The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-07
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FRon PHILADELPHIA.


PanADnfH1A, Sept. 8.
The Southern delegates met at National
Hall at 1o:80a. nj Prayer was offered BY
Rev. DR.. Bedell A telegram was received
from the Republican State Convention,
at Syracuse, cong gratulating the convention
upon the favorable auspices under which its
sessions were being held. It was read amid
great applause.
/ Mr.. Sidney offered resolution for the ~.
poiniment Of committee of i've 70 raiss
funds for defraying the expenses OF the con-
vention, which was adopted.
| A resolution for the appointment Of q COM
mittee of i've to prepare an address 70 tne
Southern people was offered and referred.
Mr.. Bingham, of Alabama, offered reso-
luton declaring that Congress should appoint
committee to investigate the alleged frauds
of officers connected with the Treasury de-
partment engaged in the collection OF confed-
crate cotton.
On motion of Mr.. Bereman the above was
referred to the committee on Resolutions.
The committee of FIVE appointed yesterday
to take action on the welcome extended to
Southern delegates by the Mayor and city Of
philadelphia made q report expressing their
high appreciation of the generous manner in
which they had been received by the citizens
and authorities of Philadelphia.
| Mr. Cresswell Of Maryland, presented the
report Of the committee on the address.
Mr.. Butts desired to know how the reports
of the committee were to be received. be
thought proper to settle the question az to
how votes we're to be taken, whether by yeas
and nays, or otherwise.
The Chairman suggested that the question
of voting should not be raised until it was
seen whether there was anything objection.
able to any delegate in the address.
| Mr. Butts said that with the understanding
that if there was anything Objectionable to
him, or to any other delegate in the audience,
vote would be called, and he would waive
his question for the present.
| Mr. Cresvell then proceeded to read. He
| read from the President 8 desk introducing 1t
with the remark th at it had been unanimously
| agreed upon by the committee appointed to
prepare it,.
THE APPEAL OF THE LOYAL MEN OF THE SOUTH
TO THEIR FELLowctTlzEss OF THE UElTFp
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 crue lties Of
rebellion and the horrors of civil war. Here
on the spot where freedom was prohered and
pledged by the fathers of the Republic, we
| plore your help against \ reorganizer's op-
preston, whose sole object il TO remit the
control of our destinies to the controverts of
rebellion after they have been vanquished IN
honorable battle; thus at once to punish US
| for our devotion to our country, and to en-
trench themselves in the official fortifcations
Of the government Others have related the
| thrilling stories of our wrongs from reading
and observation We come before you as
unchallenged witnesses. and speak from per-
| sonal knowledge our sad experience. If you
| fail us we are utterly deserted and betrayed,
worse than if the contest had been decided
| against US, for in that case even victory of
slavery would have found profit in the speedy
pardon of those who had been among Its
bravest tfoes-unexpected per6dy in the high
| est place OF the Government, accidentally
| filled by one who adds cruelty to ingratitude,
and forgives the guilty as he prescribed
the innocent, has stimulated the almost ex>
| tngnished revenge of the beaten conspirator,
and now rebels who Offered to yield every
thing to save their own lives are seeking to
consign rs to bloody graves. Where we ex-
pected benefactor we find prosecutor.
| Having lost our champion we return to you
who can invoke Presidents and punish traits
| ors. Our last hope under God is in the unity
| and firmness Of the States that elected Abras
ham Lincoln, and defeated JEFF. Davis. The
| best statement of our case is the appalling
vet unconscious confession of Andrew John
son. who in savage hatred of his own record.
| proclaims his purpose to ciothe four million
| of traitors with the power TO impoverish and
degrade eight million Of loyal men. Our
| wrongs bear alike on all races, and our ,y-
| rants unchecked will award the same fate
| 10 whites and blacks. We can remain as we
are only as Interiors and victims; We may hy
/ l.. u c..
our fate with those who after denouncing and
defeating treason refused TO right those who
bravely assisted them in their workO Until
we are wholly rescued, there is neither peace
for you nor property for us. We cant bet
ter define at once our wrongs and wants than
! by declaring that johnson, affiliated
with his early slanders, aud our
constant crimes has been laid upon
us in the South; the jusk Judgment OF the
presena aud confirmations Of the future ad,
wise. and declared that after rejecting his own
remedies for restoring the Union he has re-
sorted to restoring the weapons OF traitors to
beat down patriots; that after declaring that
none but loyal should govern the reconstrue-
ted South he has practced upon the maxim
that none but traitors shall rule; that while
| in the North he has removed conservatives
| from Office and filled many vacancies with
sympathizers of treason ins&he South, he re-
moved the proved and true patriots and Sc
lected the equally proved and convicted trai-
tors: that after brave men who fought for the
| flag have been nominated for positions their
names have been recalled and rabid rebels
substituted. Every original unionist in the
South who stands fast to th e John.
son covenants from 1861 to 1856, has been
ostracised; that he has corrupted local courts
by offering premiums for defiance of the
laws of Congress and by openly disregardng
the observance ofoaths against treason. While
refusing to punish one single conspirrtcr,
though thousands had earned the penalty Of
death, more than a thousand Of Union citi-
xens have been murdered in cold blood since
the surrender of Lee, and in no case have
these assassins been brought to judg-
ment; that he has pardoned some Of
the worst rebels Of the South. including
some who have taken human life under
circum stances Of unparalleled attrocity; that
while denouncing and lettering the operations
of the Freedmen Bureau he, with full knowl-
edge OF falsehood, has charged that the black
men are szy and rebellious, and has conceal.
ed the fsoi thst moro whites than blacks have
bsen protected and fed by that noble organi.
zAtion; aud while declaring it was corruptly
managed and expensive to the Government
be has connived at system OF prohigacy in
the use of the public patronage and public