The Portland daily press., 1866-01-25

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w heading Matter on ell Four Pages.
Important Appeals from soutbern Union lists.
The Nashville Press and Times contains
memorial Of five hundred Unionists in Ala
bama-original Union men of the Northern
section Of that State, who, are noted for their
answering "idelity to the national cause, and
who are gentlemen of the highest character
They assert that the bitterness of the rebels is
signally manifested in all possible methods
toward loyal citizens, especially to those who
are natives of the South, they being looked
upon as traitors to the South. They state
that in all elections, Congressional ard local,
rebel candidates are chosen over the heads of
loyal men, and that there is an evident deter
mination to prescribe all who have not acted
with the secessionists. The memorial depre-
Gates the withdrawal of federal troops from
that State, and expresses the apprehension
that loyal men and freedmen will become the
objects of relentless persecution and insult
when the federal arms no longer awe the dis
loyal.
The memorial further states that all the ap-
pointees of Governor Patton are rebels, many
of them ex-co.onels and captains, who fought
four years against the government. He has
organized the State militia for the ostensible
purpose of keeping order; the rank and file
Of hot ,ooilfio ,aI hal olI
their commanders are also just out of the rebel
army. The Union people are badly treated
by them now, and the prospect is that they
will drive the Union men out of the State
The late elections for Congress and legislature
are alleged to have been farce; in many
cases bands Of rufians took possession of the
polls and drove away Union voters. A dis
tinguished officer sends letter from Alabama
to leading Congressman, by the same con-
veyance, stating that an extensive and deep
laid conspiracy exists throughout the South, to
precipitate by all possible means, difficulty
between France and this government, and
then take sides with the former Many of the
rebels, in places where there are no troops,
boast openly that they intend to have another
war in which they will certainly establish
their beloved Confederacy.
The same paper also contains memorial of
the Union Committee, and German Union
Central Committee of Tennessee, to the Con
gressional Committee on Reconstruction, end
another memorial from the same parties to
the President. These memorials set forth the
actual condition of the State. @The men who
thus lift their voices" says the Tribune, speak
for all the Unionism in Tennessee, these me
MORALS having been unanimously adopted by
the two Union Committees of the State
They who sign it are the representatives of
the 10000 loyalists who resolved in 1861 to
stand by the flag, who entered the Union ar
my to the number of $4,000, and who have
dared and endured more for the Union than
any equal number of whites in any other
State. Having won, as they believed, the vic
tory for which they fought, they nevertheless
see themselves about to pass once more into
the power of the rebels at whose hands they
and their families for four years have suffered
every conceivable outrage and wrong. To
avert that miserable fate, they make this ap-
peal; moderate, manly, eloquent with the fer
vor of an undying patriotism, and more elo-
quent with the pathos of despair"
The following extracts are made from the
Tennessee memorials:
"Our statistics show that in the spring of
1851. about forty thousand of the voters of
Tennessee made up their minds to adhere to
the flag of their country in spite of the torna-
do of treason that swept the State and carried
it into the vortex OF rebellion. They consti-
tuted less than one-third of the voting popu-
lation of the State, and far less of its wealth
and political influence. Surrounded on all
sides by rebel population; sufferina every con-
ceivable outrage in person and property !;
hanged on the gallows; shot by an infuriated
soldiery; cast into many prisons; mercilessly
conscrpted, and hunted like wild beasts, and
murdered in our places of concealment; our
numbers have been reduced, but the survivors
| of us have kept the vows made upon the altar
| Of patriotism five years ago. More than
| twenty-five thousand of our numbers leaving
| their homes and families to be pilaged and
| abused = travelling through mountains Oh
swamps by night, and hiding in thickets by
| day, to evade pursuing and murderous enc
my, escaped to the federal lines, and without
| bounty or other inducements, enrolled them
selves as Union soldiers. They have returned
| to their homes from gallant and bloo1y ser
vice, to find, in many instances, their homes in
ashes, their property gone, and their fsamie:
] abused, insulted and outraged. And it mus
| be added, that In naany Instances these ricto
| ric4s heroes of the national cause are not per-
naitted to remain at their homes IN peace, or, il
| permitted, they are crippled in business and
politically and socially outlawed."
After reciting the acts of the loyal legisla
| ture, and showing that its efforts have beer
unsatisfactory, and powerless to protect ade
| quately the genuine Union men of the State
those who have yielded to the blast of trea
son, the memorialists say:
"The predominant feeling of those lately il
rebellion is that of deep-seated hatred, amount
ing in many cases to spirit of revenge to
ward the white Unionists of the State, and
naughty contempt for the negro, whom the,
cannot tolerate as freeman. The hatred TO
the white loyalist is intensified by the accuse
ton that he deserted the South in her extrem
ity and Is therefore traitor, and by the effort
to set up government of the minority. Th
spirit of revenge is called forth by the attemp
to disfranchise them, and by the retaliator.
acts of the returned Union soldiers for wrong
done them dnring the war. The negro i
the Mordecai who constantly reminds them
their defeat, and of what they call "a just bu
lost cause" and the sight of him, in the en-
iovment of freedom, is constant source o
irritation.
"a large number of daily rebel newspaper;
are well sustained, while single loyal paper i
sustained with difficulty. The rebel merchan
or lawyer is full of business and growing rich
while the loyalist either fails or is driven t.
pander or dissimulate. The rebel chaplain
breaches to overfowing houses, while the 10y
al minister is in truth missionary in an un
friendly country.
"The Union man is not admitted into soci
ety or into private families; hatred of tn
yankee and contempt for the government ar
inc,llcated by rebel ministers and teachers; a
the township election, the bushwacker an