Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-09-13
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1856.
Address to the People.

Philadelphia last week. 1t was written
hy Senator Creswell of Maryland, chair
man 8, the committee appointed TO draft
il, reported by unanimous direction of
the committee, and adopted almost
unanimously by the convention
The Representatives of the eight mil
lions Of American citizens appeal Tor
protection and justice to their friends
and brethren in the states that have been
SHARED the cruelties of the rebellion and
the direct horrors of civil war. Here,
on the spot where freedom was pronered
and pledged by the fathers Of the Repuo-
lie. we implore your help against re-
organized oppression, whose sole OBJECT
is to remit the control of our destlnies
to the contrivers of the rebellion after
they have been vanquished in honorable
battle, thus at once to punish US for our
devotion to our country, and to entrench
themselves in the official fortifcations
of the government. Others have related
the thrilling story of our wrongs from
reading and observation we come be-
fore YOU as unchallenged witnesses, and
speak from personal knowledge our SAD
experience. II you fail US we are more
utterly deserted and betrayed than II the
contest had been decided against us-ior
in that case even victorious slavery
would have found profit in the speedy
pardon Of those who had been among its
bravest foes. Unexpected pertidy IN the
highest place Of the government, accl-
dentally filled by one who adds cruelty
to ingratitude, and forgives the guilty
as he persecutes the innocent, has stlm-
ulated the almost eXtinguished revenge
of the beaten conspirators; and now the
rebels, who offered to yield everything
to save their own lives, are seeking TO
consign US TO bloody graves. Where we
expected benefactor we find q perse-
cutor. Having lost our champion we
return to you, who can make Presidents
and punish traitors. Our last hope I'M
der God is in the unity and frmness of
the states that elected Abraham Lin
coin and defeated Jefferson Davis. The
best statement of our case is the appall-
ing, vet unconscious, confession OF An
drew johnson, who, in savage hatred OF
his record, proc aims his purpose to
clothe four millions OF traitors with the
power to impoverish and degrade eight
millions Of loyal men. Our wrongs bear
alike on all races, and our tyrants, I'M
checked by you, will award the same
fate to white and black. We can remain
interiors and victims; we may fly from
our homes: but we should fear to trust
our fate with those who, after denounc-
ing and defeating treason, refused to
right those who have bravely assisted
them in the good work. Till we are
wholly secured there is neither peace Tor
you nor prosperity for us.
SOUTHERN WRONGS AND wANTs-GRAvE
CHARGES AGAINST PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
We cannot better define at once our
wrongs and orr wants, than by declaring
that since Andrew Johnson affiliated
with his early slanderers and our con-
slant enemies, his hands have been Iald
heavily upon every loyalist in the South.
History, the just judgment OF the pres
ONT. and the certain confirmation OF the
Fntllre. invite and command Us to de-
clare
That after 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 that none but the
loyal should govern the reconstructed
South, he has practised upon the maxim
that none but traitors shall rule;
That while in the North he has re
moved conscientious men from Office anC
filled many o. the vacancies with the
sympahiZers of treason in the South he
has removed the proved and trusted pa
triot and selected the equally proved and
convicted traitor;
Th,g after brave men who had fought
for TIE old flag have been nominated fol
post ions, their names have been recalled
and EVowed rebels substituted.
Thal every original Unionist in the
South who stands fast to Andrew John,
sons covenants from 1851 to 1865 has
been .0sJracised;
That he has corrupted the local courts
by offering premiums for the defiance Of
the laws OF Congress, and by openly dis
couragiDg the observance Of the oath
against treason;
That while refusing to punish one
single conspicuous traitor (though thou.
sands had earned the penalty of death,
more than thousand Of devoted Union
citizens have been murdered in cold
blood since the surrender of Lee, and In
nocase have their assassins been brought
to judgment;
That he has pardoned some OF thu
worst Of the rebel criminals, North anC
South including some who have taker
human life under circumstances Of I'M
paralleled atrocity;
That while denouncing and lettering
the operation of the Freedmens Bureau
he, with full knowledge of the false
hood, has charged that the black mel
are lazy and rebellious, and conceals tn
fact that more whites than blacks hav
been protected and fed by that noble or
ganization and that, while declaring
that it was corruptly managed and ex
pensive TO the government, he has con
nived at system of prohigacy in thu
use of the public patronage and the pub
lie money, wholly without parallel, saw
when the traitors bankrupted the treas
ury and sought to disorganize and scat
Ter the army and the navy, only to max
it more easy to capture the government
That while declaring against the in