The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-09-21

treason and traitors.
"tIs there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores Of Heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man |
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin 7 ~
-[Speech in the Senate, Feb. 6, 1861.
liz PLEDGES HmsRLF TO FIGHT TREASON FoREvRN.
"A distinguished Senator from Georgia
once said: when traitors become nu-
merous enough treason becomes respecta-
ble.' Traitors are getting to be 80 nu-
merous now that | suppose treason has
almost got respectable; but God being
willing, whether traitors be many or few,
az have hitherto waged war against trea.
son and traitors, and in behalf of the Gov.
ernment which was constructed by our
fathers INTEND TO CONTINUE 1T TO THE END.
-[Speech in the Senate June 27, 1861.
now HE TREATEr REBELs IN 1852.
In 1862 Andrew Johnson, then Military
Governor of Tennessee, issued the follow.
ing proclamation
ExEcuTIvE OFFICE,
NASHVILLE, TENE May, 1852.
WHEREAS Certain persons, unfriendly
aud hostile to the Government of the United
States, have banded themselves together,
and are now going at large through many
of the counties of this State, arresting,
maltreating aud plundering Union citizens
wherever found:
Now, therefore, Andrew Johnson, Gov
ernor of the State Of Tennessee. by virtue
of the power and authority in me vested,
do hereby proclaim that every instance
where o Union man is arrested and NAL
treated by the marauding bands aforesaid,
| five or more rel els, from the most promi-
nent in the immediate neighborhood, shall
be arrested, imprisoned, and otherwise
dealt with as the nature of the case may
require and further, in all cases where the
property of citizens loyal to the Govern
meut cf the United States is taken or de-
stroyed, full and complete remuneration
shall bo made to them out of the property
of such rebels in the vicinity as have SYM
pathized with, given aid, comfort, inlorma-
tion, or encouragement to the parties COM
mtting such depredations.
This order will be executed in letter and
spirit All citizens are hereby warned,
under heavy penalties, from entertaining,
receiving or encouraging such persons, so
banded together, or in any way connec |
herewith ANDREW JOHNSON.
EDWARD H. EAST, Secretary of State.
In the same month Turner S. Foster, a
we'll known secessionist, was elected Judge
of the Circuit Court at Nashville. Mr. John.
same day arrested him as a traitor aud sent
him to the penitentary.
In the same mouth he arrested six cler-
gymeulpf Nashville for preschiu- secession
and on their declining to take the oath o
allegiance, sent five t. prison, parolug the
sixth on account of illness.
In August, 1862, he issued a circular to
the wealthy secessionists of Nashville, re
quiring them to contribute from fifty tC
three hundred dollars each for the relief o.
the suffering Union families of Tennessee.
Hs DEFINES TIE QUALIFICATION OF ELECTIONS.
In December, 1862, he issued procla
nation for the election Of members of Con
gress in the Ninth and Tenth Districts o
Tennessee, which concludes al follows
mo person shall be considered an elec
tor, qualified to vote, who in addition t
the other qualifications required 10y law
docs not give satisfactory evidence to the
Judges before holding the election, of hi
loyalty to the Government Of the UuitcC
States"
He WANTS ETERNAL JUsTIcs SECURED.
"WhiIe society is in this disordered
State, and we are seeking security, let III
fix the foundations of the Government oil
the principles of ETERNAL JUSTICE, which
will endure for sil time."-ESpeech at Nash
vile, June, 1864.
LOYAL MEN TO RULE TRNNEssER-REBELs MUST b
DUMB.
"Loyal men from this day forward are t
be controllers of Tennessee's grand ant
sublime destiny, and rebels must be dumb
we will not listen to their counsel. Now
is no longer the place to hold their meet
ings. Let them gather their reasonable
| al w thai fri
in the Confederacy. They shall not hol,
their conSpiracies in Nashville. = ISpeeo
to the Golored men of Nashville, 1864.
LOYAL MKN, WHETHER WHITE OR BLACK, ALONE t
RULE THE SOUTH.
/. "Standing here upon the steps of til
Capitol, with the past history of the Stat
to witness, the present condition to guide
aud the future to encourage me, |. Audrey
Johnson, do hereby proclaim FREEDOM, FUL
. BROAD AND UNCONDITIONAL, to every man i
Tennessee. will indeed b
be your MOSES and lead you through thu
Red Sea of war and bondage to the faire
' land of Liberty and peace. speak noN
/ as one who feels the world his country, au
all who love equal rights his friends.
speak, too, as a citizen of Tennessee. | al
here on my own soil, and here mean I
stay aud fight this great battle of truth an
Justice to a triumphant end. REBELLIo
! AND SLAVERY SHALL BY COPS GOOD HELP N
= LONGER PoLLUTE OUR STATE. LOYAL MEN
WHETHER WHITE OR BLACK, SHAL
ALONE CONTROL HER DESrGNIES.
-ISpeeoh to the colored men cf Nashville
: October "a, 1864.
TREASON MUST BIZ PUMsHSD.
a ain my opinion, evil dOers should b.
!. punished TREASON IS THE HIGHE.T GRIM
? KNOWN IN THEioATALoGUE OF CRIMES AND 70
A HIM THAT is GUILTY OF IT-FOR HIM THAT
q wILLiNa TO LIFT HIS MPIoUs HAND AGAIEs
J.. THE AUTHORITY OF THE EATIoE-l WOULD sA
= DEATH Is TOO EASY PUNISHMENT. My N,
r TIoN Is THAT TREASON MUST BE MAD
r ODIOUS. AND TRAITORS BE PUNISHED
4 AND IMPOVERISHED, their social powe
a broken that they may be made to feel tn
penalty of their crime. You, my friends
a have traitors in your very midst and trea
| son needs rebuke and punishment here a
O well as elsewhere. Hence, ! sa
! This: THE HALTER TO INTELLIGENT
d NFLUENTIAL TRAITORS! THE LEAF
h ERS WOULD HANG. / hold, too, ths
!. wealthy traitors should be made to n
D munerate those men who have suffered q
e a consequence of their crime-Union me
R who have lost their property, who hay
E been driven from their homes beggaTs an
;, wanderers among strangers. Let us con
d meuce the work. WE EHAvE PUT DOWN THE'
,e IN ARMS, LET Us PUT THEN DOWN IN LAW,
q PUBLIC JUDGMENT AND IN THE MORALS OF III
woRLD."-lSpeech in Washington, April
1865.