The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-09-06
Letter to the President--General Gram
vllIo Moody on the SItua tiOn.
TO the Editor of the
81 Cincinnati Gazette:

Irebluent Johnson, Dy Ucn. GranVllle
Moody, of this city Immediately after
that gentleman's return from Wash
ington, where he had personal inter,
view with the President on the q o II
questions of the day. AT the request
OF the Union State Committee, and al
so of several leading gentlemen of the
State, who were cognizant of the fact
that such letter had been forwarded
to tho Executive copy was obtained
from Gen Moody, with permission to
publish the same. Believing it will
be of great interest to your numerous
readers, l respectfully present the same
for publication in the Gazette.
Respectfully, &C.,
Aug. o, 1866. PIouA.
PIoUA, o., July IL, 1866.
His Ecreleqey AndreW johnson, PreSi-
dent of the United States:
DEAR SIR Pardon this intrusion on
your precious time. Ny sincere re.
gard for you personally, urges me TO
give you this warning of danger.
The impression, yes, the conviction;
is abroad in the land that the announ-
ced Philadelphia Convention is design
cd as the inception and nucleus of a
new party, designing 10 draw you in
to its circles, and if possible use you
and your official influence in further.
ance Of its partisan designs.
The facts that every Copperhead in
Congress has rushed into it, and that
the rebels of tho South are jubilant
over it, indicate its composition and its
designs.
1t doubtless intends the admission
of the eleven states which we have
subjugatcd to the authority of the Uni
ted States, without indemnity for the
past or security for the future, and
without conditions precedent Of any
kind.
Now, my honored friend, I affirm
that no living man has stood by you
more firmly and sincerely than have,
and caunot think of your being
drawn into that whirlpool where you
will 60 down with certainty, without
lifting up warning voice.
| am among the people, day by day;
l know their feelings, their modes OF
thinking, their latent and their active
patriotism. AndI know that if you
identity yourself with that party you
will be- ruined.
| see tho end as with d prophet s
eye. The grave df every Federal SOL
dler: the ghosts of our starved prison
ers in Belle Isle, Libby prison, and
Andersonville prison pens. Every
MANNED veteran, every widow in her
weeds, every orphan, every dollar OF
extra taxation, caused by traitors and
their allies, the Copperheads; every
humiliation we were compelled to sub.
nit to from foreign nations, enlisted
against us by the south; every recol-
lection Of our past ronown; every bat
tleield where our glory was won; ev-
cry wrong visited OH the freedm en- out
of spite to the Yankees, as we are al
called by the southern traitors and reb
els, every principle of sound states
manship; every cherished hope OF the
future for our institutions; every obli-
cation we owe to the dead and the liv'
ing, and those yet to live and our par
amount obligations to the God OF
justice and of nations, will be trumpet
tongued against this union of Copper
heads and ,ratorous rebels who com
bined like Herod and PLATE did, when
the hope of humanity was to be sacri-
feed.
tell you President that the excite
meut among the people is intense, and
thetide sets in no uncertain direction.
And the greater the elements that
gather around that Philadelphia spec
dlation, the greater will bo the power
aroused TO resist it.
''Iie who Of old would rend the oak,
Dreamed not of the rebound
All, sir. We suffered too much in
vested too much in the integrity OF
this nation to hazard its interests BY
any maudlin sympathy with the mel
who, il they had power, would be in
arms o.day against that flag, that you
proudly said should not come down
from the Capitol Of your native state
when God gave you. iniallible dircc
tions to maintain 1t, ut every hazard,
which you most noby did.
Listen not to the mermaid eong-
rather copperheai and pclican-thaI
comes from the Philadelphia specula
tion. The suuken rocks of rum ar,
there, and your noble craft, which has
weathered so many storms and lorna
does, will 90 to pieces there, "wherC
two seas meet.
| insure you that the infallible ir
stincts of the people arc against thai
concocting of the purity which at Chi
cago declared "the war for the main
tenanee of the Union failure, anc
ADVISED the withdrawing of oul
armies" from the bloody battlefield
where our national life was prescrv
cd.
Let that coalition become an estab
lished fact, and in proportion to thei
prospects OF success, is the gloom tha
hangs over our land. Our public secu
rites given to get money TO buy cloth
ing, food and ordnance, with which t
put down rebellion, are hazarded, pro
LESSONS to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
Security for the future, by accepte'
amendments to the organic and para
mount law of the nation, is our onl.
safety. And | assure you the peopl
will demand that.