Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-09-27
Facts for the People.


the Union party of the North are will
ing to submit their cause to the arbi-
trament of the people, and abide by
their decision, A. johnson and his par
ty threaten the people with civil war
and revolution, if they dare exercise
that right of free and independent suf-
frage guaranteed to them by the Con-
stitution and laws of the land.
Keep it before the people, that A.
johnson, himself but single man, as
sumes to originate and dictate policy
for the whole American people, declar-
ing to them that "my policy mast be
adopted or the country ruined; thus
refusing to the people the exercise OF
their own independent will and choice,
and paving the way for that one-man
power, which has been the curse of all
nations.
Keep it before the people, that this
Government is founded upon the will
of the governed, that the majority, of
right, should rule, and that A. john
son and his party are therefore false to
the very principles upon which our
Government is based, inasmuch as they
refuse to abide by the decision of the
majority, and threaten to appeal to
arms, if that doctrine is against them.
This is the old doctrine of secession
and State rights, which the South pro-
fesses to have abandoned as one of the
results of the war, but which in fact
she clings to as resolutely as ever.
Keep it before the people, that A.
johnson and his friends, instead of at
tempting by argument and reason to
convince the people Of the merits of
''my policy" strive by threats and in
Limitations, to drive them into sup
port of that policy, thus insulting the
intelligence and manhood of the Amer
lean people.
Keep it before the people, that Pres
ident johnson has chosen as his politi-
cal friends and associates the late rebels
of the South who sought to destroy the
best Government God ever gave to man,
and the copperheads of the North who
denounced the war as a failure, and did
all in their power to make it such.
Keep it before the people, that the
brave soldiers of the Union army who
fought and conquered the late wicked
rebellion, and the loyal people of the
North who stood by them and encour-
aged them in that great work, are now
denounced by A. johnson and the sup
porters of "my policy" as traitors and
rebels con the other line," simply be-
cause they refuse to subscribe to this
latter-day doctrine, that rebels, and not
loyal men, ought to control the Govern
ment.
Keep it before the people, that the
Southern press, the true exponent of
public opinion, declares that represen-
tation in Congress by loyal men will not
satisfy them, but that they consider all
representation mere mockery, which
does not accord to them the privilege of
returning to Congress the leading and
worst traitors in their midst. They de-
mand and viii be satisfied with moth
ingless than the power to return to Con-
gress Davis, Breckenridge, Stephens,
and all that class of men, who, though
bound by solemn oaths to support the
Constitution and the laws, wilfully and
intelligently broke their plighted faith
and precipitated the country into re-
bellion and civil war.
Keep it before the people, that they
are this day called upon to decide
whom they will have to rule over them,
and that the future welfare of the
whole country, as well as each and
every citizen thereof, hangs upon their
decision. If they prefer the rule of
traitors, men who have violated the
sanctity of their oaths, and made war
upon the Government they had solemn
y sworn to defend and protect, then
let them give their support and their
suffrages to A. johnson and his party,
for that party is pledged to elevate just
such men to Office and power. If on
the other hand, the people desire the
rule of tried, loyal men, men who in
the army and in civil life, gave all their
power and energy to. the support of the
Government when assailed by rebels
and traitors, then come up in your
power and might to the support of the
Union party, for they have declared
that loyal men are more worthy to ad-
minister this Government than disloyal
men.
Keep it before the people, that this
country win never be truly free. until