Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-08
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I FROM PHILADELPHIA.
THE MoNGREL CONVENTION.

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COncIWsIOn OF tho AppenT-ResOIIu.
sIOnS AdOPted---A Split I'm tIie
COnvcndion--BOrder State Dele
gates withdraw. IiofaNtIU
Every foul attorney is at work to accom-
plish this result. Falsely protesting to
favor the abolition Of slavery they are
striving to continue It's detestable power by
legislative acts against pretended vagrants
They know that any form Of servitude will
answer their unholy purpose. They pro-
nounce the four years war brilliantsword
scene IN the great revolutionary drama
Proscriptive public sentiment holds high
carnival, and profting by the example OF
the Presidential platform, breathes out
threatening of slaughter against loyal men,
ignores and denOunces all legal restraints,
and aSsails with the tongue of malignity
and SANDER the constitutionally chosen
representatives of the people. To still the
voice of liberty, dangerous alone to tyrants,
midnight confiagrations and assassinations,
and murders in open day, are called to their
aid. A reign of terror through all these
ten States makes loyalty stand silent
In the presence of treason, or whisper In
bated breath. Strong men hesitate openly
to speak for liberty, and decline to attend q
convention at Philadelphia, for fear of de-
struction. 81. .I Do.
But all Southern men are not yet awed
into submission to treason, and we have
assembled from all these States, determin-
ed that liberty, when endangered, shall
find mouthpiece, and that the Govern
ment Of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth. We
are here to consult together how best to
provide for Union of truly Republican
States, to seek to renew the presence OF
thirty-six stars on the old flag. We are
here to see that ten of these stars, Opaque
bodies, paliug their Intellectual fires be-
meath the gloom of darkness of Oligarchical
tyranny and oppression, are returned to
their wonted luster. We wish them to he
brilliant stars, emblems of the eonstltu-
tional liberty, glittering Orbs, sparkling
with the life-giving principles Of the model
republic, fitting ornaments of the glorious
banner Of freedom. Our last and only
hope ia in the unity and fortitude of the
loyal people of America in the support and
vindicatiOn Of the Tbirty-ninth Congress,
ahd the election ofa controlling Union ma
jorfty In the succeeding, or Fortieth Con-
gress.
, While the new article amending the ma
tional Constitution offers the most liberal
conditions to the authors of the rebellion,
and does not come up to the measure of our
expectations, we believe its ratification
would be the commencement of complete
and lasting protection to all our people !;
and, therefore, we accept 1t as the best pres
cot remedy, and appeal to our brothers and
friends in the North ard the West to make
it their watchword in the coming elections.
The tokens are aIIspicious of Overwhelming
success. However little the verdict of the
ballot-box may affect the reckless man in
the Presidential chair, we cannot doubt
that the traitors and sympathizers will rec.
Ognize that verdict as the surest indication
that the mighty power which crushed the
rebellion is still alive, and that those who
attempt to oppose or DEFY it, will do so at
the risk of their own destruction. Our
confidence in the overruling providence of
God prompts the prediction, and intensi-
ties the belief that when this warning is
sufficiently taught to these misguided and
reckless men, AZ liberated millions Of the
rebellious South will be proffered those
rights and franchises which may be neces-
sary to adjust and settle this mighty con-
troversy in the spirit of the most enlarged
and Christian philanthropy. 80.
George w. Paschall, of Texas, Chairman
B. 0. Sidney, of Miss; JDo. N. Atkinson, OF
West Va; Jno, II. Alderdice, of Del; A. w.
Hawkins, of Tenn; Saml. Knox, of Mo-;
Wright Il. Fish, Of La; Milton j. Stafford,
of Ala; Philip Frazee, of Fla; D. r. Good
lloe, of N, c.; ID. G. Forrey, of District OF
COlumbia; John A. j. Cresswell, OF Nd G.
Washburn, of Ga. .-. tf. 7',. .ar
Mr.. Sherwood's substitute was voted
down, and the original address was adopt
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