Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-07-13
WAsuINGroN Juna d


the 18th of August-Deiegates called
for from all the States and TerTIto-
ries.
WAsHINGTON, June %.
The following call has just been prepared
and has the approval of gentlemen of prom
inence in addition to those who names are
appended. 1t may therefore he regarded as
possessing much political significance
\ National Union Convention Of at least
two delegates from each Congressional dis
triet Of all the States, two from each Terri
tory, two from the District Of Columbia,
and four delegates at large from each State,
will be held at Philadelphia on the second
Tuesday l4th) Of August next. Such dele
gates win be chosen by the electors of the
several States who sustain the Administra-
tion in maintaining unbroken the union OF
the States under the Constitution which our
fathers established, and who agree in the
following propositions, viz
The Union of the States is in every case
indissoluble, and is perpetual and the Con
stitution of the United States and the laws
passed by Congress in pursuance thereof,
supreme and constant and universal IN theiI
obligations
The rights the dignity and the equality
Of the States in the Union, including the
right Of representation in Congress, are sol
emny guaranteed by that Constitution, to
save which from overthrow so much blood
and treasure were expended in the late civil
war
There is no right any where to dissolve the
Union, or to separate States from the Union,
either by voluntary withdrawal, By force OF
arms or by congressional action; neither by
the secession Of the States nor by the excu-
sion of their loyal and qualified Representa-
tiyes, nor by the National Government in
any other form.
Slavery is abolished, and neither can nor
ought 10 be re established in any State OF
Territory within our jul isdiction
Each State has the undoubted right to
prescribe the qualification Of its own electors
aud 40 external power ought TO dictate,
control, or influence the free and voluntary
action OF the State in the exercise of that
right, the maintenance inyiolate of the right
OF the State, and especially of the right of
each State to order and control its own do
mestic concerns according to its own iudg-
ment, Exclusively subject only to the Con-
stituton of the United States, is essential
to that balance of power on which the per-
lection and endurance of our political future
depends, and the overthrow of that systeul
by the usurpation and Capitalization Of
power In Congress, would be revolution
dangerous to republican government and
destructive OF liberty.
Each House of Congressis made, BY the
Constitution, the sole judge of the election
returns qualifications of its members, but
the exclusion of loyal Senators and Repre-
sentatives, properly chosen and qualified
under the Constitution and laws, is unjust
and revolutionary.
Every patriot should frown upon all those
acts and proceedings everywhere, which can
serve no other purpose than to rekindle the
aninlosities of war, and the effect Of which,
upon our moral, social and material interests
at home, AMI upon our standing abroad,
differing only in degree, is injurious, like
war itself
The purposes Of the war having been t.
preserve the Union aud the Constitution BY