Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-24
Appeal to the North.

VOICE OF SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.
The following manifesto and appeal of the
Southern republicans to their Northern brethren,
has just been issued through the columns of the
National Republican of Washington, d. C. Its
stra. htforward, consistent and convincing argu-
. ments will be received throughout the Northern
States as reliable and worthy of the utmost con-
sderaton, at least by that portion believing in
equal rights and justice to all American citizens :
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
| Whereas the majority of the Senate committee
to investigate the late election in Mississippi have
reported the true cond iton of atfis in the State
Resolved. That the thanks of the Southern re-
publicans of Washington are hereby rendered to
Senators Boutwell,, Cameron of Wisconsin, and
Mcmillan for their just and able exposition OF the
manner in which Southern republicans are over
awed and democratic majorities are manufactured
in the Southern States.
la adopting this resolutions we desire to call
the attention of the republicans of the North to
the position in which their brethren, both white
and colored, placed in the South. We, as
Southern republicans, have again, and yet again,
asserted that
MURDER, THREATS AND INTIMIDATION
in the South were used to prevent the republicans
from expressing the highest right of freemen. In
every instance have been met with the cry
from Copper heads and unreconstructed rebels that
cused of lying and denounced as thieves. 1t has
become too common for the republicans OF the
North to endorse these ISLANDERS. Some of them,
who claim, as the Pharisee did. and with as little
truth, to be more yirtuous than their neghbors,
have adopted these ISLANDERS upon Southern re-
pubicans as truth and made them party slogan.
From the fact that these lying tales have been in
dorsed by many prominent Northern republicans
and by the false cry of reform democratic house
has been in session in this city for more than
eight months The desertlon OF the Southern
republicans, has reacted against the Northern re-
bcans, and they see the Congress Of the United
States,
THE PURSE AND SWORD OF THE NATION,
controlled by un,epentaut rebels from the South
and the coppt rheads and dough faces of the North
The results of this control are well known, but 1t
may not be ami,s 10 briefly recapitulate them
the first, was the discharge of tlfty-seven Union
soldiers and nearly every Union man from the EN-
poylnent of the House, and their replacement by
rebels al copperheads, whose only desire few
We ,rs since was to destroy the union, and who
having failed in that attempt by the bullet are
now endeavorng to accomplish it by ballot. The
second is the undisguised purpose of the
sEvENTY-THREE COLONIES AND GENERALS
oil the rebel army now in Congress to cripple
every department of The government and render
the ineff .ctive, while they at the same time de-
priye hundreds of soldiers, their widows and or
phans of employment The third is the adoption
of political platform which proposes reputation
and the nomination of candidates for the highest
offices in the gift OF the people, one OF whom de-
cared the war failure, wnilc the other was said
TO be- and for aught known to the contrary, is now
u member of reasonable organization intended
to destroy the Union and establish Northwestern
coniederacy in sympathy with that of the south.
They are but the Legitimate results OF the poll
CIV in the republicans OF the North, who listened
to and believed rebel ISLANDERS while they ignored