The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-28
Call for n National Political Cenven-

WASHINGTON, June 25.-Tbe following
call has just been prepared, and has the
approval of gentlemen of prominence in
addition to those whose names are ap.
pended. 1t may, therefore, be regarded
as possessing mnch political slgnlti'
cauce:
A National Union Convention Of at
least two delegates from each Congress
sional district Of all the States; two from
each territory; two frem the District of
Columbia, and fopr delegates at large
from each State, will he held at the city
of Philadelphis, on the second Tuesday,
the l4th, of August next. Such dele
gates will be chosen by the electors of
the several States who sustain the ad'
ministratiou in maintaining unbroken
the Union Of the States under the con-
stitution which our fOTefathers estabt
lished, and who agree in the following
nropositions, viz: The union of the
States is in every case indissoluble and
is perpetual, and the Constitution Of the
United States and the laws passed by
Congress in pursuance thereof supreme,
and constant, and universal in their OBJ.
legation. ,
THE rights, the dignity, and the
equality of the States Ill the Union, ln-
cluding the right of representation in
Congress, are solemnly guaranteed by
that Constitution. TO save which from
overthrow so much blood and treasure
was expended in the late civil war
There is no right anywhere to dis
solve the Union, or to separate States
from the Union, either by voluntary
withdrawal by force of arms, or by Con-
oressional action-neither by the secss-
sion of the States nor by the exclusion
of their loyal and qualified representa-.
tiyes, nor by the National Government
or any other power.
slavery is abolished, and neither can
nor ought to be re established in any
State or Territory within its jurisdic-
ton.
Zach State has the undoubted right
TO prescribe the qualifications of its own
electors, and no external powers right
fully can or ought to dictate, control or
Influence the free and voluntary action
of the States in that right.
The maintenance inviolate of the
rights Of the States, and especially of
! the right OF each State to order and
control its own domestic concerns &C.
cordiug to its own Judgment exclusive.
IL. subject only 10 the Constitution OF
| the United States, is essential to that
balance of power on which the perfec
t;on and endurance Of our political fab
ric depends, and the overthrow Of that
system by the usurpation and centrali
zation of power III Congress would be Q
revolution dangerous TO republican gov
eminent and destructive of liberty.
each House Of Congress is made by
the Constitution the sole Judge of The
election returns aud qualifications of III
members, but the exclusion of LOYAL Sem
tors and Representatives properly choseI
and ouaIifed under the Constitution snC
laws. is unjust and revolutionary Ever
natriot should frown upon all those act
and proceedings every where, which cal
serve no other purpose than 10 rekindl
the aninosities Of the war, and the etfec
of which upon our moral, social an,
national interests at home aud upon on
standing abroad, differing only II degree
Is INJURIOUS, like war itself
The purposes OF the war ha7Ing bee
,o nTeserye the Union and the Const!tU
] tion. BY putting down the rebellion, an
tbs rebellion having been Suppressed
assistance 10 the authority Of the Geners
Government being at al end, AID II
war having ceased, war measures sheul
aIso cease. and should De followed b
measure. OF peaceful administration,
. tbsr union, harmony and concord ma
he rncouraged, and industry, commerc
and the arts of peace be revived and pr
. NOTED and the early restoration OF q
{ The states to the exercise Of thsil Coz
Su:.I novsrs in the National Go