Des Arc citizen., 1866-07-28
NATIONAL UHloa CONVENTION.

least two delegates from each congressional district of all the States, two from each Territory, two from the District of Colum- bia. and four delegates at large from each State will be held at the city of Philadel- pl.ia. on the second Tuesday (l4th) of August, next.
 Such delegates will be chosen by the electors of the several States who sustain the Administration in maintaining unbro- ken the Union of the States under the Constitution which our fathers established, and whoagree in the following propositions, viz:
 The Union of the States Is, in every ease, indissoluble, and is perpetual; and the Constitution of the United States, and tue laws passed by Congress in pursuance thereof, supreme. and constant, and univer- sal in their obligation;
 The rights, the dignity and the equality ofthe States in the Union, including the right of representation in Congress, are solemnly guaranteed by that Constitution. to save which from overthrow so much blood and treasure were expended in the late civil war;
 There is no right, anywhere, to dissolve the Union, or to separate States from the Union either by voluntary withdrawal, by force of arms, or by congressional action; neither by the secession of the States, nor by the exclusion of their loyal and qualified representatives, nor by the National Govern ment in any other form;
 Slavery is abolished, and neither can, nor ought to be, re-established in any State or Territory within our jurisdiction;
 Each State has the undoubted right to prescribe the qualifications of it's own cleo tors, and no external power rightfully can, or ought to, dictate, control, or influence the free and voluntary action of the States in the exercise of 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. according to its judg- ment exclusively, subject only to the Con. stitution of the United States, is essential to that balance of power on which the per lection and endurance ofour political fabric depend, and the overthrow of that system by the usurpation and centralization of power iu Congress would be revolution. dangerous to republican government and destructive of liberty;
 Each House of Congress is made, by the Constitution the sole judge fthe elections, returns, and qualifications of it's members; but the exclusion of loyal Senators and Representatives, properly chosen and quail qualified, under the Constitution and laws, is unjust and revolutionary;
 Every patriot should frown upon all those acts and proceedings, everywhere, which can serve no other purpose than to rekindle the animosities of war; and the effect of which upon our moral social and material interests at home, and upon our standing abroad, differing only in degree, is inju- rious like war itself:
 The purpose of the war having been to preserve the Union and the Constitution by putting down the rebellion, and the rebel lion having been suppressed-all resistance to the authority of the General Govern ment being at an end, and the war having ceased---war measures should also@ cease, and should be followed by measures of peaceful administration, so that union, har- mony and concord may be encouraged, and industry, commerce, and the arts of peace revived and promoted; and the early res toration of all the States to the exercise of their constitutional powers in the National Government is indispensably necessary to the strength and the defence of the Repuh- lie, and to the maintenance of the public credit;
 Al such electors in the thirty-six States and nine Territories of the United States, and in the District of Columbia, who in spirit of patriotism and love for the Union, can rise above personal and sectional considerations, and who desire to see a truly National Union Convention, which shall represent all the States and Territories of the Union, assemble, as friends and broth CTS, under the national flag. to hold eoun- sel together upon the state of the Union, and to take measures to avert possible dan ger from the same, are specially requested to take part in the choice of such delegates
 But no delegate will take seat in such Convention wno does not Loyalty accept the national situation and cordially endorse the principles above set forth, and who is not attached, in true allegiance, to the Constit- ution, the Union and the Government of the United States
 WASHINGTON, June 25, 1866.
 A w. RANDALR Pres't.
 J.R DO0LITTLE,
 0 II. BROWNING,
 EDGAR CONAN,
 CHARLES KNAPP,
 SAMUEL FOWLER,
 EcecatiUe Committee