Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-09-14


> tie, thus at once 20 punish us for our de
] votion to our country, and to intrencl
themselves In the official Notifications o
: the Government Others have learned
: the thrilling story of our wrongs, from
| / reading aud observation. We come be
J fore you as Qnchallenged witnesses, ant
/ speak from personal knowledge our sat
! experience. Our last hope, under God
Is the unity aud irmness of the State
that elected Abraham Lincoln and de
feated Jefferson Davis. The best state
ment of our case Is the appalling yet un
conscious confession of Andrew OhnsOn
who, In savage hatred of his own record
prOclalms his purpose to clotbe four mil
lions Of traitors with the power to impOv-
erlsh and degrade eight millions of lOya
! men.
If you do not aid US in checking the
progress Of tyranny, we and the black
race shall be alike oppressed. We may
fly from our homes, but how can we trust
you IT, after aiding you In maintaining
the Union, you now refuse to extend US
your protection Since Andrew John,
son affiliated with his early slanderers
and our constant enemies, his hand has
been laid heavily upon every loyalist OF
the South. He has FesOrted to the Weap-
Ons of traitors, to bruise and beat down
patriots that after declaring that none
but the loyal should govern the recon
structed South he has practiced upon the
maxim that none but traitors shall rule
that while in the North he has removed
i conscientious men from office, and filed
many Of the vacancies with the sympa-
thizers of treason, In the South he has
removed the proved patriots and selected
equally proved and convicted traitors
that after brave men who had fought for
Il the old flag have been nominated for pO-
sltiOns, their names have been recalled
and ayOwed rebels substituted that ev-
cry original Unionist In the South who
stands fast to Andrew JOhnson's cove
nants from 1861 to 1866, has been ostra-
cised that he has corrupted the local
Courts by offering premiums for the de-
fanee Of the laws of Congress, aud by
openly discOuraging the observance OF
the oath against treason that while re-
/ fuslng to punish one single oOnsplrator,
though thousands had earned the penalty
of death, more than one thousand OF I'm
ion citizens have been murdered In cold
| blood since the surrender 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 North
or South. including some who have taken
human life under circumstances of un-
paralleled atrocity that while denounc-
/ ing and lettering the operations of the
Freednan's Bureau he, with full knOWl-
edge 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 declaring that it was cOrruptly
managed and expensive to the Govern
ment he has cOnuived at a system of
prohigacy in the use of the public patron
age and public money, wholly without
parallel, save when the traitors bank
| rupted the Treasury and sought to disOr-
| ganize and scatter the army and navy, to
make it more easy to capture the Govern
/ ment that while declaring against the
Injustice of leaving eleven States unrep-
resented, he refused to authorize the lib-
Ieral plan Of Congress, simply because 1t
reOTganized the loyal majority and refus-
ed TO peTpetUate the traitor minority ;
that In every State south of Mason and
Dixon's line his policy has wrought the
most deplorable consequences, social,
moral az political. 1t has emboldened
returned rebels to threaten civil war IN
! Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia and
! Tennessee, unless the patriots who saved
these States to the old flag surrendered
before their arrogant demands. 1t has
corrupted high State officials elected by
| Union men and sworn to enforce the laws
against returned rebels, and made them
the mere instruments of the authors of
the rebellion. It has encouraged a new
! alienation between the sections, and by
/ impeding emigration to the South has
erected a formidable barrier against free
and friendly intercourse in the North
and West 1t has allowed the rebel sol
/ diery to persecute the teachers Of the col
ored schools, and to burn the churches
/ -, - AI II oI
the living God.
| That a system so barbarous should
have eliminated In the frightful riot of
/ Memphis, and the still more appalling
massacre of New Orleans, was as natural
as that bloody war should flow from
the teachings of John G. Calhoun and
| Jefferson Davis Andrew johnson is
responsible for all these uusPeakable cru
elites; and as he provoked, so he justihes
/ and applauds them, sending his agents
and emissaries into the refined and patri-
otic metropolis to insist upon making his
reckless policy a test upon a Christian
| people.
The infatuated tyrant that stood ready
! to crush his own people IN Tennessee,
when they were struggling to maintain a
/ government erected by himself against
! his and other traitors prosecutions, was
even more eager to illustrate his savage
policy by clothing, with the most despot-
ic power. the rioters Of New Orleans.
The address here proceeds to represent
/ that notwithstanding the desertiOn and
persecution of Andrew J Johnson, the bor-
/ der States have determined to array
! themselves with those North of them In
waging war for Constitutional Govern
ment. 1t then shows how in the cotton
States, the slavery features of the Con-
stitution planted the seeds Of an Oligar-
chy which grew into a mOnstrous oppres-
| sion of white and black mon. 1t eXclud-
ed free white labor, repelled capital, pro-
j scribed democratic literature, muzzled
the press, prevented free speech, and, at
last, alarmed at the progress cf democra-
ey In spite ofits efforts. sought immunity
in secession and war. The heart sick
/ ems to contemplate the impressments.
conscriptiOns, forced loans, banishments,
! prosecutions, starvation and slaughter
which followed. But Democrats, North
and South were at last subdued and they
lost slavery, in name only. The
war over, they at once attempted to re-
/ gain contEol of the local and State or
ganizations. The cooperation of the
Federal Executive was easily won, and
he now works together with them in ac-
complishing their wicked designs. Pro-
Tossing the abolition of slavery they keep
/ It up by detestable legislation against pre-
ended vagrants. They pronounce the
four years war brilliant sword scene in
the great revolutionary drama. Pro
scriptive public sentiment holds high
carnival, aud pro6ting by the example of
the Presidential platform, breathes out
/ threatenings of slaughter against loyal
men, ignores and denOunces all legal re-
| Rtraints and asgailg with the tongue of