Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-05-03
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Towanda Thursday, May 8, 1866
THE REBELS AND THE LOYAL BLACKS

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THE REBELS AND THE LOYAL BLACKS.
In his speech justifying Congress for en-
franchising the blackmen Of the District OF
Columbia, Senator Landon made some good
points In comparing the conduct during
the war, and the present position of Robert
Z. Lee with that of Robert Small, the slave,
who took the vessel he plotted for the reb-
els, at great personal risk, to our side, and
managed it for the government, doing us
and our cause signal service, our Senator
presents "a marked contrast, strongly favor
ing the blackman yet he, with bis heroic
services, and the evidence he therein gives
Of manly intelligence, is denied the rights
of citizenship, while the double-staned
traitor and perjurer Lee, who received his
military education from the government,
and had sworn to defend it against inva-
sion aDd rebellion, joined hands with the
enemies who would destroy it, and unmind-
ful of his obligations, disregarding his
oath, he did the government and our peo-
pie more damage than any other mau in
| the Confederacy, and with this stain of
bold, undeniable treason resting against
| him, he is again a citizen and voter in Vir
| ginia He, and such as he, may again be
/ lawmakers and some of his vilianous
coadiutators are now managing for admis-
sion, complaining bitterly Of the injustice
done them in the refusal given thus far by
Congress- In all candor, is the idea of re-
warding these unpunshed traitors with
such high honors, not horrible? What no
ton of right can men have who favor such
step !? and what safety is there III the tu-
ture?
Col. White, the State Senator from Indi-
anna, who was taken prisoner and confined
in dungeon in Libby prison for many
weary months, and whose absence.from the
Senate enabled Heister Clymer, and his
copperhead allies, to hinder organization
for half a winter at a heavy expense TO the
S tate, by tie vote, has still the marks Of
the teeth of the bloodhounds, that were
sent after him, on his limbs. 1t is well
! known that the Col burrowed his way out
of Libby by a very tedious process, and
/ when he got out backmen met him at mid
night, gave him food, and carried him forty
miles towards our lines, by bundling up in
a load of straw But the fendsh pursuers
with their bloodhounds re-captured him,
thrust candles into his face with the pleas
ant announcement, "you damned yankee,
you didn't succeed, did you ?" Now, the
the sGoundrels, who perpetratcd these inhu-
man outrages on. Senator White, are voters
and helped to send rebel williams as deeply
stained with barbarity and treason as them
selves, to make laws for our country, while
the devoted loyal blacks, who divided their
crust of bread with our hero, and at great
exposure carried him many miles on his way,
have not only no privileges under the Gov
ernment they thus herocally served, have
no acknowledgment even for their timely
aid in the country's great peril but are, on
the contrary, to be left to the mercy Of their
relentless, vicious masters and enemies, who
are threatening them with summary ven
geance for the very help they extended to
us In the name Of all that is right, should
this be allowed Nor is it alone for the true
! and dutiful that belriended Col, White, that
we ask protection thousands upon thous
ands of black men in the South did similar
service during the whole war; and the
whole race seemed ever ready to aid our
cause, and befriend our soldiers. But a
misguided President, the enemies of the
country, and the enemies Of the blacks, are
threatening to combine for the re-ensave-
ment of the of the one and the lasting dis,
grace of the other. Will the loyal voters
of the land, the heroes who saved our ma
ton, allow such an infamous consumation
We cannot believe it.