The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-03
THE SOUTH.
CONFISCATION.
ANOTHER LETTER PROM THADDBUs STEVENS.
MI. %

LANCASTER, Thursday, May %.
TO the ca,taan Of ne County Committee. and Iie As
ftd,kLtn buton Bedford, Somerset, Perry, Gambler
Gentlemen:-As am about to prosecute the
claims for confscaton at the next session OF
Congress, II should be permitted TO appear
there, desire to ascertain certain facts. win
you aid me In procuring them in small part
of our own State? Invite returns from all the
people In each township OF the amount of pro,
perty which the Rebel raiders, or the armies of
the SO called "Confederate States" destroyed
or appropriated to their own use during their
several incursions into Pennsylvania, and
hand the same to the assessors of the diff
ferent townships, who are requested to re
turn the aggregate for each township to the
Chairmen of the respective parties of the diffe-
rent counties May here ask that the various
newspapers of the counties above named publish
this notice for few weeks In aid OF the obj sct
specified, as intend to press the payment of
the damages done to loyal men out OF the CON
fscated property of the conquered belligerent7
/ desire each and every person who resided in
the above-named counties to make out a list of
despoiled by the Rebel raiders, or the Rebel
Government, and return the same to the as
SCISSORS of his township, who, hope, Will for
ward the same to the Chairman of the County
committees OF each party, who, hope viii
return it to me. desire a fair valuation To be
placed on all the property, whether personal
property abstracted or real property destroyed,
Franklin, which will not be appraised, as no
remuneration is claimed for IL. This may seem
TO be asking our friends to take considerable
trouble, but as a small part of the labor only
falls to each person. IL will be found light 1
hope 1t may finally prove profitable to the in
jured people.
Yours, THADDEUs STEvENs.
p. S.-Were it not presumptuous in me, 1
would invite the loyal men of all the States
who have been pluudered by Rebel raiders or
contiscated by the Confederate States, or either
OF them to form associations and furnish sta
tistics, such are above solicited. Claims so
imperatively just must be finally allowed and
paid, but the funds to pay the same will cer-
tainly he raised nowhere except out of the fines
and confiscation Of the richer and more afro
cious malefactors. Feeble as my powers are,
if had five years more added TO my life, 1
should not doubt that this would become an
accomplished fact. Such justice, urged by
a determined Will though feeble intel
feet, cannot fail. If 1 should be denied that ex-
tension of life Providence will raise up TO the
work some younger and abler man to whom
these facts would be of great assistance. trust
it will not be supposed that have abandoned
the determination to procure small honest eads
for the freedmen, to be furnished by the Rebel
masters whom tn y conquered at our request
homesteads earned by the late slaves and an
neXed to their masters estates. Let them now
be severed by partition.
All the newspapers in the several counties
named are respectfully requested to publish
this article.