The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-07-24
The Peoples Resolutions.

| The following are the patriotic and
high-toned resolutions adopted by the
Peoples State Convention, at Harrisburg,
on Thursday of last week. They consti-
tute Platform long enough and broad
enough for every true friend of the Union
and the Constitution to stand upon and
do battle for Read them carefully:
Resozced, That the convention, repre-
senting as it does the loyal citizens of
Pennsylvania without distinction of party,
re-affirms the sentiments embodied in the
resolution adopted at a meeting Of the
capital, July 18th, 1862, viz:
''That we hold it to be the duty of all
loyal men to stand by the Union in this
hour of its trial to unite their hearts and
hands in earnest, patriotic efforts for its
maintenance against those who are in
arms against 1t; to sustain with deter
mined resolution our patriotic President
and his administration in their energetic
efforts for the prosecution of the war and
the preservation of the Union at home or
abroad to punish traitors and treason
with fitting severity, and to crush the
present wicked and causeless rebellion, SO
that no flag of disunion shall ever again
be raised over any portion of the Republic;
that to this end we invite the cooperation
of all men, who love their country in an
endeavor to rekindle throughout all the
land such patriotic fire as shall utterly
consume all who strike at the Union of
our fathers, and all who syhpathise with
their treason or palliate their guilt"
ResokUed, That we have continued con-
fdence in the honesty, capacity and pat
riotism of President Lincoln and his con-
stitutional advisers that we approve the
principles on which his policy, both
foreign and domestic, have been conduc-
ted that VIC sanction and sustain all the
measures which he has found it necessary
to adopt to guard the government against
the assaults of traitors, their sympathizers
and abettors; and that we esteem it en-
inently fortunate that in this most trying
crisis of our cherished Union, we have at
the helm of public affairs one SO upright,
temperate, prudent and firm as he has
proved himself to be.
Resolved, That we cordially approve of
the administration of Andrew G.. Curtin,
Governor of this Commonwealth, marked,
as it has teen, by extraordinary yigor in
the discharge of all public duties, by un-
firing zeal in the cause of the country,
and especially in recruiting forces for the
national army, by enlarged and liberal
care for the sick and wounded soldiers of
the army of the state, by wise and pru-
dent economy in the expenditures of the
funds in his care, and by the unsparihg
of
particular of the Governor himself, to the
constant, harrassing, complicated and
novel labors which the exigencies of the
great rebellion have imposed.
Resolved, That we acknowledge but two
divisions of the people of the United
States In this crisis those who are loyal
to its constitution and every inch of its
soil, and are ready to make every sacrifice
for the integrity of the Union, and main
tenance of civil liberty within it, and
those who openly or covertly endeavor TO
sever our country, or to yield to the inso-
lent demands of its enemies that we fra
ternize with the former, and dctest the
latter; and that, forgetting all former
party names and distinctions, we call upon
all patriotic citizens to rally for one un-
divided country, one flag, one destiny
Resolued, That the government of the
United States and its people, with All oc-
easional exception among the reckless
inhabitants where this rebellion was fos-
tered, have wisely and studiously avoided
all interference with the concerns of other
nations, asking, and usually enjoying,
alike, non-interference with their own, and
that such is, aud should continue to be,
its policy that the intimations of con-
templated departure from this sound rule
of conduct on the part Of some of the
nations of Europe, by an Intervention in
our present, is as uni ust to them as it
would be to us and to the great principles
for which we are contending but we
assure them, with solemnity of convic.
ton which admits of no 1istrust o. fear,
and from a knowledge of and firm reli
ance upon the spirit and fortitude of twenty
millions of freemen, that any attempt thus
to intervene will meet resistance unpar-
alleled in its force, unconquerable in its
persistence, and fatal to those whom it is
intended to aid ; and that it will tend only
to strengthen and elevate the republic
Resolred, That the skill, bravery and
endurance exhibited by our army and
navy have elected our admiration and
gratitude; that we behold in these quail
tiles the assurances of sure and speedy
success to our arms, and of rout and dis
comfiture to the rebels that we urge the
government to aid and strengthen them
by all the means in its power, and care.
fully to provide for sick, wounded and