The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1866-09-13
Thoughts that Breathe and Words
That Burn.
A Asou1-Stirring Appeal from Treachery
In Power to the Loyal People.
THE LOYAL PHILADELPHIA cox.
VENT1ON.
The Appeal OF the Loyal Men Of the
South to their Fellow Citizen. ofthe
United States.

The Appeal OF the Loyal Men OF the
south to their Fellow Citizen. ofthe
United States.
The Representatives of American citizens
appeal for protection and justice to their
friends and brothers in the States which
have been spared the cruelties OF the re-
bellion and the direct horrors of civil war
Here on the spot where freedom was prof.
tered and pledged by the fathers of the
Republic, We implore your help against a
reorganized oppression, whose sole object
is to remit the control of our destinies to
the contrivers of the rebellion after thew
have been vanquished in honorable battle,
thus at once to punish US for our devotion
to our country, and to entrench them
selves in the official Notifications of the
Government. Others have related the
thrilling story of our wrongs, from reading
and observation. We come before YOU as
| unchallenged witnesses, and speak from
personal knowledge, our sad experiences.
If you fail US, We are more utterly desert
ed and 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 os those who
had been among its bravest foes. Unex-
pected perfdy in the highest place Of the
Government, accidentally filled by one who
| adds cruelty to ingratitude, and foreives
the guilty as he proscribes the innocent,
has stimulated the almost extinguished re-
venge of the beaten conspitators; and now
| the rebels who offered to yield everything
to save their own lives, are seeking to con-
sign us to bloody graves. Where We ex-
pected . benefactor We 6nd q prosecutor
Having lost our champion we return to
you who can invoke presidents and punish
traitors. Our last hope under God is the
unity and frmness Of the States that elect
ed Abraham Lincoln and defeated Jelfer-
son Davis. The best statement of our case
10 the appalling Jet unconscious confession
OF Andrew johnson, who, in savage hatred
Of his own record lproclaims his purpose to
clothe four millions Of traitors with the
power to impoverish and degrade eight mil.
lions Of loyal men. ..
Our wrongs bear alike, on all races and
our tyrants, unchecked BY you, will award
the same fate to white and black. We can
remain as We are only as interiors and vic
Tins. We may fly from our homes, but We
should fear to trust our fate with those
who, after denouncing and defeating trea-
son, refused to right those Who have brave
ly assisted them in the good work. Till We
are wholly rescued, there is neither peace
tor you nor prosperity for Is.
We cannot better define at once our
wrongs and our wants than by declaring
that since Andrew johnson affiliated with
his early slanderers and our constant enc
mics, his hand has been lard heavily upon
every earnest loyalist in the South. Histo-
"ry, the just judgment of the :prescnt, and
the certain confirmation of the future. in
vite and command US to declare that after
ytjecting his own remedies for. resolving
Pthe Union he1has resorted to the weapons
Of traitors to bruise and put down patriots
that after declaring that nehe but the 10y
at should govern the reconstructed south
he has practiced upon the maxim that none
but traitors shall rule, that while, in; the
North he has removed conscientious. men
from Office, and filed many Of the yacan-
cies with the sympathizers; of treason, in
tho South he has removed the proved and
trusted atriot,, and selected The equally
proved and convicted traitor; and after
brave men, who had fought for tho old flag,
have been nominated for positions, their
names have been recalled, and avoHed reb-
els substituted !; that every original Union
ist in The South who stands fast TO Andrew.
johlsou's covenants from 1861 to 1866,
has been ostracised that he has corrupted
tho local courts by Offering premiums for
the defiance of the. lave Of Congress, and
BY openly discourasing the observance Of
tho oath against treason; that while refu-:
aing 10 punish one, single conspirator,
though Thousands had earned tho penalty
Of death. more than = thousand Of asvoted
tUnioni citizens have been murdered in cold
blood since the surrender Of General Lee,
and In no case have theif assassius been
brought to Judgment; that he has pardon
ed some Of The worst rebel criminals North
and South, including some Who had taken,
humln life, under circumstances Of unpar-
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