Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-09-21
The Appeal Of the Loyal Men Of
the South TO their FcllOw-citizcns
Of the United states.

THE Appeal Of the Loyal Men Of
the South TO their FcilOw-citizcns
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 crueties of
rebellion and the direct horrors of civil war.
Here. on the spot where freedom was
proilGred and pledged by the fathers Of the
Republic. we implore your help against
rcorganized oppression, whose sole object is
to remit the control of our dcstinics to the
contrivers of the rebellion after they have
been vanquishcd in honorable battle-thus
at once to punish lis for our devotion to our
country and TO intrenCh themselves in the
official Notifications of the Government.
Others have related the thrilling stories
of our wrongs from reading and observa-
ton. We come before you as unchallcnged
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 of arms had been decid-
ed against us for in that case even victori-
ous slavery would have found profit in the
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among its bravest foes.
| Unexpected perlidy in the highest place
of the Government, accidentally filled by
one who adds cruelty to ingratitudc. and
fOrgives the guilty as he proscrbes the in
nOcent. has stimulated the almost eXtin-
guishcd revenge of the beaten conspirators !:
and now the rebels. who offered to yield
everything to save their own lives. are seek
ing to consign us TO bloody graves.
Where we expected Il bcnefactor we find
Il prosecutors Having lost our champion,
we return TO You, who can make Presidents
and punish traitors.
Our last hope. under God, is in the unity
and trmncss Of the States that elected
Abraham Lincoln and defeated Jefferson
Davis.
The best statement of our case is the ap-
palling yet unconscious confession of An
drew Johnson. who. in savage hatred of his
own record. proclaimS his purpose to clothc
four millions of traitors WITH the power to
impoversh and degrade eight millions OF
loyal men.
Our wrongs bear alike upon all races
and our tyrants. unchecked by you, will
award the same fate to white and black.
We can remain as we are only as infcri-
ors and victims.
We may fly from our homes, but We
should fear TO trust our fate with thOse,w who
after denouncing and defeating treason, re
fused to right those who had bravcly assist
ed them in good work.
Till we are wholly rescued there is nci
ther peace for you OF prosperity for us.
We cannot better define at once oul
wrongs and our wants than by declaring
that since Andrew johnson affiliated Will
his early sanderers and our constant enc
mics, his hand has been laid heavily upoI
every earnest loyalist in the South His
tory, Il just judgment of the President, ant
the certain confirmation of the future in
vite and command us TO declare
That, after rejecting his own remedies TO
restoring the Union. he has resortcd to tn
weapons Of traitors to bruise and beat dow
, patriots.
That, after declaring that none but tn
loyal should govern the reconstructed South
he has practiccd upon the maxim that non
but traitors shall rule.
That. while in the North he has remove,
= conscientious men from Office and file,
many of the vacancies with the sympathi2
ers of treason in the South he has removes
the proved and trusted patriot, and selecte
tho equally proved and convicted traitor.
- That after brave men who had Tough
for the old flag have been nominated TO
positions, their names have been rccallc
and avowed rebels substituted.
That every original Unionst in the Sout
n who stands fast to Andrew JohnsOn's coy
n cnants from 1861 to 1865, has been ostri
ciscd.
That he has corrupted the local courts b
II offering premiums for defiance of the law
9 of Congress, and by openly discouragin
the observances of the oath against treaso
a That, while refusing to punish one singl
conspicuous traitor, though thousands ha
earned the penalty of death, more than
thousand of devoted Union citizens hay
Z. been murdered in cold blood since the su
render of Lee, and in no case have the
assassins been brought to Judgment.
That he has pardoned some of the wor
of the rebel criminals, North and South,
Guiding some who have taken human Ii
under circumstances ofunparellelcd atrocit
That, while denouncing and lettering Il
operations of the Freedmen's Bureau, h
with full knowledge of the ialsehood, HI
charged that the black men are lazy and +
Ts bellous and has concealed the fact tn
of more whites than blacks have been pr
tected and fed by that noble organization
cd and that, while declaring that it was &C
ruptly managed and expensive TO the Go
de ernment, he has connived at II system
pronigacy in the use of the public patrO
al age and public money wholly without pa
allel, save when the traitors bankrupted t
by treasuryI and sought to disorganze a
scatter the army and the navy, only to ma
it more easy TO capture and destroy t
Government.
That while declaring against the injustl
of leaving eleven States unrepresented,
has refused to authorize the liberal plan
Congress, simply because ii recognizes
loyal majority, and refuses to porpetu'
in the traitor minority.
a That IN every State soulh Vi Musol Il
Dixon's line, his "policy" has wrought
'OS most deplorablc consequences, social, mo
and political.
1t has emboldened returned rebels
IT threaten civil war in Maryland, Missor