Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-09-19
THE POLICY OF ANDREW JOHNSON.
A SOUTHERN UNIoNIST TO REV. HENRY
Ht lG WARD BEEcHER. .h 4atg
-' New YORK. Sept. /, 1866.

= -' New YORK, Sept.<l, 1866. .t
J Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.-Your
letter, which appears in the city papers
this morning, indorsing anew. and fatally /
for yourself the policy of Andrew John.
son, has surprised and panied me beyond
measure. We used to regard you as a
man whose clear mind saw through the
cobwebs of trickscrs and shot straight at
the high mark-thc Truth We used to
\ regard you as a champion in the cause of
civil and religious liberty, whose light
. would never pale before the dazzling ar
ray Of power. We used to believe that
you spoke the same iments of your heart
when you prayed that you might be taken
hence to be seen of men no more ere you
tnrned conserUattoe. And yet we have
4 lived to see you demonstrate the great
fact that )" the flesh sweak that it is
1 truly human for man. however high, to
err -" ,a''E" E. .8""- .fai.ti
4 70 US VIC have seen more than you
! have of the terrible effects Of the course
; which the seeding States took, aud which
| they carried out through the entire re
Z bellion, it is incohfprehchsib that yot
d have tied yourself to d man who has, in
4 defiance of The loyal massss. adopted a
q policy which. if persisted in and carried
y out to its direct and legitimate results
! must lead to to or RUN, and as we think
: to the great derangement if not the de,
: struction Of our country. Where Gin2tht
! Sacred Volume, doaybu find texts aud
2 principles. which can support such theo
Q ries as you are acting upon2 Have yot
4 forgotten that to those who leave theil
J Masters side :as "Cursed is man lwht
d trusteth in man and maketh flesh hi
+ arm? When you stood up. and spok'
2 for the oppressed, in the name of Christ
y You we're ID the right, and being Their
Y you were apower; andowe used to love Il
. see the clear sparks which Acame iron
Is your pulpit shining through the othicl
'e mists of our Southerh night. But yo'
'e have disappointed us9dWe cannot sollo'
e you. Conservative age may do for tn
y fircside, it will never achieve success
u the Union cause in theiSouth. .79aog'H,l
3 You entirely mistake the temper {
~ Southern dsunionists.W You have nc
le travelled through the. South for hundred
T. OF mies, as have since the war. every
\. where -minglng freely with the pcopl,
ed hearing them express their sentlmen
a1 without reserve on great national subject
., You seem to suppose that as soon as ira
lh tors have laid down their arms they o.
or again entitled 60 be received into Il
'st bosom Of loyal citizenship You ha'
Nv forgotten how these very men seize
without process of law hundreds of inn
Sc, cent citizens and cast them into loathsou
'ut negro jails because, and only becaus
iu- they we're true to the United, States fla
. Do you know that these men would
* the self-same thing again if they could
BIS Once they would have gloated over 70
lp- own head. | doubt if they would hal
'n' you now; and yet ! do know frc
on their own words that they won
ow hang Southern Unionists as they wou
string herring, were the .representati'
mt, of Federal power-the. soldiery-to be
ort moved. The thought of further re1i
e ance is SO fur from being extinct that tn
the cherish the idea as the madman does
,m- fatal delusion which possesses his fev y
we ed brain. say this, for | have 50 OIL
to heard them 50 express themselves. "a
,ov- There is-let me be just-there i
Z portion of Southern people who have mi
ade I,up their minds to accept the, situate
ans and to 60. on and become good ltze clltlzers
and the United States, These are not
be olamorous ones. They are the plain b
.ule .iness men and the sober. headed farmers
who never favored rebellion. Could ,
zion readmit men 70 place and power again
we sincere repentance, Or egep on On good ti,'H SUI
gin that they would not plot against ltlhef thef
tons liis ve would work with 'alSsf''il sof'n'ii