Litchfield enquirer., 1866-08-23

CT, snah enter aS oucs uPon Isp u"e''S :" '1o '1o Chair.
 . Reports of Committed Ion Credentials read and accepted.
 Mr. Groesbeck, of Ohio, as the organ of the united delegation from that State. presented a letter of withdrawal from Mr. Valaodigham and asked that it be read to the Convention. The Chairman intimated that. that would. re- quire unanimous consent, and asked whether there was any objection. tg <
 A delegate form New York rose and object ed Loud crys of Read it, read it"
 Senator Johnson of Maryland. moved that the rules be suspended in order 10 allow the letter to be read.
 The rules were suspended and the letter was read by the Secretary.
 GERARD Houss, PHILA DELHHIA.
 -.y Wednesday, Aug. l5, 1866.
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 SIR: have this day received from the Ma tional Union Committee,J through Hon. Wm. s. Groesbeck. Chairman of the Joint Ohio Delegation to your Convention. a ticket of ad mission as delegate from, that State. ss Hon. Geo. w. Cook, Chairman of the Dem- ocratis Delegation from Ono, has also commu nicated to me the following resolution. this morning adopted by that delegation. ;
 Resolued. unanimously, by the Ohio Demo cratic Delegation, That we recognize the right of Hon, Clement l.. Vallandigham, a duly elected delegate from the third Congressional District of Ohio, to hold . seat in that Conven- tion that we should regard his exclusion from such seat as an unjust and unreasonable infringement on. the rights of the Democracy of said district. and are ready to stand by him in the assertion of his rights and the rights Of his constituents ; that we indorse most cordially Me purity and patriotism of lis motioes aud his fitness in esery s0ay to q seat n the ,said ConrentiOn; yet for the sake of harmony and good feeling in the same. and in order to se- cure the great ends for which it is called, we consent to his withdrawal from a seat in the Convention, if, in his judgment, his duty to his constituents shall justify such withdrawal
 Yielding to my own deliberate convictions of duty and right, to the almost unanimous opinion and desire of friends whose wisdom and soundness of judgment and sincerity and purity of motives l may not question. to the end that there shall be no preteXt from any quarter for any controverted question or dis turbing element in the Convention to mar it's harmony, ar hinder in any way the results to the cause of the Constitution. the Union and public liberty, which shall follow from it's de- Alterations and action. hereby withdraw from the Ohio Democratic Delegation, and decline taking my seat it the Convention. zss
 I am profoundly coucscious that the sancity and magnitude of the interests involved in the present political canvass in the United States are too immense not to demand a sacrifice of upon the issue of which depend, as. most sol Iu hoH fho r,lf fo- ly the existence of free Republican Govern ment on this Continent. ,.-:...,..J .....r...
 Trusting that your deliberations may be har- monious, your proceedings full of wisdom and patriotism, and its results crowned with g.o- rious and saving triumph in the end to the great cause in which every sympathy of my heart is enlisted.
 am, very respectfully,
 Your ohedisnt servant,
 c. l.. VAILANDIaHAM.
 A committee of two from each State and Territory on resolutions was then appointed; from Conn. James Dixon, o Seymour.
 The following despatch from President Johnson was then read. si
 WASHINGTON, Aug. IA, 1866. 10 Hon o 1T Brooning and Ron 4 " Randall
 National Union Convention, Philadelphia:
 thank you for your cheering and encoura ging dispatch. II T~ '.t.
 The finger of Providence is unerring, and will guide you safely through. n" ae-
 The people must be trusted and the country will be restored. '' ,,... i
 My faith is unshaken as to the ultimate success. F t@
 .0i. .. ANDREW JOHNSON.
 After unimportaut business the Convention adjourned. r-.. .7'. 5,'"--.
 n,, kLn oF thn tion commenced with the reading of des- patch announcing the election of an Adminis- tration delegate in Colorado. .."
 Mir Crowell of New-Jersey, offered the fol- lowing resolution which was adopted.
 Resolved, That a National Union Executive Committee be appointed, to be composed of two delegates from each State and Territory, and the District of Columbia. -i +7 -
 A Committee of two from each State and Territory was appointed to present President Johnson with an anthenic copy of the proce- dings of the Convention. a Also 6 committee on Finance. The Committee on Resolutions reported a Declaration of Principles and an Address which were adopted. The latter is of great length the former is as follows:
 Frst-We hail with gratitude to Almighty God the end of war and the return of peace to our afflicted and beloved land. ''.' e7a a
 Second The war just closed has maintained the authority of the Constitution with all the powers which it confers and all the restric- tions which it imposes upon the General Gov ernment, unabridged and unaltersd, and it has preserved the Union with the equal rights dignity and authority of the States perfect and unimpaired. .s -9zlai4 ssi..
 Third-Representation in. the Congress of the United States and in the Electoral College is right recognized by the Constitution 7as abiding in every State, and as duty imposed upon it's people, fundamental in it's nature and essential to the exercise of our Republican institutions and neither. Congress nor the General Government has any authority or power to deny this right to any State or with hold it's enjoy ment under the Constitution from the people thereof. .--..,
 Fourth-We call upon the people of the Uni ted States to elect to Congress, as members thereof, none but men who admit this funda- mental right of representation, and who will receive to seats therein loyal representatives from every State in allegiance to the United States, subject to the constitutional right of each House to judge of the election, returns and qualifications of it's own members. .e5.ai.z FVh-The Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof. are s'the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the con trary notwithstanding ..All the powers not conferred by the Constitution upon the Gen eral RnvArnmont nor vrnhshSfad hv tL Ln