Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-10-12

So1p1aRs' national UNIoN.-On Saturday
night last meeting was held in this city by
the discharged soldiefs of 1861 and 1862, for
the purpose of forming Soldiers Nations
Union, for the equalization of bounties, Ne,
and the general benefit of said soldiers. We
heartily approve of this, and respectfully sug-
gest to the public at large, the justice of re-
wardng the brave men who sacrificed every
thing in response to their country's first call
to at least as great an extent as they have re-
uarded the men who enlisted two years later,
and those who waited 10 be drafted.
We give below the proceedings of the
meeting. which was well attended
The oihccrs elected were as follows:
President, James T. Hill Vice President,
Wellington Glenn Corresponding Secretary,
Georg. I. r. Knorr; Secretary, James A.
Mckee; Assistant Secretary, John W. Steiner;
Treasurer Samuel Rivers.
Comm'he on Resolutions. NJ. IIite-
shcw, Loyal, Dowden. Levi Shaw, Jr.
Co"''s'teeNo on Permanent Organization
Lloyd II. hoMvn, James NJ. Uiteshcw,
Samuel River,, Wa, s. Shuck L Shaw, Jr.
Committee ~ Const,oaion and By Lars
Wilson Johnsan, James A. Howard, Oliver
Shaw.
The following resolationswere unanimously
adopted, after which he me,ins adjourned :
| WHEREAS, We, the Citize,s of Allegany County,
when calied upon by the presde1 OF the Uuiled
| states IN 1861, did respond most ,beerfully and
having shared the fatigue and DANCES o. our late
| comrades 10 arms in the late Civil wa. are deter
niued not TO he behind them in the organization of
the Soldiers National Union, therefore, We it
| Resolrcd, That We, the discharged Solders of the
| City of Cumberland, County of ANegany, State OF
Maryland, WHO participated in the late CivI war,
do gladly receive the recommendation of gu. late
| comrades in arms from o her States to Organize a
National Order for the benefit of all who have been
honorably discharged, and do hereby accept til,
Soldiers pledge rs The formation of said order.
| Resoired, That We will cooperate with our late
comrades III arms in other St es for tho purpose oil
ncmorializing the next Congrss to appropriate and
set apart for the Soldiers who participated in tho
late war; a fair quota of the public ards the prop
erty of the General Government.
Resolped, That We believe it to be he duty Of th,
next General Assembly of Maryland Inappropriate
the same local 3ounw to the Soldiers o,'U! and G2
us tueS ulu " tut TeC'ultS anu uTaIttu OF "a
aud G5.
Resoleed That the warm sympathics ofthis meet
ing expressed and rendered to tho,p who's,
friend have been made sd for fallen once who per
isiie1 have been maimc in the war for the Union
and that we express our sincere aud earnest regre
and sorrow for the dcsth Of the natio,'s dearly
loved and lamcntcd late President, Abraham Lin
coin, twice chosen by the v.iGe of his coun,rymcr
TO the Chief Magistracv.
| Resolced That politics ard religion must not b,
permitted 10 mar the unity 4 our order and it ,ha
| be the duty OF all to advoc;to PRINCIPLES Of free
and representative Governmeht and the mnintcnanc,
Of the Federal Union in contradiction TO all other
political Gogmas.
| And be IL ResOired That w most sincerely invok,
our comrades in arms throughout the county to or
gauizc their primary meer IS Immediately, so that
~ county organization can be effected and viii
whom would aJsimilate most chccrfuly anG
would respectfully suggest that County Conveu
ton he held in the city of Cumberland on the 25tt
day OF October, to appoint delegates TO rcpresen
our county in the State Convention about TO be MS
scmbied at Baltimore city.
| And be il Rcsoivei, That there resolutions b,
signed b. the officers Of the mea ing, and he pub
lshcd in the Cumberland City pape.s, and the Bal
tmo.e American.