Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-09-15
THE APPEAL

or THE LOYAL MEN or THE SOUTH TO THEIR
-FELLow.crTrsENsj joF TIE UNITED STATES
The repreSeutatives Of eight millions OF
American citizens appeal for protection ano
Justice to their friends and brothers .in tne
states that hate been spared the cruslties OF
rebellidn. and the direct horrors OF civil war.
7 Here On. the spot where freedom was prot
fered and pledged by the fathers OF the Re-
public we impIore your help against reor-
ganized oppression, whose sole object is to
remit the control of our destinies to the con-
trivers Of the rebellion after. they lave been
yauouisbed in honorable battle--thus at
once to punish us for our devotion to our
country, and to intrench themselves in the
official Notifications of the Government. az
Others have related the thrilling story of
our wrongs from reading and observation.
We come before you as unchalengcd witnes-
ses, and speak from personal knowledge
our sad experience. If you fail us, we are
more utterly deserted and betrayed than if
the contest of arms had been decided against
us for in that case even victorious slavery
would have found profit in the speed pardon
of those who had been among it's 5ravest
foes. .4ol D. 9' tii7-H N l.a 1u q
Unexpected perfdy in the highest place
of the Government, accidentally filed by
one who adds cruelty 20 lngratitude, and
forgives the guilty as he proscribes the in
nocent, has stimulated the almost extin-
guished 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 a benefactor we find
prosecutor. Having lost our champion,
we return to you, who can make Presidents
and punish traitors.lg nH'' .noi'at. 1n-
/ Our last Hope, under God, is in the unity
and frmness of the States thar elected Abra-
ham 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
impoverish and degrade eight millions of
loyal men. 1s1 an0iroiy'y ~ t'i t10H
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 interiors
and victims. l -4a i] q Irl .HHa
We may fly from the homes; but we
should fear to trust our fate with those who,
after denouncing and defeating treason, re-
fused to right these who had bIavey assist
ed them in the good work.
Till we are wholly rescued there is neither
peace for you nor prosperity for us.
We cannot better define at once our wrongs
and our wants than by declaring that, since
Andrew johnson affiliated with his early
slanderers and our constant enemies, his
hand has been laid heavily upon every earn
est loyalist in the South. History, the just
judgment of the Present anG the certain con-
firmation of the Future, invite and command
US 20 declare ...r
That, after rejecting his own remedies for
restoring the Union, he has resorted to the
weapons Of traitors to bruise and beat down
patriots. .3 h..'. .fH.'t
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. s'a' .a
That, while in the North he has removed
conscientious men from Office and filled ma
ny of the vacancies with the sympathizers
OF treason, in the South he has removed the
proved and trusted patriot and selected the
equally proved and convicted traitor.
That, after brave men who had 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 stands fast to Andrew Johnson's cove
nants from 1861 to 1865 has been ostracised.
That be has corrupted the local courts by
offering premiums for defiance of the laws
OF Congress, and by openly discouraging the
observance of the oath against Treason.
That, while refusing to punish one single
conspicuous traitor, though thousands had
earned the penalty of death, more than a
thousand of devoted Union citizens have
been murdered in cold blood since the sur
render of Lee, and in no case have their as
sassins been brought to judgment.
That he has pardoned some of the worst
of the rebel criminals, North and South, in
Guiding some who have taken human life
under circumstances of unparalleled atrocity.
That, while denouncing and lettering the
operations of the Freedmen's Bureau, he,
with full knowledge of the falsehood, has
charged that the black men are lazy and re-
bellious, 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 the system of profiigacy
in the use of the public patronage and public
money wholly without parallel, save when
the traitors bankrupted the Treasury, and
sought to disorganize and scatter the army
and the navy, only to make it more easy to
capture and destroy the Government.
That, while declaring against the injustice
of leaving eleven States unrepresented he
has refused to authorize the liberal plan of
Congress, simply because it recognizes the
loyal majority and refuses to perpetuate the
traitor minority. ..I
That in every State south of Mason and
Dixon's line, his policy" has wrought the
most deplorable consequences, social, moral,
and political. inri.- ~ : 'T'0'
1t has emboldened returned 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 surrender before their arrogant
demands. Hi-
1t has corrupted high State officials.
elected by Union men, and sworn to enforce
the laws against returned rebels, and made
them the mere instruments of the authors of
the rebellion. 'o
1t has encouraged a new alienation be.
tween the sections. and by impeding emigra.
tion to the South, has erected formidable
barriers against tree and friendly intercourse
with our countrymen in the North and the
West. if luI .s.l Irt. II nan TT'~..''- I
1t has allowed the rebel soldiery TO perse-
cute the teachers Of the colored schools. and
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