The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-09-13
\ Voice from the SOuth:-Endict.
meEt Of Andrew johnson!


The loyal men of the South-the men
who stood by their country in the dark
hours Of the rebellion--have adopted an
address to the people Of the north from
which we take the following arraignrent
and Indictment Of the man who has SO base
| " deserted them. Hear how these men
| talk:
! We come before you as unchallenged wit
| nesses,a ard speak from personal knowledge
our sad experience. Ifyou fail Us, we are
moro utterly deserted and betrayed than if
the contest had been decided against us,
| for in that case even victorious enemy
would have found profit in the speedy par
| don ofthose who had been among its brave
enemies. Unexpected perfidy i'll the high
est place of the government, accidentally
! filled by one who adds cruelty to ingrati
tude, and forgives the guilty as he pro-
scribes the innocent, has stimulated the
almost eXtinguished revenge Ofthe beaten
conspirators, and now the rebels who Of
| fered to yield everything to save their own
lives, are seeking to consign us to bloody
graves. Where we expected benetactor,
we find a prosecutor. Having lost our
champion we return to you, who can in
yoke Presidents and punish traitors. Our
| last hope under God is the unity and firm
ness of the States that elected Abraham
Lincoln and defeated Jefferson Davis.
| The best statement Of our case is the ap-
palling yet unconscious confession of An
! drew johnson, who, in the savage hatred
of his own record, proclaims his purpose
to clothe four millions of traitors with the
power to impoversh and degrade eight
millions of loyal men. Our wrongs bear
alikeon all races, ,and our tyrants, uncheck-
! ed by you.w i'll award the same fate to white
and black. We can remain. as we are, on
| 60 Nm - Ivy
from our homes, but we should fear to trust
our fate with those who. after denouncing
/ and defeating treason, refused to right
those who have bravely assisted them in
the good work. Till we are wholly rescu-
ed there is neither peace for you nor pros
perity for us. We cannot better define at
once cur wrongs and our wants than by
declaring that Since Andrew johnson affi-
liatcd with his early slanderers and our con-
slant enemies, his hand has been laid
heavily upon every loyalist in the South.
History, the just judgement ofthe present
and the certain confirmation Of the future,
/ invite and command us to declare that af-
ter rejecting his own remedy for restoring
the Union he has resOrted to the weapons
of traitors to bruise and beat down patri-
OTIS that after declaring that none but the
loyal should govern the reconstructed
South, he has practiced upon the maxim
that none but traitors shall. rule that while
in the North he has removed conscientious
men from office, and filled many of the va
cancies with the sympathiZers Oftreason,in
the South he has removed the proved and
trusted patriot and selected the equal
ly proved and convicted traitor. That af-
ter brave men who had fought for the old
; flag have been nominated for positions theli
names have been recalled and avoWed rebels
substituted. That every original Union
ist in the South who stands fast to Andrew
Johnson's covenants, from 1861 to 1866, has
been ostracised; that he has corrupted the
local courts by Offering premiums for the
defiance of the laws of Congress, and by
openly discouraging the observance OF the
oath against treason; that while refusing
h to punish one single cOnspiratOr, though
thousands had earned the penalty ofdeath
more than a thousand of devoted Union cit.
. iZenS have been murdered in cold biOoC
since the surrender of Lee, and in no case
have their assassins been brought tOjudge'
ment; that he has pardOned some of the
, worst of the rebel criminals, North anC
: South. some who have taken hu
= man life under circumstances of unparal
t led atrocity. that while denouncing and fet
\ tering the operations of the Freedman
D Bureau he with full knowledge ofthe false
hood, has charged that the black men art
lazy and rebellious and yet he has conced
+ ed the fact that more whites than black
9 have peen protected and fed by that nobl
. organization and that while declaring tha
. it was corrupt and expensive to the Gov
= ernment he has connived at system o
q protligacy in the use of the public patron
y age and public money, wholly without par
+ allel, save when the traitors bankrupte'
: the treasury. and ught to disorganize ans
e scatter the army and navy only to make
q more easy to capture the Goyernment::-
: That while declaring against the injustlc
q of having eleven States unrepresented, n
q has refused to endorse the liberal plan o
q Congress, simply because it recognizes tn
= loyal majority, and refuses to perpetual
+ the rebel minority In every State Sout
y Of Mason and DiXon's line his policy ha
1s wrought the most deplorahle consequen1
ces, socially, morally and politically. l
emboldened returned rebels to threate
1t civil war in Maryland. Missouri,West Vlr
J ginia and Tennessee, unless the patriot