Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-07

Further Proceedings of she Radical
Convention.

resolution for the appointment Of a commit
Tee oi I'VE 20 prepare an address to the Southern
people. was offered and referred
Mr.. BINGHAM. Of Alabama offered A resolution
declaring that Congress should appoint a commit
tee to INVESTIGATE the alleged frauds of officers
connected with the Treasury Department. who
cotton.
The committee Of i've appointed yesterday to
take action on the welcome extended 10 Southern
delegates BY the Mayer and citizens Of pbiladef-
phia, made report, expressing their high appre-
citation Of the hOspitable and generous manner in
which they mad been received by the citizens and
authorities of Philadelphia.
Mr.. CREsWELL, of Maryland, presented the re-
port Of fbecOmmittee ON the address
Mr.. Boris desired 10 know how the reports Of
the committee were TO be received He thought
It proper 10 settle the question as % how voters
were to be tskea, whether By yeas end nays az
otherwise.
The Chair suggested that the question Of voting
should not be raised until It was seen whether
there was anything Objectionable 70 any delegates
in the address.
Mr.. BORIS said that with the understanding
that II there was anything objectionable to him
or any other delegates in the address vote would
be called He would waive his question for the
present
Mr.. CREsswELL then proceeded to read. from
the presidents desk. the report Of the Com
mittee on Address. Introducing il with the re-
mark that Il bad been unanimously agreed upon
by the e0mmittee appointed TO prepare that ap-
peal Of the loyal men Of the South TO their fell
low-etizens Of the United States. The represen-
tatlves OF eight millions of American citizens
appeal for protection and justice to their friends
and brOthersi in the States that have been spared
the cruelties Of the rebellion and the direct hor-
rOrs Of civil war; here on the spot where freedom
was proheFed and pledged by the fathers Of the
Republic, we impl0re your help against a reor-
ganized oppression. whose sole object is 10 remit
the control Of our desiin.es 10 the eontrivers of
the rebellion after they have been vanquished in
honorable battle, thus az once 10 punish as for
our deyOti0nstO our country and to the interest
Of themselves. Others have related the thrilling
story of cur wrongs from reading and Obscrva-
ton. we come before you as unchallenged Wit
nesSeS, and speak from personal knowledge, our
sad experience II you fail US we are more ut
terry deserted and betrayed than If the contest
had been decided against us for in that case even
If victorious, slavery could have found profit in
the speedy pardon OF those who had been among
its brayeSt foes. Unexpected perfdy in the high
est places Of the Government followed by one
who adds cruelty to ingTahtude. and forgiyes
the guilty as he prOsecutes the innocent, has
stimulated the almost eXtinguished revenge
beaten cOnspiratOrs and raw rebels who offered to
yield everything TO save their lives, are now
seeking eOnsignors to a bloody grave Where we
eXpecteda benefactOr we find prosecutor. Hav-
ing lost our champion We return TO you who can
invoke Presidents aud punish traitors. Our last
hope under God IS the amity and hrmness of the
States that elected ABRAHAM LINCOLN and defeat
ed JEFFERSON DAVIS. The best statement of our
cause is the appalling yet unconscious confession
OF ANDREW JOHNSON, who. IN savage hatred Of his
own record proelaims his purpose 70 elothe four
millions of traitors with power to impOverish and
degrade eight millions of loyal mel.
Our wrongs bear alike on all races, and our ty-
rant, unchecked By you, viii award the same fate
to white and black. We can remain as we are,
only as interiors and victims. We may hy from
our homes, but we should fear to trust our fate
with those who after denOuneing and defeating
treason refused to right those who have bravely
assisted them in the good work. Till we are
wholly rescued there is neither peace for you nor
property for us, We can better definite at once
our wrongs and our wants than by declaring that
since ANDREW JOHNSON affiliated with his easily
slanderers, and our constitutional enemies, his
hand has been laid heavily upon every earnest
History, the just judgment Of the present and
TIE certain confirmation Of the future, invite and
command us to delare that, atter rejecting his own
remedies for restoring the Union, he has resorted
TO the weapons of traitors to bruise and beat down
patriots; that after declaring the reconstruction
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
filed many Of the vacancies with the sympa-
thlsers Of treason in the South.
He has removed the poor patriot and selected
the convicted traitor to fill his place; that after
brave men who have fought for the old flag have
been nominated for positions, their names have
been recalled, and avOWed rebels substituted;
that every original UniOnist in the South, who
stood fast TO ANDREW JOHNsON's Government
from 1865 to 1866 has been Ostracised that he has
corrupted the loyal courts by Offering premiums
for difference of the laws Of Congress, and By
openly discOuraging the observance Of Oaths amid
treason that while refusing to punish the single
cOnSpIratOr. though thousands had earned the
penalty of death, more than a thousand Union
citizens have been murdered in cold blood
since the surrender Of LEE, and in no case
have their assassins been brought to Judgement.
