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 .A\ 
 
 ADDRESS OF DR. A. P. DOSTIE, 
 
 DELIVERED BEFORE THE 
 
 REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, 
 May 9, 1866. 
 
 Fellow-Citizens— The conflict between Free- 
 dom and Despotism now agitating the Nation 
 is rapidly developing those great principles 
 which form the basis of republican govern- 
 ment. In the antagonism raging there are two 
 parties in the peld — the Republican party, 
 which maintains that liberty, equality and 
 justice are the prerogatives of all men, and 
 should be the foundation of government ; the 
 other, the " Democratic " party, whieh dis- 
 graces that name by denouncing human equal- 
 ity and the imprescriptable rights of man, 
 which embrace immortal liberty and impartial 
 justice, and thus striving to re-establish a de- 
 testable and odious Slave Oligarchy. 
 
 NO MIDDLE GROUND. 
 
 In this battle of ideas no middle ground can 
 be taken by friends of freedom, oi democracy, 
 of republicanism. The events of the past four 
 5 ears have clearly developed to the American 
 people the fact that the elements in our country 
 at war with republican institutions, with the 
 fundamental truths which point to universal 
 liberty, can no longer with impunity be per- 
 mitted to endanger the life of the Nation. 
 
 Patriots and heroes have written, with pens 
 dipped in the blood of thousands, upon the 
 corner stone of the Republic : Liberty — Pro- 
 gress—Democracy. 
 
 REPUBLICANISM CANNOT BE OVERTHROWN. 
 
 No human power can thrust this Republic of 
 Liberty into the depths from which it has been 
 lifted. The plague spot has been removed from 
 the Nation, and that man, be he " President, 
 rebel, or conservative," who dares to conspire 
 against the progreps of freedom and equal and 
 exact justice, must eventually incur the just 
 indignation of an outraged people, and be 
 crushed by those " eternal forces " which have 
 decreed that this shall be a land of free, re- 
 publican institutions. 
 
 LINCOLN AND JOHNSON COMPARED. 
 
 Connected with the events of the past five 
 years are two names that will ever stand out 
 boldly upon the records of the Second Ameri- 
 can Revolution. These are, Abraham Lincoln 
 and Andrew Johnson. The one, the great 
 leader of the Republican party, the leader of 
 that party which, during the past four years, 
 won so many " victories for humanity." Abra- 
 ham Lincoln was the champion of liberty, the 
 embodiment of the principles and policy of the 
 Republican party. He was ever the friend of 
 patriots, of men loyal to our country, and 
 steadily maintained the principles which hon- 
 ored republicanism and protected loyalty. 
 With mercy he blended justice. Abraham 
 Lincoln was never known to compromise with 
 traitors. None dared approach the man who, 
 by every act of his life, had proved himself 
 invulnerable to the flattery of the enemies 
 of his country, and who never granted fa- 
 vors which would injure the cause of re- 
 publican liberty. The friends of emancipa- 
 tion, of the Union — men of republican ideas, of 
 true democratic principles — were the men with 
 whom he sympathised and whom he selected to 
 fill places of trust in this Government. Abra- 
 ham Lincoln never dreamed of a policy that 
 could place traitors in power to crush loyal 
 men who had suffered for the cause of liberty 
 and the Union. This name, which was made 
 immortal because it stood at the head of that 
 party, whose policy has ever been to extir- 
 pate slavery from the land and restore the 
 country according to the laws of right and 
 justice, will ever appear in bright contrast with 
 that of Andrew Johnson. 
 
 A mourning Nation turned from the grave 
 of a martyred President to repose confidence in 
 one they believed to be a true patriot, in one 
 whose past acts and noble sayings had marked 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 
 bim as a friend to loyalty, aa enemy to trea- 
 son. The oppressed looked up to Andrew 
 Johnson with confidence, as he told them " he 
 would be their Moses, and take them through the 
 dark waters ivhich surrounded them.'' Loyal men 
 who had suffered by fighting for their country 
 in her peril, for which they were persecuted by 
 traitors, trusted the " Moses " of the wronged, 
 and confidently believed that bis policy would 
 be to protect the friends of the Government 
 against the tyranny of those who had sought 
 to destroy it. Had Andrew Johnson not said, 
 when Governor of Tennessee, " Rebellion shall 
 no more pollute our Slate. Loyal men, whether 
 black or tvhite, shall govern the State '"' ? Had 
 Andrew Johnson not said from his exalted 
 position of President, " Treason must be made 
 odious, and traitors must be punished and impov- 
 erished. Their great plantations must be snzed and 
 divided into sinall farms and sold to honest and in- 
 dustrious vim "? 
 
 Did not Andrew Johnson say : "In- 
 deed, one who has become distinguished in 
 treason and in this rebellion, said that ' When 
 traitors become numerous enough treason becomes 
 respectable,'' and to become a traitor was to con- 
 stitute a portion of the aristocracy of the 
 country. God protect the people against such an 
 aristocracy.''^ "^e, the people, do say, "Yes, the 
 time has come when the people should be 
 taught to understand the length and breadth, 
 the depth and height of treason." An indi- 
 Tidual occupying the highest position among 
 us was lifted to that position by the free offer- 
 ing of the American people— the highest posi- 
 tion on the habitable globe. This man we 
 Lave seen, revered and loved ; one who, if he 
 erred at all, erred on the side of clemeucy and 
 mercy. That man we have seen treasoa strike 
 through a fitting instrument, and we have be- 
 held him fall like a bright star falling from its 
 sphere. Now, there is none but would say, if 
 the question came up, what should be done 
 with the individual who assassinated the Chief 
 Magistrate of the Nation ? He is but a man- 
 one man, after all ; but if asked what should 
 be done with the assassin, what should be the 
 penalty, the forfeit exacted ? I know what response 
 dwells in every bosom. It is that he should pay 
 the forfeit with his life. And hence, we see 
 these are times when mercy and clemency 
 without justice, become a crime. The one 
 should temper the other, and bring about that 
 
 proper means. And if we should eny this when 
 the case was the simple murder of one man by 
 his fellow-man, what should we say when asked 
 what should be done with him, or them, or 
 those who have raised impious hands to take 
 away the life of a Nation composed of thirty 
 millions of people? What would be the reply 
 to that question? But while in mercy we re- 
 member justice, in the language that has been 
 uttered, I say justice toward the leaders, the 
 conscious leaders, but I also say amnesty, con- 
 ciliation, clemency and mercy to the thousands 
 of our countrymen whom you and I know have 
 been deceived or drawn into this infernal re- 
 bellion. I repeat that it is time our peo- 
 ple were taught to know that treason is a 
 crime, not a mere political difference, not a 
 mere contest between two parties, in which 
 one succeeded and the other has simply failed. 
 They must know it is treason, for If they had 
 succeeded the life of the Nation would have 
 been reft from it — the Union would have been 
 destroyed. Surely the Constitution sufficiently 
 defines treason. It consists in levying war 
 against the United States, and in giving their 
 enemies aid and comfort. With this definition 
 it requires the exercise of no great acumen to 
 ascertain who are traitors. It requires no 
 great perception to tell who have levied war 
 against the United States ; nor does it require 
 any great stretch of reasoning to ascertain who 
 have given aid to the enemies of the United 
 States ; and when the Government of the 
 United States does ascertain who are the con- 
 scious and intelligent traitors, the penalty and 
 forfeit should be paid. I know how to appre- 
 ciate the condition of being driven from one's 
 home. I can sympathize with him whose all 
 has been taken from him; with him who has 
 been denied the place that gave bis children 
 birth. But let us, withal, in the restoration of 
 true government, proceed temperately and dis- 
 passionately, and hope and pray that the time 
 will come, as I believe, when all can return 
 and remain at our homes, and treason and trai- 
 tors be driven from our land." 
 
