The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-10-04
Second Days Proceedings
PITTsBURGH, September 26.

PITrsBURGH, September 26. e:xr
The Convention assembled at ten
o'clock, in the City hall.
Major Joseph P. Loughead, of Phil
adelphia, offered the following: - ''+s
'Resolved, That the thanks of the
country are due to the Thirty-ninth
Congress Of the United States for their
revision and action upon the much
perverted neutrality laws of the United
States, and to Hon. n p Banks, Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations, for his able and exhaustive re-
port thereon. @-s-s.,ss
''Resolved, That we deeply feel for
the enthralled and oppressed of all ma
tions, and accord to them our liveliest
sympathy, and wherever lawful and
practicable, our earnest cooperation
and assistance in their efforts to throw
off the yoke Of their oppressors, and
erect for themselves republics like our
own; and we are animated with hope
that the day is not far distant when Ire-
land, in the Old World, and Mexico on
our own Continent, can hail us as free
Republican nationalities, in fact,as they
should be of right"
The above was referred to the Com
mittee, under the rules of the Conyen.
ton. t.*
A delegate moved that the Converi-
ton take a recess to halfpast three
O'Clock, but subsequently withdrew
that motion.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
General Butter, Chairman of Com
mittee on Resolutions appearing in
the hall with the report of that Conn
mittee, after great cheering came for
ward and said:
"NIR PREsIDENT-The Committee
on resolutions have unanimously in
structed me to report the following as
a platform Of principles for the Sol
diers' and Sailors Convention here as
sembled
THE PLATFORM.
"Resoloed, By the Soldiers and Sailors Of
the Army and Navy of the United States
in Convention assembled, That the action
of the present Congress in passing the
pending constitutional amendment is wise
prudent and just. 1t clearly defines An1-
erican citizenship. and guarantees all his
rights to every citizen. 1t places on a just
and equal basis the right of representation
making the vote of a man in one State
equally potent with the vote of another
man in any State. 1t rightfully excludes
from places Of honor and trust the chief
conspiratofs and guiltiest rebels, whose
perjured crimes have drehched the land in
-fraternal blood. 1t puts into the very
frame of our Government the inviolability
of the national debt. and the nallity for
ever of all obligations contracted in sup
port of the rebellion. Applause.
''Resol,ed, That it is unfortunate for the
country that these propositions have not
been received in the spirit of Cancellation,
clemency and fraternal feeling in which
they were offered, as they are the mildest
terms ever granted to subdued rebels
+ GApp1ause.
s'Resolped, That the President, as an Exec
Ecutive officer. has no right to a policy as
against the legislative department. Of the
Government. Thathis attempt to fasten
his scheme of reconstruction upon the
country is as dangerous as it Is unwise -
his acts in sustaining it have retarded the
restoration of peace and unity they have
converted conquered rebels into impudent
claimants to rights which they have for
feited and places which they have desecra-
ted. If fconsummated, it would render the
sacrifices of the nation useless, the loss of
the lives of our buried comrades vain, and
the war in which we have so gloriously
triumphed what his present friends.at Chi
cago, in 1864, declared it to be, failure.'-
Applause -..-...
''RcsoEoed That the right of the conquer
er to legislate for the conquered has been
recognized by the public law of all civil
lied nations. BY the operation of that law
for the conservation of the good of the
| whole country, Congress has,the undoubt-
ed right to establish measures for the COM
! duet of the revolted States and to all acts
of legislation that are necessary for the
complete RESTORATION of the Union.