittigated intolerance and p, osc'pp.
tion, thus guarding the approaches to
their slave domain against Democra.
cy.
Statute books groancd under dcs.
potic laws against unlawful aud insur-
rcctionary assemblies, aimed at tho
constitutional guarantees of the right
to poaceoby assemble AID petition for
a redress OF grievances. 1t prescribed
democratic literature as inccndiarv
1t nulliiied constitutional guarantees
of freedom, and FREQ speech and free
press. 1t deprived citizens Of the 9th.
or States Of their privileges and i'm.
munities as States, an injury and usur.
patton, alike unjust to Northern citi.
zens, and destructive of the best inter.
ests OF tho States themselves.
Alarmed by tho progress of dcmoc.
racy in tho focc of every discourage.
ment, at last it sought immunity by
secession and war. The heart sickcns
with contemplation of the four years
that 'followed-iorced loans and i'm.
pressments, conscriptions with bloody
hands and bayonets. Tho number Of
aged men who had long laid aside i'm.
plemcnts of labor, but who had been
summoned anew to tho field by the
of their sons to support
their children and grand children rc