The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-08-02
PHILADELPHIA
NATIONAL UNION
CON V EN- TION.
AUGUST 14th, 1866,

A Mass Convention will assem-
bic at Columbus, o., on Tuesday,
August the 7th, for the purpose of
selecting four Senatorial, with two
Congressional Delegates from each
District, to attend a National Un-
ion Convention of Delegates from
all the States and Territories in the
Union, to be held at Philadelphia,
on the I'd Tuesday, (the 14th) ofAu-
gust next.
All Union men are invited to
come who believe that the Union
of the States is indissoluble and
cannot be broken up, either by
State Secession or Congressional
Action, who desire that LOYAL Rep
resentatives should be admitted to
their seats in Congress, no matter
from what State they may hail, who
hold that to each State belongs the
regulation of its own elective fran
chise, and who are unwilling to
declare the war for the Union a
PRACTICAL failure by making its res
toration contingent upon political
issues, independent of obedience
to the United States and Submis-
sion to the laws made in pursuance
thereof.
FELLOW CITIZENS: Fearful issues
are upon us, and unless wise coun-
sells prevail a majority in Con gress
will perpetuate in our country civ
ilhate and interminable feuds, hop
ing thereby merely to prolong
their own hold on office, regardless
of the public welfare, or that har-
mony and repcse now needed by
the Republic after the long tension
of protracted civil war-a war to
which our citizens contributed free
ly their blood and treasure for the
maintenace of the Union, bat not
to make any part of our free land
Poland or Ireland, to be held as
conquered provinces by satraps
and bayonets, after resistance to
the Constitution and laws had
ceased.
Ohio always firmly stood by the
restoration policy of the late la.
mented President Lincoln, even
when it was most violently assailed
by one of her own Senators-that
policy he bequeathed, as it were a
legacy, to his successor in his fare
well speech to the American peo.
pie, April 18th, 1865, three days
before his assassination, which
trust President Johnson has refused
to surrender at the behest of a
Congress which could not have
been elected had they announced
to the people their opposition to
this main feature of President Lin.
coins Administration, which was
emphatically endorsed by his re-
election. President johnson, in
his North Carolina Proclamation of
May 29th, 1865, and subsequent
Proclamations, only pursued the
well known policy of his predeces-
sor, and on the 21st of June, 1855,
the Union State Convention of
Ohio, under the pressure of the
gallant soldier-delegates, fresh
from the field, who repressed the
eagerness Of certain stay-at-home
politicians to make negro suffrage
a pretext for prolonged struggle,
ignored that issue, and resolved
"that President Andrew johnson,
by his unwavering devotion to the
Union, through years of the sever
est trial, has won our highest con.
fidence---that we cheerfully endorse
the policy of his Administration,
looking to the restoration of peace
and civil order in the so-called Se-
ceded 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 deceiving the people by an cleo
tioneering platform, or of mislead-
ing the President as to popular
sentiment aud then denouncing
him as a traitor to the party, be-
cause he believed that the politi-
clans who passed it were in earnest;
and we intend to abide by thatres.
olution, which still stands unre.