Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-12
The Southern LOyalists' COnvcn-

Below We give in full The address and reso-
lu.ions adopted by the Convention of South
ern Loyahsts held at Philadelphia last week.
APPEAL OF THE LOYAL MEN OF THE SOUTH TO
THEIR FELLow-CITIzENs OF THE UNITED STATES.
The Representatives of 8, 900 900 of Amer
icAa people appeal for protection aud justice
t. their friends aud brothers in the United
Ss1.es eha, have been spared the cruelties OF
the rebellion and the direct horrors OF civil
, war. Here, on the spot where Freedom was
proffered and pledged by the Fathers of the
Republic, we Implore your help against re-
urganizsd oppression, whose sole object is to
remit the control of our destinies to the con-
trivess OF the rebellion after they have been
vaaQuished III honorable battle thus at once
to uunlsh us ior our devotion to our country
sni 70 entr6pch themselves III the Official for
titica aons of the Government
Others have related she thrilling story of
our wrongs from reading and observation. We
C Jme before you unchailenged witnesses,
and speak from personal knowledge our sad
experience. 1t you fail us, We are more ut
rerly deserted 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 of those who had
been among its bravest Toes. Unexpected
psr fidy IN the highest place In the Govern
ment, unex pectediy filled oy one who adds
! cruel:yto iugratitude, and iorgives the guilty
IS ne proscribes the innocent, has stimulated
the almost exsinguished revenge OF the beaten
conspirators, ana now the Rebels who offered
To yield every thing to save their own lives
are seeking to c6ns.gn US to bloody graves.
Where we expected benefector, we find a
persecu tor.
| Having lost our champion, ws return' TO
you. who can make and unmake Presidents
aud punish traitors. Our last hope, under
God, is IN the unity and frmness of the States
that elected Abraham Lincoln and defeated
Jefferson DAVIS. The best statement of our
.se is the appalling yet unconscious conte sIori
! OF Andrew johnson, who, IN savage hatred
of his own record, proclaims his purpose to
impoverish and degrade eight millions of 10y
al men.
Our wrongs bear alike on all our 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 dy from our homes, but We
should fear to trust our fate with those who
after denouncing ard defeating treason refuse
10 right those who have bravely assisted them
| IN the good work. Till we are wholly res
cued there Is neither peace for you nor pros
| perlty for US.
We cannot better define at once our wrong.
|
Andrew Johnson affiliated with his early Sian
derers and our constant enemies his hand ha,
buen laid heavily upon every earnest loyalis
IN the South. History, the just Judgment O.
| the present and the certain Confirmation OF tn
| future, invite and comand Us to declare !:
That after neglectlng his own remedies fol
! restoring the Union, he has resorted to the
| weapons of traitors To bruise and beat down
| patriots;
That alter declaring that none but the loya
should govern the reconstructed South, be hal
practIced upon the maxim that none but trai
| tors shall rule;
That while IN the North he has removed
conscientious men from Office, and filled many
of the vacancies with the sympathizers o.
treason In the South be has removed the
proved and trusted patriots and selected the
unqualified ami convicted traitors;
Ihas every original Unionist in the South
who stands fast to Andrew Johnson's cove
nants from 1861 to 1865 has been ostracised
That he has corrupted the local courts BY
Offering premiums for the defiance of the law,
of Congress, and by openly discouragipg the
observance of the oath against treason;
That while refusing to punish one conspic
uous traitor, though thousands had earned
the penalty of death, more than Thousand
OF devoted Union citlzens have been murdered
liz cold blood since the surrender of Lee, an
in no case have their assassins been brought
to Judgment;
That be has pardoned some of the worst o.
the rebel criminals North and South, including
soma who have taken human life under cir
cumssances of unparalleled atroclty;
That while denouncing and lettering th'
op srations of the Freedmens 8 Bureau, he
with full knowledge of the falsehood, ha
charged that the black men are lazy and re
bellious, and has concealed the fact that NOR
" hites than blacks Eave Teen protected ant
fed ty that noble organisation and that. whil
declaring that 1t was corruptly managed an'
expensive TO the Government, he has connive'
at system Of proalgacy in the use of th
. public patronage and public money who'll.
without parallel save when the traitors bank
rupted the Treasury, and sought to disorgan
il, and scatter the army and the money Onl.
to make it more easy to capture the Govern
uent;
That while declaring against the injustic
of leaving eleven States unrepresented. b
has refused to authorize the liberal plan Q
Congress, simply because it recognizes tn
loyal majority and refuses to perpetuate th
traitor minority; 'a ie ns
That in every State south of Mason an
Dixon's iine hls IS policy has wrought th
} most deplorsble consequences--social. mors
:, ~ poIsicaI hos oun hol1ened Yofr,rpe