The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-09-14

Unexpected perfdy in the highest place
Of the Government, accidently filled by one
who adds cruelty to ingratitude, and for
gives the guilty as he proscribes the inno-
cent, has stimulated the almost extinguishe d
revenge OF the beaten conspirators; and
now, the rebels who offered to yield every
thing to save their own lives, are asking to
consign us to bloody graves
Where we expected benefactor We find
u prosecutor.
Having lost our champion, we return to
you who can invoke Presidents and punish
traitors. Our last hope under God is the
unity and firmness of the states that elect-
ed abraham Lincoln and defeated JEFF.
Davis.
The best statement of our case is the APP
palling, yet unconscious, confession Of
Andrew 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. Our wrongs bear
alike on all races, and our tyrants un-
checked, you will award the same fate to
white anu black. We can remain as We are
only as interiors and victims. We may fly
from our homes, but We should fear to trust
our fate with those who, after dcnouncing
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those who have bravely assisted them in
the good work. Until we are wholly res
cucd there is neither peace for you nor
prosperity for US. We cannot better define
at once our wrongs and our wants, than by
by declaring that since A. johnson affiliated
with his early slanderers and our constant
enemies, his hand has been laid heavily
upon as in the South.
History, the just judgment of the present,
and the confirmation Of the future, advise
and declare that after rejecting his own
remedies for restoring the Union, he has
resorted to restoring the weapons Of trait
ors, to bruise and beat down patriots 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 that while in the
North he has removed conscientious men
from office, and filled many Of the vacan-
cies with the sympathizers Of treason in
the South, he has removed the proved and
true patriots, and selected the equally
proved and convicted traitors; that after
brave men, who had fought for the old flag,
have been nominated for positions, their
names have been recalled aud avowed reb-
els substituted; that every original Union
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Johnson's covenants from 1861 to 1866, has
been ostracised; that he has corrupted the
local courts, by Offering premiums for the
defiance of the laws of Congress, and by
openly discouragng the observance Of oaths
against treason, while refusing to punish
onesingle conspirator, though thousands had
earned the penalty Of death. More than
thousand Of devoted Union citizens have
been murdered in cold blood since the sur
render of Lee, and in no case have their
assassins been brought to judgment that
he has pardoned some of the worst of the
rebel criminals of the South, including
some who have taken human life under cir
cumstances Of unparalleled atrocity that
while denouncing and lettering the opera
tons Of the Freedman's Bureau, he, with
full knowledge Of the falsehood, has charged
that the black men are lazy and rebellious,
and has concealed the fact that more whites
than blacks have been protected and fed by
that noble organization; and that while de-
claring that it was corruptly managed and
expensive to the Government, he has con-
nived at q system Of proaigacy 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 army and navy,
only to make it moro easy to capture the
Government; that while declaring against
the injustice of leaving eleven states unre-
presented, he has refused to authorize the
liberal plan OF Congress, simply because
it recognizes the loyal majority, and refuses
to perpetuate the traitor minority; that in
every state south of Mason and Dixons
line, his policy has wrought the most de-
plorable consequences, social, moral, and
political. 1t has emboldened returned reb-
els to threaten civil war in Maryland, Mis-
souri,, West Virginia, and Tennessee, unless
the patriots who saved and sealed these
states to the old flag surrendered before
their arrogant demand. 1t has corrupted
high state officials elected by Union men, and
sworn to enforce the laws against returned
rebels, and made them the mere instru-
ments Of the authors Of the rebellion. II
has encouraged o new alienation between
the sections, and by impeding emigration
to the South, has erected q formidable bar
rier against free and friendly intercourse
in the North and West. 1t has allowed the
rebel soldiers to prosecute the teachers Of
the colored schools, and burned the
churches in which the freedmen have wor-
shipped the living God.
That system SO barbarous should have
eliminated in the frightful riots Of Mem
phis, and the still more appalling massacre
of New Orleans, was as natural as that q
bloody war should follow from the teach
ings Of John G. Calhoun and jeff. Davis.
Andrew johnson is responsible for all
these unspea kable cruelties, and as he pro-
voked, SO he justifes and applauds them,
sending his agents and emissaries into the
refined and patriotic metropolis to insist
upon making his reckless policy test upon
Christian people. He forgot that the pro-
lection extended to the 14th of August con-
vention was not only denied to the free
people of New Orleans on the Both Of July.
when they assembled to discuss how best to
protect themselves, but denied amidst the
slaughter Of hundreds Of innocent men. No
page in the record Of his recent outrages
upon human justice and constitutional law
is more dark than that which assisted in
the preparations for that awful carnage,
and not only refusing to punish, but toiling
to throw the guilty responsibility upon un-
offending and innocent freedmen.
The infatuated tyrant that stood ready to
crush his own people in Tennessee when
they were struggling to maintain Govern
ment erected by himself, against his and
other traitorous prosecutions, was even
more eager to illustrate his savage policy
by clothing with the most despotic power
the rioters Of New Orleans.
Notwithstanding this heartless desertion
and cruel persecution by Andrew johnson,
the states Of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee,
West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware,
imbued with the democratic republican prin-
eiples which the fathers Of the Republic de-
signed for all America, are now making de-