 Traitors were appointed to fill places ol 
 trust, but none were willing to believe that 
 the patriotic Andrew Johnson had adopted 
 a policy that would place men in power 
 who had labored for years to destroy the 
 most beneficent form of government. Were 
 
♦ 
 
 AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 k not his past acts and words in direct antago- 
 2 nism to this suicidal policy? Had not he said 
 S that " in the work of restoration, that work should 
 ^^^ he put into the hands of friends, not smothered by 
 its enemies" ? That ^^ if there were, but five thou- 
 sand men loyal to freedom, loyal to justice, these true 
 and faithful men should control the work of reorgan- 
 ization and reformation absolutely ^^? Such was 
 the confidence reposed in Andrew Johnson by 
 the loyal Union men of the South that they 
 suffered in silence the persecutions of traitors, 
 believing that when their patriotic President 
 had experimented sufficiently in his restoration 
 policy, he certainly would discover that such a 
 policy sustained traitors and crushed loyal 
 men. They waited hopefully and patiently, 
 believing that when their loyal President 
 should discern the true character of his 
 appointees, they would receive their just 
 reward — that traitors would be punished ac- 
 cording to his solemn promises. 
 
 JOri.VSON DISSIPATES THE HOPES OF THE LOYAL. 
 
 Alas! that Andrew Johusou should have 
 stultified his history, abandoued his party, and 
 fallen from that position where a confiding, 
 liberty-loving people had placed him, expect- 
 ing hiin to carry out the great principles the 
 lamented Lincoln had pointed out as necessary 
 to save the Republic. Alas ! that the Chief 
 Executive should descend from that exalted 
 position so recently occupied by the Great 
 Martyr of Liberty, to denounce the principles 
 of that pirty, of that Congress who are strug- 
 gliug to maintain the immortal cause for which 
 the leader of Republicanism — the noble Lin- 
 coln—had died. 
 
 UIS ASSOCIATION WITH TRAITORS. 
 
 Liberty bowed her head and wept, methinks, 
 on the night of February 22d, 1S66, when the 
 Chief Magistrate of the Nation mingled with 
 the traitors of the land to insult a Republican 
 Congress, to strike at the vitals of Liberty, to 
 treat with contempt the memory of Washington 
 and Lincoln. It was not strange that the 
 Nation stood aghast and loyal hearts wer3 
 filled with shame and humiliation, while trai- 
 tors shouted and fired guns in honor of their 
 avowed leader. 
 
 HE ASSERTS THAT HE IS CARRYIXG OUT MR. LIN- 
 COLN'S POLICY. 
 
 President Johnson declares that he is but 
 carrying out the policy of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 If he had reconstructed and restored States ac- 
 cording to his promises, he would have carried 
 out Mr. Lincoln's policy. Has this been his 
 course? Has he adhered to the principles for 
 which he was elected to restore the States? 
 Has not Andrew Johnson said " The leaders of 
 the rebellion have decided eternal separation between 
 you and them. These leaders must be conquered and 
 a new set of men brought forward, who are to vitalize 
 and develope the Union feeling in the South"? 
 This was the policy of Abraham Lincoln; this 
 was the promulgated policy of Andrew John- 
 son, as an avowed Republican. This is not his 
 present policy. Ilis policy is to arm the 
 rebels, to veto Liberty Bills designed to give 
 protection to the loyal against traitors, to de- 
 nounce patriots as traitors and fraternize with 
 the red-handed monsters of the land, 
 
 GOV. BROWNLOW'S OPINION OP JOHNSON'S POLICY, 
 
 Listen to what Gov. Brownlow says of An- 
 drew Johnson's policy : *• When I put the Presi- 
 dent in nomination at Baltimore for the Vice 
 Presidency , I felt that he had so thoroughly commit- 
 ted himself to the Union cause, and had been so badly 
 treated by the rebels, it was impossible for him ever 
 to get around to them again; but I give him uj) as 
 lost to the Union party, and as the man who is to 
 head the rebels and Democrats. Every rebel in this 
 country, every McClellan man, and every ex-guerrilla 
 chief are loud and enthusiastic in praise of the Presi- 
 dent. The men ivho but a few months since were 
 cursing him for an Abolitionist and traitor and wish- 
 ing him executed, are now for executing all who dare 
 oppose UIS TOLiCY, or even doubt its success.'' lu 
 the eleven rebellious States, can any one point 
 out the " 7ie!4' set of .men?" No. The le^tders 
 of the rebellion, through the influence and 
 power of Andrew Johnson, to-day hold the 
 offices and places throughout these States, aud 
 openly declare that Andrew Johnson, whom 
 the loyal millions trusted, is the friend and 
 supporter of the leaders of the rebelliou, while 
 they know that the loyal Union people are un- 
 protected and subject to the tyranny af the 
 instigators of the rebellion. Andrew Johnson 
 is shamefully guilty of displacing men who 
 have lavishly spilt their blood and expended 
 their treasure to secure an undivided country, 
 and given those places to men distinguished 
 for their treason. The policy of Abraham Lin- 
 coln was in bright contrast with this policy. 
 During Lincoln's life, were men known to 
 have been partisans ot secession, appointed 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 to govern the States ? Were its instigators al- 
 lowed to hold ofiBces or positions of honor or 
 trust? Did traitors dream of asking such 
 favors from the just and honest Lincoln ? They 
 knew that the great object of that noble life 
 was to put down treason and restore the Union. 
 In contrast to Johnson's proceedings, Lincoln 
 acted according to his convictions of right and 
 justice. His acts were in harmony with his 
 words. Andrew Johnson declared that influen- 
 tial and wealthy traitors ought to suffer " the 
 penalties and terrors of the law," and now 
 seeks to conciliate them, honors them by pla- 
 cing them in Government employ, and giving 
 them positions of power, where their influ- 
 ence in favor of treason is unlimited. Is this 
 " arresting, convicting and punishing " men who 
 have been guilty of the greatest of crimes — 
 treason ? Is this making treason odious ? 
 
 HE DECLARES LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA 
 LOYAL. 
 
 Andrew Johnson has recently declared, in 
 praise of his restoration policy, that Louisiana 
 aid South Carolina are now more loyal than 
 they have been for the past twenty-five years — 
 showing that all men do not regard loyalty 
 from the same standpoint. The men who 
 have been crushed by the despotic tyranny of 
 President Johnson's reconstructed rsbels, because 
 they have fought for the Union and republican 
 principles, place a different construction upon 
 loyalty. The men who have fought treason and 
 slavery for the last twenty-five years, and who 
 have been commissioned by high authority to 
 investigate these important matters, do not 
 talk thus of the loyalty of Louisiana and South 
 Carolina. The true, loyal Union men of these 
 eleven rebellious States know that rebellion is 
 only conquered by the bayonet, that military 
 power alone keeps it in check. Why do the 
 masses, led on by prominent men, the wealthy, 
 influential aristocrats of the South, denounce 
 in the most bitter terms the men who oppose 
 slavery, secession and treason? Why is the 
 press of these States, if they are so loyal, con- 
 stantly filling the public mind with the same 
 ideas that were popular during the rebellion? 
 
 HORACE MAYNABU'S OPINION OF THE REBELLIOUS 
 STATES. 
 
 Hearken to what Horace Maynard says : 
 " With the same traitor editors as before 
 and during the war, pardoned it may be, but 
 
 manifestly unchanged in temper and pur- 
 pose, there is displayed the same sectional 
 feeling end hatred of the Federal Government, 
 though not the same stomach for fight. Under 
 a thin disguise ot flattery of the President they 
 assail his friends who have stood by him all 
 through the dark years of the conflict, and vilify 
 those whom they call radicals, meaning all 
 Union men who oppose their infamous course 
 and who are now unwilling they should be re- 
 stored to power over loyal men. Their diurnal 
 venom afi'ords the strongest argument against 
 the admission to their seats of your Congres- 
 sional representation. The ideas and princi- 
 ples of the rebellion are constantly instilled 
 into the popular mind." This is known to be 
 true by all loyal men in the South . The un- 
 repentant rebels still resist the laws of the 
 Nation, despise the sacred oaths they have 
 taken, and only took them for the purpose of 
 gaining power through the mysterious magna- 
 nimity of Andrew Johnson, praise the institu- 
 tion of slavery and despotism, and generally 
 embrace the sentiments of men like T. Yancey, 
 of Mississippi, who says : "As for recognizing the 
 right of freedmen to their children, I can say that 
 not one Southern man or woman in the whole 
 South recognizes the negro as a freedman, but 
 as other stolen property forced by the bayonets 
 of the damnable United States Government.^' 
 
 THOUGH THE INSURRECTION IS DECLARED ENDED, 
 WAR YET EXISTS. 
 
