Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-05
APPEAL or THE LOYAL MEN OF TIT
SOUTH,
TO their Fellow Citizens oil the United
States: Adopted Unanimously ut
The Loyal Philadelphia Con-
YentiOn.

The representatives Of eight millions
of American citizens appeal for pro.
lection and Justice to their friends and
brothers in the States that have been
spared the cruclties of the rebellion and
the dires- horrors of civil war.
Here on the spot where freedom
was proilered and pledged by the IA
theirs Of the Republic, we implorc your
help against Il rcOrganized oppression,
whose sole object is to remit the con.
troll Of cur destiiies to tho contrivers Oi
the rebellion after they have been van
quished in honorable battle, thus ut
once to punish us for our devotion to
our country aud to entrcnch them
selves i'm the official Notifications of the
Government. .......r. ..-.. ....
Others have related the thrilling sto.
ry of our wrongs from reading and oh
servation. We come before you as un-
chllengcd witnesses, and speak from
personal knowledge our sad experience.
Ii you fail us we are more utterly de-
serted and betrayed than If the con-
test had been decided against us; for
In that case, even victorious slavery
would have found profit in the speedy
its bravest foes.
Unexpected pcrfidy i'm the highcs,
place of the Government, accidentally y
filled by one who adds cru .lty to in
gratitude, and forgivcs the guilty m
he proscribes the innocent, has stimu-
lated the almost cxtinguishcd revenge
Of the beaten cOnspiratOrs, and now
the rebels, who offered to yield every
thing to save their own lives, are seek
ing to consign Us to bloody graves,
Where we expect bencfactor wc find
a 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 iirmness Of the
States that elected Abraham Lincoln
and defeated jeff Davis.
The best statement of our Case IL the
appalling yet unconscious confession
of Andrew Johnson. who in savage
hatred of his own record, proclaims his
purpose to cl0thc four millions of trait
ors with the power to inpovcrish and
degrade S,0OO,0O0 Oi loyal men. Our
wrongs bear alike on all races aud our
tyrants unchecked by you will award
the same faie to white and black.
We can remain as we are only as in
feriors and victims. We may fly from
our homes. Bnt we should fear t.
ItuSt Oui isttC Win thOSc, WJo, aIteT te-
nOuncing and defeating treason, re.
fused to right those who have bra rcly
assisted them i'm the good work. Un.
til we are wholly rescued there Is nei
thcr peace for you, nor prosperity fol
us. Wecanilot better define. at once oul
wrongs and our wants, than by de
claring, that since a. Johnson affiliated
with his early slanderers and our con
slant enemies, his hand l,ns been lait
! heavily upon us I'm the South.
| History, the just Judgement of tn,
present, and the continuation of the fu
ture. advises and declares that after re
jecting his own remedies for rcstOrin,
the Union, he has rcsorted to restorin,
the weapons Of traitors to bruse an1
heat down patriots; that after declarin:
Z that none bat the loyal should govern
/ the reconstructed South, he has prac
ticed upon the maxim that none bu
traitors shall rule: that while in Tia,
J North he has removed conscientiou
mcn from office, and filled many Of tin
vacancies with the sympathizers Of trea
son, IN the Sort, &c has removed tli