That he has pardOned some of the worst Of rebel
criminals North and South. including some who
have taken life under circumstances Of unparal-
leled atroeity; that while deneuncing and fetter-
ing the operations Of the Freedmen's Bureau he
with full knowledge Of the falsehOod, has
charged that the blacks are lazy and re-
bellious, and has concealed the fact that
more whites than blacks have been protected and
fed by that noble organization that while de-
claring that lt was corruptly managed and an eX-
pense to the Government, he has cOnniyed at a
system Of prohigaey in the use Of the public pa
tronage and public money wholly without n
parallel save when the traitors bankrupted
the Treasury and also sought to disOrganize
and scatter the army and the navy, and to make
it more easy to capture the Government; that
while discOursing against the injustice Of leaving
eleven States unrepresented he has refused to
authorize the liberal plan in Congress. simply be-
cause it recognizes a loyal majority and re-
fuses 70 perpetuate the traitor minority; that in
every State south Of MASON and Dixon line His
policy has wrought the most deplOrable cOnse-
quenees socially, morally and politically. 1t has
embOldened returned rebels to threaten civil war
in Maryland, MissOusi, Western Virginia and
Tennessee, unless the patriots who saved the
States to the old flag surrendered to their arrogant
demand. It has corrupted high State officials.
elected by Union men and sworn to enforce laws
against returned rebels, and made them the mere
instruments Of the authors Of the rebellion. II
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midable barrier against free and friendly inter-
course with the Northwest. IL has allowed the
rebel soldier to prosecute the teachers Of the coli
ored schools. and to burn the churches in which
the freedmen wOrshipped. That q system so
barbar0us should have eliminated in the frightful
riot Of Memphis, and still more appalling massa-
ere OF New Orleans, was as natural as that a
bloody war should flow from the teachings Of JNO.
Q. CALHOUN and JEFFERSON DAVIS. ANDREW
JOHNSON is responsible for all these unspeakable
cruelties, and 0s he provoked so he justii es and
applauds them, sending his agents and emissaries
into the refined and patriotic metropolis to insist
upon making his reckless policy . test upon a
Christian people. Iii forgot that the protection
extended 10 the 18th Of August Convention in
Philadelphia was not only denied to the free pe0-
pie of New Orleans on the Sd Of July when they
assembled to discuss how best to protect
themselves. but denied, amidst the Slaughter
Of hundreds of innocent men. No page in
the record Of his recent Outrages on human JUS
tiee and constitutional law is revolving than
that Of which he slcOnvicted Of refusing to arrest
The perpetrators Of that savage carnival, and not
only Of refusing to punish its author, but Of toll
ing through the guilty responsibility upon unof-
tending and innocent freedmen. The infatuated
yrant that stood ready to crush bis own people in
Tennessee when they were struggling 10 maintain
4 Government erected by himself against his and
Jther traitors, prosecutions, was even more eager
10 illustrate bis savage policy By clothing with
most despotic power the rioters Of New Orleans,
the heartless desertiOn and cruel
persecution by ANDREW JOHNSON.
The States Of Maryland. Kentucky. Tennessee.
W est Virginia, and Delaware, imbued with Demo-
ratio republican principles which the father Of
he republic designed, are now making determined
lattIe with the enemies Of free constitutional
government, and by the blessings Of God these
states viii soon range themselves IN line with the
ormer free States, and illustrate the wisdom and
beneficial results Of the great charter Of American
liberty by their increasing population, wealth and
prosperity. In the remaining ten States the seeds
# Oligarchy, planted in the Consultation BY its sa-
-ery features has grown to be a monstr0us power,
whose recognition thus wrurg from the reluctant
Tamers ofthat instrument, enabled these States TO
,nlarge themselves behind the perverted doctrine
# State rights, and sheltered By claim Of eOnsti-
utional obligations 70 maintain slavery in the
states. TO present the American Government
he alternates Of OiigaTchy with slavery or Dem
.cratic Republican Government without slavery.
l fOrbearing Government. bowling 70 n supposed
constitutional behest, acquiesce, in the former
alternative. The hand Of Government was stay
d for eighty years, the principles Of C0nstitu-
ional liberty languished for want Of Government
upport, oligarchy matured its power with subtle
esign. is history for eighty three years Is re-
llete with unparalleled injuries and usurpatiOn
I developed only in the agricultural localities
geographically distinct from the free labor l0cali-
y, and less than One-third Of tho whole, with
African slavery il held four millions Of human
oings as ehatiels, yet made them the basis Of
must power for themselves in the Federal and
To maintain their enslavemenf. Il excluded
billions Of white lab0rars from riches. Aerieul-
ural lands would have forced them 70 remain in
ctive and unpreductvo on the mineral, manu-
lcturirg and lumber localities, composing two
birds 0f the whole South in square miles and real
wealth, simply because the locale /
les were asrieuituraliy too poor for Save labor.
nd condensed them to agriculture on this inagri-
ultural territory, and consigned them 70 unWil-
ing ignorance and poverty. and BY denying capt. |
a and struggling enterprise L repealed the cspi
sbor localities, b. unmltigated intolerance aad /
crsecntion, thus guarding the approaches 10 /
heir slave domain against Democracy.
The statute books groaned under desp0tic laws /
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