Year: 1867

EELIOW -IlIlLENo, Inv
your action to the cause of our common
country, still imperilied ~ . pernd.ous
Executive on the one hand. and the defiant
spirit of rebellion on the other, impels US TO
make this appeal before the approaching
elections The members OF the Union he
publican Executive Committee, having been
30 impressed by the extraordinary success
which has attended their efforts in the unre-
constructed States, and by the vital neces-
sity of strengthening these efforts by the ap
proving voice of the great party that Con.
tributed SO effcctually to the overthrow OF
the rebellion, that they cannot beheve tue
American people are ready to allow the enc
mics of the Republic to gather new courage
in their opposition to the restoration OF the
Union on the basis of equality and justice


Since our 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 humanity and of liberty has SO rapidly
advanced in the South that we now 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
commonwealths will be restored to our pc
loved Union; and nothing can arrest TINS
magnificent political consummatlon but the
indifference or hostility OF those great COM
munities which have been alike tile pre-
servers and the protectors OF the publlc I'D
critics What motive can mislead RepuD-
Iican who believed in Abraham Lincoln, and
who gratefully followed the victorious stan
dards of Grant and Sheridan, to refuse to
act with his party in crisis as great as any
that awakened the patriotism of the one or
the courage of the others2 Our enemies are
mot only unsubdued, but, from the apostate
in the Presidential chair to the perJured and
pardoned rebels, they ere absolutely looking
to the Republicans to encourage them IN
new treacheries and atrocities. The effect
upon them of the October reverses In Penn
svlvania and Ohio should admonlsh and VI
talize the Republicans of every other State;
and when we tell you that every mail brings
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 es-.
tablished 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 bur-
dens of our friends. Every moral and mate
rial interest is deeply concerned in the tri-
umph of reconstruction. That measure is
more than half completed, and it will be
sad supplement to all their sacrifices OF blood
and treasure if the American people should
prove Indifferent to their own duty or anita
gonistic to their own welfare. The rebel
newspapers do not attempt to restain their
ecstacies over the late elections. The Char
lesion Mercury of a recent date says:


"The only question for the majority in
Congress now to consider is this-shall they
urge this policy upon the Southern States,
and thus keep in action and intense exasper
alton an issue OIL which it is plain they have
been and must be beaten. and which, there
fore, 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 popu-
larity and powera If they insist upon cling
ing to this issue Of negro suffrage, and at
tempt to force into operation By revolutionary
eiolence and the 6ayonet their fall sciU only
be deeper and more damning 1t may ecen
bring uith it personal and bloody retribution
on the recolutionists and tyrants acho shall at
tempt to enforce s1' e. 4...i 4s-sa:lGig


uC 1biChiHOuo ASHfu6of --fr"t


Negro suffrage will not be established here,
except through our own fatal and mistaken
cooperation, il we will be.frm, patient, and
= IN snort, the results in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, with the other like indications are
the knell of that plan of g settlement" which
is such only in bitter irony, and the public
mind will now turn TO move rational views.
The road to national tranquility is still long,
it 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 fnger-boards, and turned the backs
of the people upon peace, and led them
away, while protesting to travel toward
It'll ..f.5sf5


The Mississippi Acalanche says:


This Radical faction is simply band of
political asssasins and public plunderers, of
whom blaspheming Brownlow, the beast
Butler, and the devil incarnate Thad. Stev-
ems, are the genuine types and head men
the truest representatives and most accepta-
bic leaders. We cannot even feel in
different, but must, of necessity, hate so foul
and miserable faction witha a hatred that
naturally grows more intense with each new
act of daily and hourly oppression. The
Almighty Ruler of us all is God Of Truth,
OF Piety, and of Justice He, therefore, re-
quires such antlpathy at our hands and un-
til He shall see fit to change the eternal stan
dards of right and wrong it will be the duty
of every honest man to detest and make war
upon the American Radicals-those assas-
sins of liberty and enemies of mankind,


1t requires no prophet to. foretell that, if
the November elections should end in Re-
publican defeats, the threat of Andrew John
son on the 22d of February, 1865. and fire..
quently repeated since, will be fulfilled at
tunities at the national capital, and from our
extensive correspondence with our agents
and friends in the. Southern States, to weigh
the sincerity of these threats, we declare to
you, our countrymen, that nothing more is
required by these violent, revolutionary, and
desperate men but the belief that they are
sustained by the pnblic opinion of the con-
quering States to adventure another cohspi-
racy, and to demand, if necessary by force,
their restoration to the power they welded
at so terrible cost to the public peace
2 What patriot will not shrink from contribu-
ting to such a catastrophe ? That the Amer
lean people are equal TO any new trial, how
ever terrible that,the apostates appeal to
force, though backed by the whole rebel ar
my, would end in his own overthrow, and
their perpetual disfranchisement, may be
confidently anticipated; but when, by the
cordial and united performance of plain
and peaceful duty at the ballot box in No
yember, you can avoid further bloodshed,
assist the great work of reconstruction, and
! perpetuate Republican ascendency, few
words of ours should be required to arouse
you to an instant apprehension of your