Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-15

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who comes from England or Germany 70
dwell among US, and TO add to the wealth
Of the country: Before you can be .
citizen you must stay here iige years.
If we are so cautious about foreigners,
who voluntarily renounce their homes to
live with US, what should we say TO the
traitor. who. although born and reared
among us, has raised paracldal hand
against the government which always
protected him2
Treason must be made odious, and
traitors PUNISHED AND IMPOVERISHED.
Their great plantations must be seized,
and divided into small farms, and sold
| TO honest and industrious men.
DO you believe, after reading what Mr..
johnson has said, that he now intends to
enfrancbise rebels ? And can there be
Southerner who reads these fiery and
revengeiul speeches who believes that the
man who delivered them was not in
earnest and did not believe what he said 2
We proclaim it to-day that Andrew
johnson was the first and almost the
only man in the North, soon after the
war had ceased, that was in favor OF
confscation. If Congress had in the
least favored such scheme, to-day the
Middle and Western parts Of the State
would have been given over to the East
ern. and the properly of the honest
industry gained by the toll and sweat OF
cur fathers would have been taken from
us and divided among the poor Unionists
of East Tennessee, Mr.. Johnson's friends
All that have ears to hear let them now
give heed. A similar speech, delivered
by Andrew johnson to delegation
of citizens, headed by Senator Morton,
of Indiana, April 81, 1865:
The time has arrived, my countrymen,
when the American people should be
educated and taught what is crime, and
that treason is crime, and the highest
crime known to the law and the Constr
tuition. Yes, treason against State,
treason against all the States, treason
against the Government of the United
States. is THE HIGHEST CRIME that can be
committed, and those engaged in 1t should
SUPPER ALL ITS PENALTIES. They must
not only be punished, but their social
power must be destroyed. 1t not they
win still maintain their ascendancy, and
may again become numerous and power
full, for, 10 the words of former Senator
of the United States, when traitors be-
come numerous enough treason becomes
respectable" And | say that after
making treason odious, every Union man
and the Government should be remuner-
ated out of the pockets of those who have
inflicted this great suffering upon the
country.
Then, in adjusting and putting gov
eminent upon its legs again, | think the
progress Of this work must pass into the
hands of its friends. If State is to be
nurses until it again gets strength, ii
must be nursed by its friends, not
sratked by its enemies.
Listen again to the demagogue and
plebean, who is, and has always been,
the most contemptible Of agrarisns.
Here is an extract from his Nashville
speech Of November, 1864:
This arstocracy-yes, this corrupt
and damnsble slave aristocrocy of Nash
yiIle-taunt the friends of free labor with
negro equality. Negro equality, indeed
Why, walk along High street among the
psrvenue negro aristocracy of Nashville,
whose sons are now skalking in guerrilla
bands close to our city, robbing and muir
dering, and you can see as many mulatto
as white children, bearing an unmistaka-
Bile resemblance to some of Nashvilles
boasied aristocraey. There is negro
equality for you, with witness.
i invoke the coored people to be or
Derby and lsw-abiding. but at the same
time let them assert their rights and if
traitors and ruffians attack them while in
the discharge of their duties, let them de-
fend themselves as all men have a right
to do.
We ask can their be one honest and
proud Souiherner, who walks the earth
that contains the consecrsted dead, who
can endorse or even respectthis most con.
temptible Of all men-Andrew Johnson,
who now revels in the Inequalities Of our
citizens2 "The traitor should be i'm
poverished and his social position de-
stroyed are the familiar words of this
man, who has always been traitor. He
is opposed to one man having more
money than another, and especially more
than Andrew johnson. Let our tongue
eleaye to the roof Of our mouth, aud our
hand grow pslsisd, before we can be
forced in, any respect to speak or write
our endorse menf of Andrew Johnson,
either as gentleman or politician.