Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-01-10
AID d r E 5 S
Conservative Ar.sy aid Navy Union.
OF THE


RI Sailors o the Late War for the Union.
HHDoR's CONSERVATIVE ARMY AND
NAVY UNION,
no. 397 Pennsy lvania Avenue,
WAsHINGTasz D. @, Jan. 6, 1868.
COMRADES Inasnuch as numerous call
are now being issued and circulated through
out the States and from this city for soldiers
and sailors conventions, and i'll order tina
our comrades may fully understand iron
whence issue these calls, their objects, apt
ir whose interests they are TO operate, TIN
address is issued
The following extract is a specimen iron
one of the calls referred to now being Cir
: culated, against which it becomes our dat,
to warn you
WASHINGTON, D. c.. December, is, 1867.
ut conference Of Union soldiers and sailor
held in this city Monday, Dec. &c. 1867, to con
slider the propriety of calling national conven
ton, resolutions were unanimously sdrpIed re
commencing that an invitation be ext tended to al
loyal persons who have served IL the military OF
naval service of the United states to unite in is
suing a call for a national convention, to be hello
in May, 1858, for the consideration OF nationa
questions, and the nomination of candidates foI
President and Vice President Of the Unite1
States.
The disorde,ed state of public affairs the resto-
ration OF rebels to power, the designing efforts to
destroy national credit, the failure through
out the country to recognize the just claims OF
the We Grams OF the war; these, coupled with de
S re to perpetuate the fundamental principles OF
our Government, ere deemed sufficient reasons
that the men who crushed rebellion should conn
| sci such measures shall tend to preserve and
protect the civil Fights OF al the people.
Brig. Gen. T. T. CRIrTEHDEs,
Chairman.
WILL A. SHORT Secretary.
The purport Of these calls would lead
many to believe that these proposed Con
ventions were to be held solely III the in
terest of the soldiers and sailors. But do
not allow yourselves to be deceived by ex-
pediency men and designing politicians. -
Under the pretext Of serving soldiers and
sailors they are laboring to delude you into
their ranks, after which the same fraud,
falsehood and ingratitude will be;practiced
upon you that has been SO signally evinced
in the past.
81 lie disordered state of public ofai,s'
has been brought about by this same party,
which has been in power for years and by
a system Of usurpatlon and uncalled for
| legislation, stripped the executive branch
of the Government Of ali authority to stay
the tide of evilinficted by them, from time
to time, upon the country.
T he restoration Of rebels 10 pOUer," a
paltry plea, (only practiced by the party in
power, as lately exhibited), should call the
! blush of shame to the cheek of the manly
! soldier as he behods q PROSTATE and
now starving foe, ready and willing to yield
to any terms consistent with the honor and
dignity of a great Christian people and ma
! ton.
"The designing efforts to destroy ON NO.
t0nU credit" will indeed be small induce
ment to soldiers when they are aware Of
the fact That these Conventions are to be
Called In the interests OF party which has
for its object the support OF q moneyed
arlstOcracy, which eXempts from taxation,
and gives to the rich bondholder the gold
OF the public treasury at a premium, while
it heavily taxes every laboring man and
soldier, and exacts that he should be paid
for his services in deprecated currency
increasing the rich mans dollar and max
ing The poor mans less.
''1he failure Mr0ugh0Wt5e country 10 Tec0g-
nize the just claims Of tie ueterQns Of Tie aca3
has nowhere been so openly and wantonly
exhibited as by this same party in the
United States Senate, in the rejection and
refusal to appoint thousands OF our brave
disabled comrades during the past few
years.
"a desire TO pe9,petuate the Fundamental
principles Of oar G0ceynment" will, no
doubt appear to many of gu" comrades as
intended for a joke by these conventionists.
when it is we'll Known that they have been
laboring with, and are now in full COM
munion with the party of usurpers who, 10y
arbitrary legislation, have established mill
tary dlctators, inaugurated Il system Of
tyranny, raised the negro to be the political
superior OF the white man, created negro
Legislators, negro judges, and negro juries,
suspended the writ of hubeas corpus, and
are continuing arbitrary arrests and trials
In time of peace for all of which tht y can
find no warrant within the fundamentals
| law of the land
We, therefore, desire to ask YOU frankly:
Are you III favor Of the supremacy of the
negro race over two-thirds of our territory /?
Are yon IN favor of negro legislators,
negro judges, and negro juries ?
Are you III favor of being taxed $50, coo =
600 annually for the support of negro gov
ernments Ill the Southern States ?
Are you in favor of having expended
from your hard earnings $12, 600 0OO an
nually, IN support of the Freedmens Blu
reau, for the encouragement of idleness,
theft, and vice among the negroes of the
South, while not a dollar is appropriated
toward the maintenance of the widows and
orphans Of your fallen comrades?
Are you IN favor of continuing a finan-
clal policy which eXemptS from taxation
the wealthy bondholder, who prospered
upon the misfortunes of the country, and
taxing the laboring class of tie people,
giving to the former the coin of the treas
ury, and to the latter a deprecated paper
currency, thus exempting the rich from as
sisting in the payment of the war debt,
and imposing it upon the poorer classes ?
Are you in favor of having your COM
rades thrust aside by the United States
Senate, when brought before it for confr-
nation for such offices as are in the gift of
| the Executive
| Are you in favor of longer continuing
the distracted condition of the country,
that ambitious politicians and grasping
spectators might thrive ?
Are you in favor of throwing aside prin-
clple, patriotism and devotion to your
country to enter with political charlatans
the band OF usurpers, tyrants, and fanatics
that now reign and rule in dire confusion +?
Ii you are not in favor of such course
we appeal to you to abstain from entering
any of the conventions for which calls are
now being issued, as these conventions are
to be managed and manipulated expressly
IN the interests of the party now in power,
which has brought starvation and untold