 Such are the " loyal men " in power in these 
 reconstructed States. Such are the men now 
 guarding the vital interests of eleven States of 
 this Republic of Liberty. Does that flag which 
 is the pride of the Nation, in the folds of which 
 maybe read " Liberty, Justice and Equality," 
 wave triumphantly over these States? Al- 
 though Andrew Johnson has proclaimed the 
 " insurrection at an end," loar has not ended, peace 
 has not come. The Union men of the South 
 yet look upon Federal bayonets as their only 
 hope of salvation, and must so do, until a truly 
 Republican Congress can secure peace to the 
 country by reconstructing the rebellious States 
 upon a loyal basis, until those who are traitors 
 are made •' to take a back seat," and are shorn 
 of all power to renew their assault upon the 
 life of the Nation. Traitors, through the TTuig- 
 nanimity of Andrew Johnson, have received 
 positions due only to good and patriotic men. 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 Mea Tho had made themselves worthy of 
 favors from the Chief Executive by their ad- 
 hereuce to the Government when in peril, 
 demanded, in the name of right and justice, 
 that the sacred interests of this Government 
 be guarded by its sworn and tried friends, and 
 not placed in the power of the leaders of the 
 rebellion, who still plot the destruction of the 
 Republic. Honors bestowed upon traitors will 
 prove that 
 
 "Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill." 
 
 Have these pardoned rebels, who to-day, 
 through the influence of the President, govern 
 the eleven rebellious States, shown any evi- 
 dence of repentance for the crimes they have 
 committed against their country ? Do they 
 regard their sacred oaths? Do they not daily 
 declare, while surrounded by Federal bayonets, 
 that they will yet conquer that power which 
 has compelled their submission to the just laws 
 of this Nation, while they acknowledge them- 
 selves beaten in the field ? that, with the help 
 of their President and the copperheads of the 
 North, they will triumph politically in the 
 Government of this country ; that it will be a 
 more decided victory of their principles than 
 they could have obtained by defeating the 
 Republican army upon the battle-field ? Is this 
 yielding up the infamous principles for which 
 they commenced and fought a bloody war, that 
 they might become a Confederacy of Traitors, 
 the corner stone of which was to be slavery? 
 Is this embracing the great truths which give 
 to this Nation " Liberty — full, broad and un- 
 conditional Liberty?" Ought not traitors to 
 be made to feel that by committing the crime 
 of treason against this Government they forfeit 
 their rights as citizens, and that justice de- 
 mands that they be arrested and punished ? If 
 they had repented of their infamous crimes, 
 would they not honor and respect their con- 
 querors? Have they done this? No. The 
 fact is notorious that all the influential, 
 wealthy leaders of rebellion to-day bid defi- 
 ance to the Government and laws of the coun 
 try they have deluged with blood and filled with 
 woe and desolation. The principles of these 
 leaders have always moved them to oppose 
 republicanism, human equality and liberty, 
 aiid to guide the masses under their control to 
 anarchy and rebellion. 
 
 These are the men who to-day, under the 
 policy and administration of Andrew Johnson, 
 
 occupy the first positions in the States so lately 
 in armed hostility to the United States Gov- 
 ernment. These men, who led the armies of 
 the rebellion against the Republican hosts, 
 who fought to maintain the Government and 
 establish liberty throughout the land, now lead 
 the armies forth to fight the political battles 
 against their conquerors. 
 
 JOHNSON CLAIMED BY KEBKI.S AND COPPERHEADS 
 AS THEIR LEADER AND FRIEND. 
 
 And whom do they claim as their leader in 
 this conflict between republicanism and des- 
 potism, between free institutions and slavery? 
 Who, say the copperhead presses of the North 
 and the rebel presses of the South, shall be 
 their leader? In answer to this question, let 
 us read from the Bangor (Maine) Democrat, 
 which says : "Andrew is himself again. The 
 smoke and dust of the late civil war have 
 cleared away. The errors and vagaries of the 
 last five years have cleared away, have passed 
 into oblivion, and Andrew Johnson has shaken 
 from his limbs the shackles of Black Republi- 
 canism, and stands before the country to-day 
 the same noble, true-hearted Democrat he was 
 in those better days when he sat at the feet of 
 the great Hero of the Hermitage, and received 
 from his lips the first lessons in Jeffersonian 
 Democracy. The President has vetoed the 
 infamous Freedmen's Bureau Bill, a bill of 
 abominations." From the Wilmington (North 
 Carolina) Herald we also quote : "All honor to 
 President Johnson. The telegraph of this 
 morning brings us the gratifying tidings that 
 the President has vetoed the bill commonly 
 known as the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. Does 
 the South want any further evidence of the 
 friendship of the Federal Administration to- 
 wards it? Is it not time for the Southern peo- 
 ple to take some action toward staying up the 
 hands of the noble, worthy, patriotic Chief 
 Executive? He cannot stand alone against 
 radicalism and fanaticism. Let the people of 
 Wilmington send him a word of cheer, sympa- 
 thy and encouragement." Such are the senti- 
 ments expressed by the copperheads of the 
 North and the traitors of the South. They 
 evidently believe that their leader is secured 
 to them, that the man who so long suffered on 
 the "gridiron" because men of republican 
 principles were suffering by the persecutions of 
 traitors, copperheads and rebels, the " Moses " 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 of the oppressed, the Governor of Tennessee, 
 who declared that loyal men, whether black or 
 white, should rule the State, who said that 
 treason must be made odious, that the wealthy, 
 influential leaders of the rebellion must lae 
 arrested, convicted and punished, is now the 
 accepted leader of those who love oppression 
 and hate free, democratic, republican institu- 
 tions. The leader of red-handed traitors, who 
 have fought to undermine the foundations of 
 this Government, the leader of men whose 
 names stand in the same category of crime 
 with Aaron Burr, of whom Andrew Johnson 
 said, in the days when he denounced traitors : 
 " Were I President of the United Stales, I would 
 do as Thomas Jefferson did, in ISOG, with 
 Aaron Burr — I would have them arrested, and 
 if convicted, within the meaning and scope of 
 the Constitution, by the Eternal God, I ivould 
 execute them." Andrew Johnson is President of 
 the United States, and who has he arrested? 
 Who has been executed? — Wirz. The men who 
 founded and instigated conspiracies to over- 
 throw the Government, men who fired upon 
 our flag, took our forts and customhouses, our 
 arsenals, our mints, our lands, and fought 
 against our liberty, made desolate our homes 
 and murdered our sons and brothers — these are 
 the men who cry, from every portion of the 
 land, upon Andrew Johnson to lead them 
 against that party who has ever stood up 
 boldly for the eternal principles of justice and 
 the rights of humanity, who crushed the in- 
 famous rebellion and stayed the revengeful 
 arm of those who struck at the vitals of the 
 Nation, that party which wielded a power that 
 all the copperheads, rebels and demons in 
 Christendom cannot crush, be their leader An- 
 drew Johuson, Robert E. Lee or Jefferson 
 Davis. 
 
 TUE KEKUBLIC SAFE. 
 
