Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-09-21


giant demands.
1t has corrupted high State officials
elected by Union men, and sworn TO enforce
the laws against returned rebels. and made
them the mere instruments of the authors
of the rebellion.
1t has encouraged new alienation be-
tween the sections, and by impeding emil
grafton to the South, has erected formida-
bic barriers against free and friendly inter-
course with our countrymen in the North
and West.
1t has allowed the rebel soldicry to per-
secute the teachers of the colorcd schools,
and TO burn the churches in which the freed
men worshippcd the living God.
That "a system sobarbarous should have
eliminated in the lrightiul riot at Memphis,
and the still more appalling massacre at
New Orleans, was as natural as that
bloody war should flow from the teachings
of John c. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis.
Andrew johnson is responsible for all
these unspcakable crimes and cruelties.
As he provoked, so he iustics and applauds
thrm
Sendmg his agents and cmissarics into
this refined and patriotic metropolis, 10 III
sst upon making his reckless policy test
upon Christian people, he forgot that the
protection extended toithc 14th Of August
Convention in Philadelphia was not only
denied to the free people of New Orleans,
on the Both of July, when they assembled
to discuss how best to protect themselves,
but denied admist the slaughter Of hundreds
of innocent men.
No pare in the record of his recent out
RACES upon human justice and constitutional
law is more revolving than that which con-
cts him of refusing to arrest the prcpara-
tiOnS for that savage carnival. and not only
refusing to punish its authors. but of toiling
to throw the guilty responsibility upon the
nnoficnding and innocent freedmen.
The infatuated tyrant that stood ready to
crush his own people in Tennessee when
they were struggling to maintain govern
ment erected by himself against his and
their traitor prosecutors was even more
eager to illustrate his savage policy by
clothing with the most dcspotic power the
impcntent and revcngeful rebels of New
Orleans.
Notwithstanding this hcartlcsS dcsertion
and cruel persecution by Andrew Johnson
in the States of Missouri, Kentucky Ten
ncssee. West Virginia. Maryland Delaware
Democratic Republican rinciples-princi-
pies which the fathers of the Republic de-
signed for all Amcrica-arc now making
determined battle with the oligarchical enc
mics of free constitutional government
and by the blessing of God these States will
soon range themselves in line with the for
mcr free States, and illustrute the wisdom
and bcneiicencc of the great charter OF
American liberty by their increasing popu
lation. wealth and prosperity
In the remaining ten States the seeds OF
oigarchv planted in the Constitution by its
slavery features have grown to be Il mon
| stcr power. Recognition thus Wrun% from
| the reluctant Trainers of that great instru
| ment enabled these States to intrcnch them
selves behind the perverted doctrine o
| States rights. and sheltered by claim o
constitutional obligation 10 maintain slavery
in the States presented to the American
government the alternatives Of oligarchN
with slavery or. Democratic Republican
! government without slavery.
\ forbearinU Government. buwin" To ;
supposed constitutional bchcst HcquiCsce,
in the former alternative.
The hand of the Government was stnyct
for eighty years. The principles of con
stitutional liberty langu'hcd for want o
governmental support. OligarclN matured
its power with subtle design. Its history
for eighty years. is repletc with mparallel
cd 'iniurics and usurpations." 1t develop
cd only the agricultural localitieS-gco
graphically distinct from the free labor 10
with African slaves. 1t held four million
of human beings as chdttclS. yet made then
the basis of unjust representative power lo
themselves in Federal and State govern
mcnts To maiutain their cnsavement
1t excluded millions of free white laborcr
from the richest agricultural lands of tn
world. and forced them TO remain, inactiv
and unproductivc, on the mineral, manu-
featuring and lumber localities, comprlsin
two-thirds of the whole South in squal
miles and real undevcopcd wealth, simpl
because these localities were agricultural
too poor for slave labor.
1t condemned them to agriculture on tn
lnagricutural territory, and consigne
them to unwilling Ignorance and povert'
by denying capital and strangling entei
prise.
1t rcpeleG the capital, energy, will IN
skill of the free States. from the free labC
localities. by unmitigated intolerance an
, prescription thus guarding the approach'
of their slave domain against Democracy.
Statute books groaned under deSpot
Q laws against unlawful and msurrectlonar
assemblies. aimed at the'constitutional qua
E antee of the right to peaccably assemb
and petition for redress of grievances.
| II prescribed Democratic literature rs il
ccndary
1t nullifed the constitutional guarantee
| of freedom of speech and the press.
/ 1t deprived citizens of the other States
the privileges and immunities' in the
t States-an injury and usurpation alike II
+ lust to northern citizens and destructive
i the best interests of the States themselVe
Alarmed at the progress of democrac
h in the face of every discOuragement. at Ia
= it sought immunity by secession and wa
/ The heart sickeus with the contemplate
of the four years that folowed-forc'
Y loans. imprcssmcnts, conscription, WI
$ bloodhounds and bayOncts. murder of agt
. Union men, who had long laid aside the il
/. plemcnts of labor, but had been summon'
G anew to the field by the conscription of the
d sons. to support children and grandchil
Il ren. reduced from comfort TO starvation
e the slaughter of noble youths, types OF ply
: cal manhood, forced into an unholy W
r against those with whom they were iden
fled by every Interest long months of
It carceration i'm rebel bastiles, banishmc
II from homes and hearthstones, are but
e partial recital of the long catalogue of he
V. Ors.
lie But Democracy. North and South col
e, bined defeated them. They lost. WI
rs did they lose The cause of obligarch,
G. They lost African slavery by name ON
lt Soon as the tOcsin of war ceased-soon
o. the clang of arms was hushed-they ra
the cry of immediate admission and W
T. that watchword seek TO organize, und
" new forms, a.contest to perpetuate their |
of bridled sway. They rehabilitate th
IL sweeping control of all local and State
r ganizatiOns. The Federal Executive, cas-
he seduced, yields a willing obedience to