National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-09-14

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who during the past /,
week have been convened in the city I,
of Philadelphia, cannot fail to pro-
duce a powerful impression upon the
patriotic and liberty-lOving people ,
of the Northern States. Calm and
dignified in tone pathetic in its
descriptions of the state of things
which has existed and which now
exists i'm the South terrible i'll its
arraignment of the Chief Magis-
trate of the nation, who has added
:. cruelty to ingratitude, and fOrgives
the guilty as he prOsecutes the limo
cent? such a paper, expressing the
convictions and the hopes OF such
men, and given to the country III tins
most critical and solemn .juncture,
will he read carefully and pondered
deeply by all who take an intelll- |
gent interest i'll the welfare of the
nation. and will Ike most potential III
deciding the mighty issues now pres
sing for solution and settlement.
The address briefly and eloquent
" narrates the story of the slave
holding aggression developed under
:! tOrbearing government bowing
to supposed constitutional hehest,'
and which eliminated ut length III
the stupendOus rebellion which con
vulsed the continent. 1t tells, as
only the pen of Southern loyallsts
can tell. the horrors that Yebelhon,
! Of 4 In n
men who remained faithful among
the faithless. and who loved their
' country and their flag when to do so
had been made disloyalty to their
: own States and to the South. . Long
months of incarceration III rebel
! bastiles, Punishment from homes
and hearthstoEes. are but a partial
recital of the long catalogue OF hor-
y rors.- Oh. those weary and bloody
y wears: those desolated dwellings,
those scenes of anguish: those he
I role exhibitions ofpatrlotlSm: those
l. martyr deaths. The sufferers IN
e those dreadful scenes can never for
l. get them the friends of freedom
G. throughout the world weep Over
n them history will never tire in DIES
" cribing them. Surely we at tho
20 North. for whom, in large measure
ii these unequalled miscries were en-
10 dured. and whose sacrifices III tn
II common cause are not worthy q
81 mention with those of our perSecu
i'll ted brethren at the South; surel,
e. we cannot be unmindtul OF the II
III cord. nor can we remain nnlnOVe'
al when it comes i'll this new form
written as it were in tears and bloc,
u But the Philadelphia Address
more than Il ndITdtirc. 1t Is pr
hS test. 1t is an Indictment. 1t IS
II charge. comprehensive and concl'
sive. of betrayal and of perhd.
~ Sad that he against whom this a
ny cuSation is preferred. should be IL
nf man whom loyal votes raised to po'
ms or. and to whom prosecuted pa;rlo
to had at first looked trusttully. We
we the protest uttered against an here
.,r itary dcspot. or were the catalog'
to of wrongs charged upon Nlcer'
cav hateful and tyrannical, forced on !
to unwilling people. it would be not
of inc new in the annals of llbcrt.
esS nor would it So painfully lIluStra
,vo human weakness and inilrmitN,
,or does this arraignmcnt of Andr,
onr Johnson. the elected of the Poop
md the chosen representative OF IRE
ms men, for the abandonment ct |
noL PRINCIPLES. for the rcmorseless sac
hat flee of his friends. for his lniidcli
, ia to the claims of the country and
tbe humanity. Had it been an cncl
,ral who had done this; had the rel
hlic chiefs been successful in their arm
and treason. and had they RUTHLESS
, M pursued the Unionists among tn
ions with denunciation. disgrace a
death. it would not have be
.,o strange; it would not have been
w.; -, sad But champion has hcco
~ an enemy; "whcrc we expected
WI benefactor. we find IA pcrsccuto
s. the man elevated 10y the voice OF
""' pcople to the second dignity of
"'I" government, and, by the inscruta
nus Providence of God. raiscdtO the ii
"n., has :. affiliated with his early 81
II, -" derers," has rejected his own re
w. ~. dies for restoring the Union,
~ ,.'.n resorted to the weapons of trait
y" "" to brrlise and beat down patrio
y" has been reckless in the use OF
y 'p" pardoning power, has been will
: ,,a to give over the helpless black
h;sn the oppression of their former u
,|a s ters. and has Frustrated all the |
, ,'" or and patronage of the govcrnn
','.., so far as contided to his hands
80 c the interest and for the sole bel
Ivy of those whose desperate sin
" o',I well nigh ruined the nation. II
,; "m" is nothing in history which ear
' ""r compared with this solemn pre-
p| against President johnson, eX
~ Nv. !" the manifesto made by the Fat
,,,o 49," of 1876 against the King of Il
:, I;r Britain, when they threw off
. ,. allegiance to him and founded al
" NY dependent nation. Posterlty
-, Judge the usurpations and OPT
Inese sions of the English sovereign
PANS. as nothing, compared with the
great socutions and the wrongs of tn
wnicn creant President.
INK But this great paper is not OF
resent narrative and an indictment; it
side of annooJ Turn;ng away. sadd
II wal and disappointed, from him
erty- whom they had a right to eXpc