 Notwithstanding the defection of the Presi- 
 dent, this great Republic is not to be hurled 
 from the majestic heights lo which it has been 
 lifted within the past five years ; it is not 
 again to be thrown back into the depths of 
 slavery, oppression and degradation from which 
 it has just emerged. The spirit of the age pro- 
 claims the march of Freedom to be onward, 
 and no human power can silence the voice 
 of Liberty, as she proclaims to the nations 
 of the earth her right to rule this Repub- 
 lic. Men may plot and conspire to destroy 
 
 liberty and republicanism, and build upoa 
 their ruins slavery and despotism, but there is 
 a God of Justice who rules the destinies of this 
 Nation, and who. in the events of the last fou" 
 years, has proved to the American people that 
 from His Eternal Throne He has decreed that 
 this shall be a Republic where the rights of 
 humanity shall be sacred against oppression 
 and tyranny. Human rights have become 
 wonderfully developed by the revolution which 
 has been sweeping over the land. Millions of 
 the enslaved have been, by the Great Emanci- 
 pator, proclaimed freemen, and are becoming 
 enlightened on the important events of the age, 
 and appreciate the humane principles of re- 
 publicanism, to which they owe their liberation 
 from the thraldom of tyranny, notwithstanding 
 President Johnson's recent order to discontinue 
 " the collection of taxes by the Freedmeu's 
 Jj\\XG3.n for purposes of education.'^^ 
 
 Johnson's views on reconstruction. 
 We hear a great cry raised about taxation 
 without representation. Andrew Johuson, in 
 his anxiety to admit the leaders of the rebel- 
 lion into Congress, exclaims that it is unjust to 
 compel States to pay taxes without representa- 
 tion, and declares that it is unjust to bar the 
 Congressional doors against the Representa- 
 tives now sent from the rebellious States, and 
 says: "Admit into the councils of the Nation 
 those who are unmistakably loyal." Does not 
 President Johnson kuow that nine-tenths of the 
 men sent from the rebellious States are noto- 
 rious for their treasonable efforts to destroy 
 the Government, and that their constituents 
 daily curse it as " the damnable United States 
 Government;" that these unprincipled rebels 
 are now laboring with their wealth and un- 
 limited influence to tax four millions of free- 
 men, without representation ; that they deny 
 them the rights of the ballot, while their loy- 
 alty is unquestionable. Andrew Johnson says 
 " the Revolution was fought that there should 
 be no taxation without representation." For 
 what, we would ask, has this Second Revolu- 
 tion been fought, if not to establish equal rights 
 in this Nation? Should the Republican Con- 
 gress be denounced by the Chief Executive 
 because it would maintain the principles for 
 which this great civil war has been fought, 
 because it frowns upon traitors and makes 
 those guilty understand that they have for- 
 feited the right to participate in the legislation 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 of the Nation? President Johnson and Con- 
 gress do not differ in this matter if President 
 Johnson abides by his words. No true Union 
 man desires to see a loyal man thrust out of 
 Congress, or to see a State unrepresented in 
 the National Legislature, when it can be 
 proven that that State has a trusty republican 
 ^[overnment and is established upon a loyal ))asis 
 — a State that will send men to represent her in 
 Congress whoso hands have not been imbrued 
 in the blood of patriots. President Johnson 
 declares he stands by the Constitution and 
 Government to resist encroachments. Alas! 
 that he had not been as anxious to guard them 
 from the polluting touch of traitors as he is to 
 denounce their noblest friends. President 
 Johnson is opposed to any further amendments 
 of the Constitution '• at this time." He desires 
 that this important work be postponed until 
 the restoration of the Southern States, that 
 they may have their influence in determining 
 what these amendments shall be. What kind 
 of amendments are we to expect fiom traitors 
 whose souls are steepee in the principles 
 of rebellion and slavery, the sworn friends of 
 Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee and other leaders 
 of traitors? This being, according to his 
 recent acts, ^' the ivhite man's government," uai- 
 versal sulTrage is not in harmony with his ideas 
 of American Government. •• It would bring 
 on a war of the races." That war commenced 
 when slavery was first established, and will 
 continue until human equality is acknowledged 
 and respected in every State in the Republic of 
 Liberty. That is a self-evident truth, plainly 
 read by every thoughtful lover of right and 
 justice in this country. 
 
 UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE— LIXCOLN IN FAYOU OF IT. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, true to justice and liberty, 
 taught the duty and necessity of equal rights. 
 His words were: "Universal suffrage before 
 universal amnesty." Abraham Lincoln under- 
 stood Southern loyalty, and knew that the 
 rebellious States could not be reconstructed 
 upon a loyal basis until the principal element 
 of loyalty in those States had the right of the 
 ballot and all other rights of American citi- 
 zens, which all men are entitled to. The with- 
 holding these rights, the rights which the 
 founders of this Government acknowledged, 
 has already deluged the laud in blood, and 
 points to another civil war unless the ju&t de- 
 
 mands of humanity are complied with. Liberty 
 has written upon the flag of the nation, '• Equal 
 Rights— the Destiny of Republicanism," and 
 this Nation will never have attained to the 
 glory destined for her until the rights of all 
 men are respected by the Government. How, 
 wo would ask, can President Johnson claim to 
 be carrying out the policy of the Martyr of 
 Liberty, when he is doing everything in his 
 power to crush the loyal men in the South, 
 both white and black, by appointing the most 
 powerful leaders of the rebellion to prominent 
 official positions, who still cherish disloyalty in 
 their hearts? 
 
 RESTORATION FOLICIKS OF LINX'OLN AND JOHNSON. 
 
 Lincoln was never known to announce a 
 great principle and act contrary to it. That 
 great and good man said : " An attempt to guar- 
 antee and protect a revived State Government, con- 
 structed in whole or in preponderating part from the 
 VERY element against whose hostility and violence it 
 is to be protected, is simply absurd.'" Can Andrew 
 Johnson, with these words before him, look at 
 the work that his policy has wrought and be- 
 lieve that it is the lamented Lincoln's policy 
 carried out? Andrew Johnson knows that 
 every political act of that great and just man 
 bad a tendency to crush treason and exalt 
 loyalty and liberty ; that he never dreamed of 
 traitors governing the four millions of enfran- 
 chised human beings. Andrew Johnson calls 
 upon the people to tell him what principle he 
 has violated, from what sentiment he h-as 
 swerved?— asks them, if any one quotes his 
 predecessor as going in opposition to anything 
 he has done, what principle adopted by him 
 has he departed from ? There may have been 
 silence in that crowd when these questions 
 were asked, but the loyal plople aver that 
 he has violated his solemn engagement to be 
 the " Moses " and lead lh'3 oppressed to " Lib- 
 erty — full, broad and unconditional liberty ;"' 
 that he has discriminated against the loyal and 
 in favor of th ■ disloyal ; he has been guilty of 
 acts and language calculated to precipitate 
 another horrid rebellion ; that he has at- 
 tempted to usurp the legislative powers of 
 Congress ; that he has said he '-did not consider 
 those who opposed his policy as belonging to 
 the Union party ;'' that he has been guilty, iu 
 the following, of shameless interference in the 
 sacred rights of the ballot : " In reference to 
 the {'lections in Connecticut or elsewhere J am 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 for the candidate who is for the general policy 
 and the specific measures promulgated in my 
 annual message, veto message, speech of 22d 
 February, and the veto message sent in to-day. 
 There can be no mistake in this. I presume it 
 is known, or can be ascertained, what candi- 
 dates favor or oppose my policy or measures 
 as promulgated to the country. 
 
 " Andrew Johnson.'" 
 
 These averments and the President's own 
 letter answers the question the President puts. 
 By them it is shown that he has not been true 
 to his own professions, nor have his acts been in 
 keeping with those of his predecessor. 
 
 In connection with the subject of reconstruc- 
 tion the name of Abraham Lincoln will be lov- 
 ingly enshrined in the hearts of patriots for his 
 immortal acts, while that of Andrew Johnson 
 will be associated with their woes and their op- 
 pressions ; he will be remembered as the prime 
 mover in the infamous plans of staying the 
 progress of the noble work commenced by his 
 predecessor. 
 
 WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING. 
 
