Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-08-22
The National Convention.


ID, M The following is correct copy of
), 81 be resolutions adopted by the great
,sr| onvention held in Philadelphia last
e,,, neck. Next week we will publish
&he address, issued to the people by
n'N he delegates of this mammoth assem-
~. lage. We hope the resolutions will
ss b carefully read by everybody;
Ma DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES.
lind M Hon. Edgar Cowan-Mr Chairman,
, n behalf of the committee who were
ss appointed to prepare resolutions and
In address, desire to state that the
otsS ommittee have given very careful
hI nd elaborate consideration to the
subject during all of yesterday and a
y. hood part of last right, and beg leave
#to report declaration of principles,
hdopted unanimously by the commit
Zee, (Which the Secretary of the Con
I. " rention will read, and an address TO
the people of the country, which will
! #be read by the Hon. Henry J. Ray
:" hond, of New York. [Applause.]
d The Secretary then read the follow
ing:
j. M "The National Union Convention,
: how assembled in the city of Phila-
Wdephia, composed of delegates from
n #every State and Territory in the
Union, admonished by the solemn les
sons which for the last five years it
a III has pleased the Supreme Ruler Of the
universe to give to the American peo.
pie profoundly grateful for the return
"A of peace desirous as are large ma
n iority of their countrymen, in all sin
certy, to forget and to forgive the
past; revering the Constitution as it
comes to us from our ancestors; re-
III garding the Union ir its restoration
as more sacred than ever; looking
" with deep anxiety into the future as
of instant and continuing trial, hereby
ISSUES and proclaims the following
Declaration of Principles and Purpo-
ses, on which they have, with perfect
unanimity, agreed
First We hail with gratitude to
Almighty God the end of war, and
the return of peace to an afflicted and
beloved land.
Second. The war just closed has
maintained tho authority of the Con-
stitution, with all the powers which
it confers, and all the restrictions
which it imposes upon the general
government, unabridged and unalter-
ed and it has preserved the Union,
with equal rights, dignity and author
ity Of the States, perfect and unim-
paired Applause
Third. Representation in Congress
of the United States, and in the elec-
toral college, is a right recognized by
the Constitution as abiding in every
State, and as a duty imposed upon its
people--fundamen in its nature and
essential to the existence of our repub-
lican institutions and neither Con-
gress, nor the general government,
has any authority or power to deny
this right to any State, or to withhold
its enjoyment under the Constitution
from the people thereof Loud cheer
ing.
Fourth We call upon the people
of the United States to elect to Con-
gress, as members thereof, none but
men who admit this fundamental right
Of representation, and who will re-
ceive to seats therein, loyal represent
atives from every State in allegiance
to the United States, subject to the
constitutional right of each House to
Judge of the elections, returns and
qualifications OF its own members.
[Applause.
Fifth. The Constitution ofthc Uni
ted States and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof are "the supreme law
of the land, anything in the Constitu-
tion or laws of any State to the con
trary Notwithstanding" All the pow
ers not conferred by the Constitution
upon the general government nor pro-
hibited by it to the States are ire
served to the States or to the people
thereof" and among the rights thus
reserved to the States is the right to
prescribe qualification for the elective
franchise therein, with which right
Congress cannot interfere. Long
continued cheering] Nc State or
combination of States has the right to
withdraw from the Union, or to ex-
clude, through their action in Con
gress or otherwise, any other State or
States from the Union. [Great ap.
pause.1 The Union of these States
N is perpetual and cannot be dissolved
Sixth. Such amendments to the
Constitution OF the United States may
be made by the people thereof as they
may deem expedient, but only in the
mode pointed out by its provisions
and in proposing such amendments
whether by Congress or by Conven
tion, and in ratifying the same, all the
States of the UIion have an equal and