Year: 1866

Southern Cnf0nistG Address-Indictmen emf
Of the Prestdent.
| The address of the loyal Southern Unionists
declares in the outset that they speak from per-
soual observation, and that their only hope oil
future safety from rebel malignty is in the sup
port and undivided strength of the States that
elected Abraham Lincoln. They charge the
President with perfdy, and declare that he is
restoring the weapons to traitors to beat down
Union men ; that, after having proclaimed that
none but the loyal should govern the South, he
is practicing the maxim that none but traitors
shall rule that he has ostracised all the oriei-
nal Union men of the South


That he has corrupted the local Courts by
offering premiums for the defiance of the laws OF
Congress, and by openly discouraging the OBJ
servance of oaths against treason, while refusing
to punish one single conspirator, though thou
sands had earned the penalty of death; more
than one thousand devoted Union citizens have
been murdered in cold blood since the surrender
of Lee. and in no case have their assassins been
brought to judgment that he has pardoned
some of the worst of the rebel criminals of the
South, including those who have taken human life
under circumstances of unparalleled cruelty that
while denouncing and lettering the operations
of the Freedmen s Bureau, he. with knowledge of
the falsehood, has charged that the black men
are rebelious, and has concealed the fact that





and fed by that noble organization that while
declaring it was corruptly managed and expen-
sive to the Government, he has coanived at a
system of the use of public patronage and money
wholly without parallel, save when the traitors
bankrupted the treasury and sought to disorgan-
ize and scatter the army and navy to make it
easy of capture from the Government that
while declaring against the injustice OF leaving
eleven States unrepresented he has refused
to authorize the liberal plan of Congress be-
cause it recognizes the loyal ma ority and refuses
to perpetuate the minority that in every State
of the South his policy has brought most deplor-
able results-it has emboldened returned reb-
els to threaten civil war in Maryland, Missouri.
Western Virginia and TENNESSEE: thas corrupted
high State officers, elected by Union men. sworn
to enforce the laws against returned rebels, and
made them mere instruments Of the authorities
of rebellon it has encourageda new alienation
between sections, and by impeding emigration to
the South has erected q barrier against free and
friendly intercourse in the North and in the
West it has allowed rebel soldiers to persecute
teachers of colored schools and burn churches
of freedmen. That system SO b,rbaroas should
have eliminated in the trghtful riots at Memphis,
and the massacre at New Orleans, was as natural
as that bloody wars should follow the teachings
of John C. Calhoun and JEFF. Davis.


They hold, as they should, Andrew johnson
responsible for all the Foregoing cruelties, and
declare in truth that he justifes and applauds
them.


From this solemn and terrible indictment of
the President, the Convention proceed to indict
slavery aud the Democratic party its propa-
gator and defender. They cobclnde on this
branch of the subject, by the declaration that
slavery is sought to be revived and made perpet-
ual by the Democracy, in another name and
form, through the method of reconstruction
agreed upon by and between Andrew johnson
and the late slaveholding traitors. They charge
the President with using every foul agency" in
this work, and with talshood in pretending to
sanction emancipation. They say that, under
his aid and favor 90 reign of terror has been in
auguratcd Mt the South, making loyalty stand
silent in the presence of treason, nor whisper
breath" To change all this, TO Illustrate the
Internal purposes, to reorganZe the Union men
of the South and of the North, to vitalize the
party of the Union and fix it principles that
will insure permanent triumph over treason and
slavery to see that the late seeded States are
restored to the Union only on Republican basis,
they have met in Convention.


The Address concludes with summary state
ment of these principles, which are-First: Sup
port of the action of the Thirty-ninth Congress
on reconstruction second of the article
for Constitutional Amendment, submitted by
Congress to the States for ratification third the
necessity of carrying the Congressional elections
so that the Forteth Congress shall contain a
Union majority; and fourth, an expression of
faith that, in the providence of God, at some
future day the freedmen of the South "wll be
proffered the rights and franchises which may
be necessary to adjust and settle this mighty
controversy, in the spirit of the most enlarged
and christian philanthropy


This address, so solemn and earnest, was
unanimously approved by the Convention
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of the resolutions and address, it is not our pur-
pose now to speak Of We only remark that the
Convention appears to be divided on the subject
of negro suffrage at the South, and that those
who favor such suffrage are delegates, not from
the Border, but from the late seeded States
So far it is not clear as to what the suffrage par
ty demand-whether universal or qualified negro
suffrage; whether to invest Congress with power
to enforce it directly by legislation, by amend
ment of the Federal Constitution, or by amend
ment of the State Constitutions. Whenever the
matter assumes definite shape we shall speak of
it more definitely. At present it cannot be con-
sidered part of the National Platform presented
by the Convention, and SO long as the regulation
of suffrage is admitted to be sovereign right of
the States independent of national policy and
the Federal Government, We do not see how it
can be made plank in the National Platform
But, if the loyal white men OF the South are fully
convinced that there Is necessity tor negro s1f-
fragc in their respective States as check upon
treason and traitors, and the sole means by which
loyalty can be protected from them, in God S
and humanity's name, we say let them have it,
but let each State be the sovereign judge of that
necessity ty.-Stockton Independent.


We have not to publish the resolutions today


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Tom HosTLER, one Of the "good Indians of
Hoopa Valley, was killed recently by Redwood
Indian.


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