 A Republican Congress is now acting in har- 
 mony with the great work commenced by 
 Abraham Lincoln. That Congress seeks to 
 " establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, 
 provide for the common defence, and insure 
 the blessings of liberty " to the Nation. The 
 contest between the Chief Executive and that 
 legislative body is not for the restoration of 
 the Union — ^the Union is indivisible. Congress 
 opposes the admission of rebels to legislate 
 upon the vital questions now before this Nation. 
 It opposes those who are enemies to the Gov- 
 ernment. The President is laboring to force 
 men who have been the leaders of rebellion 
 into Congress to frame the laws of the country. 
 The civil and political organization of the re- 
 bellious States is constitutionally withiu the 
 control of Congress. It is the duty, under the 
 Constitution, for the Commander-in-Chief of 
 the Army and Navy to suppress insurrection 
 and rebellion, under the direction of Congress.^' 
 Through Congress armies and navies are raised 
 and sustained, and the duty of the President, 
 as Commander-in-Chief, is to execute the laws 
 of that body in carrying out the will of the 
 people. Congress has the right to determine 
 the conditions of peace or war, and it is the 
 ■jinraistakable and the sworn duty of the Presi- 
 dent to heed and enforce its Bolomn behests. 
 
 The Constitution declares that " it shall be the 
 duty of the President," as Commander-in-Chief, 
 " to execute the laws of the Union, suppress 
 insurrections and repel invasions." But Con- 
 gress shall •' provide for organizing, arming 
 and disciplining the militia, and for governing 
 such part of them as may be employed in the 
 service of the United States," to provide for 
 the common defence and general welfare of the 
 United States, to declare war, grant letters of 
 marque and make reprisal, and make rules for 
 the capture on land and water, to raise and 
 support armies to make rules for the govern- 
 ment of land and naval forces, and to provide 
 for calling out the militia. 
 
 THE WAR IS NOT ENDED. 
 
 War has not ended. The act of Congress of 
 July 22d, 1861, and the act of four days later, 
 reducing the army to twenty-five thousand men 
 withiu one year after the existing rebellion and 
 insurrection, cannot be carried out, because of 
 the continuance of rebellion. The men who 
 participated in the rebellion are still armed in- 
 surgents. If not armed with the bayonet, they 
 have inaugurated a warfare against freedom 
 and the just laws of this Government, and hold 
 themselves in readiness to strike at the lite of 
 the Republic when they shall have obtained 
 the power. 
 
 ENEMIES AIDING IN KECONSTKOCTION. 
 
 Under tne present policy of reconstruction 
 the rebel States have not chosen their repre- 
 sentatives according to law. The proclamation 
 of May 29th, 1865, was utterly disregarded. 
 Men excepted by it voted at the elections, and 
 men thus excepted were elected to the most im- 
 portant offices. Men were elected to aid in the 
 important work of reconstruction who had 
 sworn an oath against the United States Gov- 
 ernment, who had fought against it, and had 
 given no subsequent acknowledgement by re- 
 turning to their allegiance, that they were not 
 still its bitter enemies. Are such men fit to 
 represent the vital interests of the States of 
 this Republic within the National or State 
 Governments ? Such are not the set of men Con- 
 gress desires should vitalize and develope the Union 
 feeling in the South. 
 
 HUMILIATION OF THE SOUTH BY CONGRESS DENIED. 
 
 It is a false assertion that a Republican Con- 
 gress or any men maintaining loyal, Union 
 principles, desire to humiliate the South. It 
 is treason and hydra-headed slavery, with their 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 correlatives, aristocracy, despotism, anarcby 
 and rebellioa— tbat Republican loyalty has de- 
 termiued shall perish trom this Nation, and 
 with the help of a just God, will crnsh out from 
 this country, destined to be the land of human 
 rights, and to be governed by the chosen friends 
 of liberty. Justice, ever in harmony with free- 
 dom, demands that national crimes be punished 
 and equitable laws established, and that the 
 dignity, rights and privileges of loyal citizens 
 be respected. An outraged people demand that 
 '• ae the Government has put down traitors in 
 arms, traitors should be put down in law, in 
 public judgment, and in the morals of the 
 world." Loyal people believe in no policy 
 that honors, exalts, makes governors, legisla- 
 tors, senators and presidents of men who have 
 sent our brothers and sous to Andursonville 
 and Libby prisons, and made the land to 
 flow with the blood of patriots ; men who to- 
 day are singing praises to their heroes, the 
 traitors Jefferson Davis, Lee, and Stonewall 
 Jackson, and have erected monuments to 
 rebels, while they curse the memory of our 
 fallen heroes and martyred patriots. We be- 
 lieve the mass of the people in the insurrection- 
 ary States, freed from the vile influences of 
 those men who led them into treason and re- 
 bellion, would be easily brought back to alle- 
 giance and become good citizens ; but the 
 leading men, those described in the Proclama- 
 tion of Amnesty, are "<the conscious, influential 
 traitors." who wield their power in opposition 
 to republican Institutions and draw the masses 
 which they control into the vortex of treason, 
 anarchy and political crimes. Is it strange 
 that the loyalty of the Nation demands that 
 the infamous crime of treason •' should sutfer its 
 penalty," that '-it should be made odious," 
 when we behold the war that it has caused, and 
 the men who yet avow they will accomplish 
 the destruction of free institutions? Are not 
 these unrepentant traitors guilty before the 
 law? Should they not be disfranchised, that 
 they may no longer continue their infernal 
 work of ruin and death? Should not men in 
 sympathy with Jefferson Davis and his co- 
 fiends, men who live to plot, conspire and to 
 undermine a government based upon justice, 
 liberty and republicanism, be excluded from 
 our legislatures ? yea, be prohibited from the 
 rights of loyal citizens until they have become 
 tiuch. These traitors, who avow that had they 
 
 it in their power they would inaugurate a 
 war to day that would extirpate pure de- 
 mocracy from the land, trample upon the 
 riglits of humanity, and crush liberty with 
 the iron heel of despotism. It has been 
 fully demonstrated to thoughtful, candid, rea- 
 soning loyal men who have investigated the 
 true state of affairs in the rebellious States, 
 that it would be unsafe to permit the with- 
 drawal of the military forces from those States. 
 That loyal people, white and black, are hope- 
 less of maintaining their rights without mili- 
 tary power ; that without it they would have 
 no protection for life, liberty or property. 
 
 JOSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS THE BASIS OF PKACK. 
 
 In view of these facts, should not loyal men 
 demand that the basis of pacification be justice 
 and human rights? Should they not exact 
 justice, and determine never to recognize any 
 government as a republican government^ but 
 one based upon the principles wfiich insure 
 ••Liberty — full, broad and unconditional Lib- 
 erty ?" Then, and not till then, can ^ve expect 
 " peace to come, and come to sti^y." 
 
 LOTAL PROVISIONAL GOVERNORS SHOULD BE AP- 
 POINTED. 
 
 The President and Congress, in justice to the 
 loyal element of the South, should continue 
 military power over those in rebellion. The 
 civil law should be subordinate to martial 
 law. Provisional Governors of unquestion- 
 able loyalty, who have not joined the enemies of 
 free institutions in the infamous war against 
 the Government, should be appointed to carry 
 out the laws. Men who have not joined hands 
 with the Vallandighams, Woods and Seymours, 
 for the purpose of achieving what they call 
 their rights — the right of slavery ; the right to 
 recognize the debt of the " Confederate Slates ;" 
 the right to establish aristocratic or oligarchi- 
 cal forms of government in opposition to re- 
 publican institutions transmitted to us by our 
 forefathers. We want no Governors who, 
 while they maintain principles destructive to 
 liberty and loyalty, hypocritically profess 
 opposite principles, to deceive a loyal Con- 
 gress and a loyal people. Have such men 
 demonstrated their acceptance of the situation 
 '■as free States forever as the result of the 
 war." The acts of the Legislatures of the so- 
 called reconstructed States, which have acted 
 in harmony with the Provisional Governors of 
 these States, will answer theae questions. Will 
 
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 AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 n:>t these. acts be branded as equally infamous 
 with the Black Codes aad the laws connected 
 with that infernal slavery which so long disr 
 graced the American Nation. 
 
