Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-08-16
LBgrER:TO THE PREsiDENT
GEN. Granville Moody ON tho
situation. -!

Gen. Granville Moody, Of Piqua, was al
intimate friend and confident Of Presiden
johnson, while the latter was Military Gov
ernor at Nashville. Gen. Moody recent.
visited Washington and called upon Mr.
johnson, and upon his return home address
ed him the following letter. The letter il
full of good council, and is an eloquent AM
manly appeal to Mr.. johnson to. stand b,
the great and patriotic party which elevated
him, while a hunted refugee, to the secont
position in the gift Of the people. '.,.
+ Gen. Moody says: $50 ag7t2s.js
If ;I PIouA, o. July I2, 1866.
HIS ,&tcetlency, Ai,c1re,o johnson, President
ofHs United States: h
DEAR SIR: Pardon this intrusion on youi
precious time. My sincere regard for you
personally, urges me to give you this warn
ing Of danger. -""'I 'Aa. s... :.
The Impression, yes, the conviction, is
abroad in the land that the announced Phil
adelphia Convention is designated as the in
ception and nucleus of new party" de.
signing to draw you into its circles, and it
possible you use and your official influence in
furtherance OF its partisan designs.
The fact that every 4 Copper rhead in Con-
gress has rushed into it, and that the rebels
of the South are jubilant over it, indicate its
composition and its design. - ....-..
1t doubtless intends the admission OF the
eleven States which we have subjugated to
the authority of the Unit ed States, without
indemnity for the past or security tor the
future, and without conditions precedent of
any kind.
Now, my honored friend, affirm that no
living man has stood by youymore firmly and
sincerely than have, and [ cannot think of
you being drawn into that whirlpool where
you will go down with certainty, without
lifting up warning voice. 49,,
/ am among the people, day by day; L
know their feelings their modes of think
ing, their talent and their active patriotism,
And | know that if you identify yourself
with that party you will be ruined.
T see the end as with prophets eye. The
grave of every Federal soldier; the ghosts Of
our starved prisoners in Bell Isle, libby
prison, and Andersonville prison pens. Every
manned veteran, every widow in her weeds,
every orphan, every dollar of extra taxation,
caused by traitors and their allies, the Cep-
perheads; every humiliation we were COM
PEELED to submit to from foreign nations, en-
listed against us by the South; every recel-
lection of our past repown; every battlefield
where our glory was won; every wrong visit
ed on the freedmen out ofspite to the Yam
KEGS, as we are all called by the Southern
traitors and rebels: every principle Of sound
craftsmanship; every cherished hope Of the
future for our Institutions; every obligation
we owe to the dead and the living, and those
yet to live, and our paramount obligations
to the God of justice and of nations, will he
trumpet tongued aeainst this union ef Cop.
perheads and traitorous rebels who combined
like Horod and PLATE did. when the hope of
humanity was to be sacrificed.
tell you, President. that the excitement
amoug the people is intense, and the tide
sets in no uncertain direction. And the
greater the elements that gather around that
Philadelphia speculation. the greater will be
the power aroused to resist it.
"He who of old would rend the oak,
Dreamed not ofthe rebound ,
All, sir, we suffered too much--invested
too much in the integrity OF this nation to
hazard its interests by any maudln sympa-
thy with the men who, if they had power,
would be in arms to day against that flag
that you proudly said should not come down
from the Capitol of your native State, when
God gave you infalible directions to main
tain It, at every hazard, which you most
nobly did. f..
Listen not to the mermaid song-rather
copperhead and pelican--that comes from
the Philadelphia speculation. The sunken
rocks of ruin are there, and your noble craft,
which has weathered SO many storms and
tornadoes. will go to pieces there, where two
seas meet" i.
+ / assure you that the infallible instincts of
the people are against that concocting the
party which at Chicago declared ''the war
for the maintenance of the Union failure
and advised the withdrawing of our armies"
from the bloody battle fields wheIe our na-
itional life was preserved. :,
Let the coalition become an established
fact, and in proportion to their prosnects OF
success, is the gloom that hangs over our
land. Our public securities" given to get
money to buy clothing, food and ordnance,
with which to put down rebellion, are haz-
arded, professions to the contrary notwith-
standing ..a0 .sli., - ssL4.,,
"Security for the future" by accepted
amendments to the organic and paramount
law Of the nation, is our only safety. And l
assure you the people demand that.
That sentiment is as flood tide, with
ground swell from the profoundest depths of
natlOnHt tiCtC 10 hp po"Oi
nor orcombination ofpowers, that can bid those
bihows back again. ~
They rolpd not back
When Canute gave command
/ fear William Fl. Stewards counsels; he
has brains, but he has With House ION the
BRAIN" fear, like the boatman, he is look
ing enc way while he rows another: His
repeated prophecies of the ending Of the war
iu sixty days, ia ninety days; his trucking
to Great Britain, his inordinate ambition,
his remarks about you in New York, bis
versatility, all combine to arouse the fears of
the people I that somebody will be sold for
nothing who cannot be redeemed with a
price.
When saw you last week | urged the
prov erb, 'Look before you leap" The
great question is yet in your own hands, and
assure you that the loyalpeople Of Ameri'
ca will rally around you with all their former
enthusiasm, when they see you standing by
your declarations in the Senate of 1860 and
1861, your decaratiens when Governor OF
Tennessee, your declarations when, IN the
inscrutable aud 'permissive providence OF
Almighty God, the Head Of the Nation was
laid low BY the hand of the assassin, and
| xvh,, sssuu I'D tha raina of Havarnulant witt