The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-21
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An internal revenue assessor IN Georgs
has written letter TO the Secretary OF the
Treasury, which the latter some days ago for
warded p0oaHeat tssseAPtsP NE can
not and In his district competent men Ior as
sistapts, able 10 take the oath prescribed by.
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On the other hand, Georgia correspond
ent writes that the federal government, IN
making is appointments in that state almost
wholly useleets the aUnion. men, Of whom
there are, he maintains large number, and
selects politicisns who helped 10 precipitate
the State into rebellion. A Georgia Unionist,
in a letter printed in the Erening Post not
lone, sil.9e. dated in -Sodthwestern Georgia,
November 18th, putthe case very pointediy.
He wrote:
"Not Union man in the State of Georgia
has been. appointed to any ONCE. or mas re-
ceived Governor Johnsons ofnciai recon-
mendaiion for one Every application that
has received his endorsement has come from
those who were the most rabid in decrying the
government of the Union; and so far every
Office bas been flied by tha. tAakssss seces-
sionis,s. know one gentleman of this State
who was conspicuous in his opposition TO the
rebellion before the overt act and during its
contamination, who applied to Secretary Nc
Culoch for the post Of District Collector I'M
der the revenue act; It was promised him. At
a second interview with the Secretary the
ageusa~mm vas told that if hs would cr ecald
procure The Endorsement Of Governor Juha-
son to his application, the commission should
be given him. He made the application TO
johnson, and it was refused, or rather 1t vas
never given him, and another, who had held
n commission in, the Confederate army re
eeived The appointment. Secretary Mccall
oL Hrc< autaC ODD pfc
and that he had suffered from bis devotion to
the cause OF the Union personally and pecu-
niarily. Another who was notorious not only
for his rampant disunion sentiments. but for
his want of any character at all, received an
appointment from the Secretary of the Treas
ury, first having obtained Johnson's recon-
-rnenda,on to luis fitness | repeat that not a
single original Union man thus tar, hasssfe-
ceived a federal appointment in this State
a Now. The case OF the consistent Unionist in
Southern States must IN any event be sufii-
eienuy hard. They are IN a minority, and
will be for some years to come, they have as
thankless a task, in upholdnig their political
opinions as Butler, and Hallett, aud Loring,
and other Democrats used to have in Masss
schuSetts under the administration of Pierce
md Buchanan But Democratic Presidents
did not fail to appoint their supporters to the
federal offices in the state As mere polH-
zeal expedient. therefore, the administration
would be justified by custom in appointing
only Union men to Office in Georgia and other
southern states; but we conceive that these
men have higher and stronger claims to rec
Fogntion. and both as reward to them for
their faifhfulness, and as a means Of giving
power and \ gor to the Union sentiment in
the South. the President and his Cabinet
ought TO make it principle to allow none but
well known Union men to hold federal Offices
in the South. Ha aH1u
Such men win not be elected to Congress
they will not have official influence in their
state governments; but they have right to
the eountenance of the federal government;
they uphold its authority; they support its
flag; they are its tried friends; and the Gov
ernment commits both blunder and amin
Justice, if it leaves them without the signs By
which alone the masses of the people in those
states can be made to know that these despis
ed and hated Unionists are the chosen and
true men in the eyes Of the nation, andsshat
the cause for which they were abused and re
viled has triumphed.
~ We hope, therefore, that before Congress
repeats the oath it will ascertain that only
Onion men in the South have been appointed
to federal Offices A4a