The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-14
Exncur!r.YE oFF1oE.

- lHltsfSu9S !S9rlalu persons, Qnff1enQIy
and hostile to the Government of the
United States, have banded themselves
i tQgethers and are now going at large
i through many of the counties of this
State, arresting, maltreating aud plum
dering Union citizens wherever found
Now, therefore, I, Andrew johnson,
Governor of the State of Tennessee, by
\ virtue of the power and authority in
me vested, do hereby proclaim that IN
every instance tOhere q Union man Is ar
rested and ntlltreGted by the n1drau0I-
tflq pnfldS GfOe SAID, 1iUe or more Rebels,
from the most pTOnliTIeTlt IN the iHlHIedi-
ate neighborlso0ds shat be arrested, tnl-
z91'tsoHecs d1ld o titeT'lgtSe dealt NTH as the
nature OF the case may reqitiFe !: and
further, IN all cases where The property OF
eitizens loyal to the GoUeIanient of the
United States is taken OF, deStroyed, full
g1ld ample remuneration shaN be made
20 tteltl of such Rebels IN the Vicinity
as haze syaap GtItised NTH; and gfUen aid,
COMFORT IN oyul0tio3s, o7, e1tcOWrnqenel
tons.
This order will be executed in letter
and spirit.e All citizens are hereby
warned, under heavy penalties, from
entertaining, receiving or encouraging
such persons, SO banded together, or in
any way connected Herewith.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
EDWARD III. EAST, Sec'y ofState.
In the same month, Turner S. Foster,
a well-known secessionist, was elected
Judge of the Circuit Court at Nashville.
Mr.. johnson gave him his commission,
but on the same day arrested him as a
traitor and sent him to the peniten-
tiary.: &.
In the same month he arrested six
ielergymen of Nashville for preaching
secession, one of them the famous
Sehon, formerly of West Virginia, and,
on their declining to take the oath of
allegiance, sent five to prison, paroling
the sixth on account of illness.
In August, 1852. he issued circular
to the wealthy secessionists OF Nash
vile, requiring them to contribute from
fifty TO three hundred dollars each for
the relief of the suffering Union fami-
lies of Tennessee.
HE DEFINES THE QUALIFICATIONS OF
ELECTORS. u
In December, 1852, he issued aproela-
nation for the election of members of
Congress in the Ninth and Tenth Dis
tricts OF Tennessee, which concludes as
follows: $50 5s4s.s.i 81
sd No person Will be considered an
eleetor qualified to vote, who, in addi-
ton TO the other quail ffcations required
by law, does not SfUe salts dct01.y eVIde1ce
20 The judges holding the election Of his
t9yGttJ,lfo tte Government Of Ne United
SLdtes.o
He WANTS ETERNAL, TTISr1cr spoTrRED.
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LOYAL MEN TO RULE TENNESsEE-
REBELS MUST BE DuMB.
sc tL0ydI men from thus CEoV fOTIbdfd are
TO be controllers of TenHessee,s grand
and sublime destiny, and Rebels must be
dslHtb; 1De a0ilL not listen 10 their. cotsfSeL.
ls9tsagtste q no tostge1, me pace 70 hotd
s.s ,ssfsss ,,, d1ss .gs gas.er ase,r
5 f;e,,sle &, ne ~, H. g,
81 IN S,f H. -, ~ ~.
III. ~ ~
Iii. eeS ~ eOtN' osS "se's ~ A''tsft-
OsstS' tsSV1'l 81 'r i5tis
10y MEN " ii 4JsIs w 4IIIK OR BLACK,
ALONE 70 RULE THE SOUTH.
.tStanding here upon the stems of the
Capitol, with the past history of the
State TO witness, the present condition 10
guide, md the future to encourage me,
u, Andreio Johnson, do herebfJ OTooLai1n
FREEDoM, FULL. BROAD AND fJSooyDIz
TtoNAI, 10 eUeIy man IN Tennessee. o.
e. r tciX
indeed be yotl1. MOSES, aud lead Vott
tllT0ILLJlt the Red Sea OF fCdi. and b0Hddde
to the Tuire1. land of Eibe7.tU and l1edce.
1 speak now as one;who feels the world
his country, and all who love equal
rights his friends, j speak. too. as a
citizensof Tennessee. am here on INV.
own soil, and here mean to stay and
fight this great battle of truth and JUS
tice to triumphant end; Rebellion
AND SLAVERY SHALL, BY GoD's GOOD
HELP, NO LONGER PoLIUTE OUR STATE
LOYAL MEN, WHETHER WHITE
OR BLACK, SHALL ALONE CON,
TROI4I HER DESTINIES 'l--SDeeeh to
the coLored men of NuShViLLe, October "a.
1884 affsst'l
TRr, AsioiS MIST an j:PIISIsTJED sl
ssT,, - g,,,;,,io,, oil a lie,.l ,,i,st ~,
punished. TREA AsoN. rs 5rFffIe ITfIcIT1essr
cRINE KNOWS M TrIE csArAIoeuTs on
CRIMES ANDtFoR Kim THAT'S C1rILTvY
OF, 'TF-EFoR HIM THAT rs wTILINcI no.
LIFT HIS IfPIoUs HAND AGAINST THE
AUTHORITY OF THE NATION--T WOULD
sAYDRATH Is TOO EASY "A APUNIsHAIENT.
My NOTION Is TITAT TREASON MUST
BE MADE ODIOUS, AND TRAITORS
MUST STBf3PUNISHED AND IAIPOY-
ERISHED. their social, mower. broken
that thew NAV be made to feel the pen-
atty of their crime. eYou, my friends,
have traitors in your very midst, and
treason needs rebpke and punishment
here as we'll as elsewhere.
Hence 1 say this. THE HALTER
ToINTELIIGENT, INFLUENTIAL
TRAITORS1 THE LEADERS il
WOULD HANG hold. tbos that
wealthy traitors should he made ia re-
|lmunerate those men who have suffered