Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-09-13
Address Of Southern men at
Fhi!G delphia.
The Appeal Of the Loyal Men Of the
South 10 their Fe1lOw-Citizens
of the United States.

The representatives of eight millions OF
American citizens appeal for protection
and justice to their friends and brothers
in the States that have been spared the
cruelties of the rebellion and the direct
horrors of civil war.
Here, on the spot where freedom was
proffered and pledged by the fathers of the
Republic, we implore your help against a
recognized oppression, whose sole object
is To- remit the control of our dessinieS TO
the contrivers of the rebellion after they
have been vanquishcd in honorable battle,
thus at once to punish us for our devotion
TO our country. and to ertrench themselves
in the official Notifications of the Govern
ment
Others have related the thrilling story
of our wrongs, from reading and -observa-
ton.
We come before YOU as unchallenged
witnesses, and speak from personal knOwl-
edge our sad experience. If You fail us,
we are more utterly deserted and betrayed
than if the contest had been decided
against us; for in that case eksn victorious
slavery would have found 'profit in the
speedy pardon of those who lad been
among its bravest foes.
Unexpected perfidy in the highest place
of the Government, accidentally filled by
one who adds cruelty to ingratitude, and
forgives the guilty as lie proscribes the in
nOcent. has stimulated the almost cXtin-
guished revenge ofthe beaten conSpirators;
and now. the rebels who offered to yield
everything to save their own lives, are ask
ing to consign us To bloody graves.
Where we expected benefactor we find
a prosecutor.
Having lost our Champion we return 10
you who can invoke Presidents and pun
l>h traitors. Our last hope under God Is
the unity and firmness OF the States that
elected Abraham Lincoln and defeated jeff
Davis.
The best statement of our cause is the
appalling. yet unconscious confession of
Andrew johnson. who. i'm savage hatred of
his own record. prOeaims his purpose to
clofhn fo"~ ',';llinns nf traitors with the
power to impoverish and degrade eight
millions of loyal men. Our wrongs bear
alike on all races. and our tyrants uncheck-
ed. You will award the same fate to white
and black. We may fly from our homes,
but we should fear to trust our fate with
those who. after denOuncing and defeating
treason, refuse 10 right those who have
bravely assisted them in the good work.
Until we are wholly rescued there is nei-
ther peace for YOU nor prosperity for us
We cannot better define at once our wrongs
and our wants. than by declaring that since
4. johnson affiliated with his early SLAM
dercrs and our constant enemies, his hand
has been laid heavily upon us in the
South.
History, the Just judgment of the pres
ent. and the confirmation of the future, adj
wise and declare that after rejecting his
own remedies for restoring the Union, he
has resOrted to restoring the weapons OF
traitors to bruise and beat down the 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 sympathizcrs of treason in
the South. he has removed the proved and
true patriots. and selected the equally
proved and convicted traitors; that after
brave men. who had fought for the old ilag
have been nominated for positions. their
names have been recalled and avowcd rcb-
els substituted: that every original Unionist
in the South. who stands fast To Andrew
.Johnson's covenants from 1861 to 1866,
has been OstraciZed: that he has corrupted
the local courts, by Offering premiums for
defiance of the laws of Congress- and by
discouraging the observance of oaths
against treason. while refusing TO punish
one single conspirator, though thousands
had earned the penalty of death. More
than a thousand of devoted Union citizens
have been murdered in cold blood since
the surrender of Lee and in no case have
their assassins been brought to Judgment;
that he has pardoned some of the worst OF
the rebel criminals of the South, including
some who have taken human life under
circumstances ofunparalleled atrocity; that
while denouncing and lettering the opera
tons of the Freedmen's Bureau, he, with
full knowledge of lalschOOd, has charged
that the black men are lazy and rebellious
and has concealed the fact that more whites
| than blacks have been protected and fed
by that noble organization; and that while
declaring that it was cOrruptly managed
and expensive TO the Government, he has
connived at a system of proiligacy in tho
use of the public patronage and the pubic
money wholly without parallel save when
the traitors bankrupted the treasury and
sought to disorganize and scatter the army
and navy. only to make it more easy t.
capture the Government; that while de
Glazing against the injustice of leaving elcy.
en- States unrepresented, he has refused tc
authorize the liberal plan of Congress, sim.
ply because it recognizes the loyal majority
and refuses to perpetuate the traitor minor
ity; that in every State south of Mason 6
Dixon's line, his policy has wrought the
most deplorable consequences, social, NOR
al and political. 1t has emboldened return.
ed rebels to threaten civil war in Maryland
Missouri, West Virginia, and Tennessee
unless the patriots who saved and sealed
these States to the old flag surrendered be
fore their arrogant demand. 1t has cor
rupted high State officials, elected by
Union men, and sworn to enforce the law:
against returned rebels, and made then
the mere instruments of the authors of the
rebellion Ii has encouraged new aliena
ton between the sections, and by impeding
emigration to the South, has erected for
midable barrier against free and friendly
intercourse in the North and West. 1t ha.
allowed the rebel soldiers to prosecute the
teachers of the colored schools, and burn
ed the churches in which the freedmen hav,
worshipped the living God.
That a system so barbarous should have
eliminated in the frightful riots of Mem
phis. and the still more appalling massacre
of New Orleans, was as natural as that
bloody war should follow from the teach
ings of John G. Calhoun and jeff Davis.
] Andrew Johnson is responsible for al