 THE RHPUBLICAN AND DEMOCKATIC PARTIES OOM- 
 PAKED. 
 
 The Republican party for the last fouV years 
 has been fightinji; for the ''general liberty and 
 security of the people.'' That party, in Con- 
 gress and out of Congress, are still battling for 
 what alone will secure the general liberty and 
 security of the Nation — ^Justice and equal rights 
 before the law. On the other hand, there is 
 a powerful faction who are opposed to the 
 principles of the Republican party, have been 
 fighting against emancipation, the draft, con- 
 fiscation, the enrollment and arming of the 
 blacks, the proclamation of martial law, and 
 the arrest and punishment of traitors. The 
 men who opposed the war because they be- 
 lieved it would result in the destruction of 
 their cherished plans against true demo- 
 cratic principles, are ttose who cheer loudest 
 for the reconstruction policy of Andrew John- 
 son and applaud his shameless _ betrayal of 
 the Republican, party, and are loud in praise of 
 his denouncement of those who in the National 
 Congress firmly mainiain republican principles 
 and resist all attempts to force into their coun- 
 cils traitors who have been connected with the 
 rebellion. What class of men support Andrew 
 Johnson's policy in his vetoes of the Freedmen's 
 Bureau and Civil Rights Bills, and demand the 
 full representation of the rebellious States in 
 Congress, wheu he denounces as traitors that 
 body whose every act has beau to carry out the 
 policy of Abraham Lincoln to " secure the 
 rights and liberties of the people?" Where do 
 we find ihe voice of the disciples of Calhoun 
 and the Vallandighams ? Why did the rebels 
 and copperheads, North and South, shout long 
 and loud for the Chief Executive of the Repub- 
 lic when he stepped from his exalted position to 
 mingle with a copperhead mob to condemn the 
 leaders of the Republican party for their integ- 
 rity and loyalty? Are not these admirers of 
 the i'resident's last acts those who said, a little 
 while since, that "successful coercion would 
 be as great a crime as successful secession:" 
 that " if an attempt was made to put secession 
 down blood would flow in the streets of New 
 York ;" that '• coercion was unconstitutional, 
 illegal?" Are not these the men who opposed 
 
 the measures for the suppression of the rebel- 
 lion, opposed the suspension of the haheug 
 corpus, opposed emancipation, conscription, 
 loans, legal tender, money and taxation T 
 Franklin Pierce, who said the fighting would 
 not be alone South of Mason aud Dixon's line ; 
 it would ba within our own borders, that we 
 would find occupation enough at home, has 
 suddenly come to worship the policy of Andrew 
 Johnson. James Buchanan, who invited re- 
 bellion, finds consolation in his late acts, as 
 do all copperheads and traitors. North and 
 South, who wanted " the war to end by diplo- 
 macy, by recognition ;" who advised the people 
 to shoot down those who would enforce the draft 
 or deny the right of habeax corpus, to resist to the 
 bitter end the attempt to make the military 
 superior to the civil law, and to arm them- 
 selves that they might be prepared for horrible 
 contingencies, who urged the repudiation of 
 the National debt, and did all in their power 
 to depreciate th'; currency and make worthless 
 the public credit ; who said Abraham Lincoln 
 was controlled by fanatics and Black Republi- 
 cans. Such are the men who opposed the policy 
 of Abraham Lincoln, but who to-day embrace 
 the doctrines of the betrayer of the Republican 
 party. 
 
 Andrew Johnson is now the upholder of that 
 party who said of the Martyr of Liberty, " that 
 the fate of Charles I should be his doom," that 
 he ought to be put down by the bullet, and 
 found their Booth to carry out their hell-born 
 desire. These admiring friends of Andrew 
 Johnson ihreatened to hang the military com- 
 mission that condemned to death the assassins 
 of Abraham Lincoln. These same friends pro- 
 posed to divide this Union into tour quarters, 
 Northern, Western, Pacific and Southern ; but 
 nov/ do not object to Union, provided that the 
 country can be ruled by the policy of Andrew 
 Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Gen. 
 Humphries, and other " loyal " Southerners — 
 provided our Congress can be made up of the 
 leaders of the great secession movement. Are 
 not these men " Southern patriots," " honora- 
 ble men," "Christian warriors," " chivalrous 
 gentismen," 'the men who have a right, ac- 
 quired by their devotion to " Southern institu- 
 tions," and their adherence to the " white man's 
 government.'' to bid defiance to a Republican 
 Congress and a loyal people. Have not these 
 men acquired a right to denounce that parly 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 11 
 
 which has determiued, with the help ot Eternal 
 Jastice, to establish equal rights and equitable 
 laws iu this Republic; has determined that none 
 shall be welcomed back into the Union who 
 wielded a power during a civil war against 
 that Government they now propose to control ; 
 meu who now harmonize with men like Buch- 
 anan, who said it would be right to acknowl- 
 edge the independence of the Southern States ; 
 of men who, like George H. Pendleton, who said 
 the whole scheme of coercion was impractica- 
 ble and was contrary to the spirit of the Con- 
 stitution, and commended the people to let the 
 seceded States depart iu peace, establish their 
 Government and work out their destiny ac- 
 cording to the wisdom God had given them. 
 
 COPPEKHEAD SENTIMENTS. 
 
 Such are some of the sentiments of that party 
 who sought through Lord Lyons the mediation 
 of Foreign Powers between the North and (he 
 South, who urged the people to reiuse supplies 
 to our brave defenders ; who defended '• State 
 Rights," •' State Independence,'' " State Sover- 
 eignty,'- called Abraham Lincoln a traitor, 
 Jefferson Davis a patriot, a second Washington 
 battling for democratic rights, claimed jtmoug 
 their leaders men like S. S. Cox, who said that 
 Lincoln should be brought to the same block 
 with Jefferson Davis; 'Mr. Xngersoll, of Penn- 
 sylvania, who said, '• I fully endorse the doc- 
 trine of secession as au American doctrine;'' 
 Harris, of Maryland', who said, "I hope the South 
 in this struggle will never be conquered ;" Rev. 
 C. Chauncwy Burr, who said, "Yon can never 
 conquer the South, and I pray God you never 
 may.^' Such are the Democratic leaders who 
 join hands with the Southern reconstructed 
 rebels and shout praises to Andrew Johnson. 
 Are they not " pure patriots," '• loyal citizens," 
 '• immortal heroes," •• brave, devoted followers 
 of their leaders," Jefferson Davis, Andrew 
 John.son, and Robert E. Lee ? Have they 
 not fought through a sea ot blood to establish 
 a Southern Confederacy, whose corner stone 
 was to be slavery ? Have they not become 
 worthy, by their noble deeds, (o control the 
 Government of the United States, which they 
 fought for four years to destroy ? Have they not 
 the right as brother •' Democrats," to choose 
 for their leader iu their patriotic enterprise. 
 Andrew Johnson, whom they opposed for his 
 republican talk from 18()0 uutil he became, 
 through an inscrutable mvsierv. President of 
 
 the United States? These are the men who, in 
 the days of Andrew Johnson's avowed repub- 
 lican patriotism, " bullied " him, while Con- 
 gress has maintained the principles of right 
 and duty in reminding him of the laws and his 
 solemn promises to the loyal millions, " TO 
 MAKE TREASON ODIOUS," aud to practice 
 the true doctrines of Democracy, which " is a 
 sentiment not to be appalled, corrupted or 
 compromised. It knows no baseness, it cowera 
 to no dangers, it oppresses no weakness. De- 
 structive only of despotism, it is the sole con- 
 servator of liberty, of labor and property. It 
 is the sentiment of freedom, of equal rights, of 
 equal obligations— the law of nature pervading 
 the law of the land." 
 
 THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY MCST BE 
 ACTIVE. 
 
