The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-04-05
sUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.

by complete restoration the fruits OF the
glorious deeds of our Army and Navy ?
That object of th1 war will be left unac-
complisheu by restoration Slavery has
been abolished and the freedom OF the
blacks is guaranteed forever by a con.
stitutiunal amendment ratified by more
than 3-fourths of the states. The ordi-
rances of secession have been declared
null and void by the seeding S tates
themselves. Organized resistance to
the supremacy of the General Govern
ment has every where ceased, What
more do we require? We are told by
the Radicals that these who participated
in the rebellion must be disfranchised,
unless they were 6lacb in which case
they are presumed to have been acting
under compuIsion, but the aohites who
were drafted and driven into the con-
federate service a. Mr. Lincoln said "like
bullocls to the slaughterhouse" ore
presumed to have gone voluntarily
But the loyal black are to be endowed
with the right of suffrage, and the loyal
blacks means all the blacks of the
South, Notwithstanding nine tenths Of
them, voluntarily remained with their
masters during the war, supplying by
their labor the confederate armies with
the means of subsistance,-while the
larger proportion of the other one tenth
left their homes under the influence of
such persuasive arguments as federal
bayonets. How absurd to call loyal
the Negroes of the South who knew
little of the questions involved in the
war, and cared less. But can it be,
that we must entirely reverse what has
heretofore been the order of society in
the South, by making slaves of the
whites and lords of the blacks? Let
the gallant soldiers and sailors, who have
periled them lives for a very different
object, answer. Let the honest masse,
of the people everywhere answer. Keer
it before the people that the only mer
who oppose the Presidents policy are
those who favor the nfranchisement O
the blacks and the disfranchisemen O.
the whites. These very men who nov
indulge in b Interest invective against thu
President, were but a short time agc
Loudly proclaiming the sophistry tina
the President was the Administration
the Administration was the Government
and opposition to the Government wa.
treason. We remember that many o.
these ralicals, not many years ago, were
as st'enously opposed to foreigners hav
ing the right of suffrage, because o.
their ignorance still later, in what
glowing terms they depicted the ignor
ant and degraded condition OF the negro
in bondage: how comes it, that these
negroes have been so suddenly trans
formed as to be worthy to participate il
the government of great people ? Ye
these are the men who denouuce Presi
dent Johnson as nconsistent-surely
such a charge comes with bad grac
from them. But President johnson ha.
not uttered one word or done one officia
act, so far as we can see, in conflict will
the platform upon which he and MI
Lincoln were elected. His appointee
are all Republicans, and when he re
moves a Radical he appoints a conserv
tive Republican in his place. A large
proportion of the Republican party have
repeatedly said that they were opposed
to thrusting negro suffrage on the South
The President stands at the head O
that portion, and of course they vii
support him.