The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-09-15
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THE APPEAL
Of the Loyal Men of the South to
their Fellow Citizens Of the
United States.

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Of the Loyal Men of the South to
their Fellow Citizens Of the
United States.
The representatives of eight millions of Amer
can citizens appeal for protection and justice to
their friends and brothers in the States that have
been spared the cruelties Of rebellion, and the d-
rect horrors of civil war.
Here on the spot where freedom was pro6ered
and pledged by the fathers Of the Republic, we
implore your help against a reorganized oppres-
sion, whose sole object is to remit the control of
our desinies to the contrivers of the rebellion af-
ter they have been vanquished in honorable bat
tle-thus at once to punish US for our devotion
to our country and to intrench themselves 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 experience. If
you fail US, we are more utterly deserted and be-
trayed than if the contest Of arms had been deci-
ded 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
foes.
Unexpected perfdy in the highest place of the
Government accidentally filled by one who adds
cruelty to ingratitude, and forgives the guilty as
he proscrbes the innocent, has stimulated the al
most extinguished revenge of the beaten conspi-
rators and now the rebels, who offered to yield
everything to save their own lives, are seeking
to consign us to bloody graves.
Where we expected benefactor we find per-
secutor Having lost our champion, we return
to you who can make Presidents and punish
traitors.
Our last hope, under God, is in the unity and
firmness of the States that elected Abraham Lin
coin and defeated Jefferson Davis.
The best statement of our case is the appalling
yet unconscious confession of Andrew Johnson
who, in savage hatred Of his own record pro-
claims his purpose to cothe four millions of trail
tors with the power to impoversh and degrade
eight millions of loyal men.
Our wrongs bear alike upon 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
victims.
We may fly from our homes but we should
fear to trust our fate with those who, after de-
nouncing and defeating treason, refused to right
those who had bravely assisted them in the good
work.
Till we are wholly rescued there is neither
peace for you nor prosperity for us.
We cannot better define at once our wrongs
and our wants than by declaring that since An
drew Johnson affiliated with his early slanderers
heavily upon every earnest loyaist in the South.
History, the just Judgment of the Present and the
certain confirmation of the Future, invite and
command us to declare
That, after rejecting his own remedies for re-
storing the Union, he has resorted to the weapons
of traitors to bruise and beat down patriots.
That after declaring that none but the loyal
should govern the reconstructed South, he has
practced upon the maxim that none but traitors
shall rule.
That while in the North he has removed con-
scientious men from Office and filled many of the
vacancies with the sympathizers Of treason, in
the South he has removed the proved and trust
ed patriot and selected the equally proved and
convicted traitor.
That after brave men who had fought for the
old flag have been nominated for positions, their
names have been recalled and avowed rebels sub
stituted.
That every original Unionist in the South who
stands fast to Andrew Johnson's covenants from
1861 to 1865 has been ostracised
That he has corrupted the local courts by Of
feriag premiums for defiance of the laws Of Con-
gress, and by discouraging the observance of the
oath against Treason.
That, while refusing to punish one single con-
spicuous traitor, though thousands had earned
the penalty of death, more than thousand of de-
voted Union citizens have been murdered in cold
blood since the surrender Of Lee, and in no case
have their assassins been brought tojndgment.
That he has pardoned some of the worst of the
rebel criminals, North and South, including some
who have taken human life under circumstances
of unparalleled atrocity.
That while denouncing and lettering the ope-
rations of the Freedmen's Bureau he with a full
knowledge of the falsehood, has charged that
the black men are lazy and rebellious, and has
concealed the fact that more whites than blacks
have been protected and fed by that noble organ
ization and that, while declaring that it was
corruptly managed and expensive to the Govern
ment, he has conniVed at system of protilgacy
in the use of the public patronage and public
money wholly without parallel, save when the
traitors bankrupted the Treasury, and sought to
disorganize and scatter the army and the navy,
only to make it more easy to capture and destroy
the Government.
That, while declaring against the injustice or
leaving eleven States unrepresented, he has refus-
ed to authorize the liberal plan of Congress- SIM
ply because it recognizes the loyal majority, and
refuses to perpetuate the traitor minority.
That in every State south of Mason and Dix
ons line, his policy" has wrought the most
deplorabe consequences, social, moral, and polit-
CAL
It has emboldened returned rebels to threaten
civil war in Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia
and Tennessee, unless the patriots who saved ana
sealed these States to the old flag surrender be-
fore their arrogant demands.
It has corrupted high State officials elected
by Union men; and sworn to enfore the laws
against returned rebels, and made them the mere
instruments of the authors of the rebellion.
It has encouraged new alienation between
the sections, and by impeding emigration to the
South. has erected formidable barriers against
free and friendly intercourse with our country
Yonn in the North and the West
Tt has allowed the rebel soldiery to persecute
the teachers of the colored schools, and to burn
the churches in which the freedmen haye wor-
shipped the living God. ae aa.
That system so barbarous should have cul-
minated in the frightful riot at Memphis, and the
still more appalling massacre at New Orleans,
was as natural as that bloody war should tow
from the teachings of John G. Calhoun and JEFF
erson Davis.
Andrew Johnson is responsible for all these
unspeakable crimes and crueltes. AS he provo
ked, so he iustifes and applauds them.
Sending his agents and emlssaries into this re-
fined and patriotic metropolis, to insist upon ma
king his reckless policy test upon Christian
people he forgot that the protection extended 70
fhe l4th-of-August Convention in philadelphia
was not only denied to the free people of New
! Orleans on the 30th of July, when they assem-
| bled to discuss how best to protect themselves,
| but denied amidst the slaughter of hundreds oi
| innocent men.
No page in the record of his recent outrageei
upon human justice and constitutional law il
| more revolving than that which convicts him o
refusing to arrest the preparation for that savage
carnival, and not only Of refusing to punish it'
authors, but of toiling to throw the guilty re-
sponsibility upon the unofending and innocen
freedmen. 804
The infatuated tyrant that stood ready t
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