Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-28
Philadelphia National Union Con-
VentiOl.
AUGUNr IAN, 1899.

For the purpose of selecting four Senator's
al, with two Congressional Delegates from
each District, to attend National Union
Convention of Delegates from all the States
and Territ )ries in the Union, 70 be held at
Philadelphia, on the I'd Tuesday (the l4th)
Of Augustnext.
All Union men are Invited to come who
believe thatthe Union of the States Is In
dissoluble and cannot be broken up, either
by State Secession or Congressional Ac-
ton; who desire that LOYAL Representatives
should be admitted to their seats In Con-
gress, no matter from what State they may
hail who hold that to each State belongs
the regulation OF Its own elective franchise,
and who are unwilling to declare the war
for the Union PRACTICAL tnilure by max
Ing Its restoration contingent upon PoIIT-
ICAL Issues, independent Of obedience 70
the Constitution Of the United States and
submission to the laws made In pursuance
thereof.
Fellow CITIZENS; Fearful issues are
upon US, and unless wise counsels prevail
majority In Congress will perpetuate In our
country civil hate and interminable feuda,
hoping thereby merely TO prQlong their
own hold on nofice, regardless of the public
| welfare. or that harmony and rep0se now
needed by the Republic after the long ten
sion Of protracted civil war-a war to
which our citizens contributed freely their
blood and treasure for the maintenance of
the Union, but not to make any part OF our
free land Poland or Ireland, TO be held as
conquered provinces by satraps and bayo-
nets, after RHsisTANCE tp the Constitution
and laws had ceased,
Ohio always firmly stood by the restora-
ton policy OF the late lamented President
q Lincoln, even when 1t was most violently
assailed by one Of her own Senat0rs-that
policy he bequeathed, as 1t were a LEGACY,
to his successor in his farewell speech to
the American people, April l1th, 1855, three
DAYS before his assassination, which trust
President johnson has refused to sURREN-
DER at the bebest of Congress which
could not have been elected had they an
nOunced to the people their opposition to
this main feature OF President Lincoln's
Administration, which was emphatically
INDoRsED by his reelection. President
johnson, in bis North Carolina Proclama-
ton Of May 10Th, 1855, and subsequent
Proclamations, only pursued the WELL
KNOWN policy of his predecessor, and on
the 2lst Of June, 1855, the Union State Con-
vention of Ohio, under the pressure Of the
gallant soldier-delegates, fresh from the
; field, who repressed the eagerness of GER
tain stay home politicians TO make ne
gro suffrage pretext for prolonged strug-
gle, IGNORED that issue, and resolved 'that
President Andrew johnson, by his unwav-
ering devotion to the Union, through years
Of the severest trial, has won our highest
c0nfdence-that we cheerfully indoise the
POLICY of his Administration, looking TO
the RESTORATION of peace and civil order in
the so-called Seeded States, and as Union
men of Ohio we will give him our hearty
and UNDIVIDED support" That pledge
was given by many of us In GOOD FAITH,
and not for the purpose of deceivinR the
people By an electioneering platform, or OF
misleading the President as to popular sem
timent and then denouncing him as traitor
to the party, because he believed that the
politicians who passed it were in EARNEST;
and we intend,to abide by that resolution,
which still stands UNREPEALED by any sub
sequent Union, State or National, Conven-
ton.
The people ofthe rebel States have, with |
wonderful unanimity, accepted the STTUA- |
TIoN consequent upon the war In the abo- |
lition Of slavery and the repudiation of the |
rebel debt; the other conditions now press |
ed upon them are matters for ORDINARY |
political action in the regular working Of |
our Government under the Constitution, |
and can be settled in due time. The great |
IMMEDIATE issue Is, whether the Union |
ton OF a Congressional majority, In ex
cluding loyal Representatives from the late |
rebel States from seats to which they have |
been elected. On this point the platform
of the last Union State Convention Is silent, |
30 that even by party usage every Union
man is free to carry out his own convic-
tiOns, BY practical action. There Is no de-
nial Of the EXCLUSIVE right of Congress to
pass on the return, election and qualifica-
ton Of It's own members, under the Com
stitution Of the United States; but the COM
plaint is that they refuse to EXERCISE this
right.
seeded States any less republican in form
now than before the rebellion, because
slavery is abolished and what difference
does it make WHO organizes them If they
are assented to by the legal electors over
whom they are to operate? The President
and his friends have never asked for the
admission Of disloydl men into Congress,
and II treason is not punished according to
law 1t Is because the Courts do NOT PER-
FORM their duty, matter over which the /
Executive has no MORE control than In any |
other class Of crimes In time of peace. |
When this charge is made it comes with an |
i'll grace from those who have all along |
professed a Willingness to admit all the |
rebels to political privileges on the princi-
pie Of universal suffrage and universal am
nesty.
Come up, then, Union men, to the Con-
vertion, and see to 1t that the best citizens
of our State are sent as delegates to the
National Union Convention to sustain the
President Ia his efforts to restore the Union |
of these States. If citizens belonging to |
OTHER political organizations choose to CO.
operate with us upon this our ot0n platform, |
to give 1t PRACTICAL EFFECT, 1t is oLly proof /
that however high partisan strife may run
in ordinary political contests the ISSUE now |
before the countryside RESTORATION OF |
THE UNIoN--rises ABOVE all party feeling /
or sectiOnalism, and appeals DIRECTLY to |
the patriotism of the Nation to "take care |
that the Republic suffers no detriment."
Col John NJ Connell, Fairfield county.
NJ A Daugherty, Fairfield county.
John A Hunter, Fairfield county.
o e Davis, Fairfield county.
John Garraghty, Fairfield county.
GINS Wiseman. Fairfield county.
KillIus Filler, Fairfield county.
Samuel d Harris, Portage county.
Col C s Cotter, Portage county.
r A Gillette, Portage county. ,
AT Price, Portage county. ,
EG Russell, Forage county.
William Ward, Portage county. !, y
SD Norton, Portage county. 7DS y
CB Bishop, Portage county. y, ,,.,f.
George Sommeryille, Portage county.
LID Campbell, Butler county.
JB Milikiu, Butler county.
James Wilson, Butler county. ~N
David v Browne, Butler county.
William ii Wilcox, Butler county.