The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-23
Radical Csnvension.

lowing resolutions were adopted at the
great Union meeting in Reading to-day :
Resolved, That we give praise and
thanks to Almighty God in that He has
vouchsafed unto us q full and complete
victory over those who sought, during
four long years of bloody war, to destroy
this last altar Of the rights of man upon
which to base free Institutions, that the
black cloud and loathsom9 stain OF
slavery, which classed US among the
dark and heathen nations of the earth,
has at last been blotted out and in all
our land no man can say to his fellow
man, ''Thou art mine"
Resolved, That we owe debt Of last
ing gratitude to the Union soldiers and
sailors for their valor and prowess in
putting down the Shareholders wicked
and bloody rebellion, and we pledge to
their wives and orphans protection, sup
port and patronage whenever 1t Is III our
power to give them.
Resolved, That in the Joint resolution
which passed the Congress OF the upited
States by q two-thirds vote, proposing
amendments to the constitution. we rec
ognize the only safe palladium of the
principles for which we sacrifice: Sour
hundred thousand lives of our best
blood and three Thousand millions of our
treasure, that in the same spirit which
actuated our forefathers to proclaim the
Declaration of Independence in l776.
We most heartily endorse the frst.sec-
tion of the amendment declaring that
all persons born within the United States
shall be citizens thereof; as means also
of future protection as well as pres.
ent fairness and equality, we are
in favor of said section, which
provides for equalizing representation
in Congress and in the Electoral College,
we declare our avowed hostility now
and forever against the admission of the
States late in rebellion, upon basis OF
representation which gives to the South
sixty per cent. more power III Congress
and in the Electoral College than an
equal number of white people in the
North, while the third section excluding
all periured rebels from eligibility in
office meets our hearty aud unqualified
approval.
Resolved, That the true interest and
purpose of the policy laid down by
Andrew johnson, the man made Plesi-
dent by John Wilkes Booth, is to resur-
rect from oblivion and disgrace the DEM
ocratic party, which for its reasonable
course during the war was consigned to
the tomb of everlasting infamy and
shame, aud we believe that the success
of said policy would turn back the
wheels of progress generation In our
oountry's march to greatness and to
glory.
Resolved, that In john w. Geary, the
standard bearer of the Republican party
of Pennsylvania, who has combined the
true principles of the soldier and states
man, the hero of many battles, and de-
fender of civil liberty whenever and
wherever he has been called to govern.
Resolved, that Andrew Curtin, the
good and loyal Governor Of Pennsylvania
has we'll earned the noble title OF the
soldiers friend, and in returning from
gubernatorial he takes with him the
entire confidence and esteem of every
patriot in the State.
Resolved, that Hsnny j. Raymond,
who was made chairman of the Nation
al Republican Executive Committee, by
the National Union Committee of 1864,
which nominated Abraham Lincoln for
President of the United States, by his
having followed the lead of the infa-
nous Andrew johnson, aud with him
turned traitor to theprinciples OF his par.
ty and the great interests OF freedom and
humanity, has been unworthy and
Odious, and this convention therefore re-
quests that committee to assemble, and
without permitting him to resign,
expel him from the craftsmanship and
from the committee.
FORTRESS MONROE, August 2O.-Ad'
vices from the interior counties of North
Carolina state that the cotton crop is
looking we'll and in some sections even
better than on the Roanoke river. The
county of Edgecombe is expected to
yield fromi $1,000 to $4,000 bales, and
other counties in like proportion.
A party of benevolent gentlemen from
the north contemplate settlement of
freedmen in Texas, and design purchas-
ing two plantations in Austin county for
the purpose; they will erect churches,
school houses, quarters for the freedmen
and furnish good wages and constant
employment The projectis endorsed by
Generals Howard and Thomas.
The greatly agltated question, the
health of jeff Davis, appears to remain
ii about the same cheerful position as
ever. Assistant Surgeon General Crane
lately arrived here from Washington and
had private and very lengthy. inter
view with the prisoner, Of course the
result of the interview, and of his exam
iuation of the condition of Mr.. Davis,
and of the conclusions he drew therefrom
are not known, and will not be until they
are made to the proper authorities in
Washington.