 My friends — we, who are in sympathy with 
 che National Republican party, are called upon 
 to meet the issues that are presented in this 
 contest between human liberty aud despot c 
 oppression. The great questions before the 
 nation are of vital importance to us all, in- 
 volving as they do the moral and political rain 
 of the country, or the triumph of the principles 
 upon which human rights are based. In the 
 proj;resB of events we can but mark a series of 
 antagonisms which must impress all thoughtful 
 men who are interested in the welfare of our 
 country with the fact that iu this terrible con- 
 flict, free government aud the rights of hu- 
 manity must be established and respected in 
 this Republic and the Union maintained in its 
 integrity, or the false and dangerous doctrines 
 which the em'mies of our National Government 
 have vindicated before, during and since the 
 rebellion, will triumph and overthrow the 
 democratic, republican i::stitutions now the 
 glory of the American Nation. In this case, 
 will not the loyal element. North and Sjotli, 
 scs'Liin a truly Republican Congrest--, which, as 
 a body, is devoted to liberty and loyalty, 
 which is struggling to vindicaio the immutable 
 principles of the Declaration of Independence 
 and ilio Constitution, and " to conHnue the (!ov- 
 ertimcnt in loyal liands, and nmie other;" which 
 has determined that, none " but men loyal to 
 the Constitution, loyal to Ireedom, loyal to 
 justice." shall participate in the Natiional 
 Councils, to frame laws for the country or con- 
 trol the work of reorganization 9 This body of 
 earnest patriots isgoverned by the fundamental 
 
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 AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 principles that " the exercise of political power 
 should be confined to the loyal." One of the 
 noble men of that body, Senator Wilson, forci- 
 bly sayg : " A loyal people, with the clear in- 
 stincts of intelligent patriotism, saw amid all 
 the excitements of the present that this was 
 not a struggle for the restoration of the rebel 
 States into the Union, but a struggle for the 
 admission of rebels into the Union ; a struggle 
 for the admission of rebels into the legislative 
 branches of the Government of the United 
 States ; not a struggle to put rebels under the 
 laws, but to enable rebels to frame the laws of 
 the country. Politicians might deceive them- 
 selves, but the people, who had given two ani^ 
 a half millions of men, the blood of 600,000 
 heroes, and $3,000,000,000 comprehend the 
 issues. These were indeed eventful, exciting 
 and sad times. Rebels, rebel sympathizers, 
 the men who had stained their hands with the 
 blood of our brothers, starved the country's 
 defenders at Andersonville, plotted in secret 
 lodges of the Knights of the Golden Circle and 
 $b6 Sons of Liberty for the overthrow of their 
 icountry. lighted the fires of riot and arson in 
 the city of New York, and plotted the assas- 
 f5ination of Abraham Lincoln, are shouting 
 with exultation over the present aspect of 
 National alfrtirs. The Republican or great 
 Union party of the country, embracing in its 
 ranks more of moral and intellectual worth 
 than was ever organized in any political party 
 on the globe, proclnims as its living faith tlie 
 creed of the equal rights of man. and the brotli- 
 erhood of all humanity embodied in the New 
 Testament and in the Declaration of Indepen- 
 dence. If it should perish now by the hand of 
 the suicide, or by the follies and treacheries of 
 men it had generously trusted, it will have 
 made a record of honor and glory. The best 
 interests of the regenerated Nation, the rights 
 of man. the elevation of an emancipated race 
 alike demand that the leaders of that great 
 Union party that restored a broken Union and 
 gave liberty to four millions of men. shall con- 
 tinue to administer the Government and pre- 
 serve and frame the laws for the nation." 
 
 ItEl'lULICANS WILL SCSTATN CONGRESS. 
 
 The great Liberty party will sustain this 
 Congre.'^s in its cfrorls to establish in the rebel- 
 lious States republican governments, based 
 upon the fandnmental principles laid down in 
 the Doclaralioii of Iiidependonee. Until these 
 
 governments are established the rights of loyal 
 citizens will not be protected— Liberty, peace 
 and permanent Union cannot be secured to the 
 Nation— the natural, civil and political rights 
 of man will not be achieved. The two great 
 elements of republican government are justice 
 and equality. These two elements are wanting 
 in the present governments of the rebellioua 
 States, They only contain those elements 
 which, in the wards of Abraham Lincoln, 
 "make the States half slave — half Irae,"' and 
 are, therefore, established upon a basis which 
 cannot permanently endure. They do not 
 secure freedom to all, do not protect the rights 
 of four millions of human beings, who claim 
 and are entitled to the just rights of citizens. 
 They do not, in the language of Andrew John- 
 son, "secure exact justice to all men. special 
 privilege to none," do not provide for the com- 
 mon defence, promote the general welfare, 
 establish justice and secure the blessings of 
 liberty to ourselves and our posterity. These 
 governments, I repeat, are wanting in the great 
 principles upon which must be basfd republi- 
 can government. These fundamental doctrines 
 the Fathers sought to establish — Liberty to all 
 and Equal Rights to all. No State constitu- 
 tion can be republican in form wliich disfran- 
 chises the loyal citizens of the United States. 
 Millions of human beings, within the past four 
 years, have been emancipated from the bondage 
 of slavery, and are now citizens of the United 
 States, loyal patriotic defenders of their coun- 
 try and the firm friends of republican State 
 governments, which will recognize their moral, 
 civil and political rights. These governments 
 will never be established through the influence 
 of traitors, rebels, or any class of men whose 
 lives have been spent in political opposition to 
 republican institutions, and who continue to 
 fight Hgainst destiny and the forces which are 
 moving the nations of the world to extend 
 equal rights to all men ; the men whom treason 
 has made " odious," the men in command of the 
 rebel governments, who " grant protection to 
 the rich traitor, while the poor Union man 
 stands out in the cold, often unable to get a 
 receipt or a voucher for his losses." These 
 men might legislate forever and they would 
 never establish just laws for all, would never 
 advocate measures by which the rights of all 
 would be secured, would never recognize the 
 great principles of republican government. 
 
AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 13 
 
 .whicb comprehend universal lib(>rty. univcrsfil 
 justice and universal suffrage, without wliicb 
 tliis nation will never attain to that grandeur 
 and power which the voice of Liberty pro 
 claims the destiny of a united Republic. During 
 the administration of Abraham Lincoln an at- 
 tempt was made to establish governments in 
 Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas, based 
 npon republican principles. These were in 
 harmony with thu policy of that Martyr of 
 Liberty, and met the approbation of him who 
 ever desired to promote liberty and popularize 
 
 / progressive principles. It is true an important 
 political element was wanting in these forms of 
 government, which President Lin3oln himself 
 
 , more than once hinted at as necessary to enter 
 into truly republican governments. They did 
 not embrace the political rightsof all loyal citi- 
 J^ens. Alas I Lincoln did not live to carry out 
 that policy which promised universal suffrage: 
 did not live to carry out his pledge that " the 
 freedom of the enfranchised should be main- 
 tained," and that he should h". not only "a sol- 
 dier in war, but a citizen in peace." In the 
 Constitution of Louisiana of 1864, provision,« 
 were made for the Legislature of the State to 
 extend the right of suffrage to the enfranchised, 
 to educate them, to draw upon them for de- 
 fence. Of this Constitution it was said by the 
 immortal and lamented Lincoln, that he had 
 read it through twice, and "thought it the 
 best Constitution yed adopted by any Siate." 
 Had not the enemies of progress and liberty 
 controlled this State in opposition to the policy 
 of the champion of liberty and loyalty. Louis- 
 iana would have stood upon the broad platform 
 of constitutional liberty, when she would have 
 exclaimed through the people, " I have bent the 
 tyrant's rod. I have broken the yoke of slavery; 
 and to-day she stands redeemed.'" But' 
 alas! vvbo. under the policy of Andrew John 
 son. the author of these noble words, have been 
 the participants in the work of reorganization ? 
 Has it been those " loyal to freedom, loyal to 
 justice," men true and faithful to the rights of 
 humanity ? What has been the course of action 
 of the Governor of Louisiana, of the State Gov- 
 ernment, of the Government of New Orleans, 
 the metropolis of the South? History, true to 
 justice, will not fail to point out the true story 
 and give its moral to the future. It will solve 
 this problem of reconstruction and seal the 
 doom of the enemies of human rights. An- 
 
 tagonistic systems of govirnment cannot exist. 
 There is no harmony between liberty and 
 slavery. Their friends will never be in sym- 
 pathy, can never work together in the vitally 
 important work of reconstruction. Uncom- 
 promising and eternal war has been declared 
 between slavery and freedom. Peace will 
 never come uutil this antagonism ceases, and 
 pure, republican, democratic principles triumph 
 over the arrogant slave powers. 
 
