Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-31
ADDRESS
OF the Union Republican Congressional
Executive Committee TO the PeO-
pie of the States that nre TO
Vote I'm November.

dCtoH 10 llc cause Ol our ComuioH couhtiyf
still imperilled by periidious Executive on
the one hand, and the defiant spirit of rebel
lion on the other, impcls lis to make this APP
peal before the approaching elections The
members of the Union Republican Congress
sional Executive Committee, have been so
impressed by the extraordinary success which
has attended their efforts in the unrecon-
structed States, and by the vital necessity of
Strengthening these efforts by the approving
voice of the great party that contributed so
efiectually to the overthrow of the rebellion,
that they cannot believe the American peo-
pie are ready to allow the enemies of the
Republic to gather new courage in their OPP
position to the restoration of the Union ON
the basis of equality and justice. Since onr
circular letter Of the Goth Of July last, in
which we laid before you an account Of our
stewardship up to that date, the cause of hu-
manity and liberty has so rapidly advanced
in the South that we look forward to an early
realization of our most confident hopes, and
believe that not many days will elapse after
the next session of Congress before several
truly Republican commonwealth will be re-
stored to our beloved Union and nothing
can arrest this magnigcent political consum-
nation but the indifference or hostility of
those great communities which have been
alike the preservers and the protectors of
the public liberties. What motive can mis-
lead a Republican who believed In Abraham
Lincoln, and who gratefully followed the
victorious standards of Grant and Sheridan,
TO refuse TO act with his party in a crisis as
great as any that awakened the patriotism Of
the one or the courage of the others? Our
enemies are not only unsubdued, but, from
the apostatc in the Presidential chair to the
perjured and pardoned rebels, they are alb
c..1nfalx, 1opf,ipor IN ba pn,NntItnonc To n,,-
courage them In new treacherits and airoci-
ties. The effect upon them of the October
reyerses in Pennsylvania and Ohio should
admonish and vitalize the Republicans of
every other State, and when we tell you
that every mail beings US intelligence of new
outrages upon the Union men of the South,
white and black, and that the difficulties that
have beset these patriotic multitudes ever
since Congress established its reconstruction
policy have been increased by the recent
elections, we feel that we may implore
you not to add to the civilizations of our
enemies and the burdens of our friends,
Every moral and material interest Is deep
ly concerned in the triumph of reconstruc-
ton. That measure is more than half CONF
pleted, and it will be sad supplement to
all their sacrifices of blood and treasure If
the American people should prove indifferent
own welfare. The rebel newspapers do not
attempt to restrain their ecstacies over the
late elections. The Charleston Mercury of
a recent date says:
The only question for the majority in Congress
now to consider is this-s4aAMey urge tkis policy
upon tie Southern States dad thus Keep in action
and intense c2aspcration an issue on which it is
plain they have been and must be beaten and
which, therefore, must fall or will they give it
up at once, and leave the public mind to be en-
gagged on other issues, which may give them
some chance of recovering their lost popularity
and power? II they insist upon claginq 10 this
issue of ,eqro sugiage and anempt To- force ii into
operation BY revolutionary riolence and The bayoaeL
dea fall oiN only be deeper and more d,n,ning. II
maq eren bring mdh il personal and bloody
retriJution oa the rerotaiionisis and sraaas rho
shall attempt to enforce IT,
The Richmond Enquirer says:
| Negro suffrage will not be established here en-
| cepthroughosr otcn tdtdi and mistaken co-operd-
tioa, If we will be firm, patient, aud discreet.
| In short, the result in Pennsylvania and Ohio
with the other like indications, are the knel ol
that plan of settlement which is such only i'll
bitter irony and the public mind will now turn to
| more rational views. The road to national tram
guilty is still long, ii may be but it is shorter
than it was now that We are going to the front in
the right direction The Radicals had put up
false iinger-bcards, and turned the backs OF the
people upon pence, and led them away, While
| protesting to travel toward 1t
The Mississippi AUaldnchc says:
This Radical faction is simply band Of politi-
| cal plunderers, of whom blnspheming Brownlow,
the beast Butler, and the devil incarnutc Thad.
Stevens are the genuine types and head men-the
trIcst representatives and most acceptable leaders.
We cannot even feel indifferent, but must OF neces
sity, hate 30 foul and miserable faction with q
hatred that naturally grows more intense viii
each new act of daily and hourly oppression
The Almighty Ruler Of us all is God OF Truth, o
Piety, and OF Justice. He, therefore, require
| such antipathy ut our hands; and until lie shal
| see fl to change the eternal standards of righ
and wrong il will be the duty of every homes
man to detest and make war upon the American
| Radicals-those assassins of liberty and enemies
of mankind.
II requires no prophet to foretell that, i
the November e!eations should end in Repub
ican defeats the threat of Andrew johnson
on the 22d Of February, 1866, and frequent,
repeated since, will be fulfilled at whateve
hazard. Enabled from our opportunities a
the national capital, and from our extensive
correspondence with our agents and friend
in the Southern States, to weigh the sincerit.
OF these threats, we declare TO you, ou
countrymen, that nothing more is require'
by these violent, revolutionary, and desper
ate men hut the belief that they are Sustain
ed by the public opinion of the conquerin
States to adventure another conspiracy, an
: to demand, if necessary by force, their resto
ration to the power they welded at so terri
ble a cost to the public peace. What patr
ot will not shrink from contributing to sue
catastrophe ? That the American peopl
are equal to any new trial, however terribl
that the apostate's appeal to force, thoug
backed by the whole rebel army, would en-
in his own overthrow, and their perpetu;
disfranchisement, may be confidently antic
pated but when, by the cordial and unite
I performance of plain and peaceful duty
ballot-boX in November, you can avoid fu
ther bloodshed, assist the great work OF +
i construction, and perpetuate Republican a
a tendency, few words of ours should be requ
red to arouse you to an instant apprehensit
of your country's peril and your own solen
obligations. When we can secure ever
/, thing by an intelligent and discriminate
: exercise of the ballot, why shall we encou
!, age the men who possess the confidence
no party ,and have q thousand times comics
8 ed that they deserved the severest punis
d ment for their crime ? There is not one col
manding interest that is not deeply concer
:. ed in the triumph of the Republican party
VI the coming elections Every owner of pub
}, securities, national or state every railro
!. corporation, every bank, every savings
,s stitution, every manufacturer, every N
chanic and laborer with greenback in !
W pocket, would instantly feel the defeat
st that party in the depreciation of their pI
n perty, and in the decline Of their busine
N Bear in mind that all who are interested
: the defeat OF reconstruction and the Repul
y can party are also interested in the ov
is throw of the national credit. The rect
n speech of Jesse ID. Bright is startling prt
of their malignant and dangerous purpos
That daring sympathizer, as if to conf
the justice of his expulsion for treason fir
the Senate, in 1861, recently declared a
nc public meeting in Kentucky, where he n
MS resides, ''that the war was unoonstitution
Congress was an unconstitutional body
acts are null and void; the national deb
10 not binding; slavery is not abolished; sla'
en- must be returned TO their masters; Sou
ny ern men must be paid for all losses susta
10 ed during the war, and they must be g
'ai erned by the principle ofState rights A
'ai he closes by advising the people ''not TO |
Is, another dollar of taxes to the National g
Gu ernment."
ID These are the ideas cherished by lead
= of the combined opposition, which your
= difference in the coming election will org
ry ize into new, and possibly into a trium
ng ant rebellion.
ou Had Andrew johnson been allowed to
ou store the traitors to their old possessions
IS Ctota hat InJ fro,,, tho Irpiou