The Portland daily press., 1866-09-07
TE.e Appeal from the Southern
r UNiGniStS.

c..,8..i PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6.
The following is the appeal of the loyal men
United States:
The representatives Of the eight millions of
American citizens appeal for protection and
lusllce for their friends and brothers in the
states that have been spared the crueltles OF
the rebellion, and the direct horrors of civil
war; Here on the spot where freedom was
prof1ered and pledged by the fathers OF the ke-
pubic, we implore your help against reorgan-
ized oppression, whose sole object is to remit
tne control of our destinies to the contrivers OF
Ine rebellion, after they have been vanqulsn-
ed IN honorable battle, TINS at once punish us
| for our devotion to our country and to entrench
themselves in the official Notifications of the
| government. Others have related the thrilling
| story of our wrongs from reading and observa-
tion. We come before you as unchallenged
witnesses, and speak from personal knowledge
| our sad experience. If you fail u.s. we are more
| utterly deserted and betrayed than if the con-
! test had been decided against us. In that case,
even victorious, slavery would have found profit
III the speedy pardon of th0te who had been
among ITS bravest foes. Unexpected perfdy in
the highest place of the government accident
| ally hiled by one who adds cruelty to ingrati-
tude, and forgiyes the guilty as he perseoutes
guished revenge Of the beaten conspirators,
| and now the rebels who offered to yield every
thing to save their own lives, are seeking to
| conslgn us to bloody graves. Where we expect
| Gu d UcHcIdCbOT, VIC llIu ptTScCu1Of IluNluS
| lost our champion, we return to you, who can
make Presidents and punish traitors. Our last
| hope, under God, is in the unity and irmness
Of the States that elected Abraham Lincoln
| aud defeated Jefferson Davis
| The best statement of our case is the appall-
| ing yet unconscious confession of Andrew
johnson, who, in savage hatred of his record,
proclaims his purpose to clothe four millions of
| treitors with the power to impoverish and de-
| grade eight millions of loyal men. Our wrongs
on raR md fUrar nm
checked by you, will award the same fate to
| white and black. We can remain interiors and
victsns, we may fly from onr homes, but We
should fear to trust our fate with those who, af-
| ter denOuncing and defeating treason, refused
| to right those who have bravely assisted them
| nj the good work till we are wholly secured.-
| There is neither peace for you or prosperity for
US. 9 39a SITE
We cannot be4ter define at once our wrongs
and our wants, than by declaring that since
Andrew johnson affiliated with his evrly SLAM
derers and our constant enemies, his hands
have been laid heavily upon every loyalist IN
| the South. History, the just judgment of the
| present and the certain confirmation of the fu-
ture, invite and command us to declare that af-
| ter rejecting his own remedies for restoring the
| Union, he has resorted to the weapons
| of traitors 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 trail
tors shall rule, that, while in the North he has
repoved Conscientious men from Office and fill
| ed many OF the vacancies with the sympathiz-
| ers of treason in the South, he has removed
the proved and trusted patriot, and selected
| tbs equally proved and convicted traitor; that,
| after brave men who had fought for the old
| flag, have been nominated for positions, their
names have been recalled and avowed rebels
| substituted; that every original Unionst in
| the South, who stand fast to Andrew John
| sons covenants from 1861 to 1865 has been os-
tracised; that he has corrupted the local courts
| by offering premiums for the defiance of the
laws of Congress, and by openly discouraging
| the observance of the oath against treason;
| that while refusing to furnish one single con-
| spicuous traitor, though thousands had earned
| the penalty of death, more than thousand
| devoted Union 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 and South,
| including some who have taken human life
under circumstances denouncfng and fetter-
| ing the operations OF the Freedmen's Bureau.
| He, with full knowledge of the falsehood,
| has charged that the black men are lazy and
fehellious, 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 Government, he has con-
| nived at system of profigacy in the use of
| the public patronage, and the public money,
wholly without parallel, save when the traitors
| Ddukruppeu IIlu SOuSnJ 10 ulSOr-
| ganize and scatter the army and the navy, on
| ly to make it more easy to capture the Gov
ernment; that while declaring against the in
| Justice of leaving eleven States unrepresented,
| he has refused to authorize the liberal plan of
Congress, simply because it recognizes the 10y
| al majority and refuses to perpetuate the trail
| tor minority; that in every State South of
Mason and Dixon's line, hsss policy has wrought
the most deplorable consequences, social and
| moral and political, and it has emboldened re-
| turned rebels to threaten civil war in Mary
| land, Missouri, West Virginia and Tennes-
| lee, unless the patriots who saved and sealed
these States to the old flag, surrender before
| theire arrogant demands; it 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 new alienation
| between the sections, and by impeding
| emigration to the South has erected formida-
| BILE barrier against free and friendly intercourse
| in the North and West 1t has allowed the
| rebel soldiers to persecute the teachers of the
| colOred schools and to burn the churches in
| which the freedmen have worshipped the liv-
| ing God. That system SO barbarous should
have eliminated in the frightful riot at Mem
| phis and the still more appalling massacre at
| New Orleans was as natural as that o bloody
war should flow from the teachings of John c.
Calhoun and Jefferson Davis. Andrew John
| son is responsible for all these unspeakable
| cruelties, and as he provoked so he justfies
and applauds them, sending his agents and
emissaries into this refined and patriotic me-
| tropols to insist upon making his reckless pol
/ icy test upon christian people. He forgot
| that the protection to the 18th of August Con-
| vention in Philadelphia 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 amid the
| slaughter of hundreds of innocent men. No
| page in the record of his recent outrages upon
human Justice and constitutional law is more
fI,aY,f hot Oh
fusing to arrest the perpetrators for that savage
| carnival; and not only refusing to punish its
| authors, but trying to throw the guilty respou-
| sibility upon unofending and innocent freed
men. 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
traitors persecution, was even more eager to
Illustrate his savage policy by clothing with the
most despotie power the rioters of New Or
leans. Notwithstanding this heartless deser-
| ton, crime and persecution by Andrew John
| son, the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennes-
| see, Western Virginia, Maryland and Della
| ware, imbped with democratic republican prin-
ciples. which the fathers of the republic de-
| sired for all America, are now making deter
mined battle with the enemies of free consti-
| tutional government, and by the blessing of
| God these States will soon range themselves
into line with the former free States and illus
| trate the wisdom and beneficience of the great
| population, wealth and prosperity in the re-
naming ten States. The seeds of oligarchy
planted in the Constitution by its slavery feat
ure have grown to be a mOnstrOuS power
recognition this wrung from the relunctant
| trainers of that greet instrument, enable those
| States to intrench themselves behind the per-
verted doctrine of State rights, sheltered by a
| claim of constitutional obligation to MAIN
tain slavery in the States, to present to the
American Government the alternativesof an
oigarchy with slavery or a democratic repub-
| lie without slavery. A forbearing government
| bowling to supposed constitutional behest ac-
quisces in the former alternative. The hand
OF the Government was stayed for eighty ears
the principles of constitutional liberty Ian
| guished for want of government support oil
garchy matured its power with subtle DESIGN.
Its history for eighty years is replete with 1n-
| paralleled injuries and ufurpation. 1t devel-
oped only the agricultural localities, geograph-
ically distinct from the free labor to African
slaves 1t held four millions of human beings
| as chattels, yet made them the basis of unjust