 Andrew Johnson, in his speech to the Ameri- 
 can people, says : Citizens, soldiers and sail- 
 ors— know that from my advent into public 
 life to the present moment, I have always 
 stood unwaveringly the advocate and the 
 defender of their rights and interests.'' Andrew 
 Johnson is an egotist, a demagogue, a boaster, 
 and is prone to much unpresldential talk and 
 tergiversation, which sounds to the "citizens, 
 soldiers and sailors '' very like ad capfandum. 
 The "soldiers and sailors, especially.'' will not 
 sutfer usurpations by Andrew Johnson or any 
 other man. They have too much intelligence 
 and virtue to be cajoled and cheated of their 
 liberty by such heartless professions as have em- 
 anated from Andrew Johnson. He asks, " who 
 has sacrificed or periled more '' in the cause of 
 country? He says his life, his properly and his 
 all have been staked upon it. Well, admitting 
 it be so, wag he not paying a debt he owed? 
 Were they sacrifices ? Can one sacrifice 
 in the cause of country ? Does not country 
 demand support? Are we not bound to it for 
 all we have, for all we are? Have not thou- 
 sands of "private" and " public " citizens, 
 •' soldiers and sailors," given more •' property," 
 "periled more" of "everything sacred and 
 dear to man '' than has Andrew Johnson ? Has 
 not Andrew Johnson beeu munificently re- 
 warded for his manifold labors ? Was he not 
 elevated from a m'?ch;\nic to the offices of 
 Senator, Military Governor, 'Vice President 
 and President? Are not these offices of great 
 honor and enormous emoluments? Could he 
 have done as profitably as a private soldier, 
 sailor or officer in the array or navy, or as a 
 private citizen in his mechanic's shop? 
 
 Your speaker, on the axiom " that principles 
 demand support," has suffered more imprison- 
 ment, giren more "property," more labor and 
 more of " everything sacred and dear to man " 
 than has Andrew Johnson, and without the 
 compensation or honor as Senator, pay or 
 
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 AN ADDRESS Br DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 
 
 Iioaor as Military Govonioi". pay 6i' honor as 
 Vice President, or pay or iioaor as President 
 of the United States of America ; and yet, uu- 
 lilie Andrew Johason, be does uot camp!ain 
 Your speaker has only labored to perform his 
 duty to his country and her liberties, and 
 thereby found ample mward. Andrew 
 Johasou asks, '• Whe'-e were they (mean- 
 ing the people alarmed at Andrew John- 
 son's treachery) during the rebellion just 
 ended? Ever at home in bi'd." Words are in- 
 adequate to express indignation against this 
 monstrous calumny. Was the immortal Lin- 
 coln '• ever at home in bed?'' was bis Cabinet — 
 was the brave and heroic Congress "ever at 
 home in bed ?" Were the Judiciary "ever at 
 home in bed?" Were the merchants, the me- 
 chanics, the farmers, the laborers of the coun- 
 try "ever at home in bed ?" O incorrigible 
 boaster, Andrew Johnson! where v/ere you? 
 History is silent as to the battle you fought in. 
 It makes no mention of your having " smelled 
 gunpowder.'- Like Demosthenes, the death 
 and carnage of '• grim visaged war " was more 
 desirable afar off. Oh, impotent effort to se- 
 duce soldiers, sailors and civilians to " wait 
 ard see if I don't stand by you, although everr/ 
 other man may falter and fall." Apropos to this 
 ivaiLlng and seeing, re^id from the QonsiUidional 
 Union — one of Andrew Johnson's special organ? 
 — and divine what waiting and seeing means : 
 
 " I caution no violence," nor do I vrish to 
 see the second advent of Croaiwull.of England, 
 or Napnicon. of France, practiced upon the 
 Radical destructionists in this Congress, but 
 
 *'- WUAT HA.S BEEX MiT BK, AND WILL IJE AG.a.X," 
 TP PUKSIDKNT JoHNSON IS TilWAUrED fN III3 GOOD 
 
 T.vTENTioNS. The President must be sustained" 
 
 "Thim, my countrymen, frfllow-citizens, sol- 
 diers and s-ailiir.s," let us. bejug (orewarned. 
 lie Joreanne.'f, ai'd ready (o meet the horrible 
 contingencies, and in the mightiness of right 
 ■And our blocd-.'-'tained liberties — 
 
 " Strike for the green graves of our sirci 
 (Jod and our native land." 
 
 ■rUE I'UESTDENr AN!) ' ' UtS COLOUKO FHIEXDiS." 
 
 Jn hi'! cnipiy and inconclu.^ive talk to his^ 
 •' colored friends " on the Kith April. Andrew 
 Johnson said, "Mj/friendahip. as far an if. goe.a 
 is not for place or power, for I have them al 
 rendy." Tlie.^e /"(vV/jcr; r>re iMiliglitPOod to learn 
 
 that Andrew Johnson's friendship, as far as it. 
 goes, is not for place or power ; but ignorant 
 as these people are, they know he holds his 
 exalted position through much aid received 
 from them, both in the field of battle and la 
 other walks of life, and have awakened to the 
 ingratitude of the man who is doing all in hia 
 power to reduce them to a more deplorable 
 slavery than the slavery from which the great 
 and lamented Lincoln freed them : and their 
 souls are Made to swell with indignation 
 against Andrew Johnson, as the great betrayer 
 of their liberties. 
 
 THE POWER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 
 
 Andrew Johnson says the people will •• give 
 evidence to the nations of the earth and to its 
 own citizen.-i that it has the power to restore 
 internal peace." Yes, the American people 
 will give this evidence, against all Andrew 
 Johnson's diabolical machinations to inaugu- 
 rate another horrid rebellion. The Nation has 
 put down a stupendous rebellion, and has re- 
 solved to the very death; to crush bell-lx)ru 
 treachery to the most sacred of trusts. Let 
 Andrew Johnson beware of treachery in him- 
 self, lest he call down the Vi. eance of be- 
 trayed millions. 
 
 LOYALTY MUST PREVAIL. 
 
 My countrymen — the loyal element, regard- 
 less of race or color, must master and control 
 tiie destinies of Louisiana, or the enemies of 
 Liberty, the sworn enemies of the Great Re- 
 public, will again raise the banner of treason 
 and trail in the dust that glorious flag which 
 has inscribed upon its folds, " Uiiiou, Confi- 
 dence, Justice, Freedom, Enfranchisement — 
 Ihe salvation and perpetuity of the iV(^/?o/i.''vL()vers 
 of liberty and human rights — I call uppn you 
 in the name of our venerated fathers, in the 
 name of the love you bear for the rising gen- 
 eration, to meet with brave hearts and iron 
 resolves tbci vital issue's now bi'f(n'e you. In 
 our struggle to achieve and maintain republi- 
 can instit'ntions, we are sustained by the glo- 
 rious Congress who are laboring '"to m^ke 
 TKEASOM oniors." and enact governments thnt 
 will '■ iimiire fnntwn to I he free ^ .When this 
 glorious di'sid 'rutntn is Hijliicved, this GfiEAT 
 Nation will justly cltiirti that Unilyand hilterty 
 destined (or a huid of FRKIODOM. 
 
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