Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-08-29

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9th. Their own Southern press, with
out any material exceptions, defends the
men who led, and the principles which
melted the rebellion, and 'calls upon the
President to violate his oath of Office,
overturn the Government by force of
arms, and drive the representatives OF the
people from their seats in Congress"
It'll. At festivals, and in public demon
STATIONS in honor of the rebellion, they
openly insult and scott at the national
banner.
8th. They elect to their most impor-
tant offices those of their u~npardoned
rebel chiefs who violated their oaths and
abandoned their flag; and, in some in
stances, their selections to Office of their
chief murderers has been so shameless
that ever the President, at one time,
would not permit them to enter upon
their official duties. Outside of the evil
dence furnished by this report, the whole
country has forced upon its notice the
most overwhelming and dishesrtenlng
proofs of the intense and already defiant
d~isloyalty of this people. Away from
military posts no distinguished Southern
or Northern loyalist can live. Governor
Hamilton, of Texas, is n of scores OF
distinguished patriots who cannot return
to their homes, because the knife of the
traitors forbids it. They are killing by
system the freedmen. The graves of our
Union soldiers dare not be decked with
flowers, and their plans for the .extermi-
nation of loyal men are openly discussed
and the work of executing these plans
has been begun under circumstances
which have sent a thrill of horror, not
only through the nation, but throughout
all C~hristendom. Till recently the massa-
ere at Memphis, where they murdered a
poor and defenseless people, exposed ana
mutilated their dead bodies, and then
burnt up the homes of their little chill
dren and destroyed their churches and
schools, had a bad eminence as an exam
pie of this work of determination. Till
recently the massacre of st. Bartholo-
new was deemed, by the historian, al
most solitary in history, by reason of its
prominence, as the carnival of the dew
lis, maddened by their surfeit upon hui
man blood. But the eminence of st.
Bartholomew has been wholly dwarfed
by the ~stupendous Tapines, a-ssassinations
and massacres of the shareholders rebel
lion.
The last and almost worst act in this
"play of the fends" was enacted upon
the 30th day of July, A. D., 1866, at New
Orleans, in the murder, upon preconcer-
ted plan, of the loyal men of louisiana;
and to this last feast of murder the Presi-
dent of the United States stands In inexo-
rable history the responsible godfather,
and the blood of Hahn and Dostie, best
patriots of the State, are upon his gar
ments in damned spots which will never
wear out.
They arranged to capture your garrisons
in guard of rebel prisoners Of war, and to
release them for the purpose of the burning
and sacking OF the cities of the North
They provided themselves with rebel ban
ners under which to march to their work of
treason and murder. They fixed the day for
the seizure of the arms of the United States
at Columbus, at Indianapolis and at Chica-
go, and for the murder of the Governors of
our States. They imported from the rebel
army, and concealed at Indianapolis, Chica-
go and other cities, officers of the rebel ar
my, who were to take commands in this
work of burning and murder; and, high in
command over this work of blood, they set
Vallandigham-to-day high in influence
over most of those who mediate new plans
at Philadelphia. They fired New York,
they burned the homes of the orphan chill
dren there, and then stole their night clothes.
They arranged with 'sJake'' Thompson to
send yellow fever to our women. and chill
dren by means of infected clothing. They
disclosed to our enemies the plans of our Gen
erals. They accepted the position of spies
for invading rebel armies. They encouraged
assertions, shot recruiting officers. They
organized troops and encamped them in
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destroy your national credit; denounced your
soldiers as Lincoln dogs, and Lincoln as the
traitor. They shouted for the arch traitor
Davis in their professions. They 'felt no
Joy for your victories, nor any sorrow for
your disasters" If there be anything else in
aid of the rebellion which could be lone by
treachery, cowardice and treason, combined
in superlative degrees, that thing they did
also to insure the death of your nation. That
was, too, then in its death grapple with that
horrid treason to which, on the 14th and 23d
of January, they had pledged, as I have said,
a majority of the North. All, that word of
promise tc the ear, how they kept it to the
hope!
And now, within less than a fortnight of
the time when 1 speak, throughout Ken
lucky, and to audiences tumultuous with
twin shouts for JEFF. Davis and Andrew
johnson, these same leaders of Northern
Democracy, Vallandigham and Pendleton,
announce that the war settled nothing
State rights-which is the coward
for secession In the tumult of these
shouts he and Pendleton secure the election
of a chief rebel.
APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN.
Let me conclude these remarks by ma
king to the young men of my audience,
and, could l make my feeble voice reach