The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-09-07
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rsalaading soldiers Of the country
inst issued a call for National
.r,ation Of Soldiers and Sailors
-rved in the Army and Navy of
nited States during the late re-
Al and who favor the rcsiorlttOn
of President Johnson, to Assem-
cleveland, Ohio, on the 18th of
amber, the anniversary OF the a.
al ofthe Constitution. The call
ned by such eminent military
S Naj. Gen. Custer, Maj. Gen.
ok, Maj. Gen. Crook, Mai. Gen.
ID, Maj. Gen. f. p. Blair, Mai.
siocUm, Maj. Gen. Gordon Gran
Nai. Gen. Couch, Maj. Gen. Me
and, Maj. Gen. Wilcox, Maj. Gen.
B. Franklin, Mai. Gen. T. L. Crit
d. Maj. Gen. \. c. Gillem the
Of Morgan), Maj. Gen. jeff. c..
] commanding the Department
atucky, and a host Of other brave
/ -oted officers. But we give the
i nd list Of signers in full, below
4 convention will deal the death
j to Radicalism. 1t will knock
] ier out Of the Congressional poll
i The call is as follows:
the soldiers and Sailors who serv-
the army and Navy during the
4 RebelliOn:-In pursuance ola res0-
4 ID ola meeting Of soldiers now or
r. in the Union army, held in this
4 last evening, we invite those Ofyou
approve Of the restoration policy
g President, and the principles an
need by the National Union Con
Jon at Philadelphia, to assemble at
eaud, on the seventeenth day OF
'gmber next for consultation On the
snt0us issues now cOnvulSing our
try. We need not argue to YOU III
9Th the importance of these issues,
your duty to take part in their set
rent.
.her five years OF fierce and dcstruc-
war. in which our arms were glO-
,y triumphant, the Union for
cd We have fought Is still practical
mrestored. Why is this? we struE-
4 TO maintain the rightful suprema-
fthe General Government, to con-
,allWho in arms assailed its author
and to make every rebelliOus citizen
ito its laws. We held, through
..e war, that the Union was iadis-
e, and It's powers, as CNpuulGcd
e., Courts supreme: that no STATE can
own motion " ithdraw, or, at the
is sister States be excluded, and
the duty ofeach State to maintain
Union and its right to take part in
Government are alike absolute.
very object Ofthe war ever recOg-
d by or known to thearmy and ma
.a, been thoroughly achieved. The
hcru people, decimatcd, impOver-
.ei and sabdued, have for more than
rear past abandoned the Rebellion
q now only ask that the Union for
.i,h we fought may be recognized aS
listing, and that they may be dealt
.h as the Constitution and laws pre-
r.Je. In their anxiety to restore the
Ie Union, and bring harmony to its
InciIS, they have gone beyond = mere
lent submission to its laws.
Through their delegates at the Nation
Union Convention they s0lemnly re-
nced the doctrines of notification
ID secession. from which the war q
IL. repudiated the Rebel debt, and
ared ofsacred obligation the Nation
l-5., proclaimed the faith OF the na-
pledged to thccOntinuance of boun-
and pensions to loyal soldiers and
-9r- and their families, declared sla-
~ forever abolished, and the freed
El entities, to the legal protection OF
! avs, n person aad property, with
J il former masters. Their platform
.1t only one Of emphatic loyalty,
.ir is moreover, mos, liberal in spir
all the great issues growing out Oi
war.
The character OF the men who repre-
s.ied the Southern States in that Con
a-ion precIudes Us from believing
enunciatiOn of principles to be i'll
ere. They sent to it their foremost
who, like RiVCs, Ora
m, Orr, pars ous, Sharkey, Houston.
scarborough, Hunt, Manning and
henS, were known throughout the
before the war as men Of the high
+. character and influence.
Among the five hundred delegates
-utae South there was not a voice 81
.edis~euting from the resolutions Il
pied by the Convention. If the bcs
.aeS0uynern pe0plearecvcr to be he
"gj Wemust accept these solemn dec
a,Uus as sincere. We do accep
ua-coUclusiVe evidence that grea
arity 0tthc Southern people, sick o
and anarchy, and longing for res
,l0l of free government, are ready
bear true allegiance to the Constltu
.Mt avs Of the Union.
Scare, therefore, unwilling to SCI
>1Ithrrn people held longer in vas
ge. They are our countrympn, cit
ofthc United States, who have in
E=, penalties, but who have rights
who wilfully participated in The
-.iion and are unpardoncd are sub
% the penalties prescribed for trea
But though individuals may b.
H. convicted and punished, cOmmu
cannot, nor can the States ant
people, without plain violation
@- Constitution, be denied the righ
t-eacntation through men person
qualified in the couEsels OF the ma
.a
.aeintention Of Congress was to b'
"prive them Of representation jus
'.g Is it suits the purposes Of th'
70. party. Many assert tnat it WI
sIe the right whenever the conNll
aa. amendment shall have been a
@l, and each prescribed State sha.