The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-04-05
Republican State Convention

=, The delegates elected to the Repub.
lican State Convention, assembled ir
the Hall of the House of Representa-.
tives at an early hour on Wednesday,
March 7th, 1866. At II NJ, the Con.
yention was called to order by Hon.
John Cessna, chairman of the Republi
can State Central Committee Mr. VIM.
b. Mann, and Hon. L. w. Hall, of
Blair, were nominated for temporary
ohalrmanaiaad upon avotc being taken,
l.. w. Hall was declared elected.
The Convention then adjourned to
meet at 5 o'clock, p. NJ.
The Convention reassembled at five
o'clock, p. NJ, when Hon. John Co.
vodc was declared President of the
Convention.
, Hon. Thomas E3Cocbrap, fromthe
Ssoornmittee on resolutions then submitted
tho following:
Re'o!ved That the Convention, represen.
ting the Union loving and loyal people of
Pennsylvania, who never desp4ired Of the
Republic, and who poured out millions of
treasure and devoted yet more precious
blood for the rescue of the country from the
felonious attacks Of q wicked and causeless
rebellion-whose sons fought on every bat
tie feld and suffered in every Southern
prison pen oftorture and starvation-whose
noble dead lie on the soil of every State,
whore they fell under the folds of the ma
tonal banner-here renew the pledges of
unfaltering devotion TO the Federal Union,
and repeat their determined purpose that it
shall be preserved.
Res0lOed, That the most imperative duty
OF the present is to, gather the legitimate
fruits ofthe war, m order that our Consti.
tuition may como out Of the rebellion puri.
fed our institutions strengthened, and our
national life prolonged.
Resolved, That failure in these grave du
ties would be scarcely less criminal than
would have been an acquiesence in seces.
sion and in tho reasonable Vaccinations
Of the conspirators, and would be an insult
to every soldier who took up arms to save
the country.
Resolped, That filled with admiration at
the patriotic devotion and fearless courage
with which Andrew Johnson resisted and
denounced the efforts of the rebels to over
throw the National Government. Pennsylva.
MIA reioiced to express her entire confidence
in his character and principles. and appre
citation Of his noble conduct b. bestOwing
her suffrage upon him for the second
position in honor and dignity in the country;
his bold and outspoken denunciations of the
crime Of treason, his firm demands for the
punishment Of the guilty offenders, and his
expressions of thorough sympathy with the
frisads of the Union, secured from him the
warniest attachment of her people, who,
remembering his great services and sacrifi.
a. Al 4.
alike denounced his patriotic action, appeal
to him to stand firmly by the side and to
repose upon the support Of the loyal masses,
aYhose votes formed the foundation of his
promotion, and who pledged to him that un-
swerving support in all measures by which
Areason shall be igmatizea-loyalty reeog.
24nized.--and thesfrsedom, stability and1inity
pf the nation secured.
Resolpsd, That the work of restoring the
he insurrectionsry States to their proper
rotations to the Union, necessarily devolves
upon the law making power, and that, until
such action shall be taken, no State, lately
4 in insurrection, is entitled to representa-
tion in either branch of Congress that AZ
preliminary 10 such action, il is the right
of Congress tosinEsstigate for itself the
i condition of the legislation OF those States
1 10 inquire respecting their loyalty, and ia
prescribe the terms Of restoration; and that
70 deny this necessary Constitutional power
is to deny and imperil one of the dearest
rights belonging to our representative form
of government; and that We cordially ap,
>proye.of the action otrthe Union represent
SCtives in Cong grsss rom Penhsylvania OF
this subject
p ResolUed, That no man who has voluntari
ly engaged in the late rebellion. or has held
office under the rebel organization, shoulC
he allowed to sit IN the Congress of the Un
ion ; and that the law-knOwn as the ties
oath should not be repealed, bot should b
enforced against an claimants for seats i
Congress.