The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-06-22
CHERoKEE CouSrY, GEoRUrA,
Nav 10. 1866,

! To, tie Honorable Secretary Of War
| cmbrlce this opportunity 10 address
| you few words on tho situation OF my
portion Of tho country, and to say to yot
! that il is indae in bad condition. We
Union mcn and Union soldiers Of Northern
| Georgia are left in the worst situation Of
any men in the Government.
Whilst myself aud a number OF Others
were IN the Union service, aud others still
were gone North TO escape the rebel con
scription, our houses were burnt and our
property destroyed or carried off by rowing
aud numbering guerrillas.
Does not your honor know that the way
in which All attempt has been made TO settle
matters in Georgia is detrimental to the
interests of Union men 2 The amnesty oath
that Provisional Governor johnson admin
istered to traitors and guerrllas continues
them in Office, and consequently they have
possession of all the courts throughout the
State. Before these courts we Union
soldiers and loyal mon cannot get even a
hearing for the recovery OF the property,
which we lost because We continued faith
full to the Government. Everything that
belongs to VS. is in the hands OF guerrilas
who took possession Of il while we were
fighting for our country, and now wo cannot
even obtain hearing for our rights before
these rebol courts.
Now, we ask you, as Secretary OF War,
to say to Congress to remember their friends
in the South for we cannot live here un.
less our own is restored TO us, aud we are
protected in the possession of it.
Tho rebels have everything their own
way, and no punishment is meted out to
them, And ask, in the name of heaven,
il we Union men of the South who have lost
all our property, taken from us by traitors
and had our fathers and brothers murdered
by Our mercilcss enomies--if we are to have
no help and no protection, while those who
fought against the country and did us all
these wrongs, are fully protected and re-
stored, and permitted still further to wrong
and ruin us Where sholl we turn for
relief, if not to that Government for whose
sake we brought all this woe upon our
heads?
Now, our honorcd friends, we pray you
to do all you can for us. Say to Congress
that we pray them to give Us n little aid
can truthfully say that this paper expresses
the wants and wishes of all the Union men
in Northern Georgia whom | know. My
self and others have been repeatedly
threatened with death if We even ask for
justice here or elsewhere. We know. III
thus appealing to you, we are not asking
more than merest justice and commonest
would award to us.
In conclusion, we beg you again to lazy
our case before the Congress, and urge our
lororn situation upon them. And if they
fail, wo ask you to send command Of
soldiers hither, to compel tho rebels who
plundored us either to pay lis or restore
US our property.
These are but thoresults OF "my policy"
so stubbornly adhered to by tho Dcma
goguo OF tho White House, whose under
strappers and lackeys have spent both
time and money in their vain cndeavors to
secure tho sympathy and support of Ohio
But, Ohio will never so far malign the
glorious record she has made during the
war, by her Hcquiescenco TO n policy that
crushcs tho Union men of the South and
gives force to the vengeance of their traitor
enemies. For tho sake of the triumph Of
tho Government they loved, these men
braved danger in every shape, all social
and political persecution, all poverty and
forms of death, Shall their appeal be
disregardod now