The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-19

CLEVELAND, Sept. 19.-At the evening session of
the Soldiers johnson Convention yesterday, the
following resolutions and address were adopted
THE PLATFORM.
Hon. L. ID. Campbell from the Committee on
Resoutons reported the folio wing platform, which
was ADOPTED with immense cheering:-
The Union soldiers and saIors who served in the
army and navy of the United States in the recent
maintenance of the Constitution, the Government,
and the flag OF the Union, grateful to Almighty God
tor hs & 0i tne r dnr3uSn % ene p@rs ana
ing their efforts with victory, freedom and peace
deploring the absence from their midst OF many
brave and faithful comrades, who have sealed with
their hieblood their devotion TO the sacred cause
OF American nationality, and determined now as
heretofore 10 stand by the prlnclp es tor which their
glorious dead have fallen, and bv which their sur
vvors have trlumphed, beng assembled in National
Mass Convention III The city of Clevelanu Ohio
this l7th day OF September, 1865, do resolve and
First. That wei heartily approve the resolution
adopted by the National Union Convention, held IN
the city OF Philadelphia on the l4tn day OF August
last. composed OF delegates representing all the
States and Territories of the United States.
Second. That our object in taking up arms to sup
press the late Rebellion was to defend and MAINTAIN
the supremacy OF the Constitution and to preserve
the Union with ali the dignity equaiity, and rights
OF the several states unimpaired, and not in any
prt of oppression, for any purpose of conquest
and subiugat lOn anc that whenever there shall be
any armed resistance to the lawfully constituted
authorizes of our National Union, either IN the
South in the North in the East, or IN the West,
emulating the sei-sacrifcing patriotism OF .vo-
support our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor.
THE CoMMITrEE's ADDRESS.
General Este, from the same committee, reported
a lengthy address which was received with enthu.
siasm and adopted with waving of flags. cheers, and
signing Orally Round the Flag, Boys"
ADDRESS
More then ftt en- months have elapsed since you were
released nom service and permitted TO return to your
with the s GSt % q ae S0nty @ sst
suppressed For four years ON the ocean and In helds
onsSt IN ORDER to integrity Of Se naon and
oS S with ~ 1U the fSnySt cor that
which you had lad t. gether You knew that this task
re st IKE e
promptly and Quoted witn s,ngleness Of purpose
marched to the eid and thenceforth knew only your
example: You expected hat those who had called upon
revolution and to vndc afehe violated law would set
their and revival OF the old spirit
You expected, and after the performance of such
vices you had peculiar right TO demand that your sue
yse which should be Just but should propose
BY on Ten the and Il
the M1Eh ae the SSS bae 20 ae az
to the perormape OF all ITS duties IN this nation and,
tclpatiOn in its lie. For more than year you have
s Inc on IN @ e beS wk Sr WHICH
| sors have acted neither wisely nor in season.
pshed proposed At the proper time, has been
Sen OF wisdom impose at %
at last imposed when It Is TOO late AFTER you had been
the Si your opponents to dsO6sy Their Govern
offered to them, and when these conditions were
posed to make the arrangement Of alarge portion Of
o When the % 'fs had
menced or what 1t to share in the duties and bust
iiuence in It's affairs and st a.e itrange in their own
land ana excluded from The instruction which might
he union Of these States for which these partisans
pete as when you marched home. and BY their
It's on are nof ssepe S a
we can wait It becomes therefore your peculiar duty,
@
wse o Mn o sap mS %f is CG
| yourselves in position OF impIegnable facts The
It's nsurgent citizens except ior purposes of judicial
+ rS6f OF DfSesns a
while It also limited by one of the grants of the Con
The Government is authorized to suppress insurec-
~ a sRI sss %cb aT be- an s
that end In the exercise of its necessary belige
csens as would DC to require Or oTesn eae@T not
out Ss s
ie The right is perfect and complete for It's purpose
that armies and begersnt law shs be used tor the
hc 81 & With this complete 20
the legitimate appoaon Of compulsion TO their future
It's not true that m case OF war this Government
acquires all OF the begeent rights known TO inter-
national law 1t has only much OF that kind OF right
over its own peop as finds embodied IN its ownC on
stttution. Ii derives this so much as Is
include the right take and hold its rebeous citizens
and their territory conquest IL rs authorized TO
employ war to vindcate It's old title to ALLEGIANCE not to
acquire new one In accordance with this RUE the
President as Commander-in- Chief cOmree the insur
cents after they mad laid down their arms 20 abolish by
then local laws the institution of slavery the agitation
Of which had been the of this and might be the
cause OF anoher to declare null and void their acts OF
tOn. and until rescinded embodied a aim which
tened uture conflict and finally TO iepudate their
war Geps the recognizable Of which would have been
hostile act vlndlcang the legitimacy Of ins nsuIrectton
end threatening its renewal The institution OF slavery,
the ordinances OF secession and the maintenance of
ana threatened possible renewal OF the war until they
should be surrendered. There could be no eompl te
surrender OF the begerent attitude OF the insurgent
communities OF the south; there the Commander
in-Chie clothed with the double functions OF military
commander and of the civil execution of the laws of the
Union compelled thu surrender and at this point the
belgerent power of the National Government-the
power 10 apply compusion in any form 10 the political
future OF Inc late ted States-was exhausted.
MS legitimate and restricted of cOmpulfion ap
peared 20 accomplish the desired end 1t is true that
the subuued and impoverished people of the south did
not and could not at pass iron hostility to lrend-
snip. Ihelr homes were darkened with sorrow which
rles their farms were the burnt pa of our armies,
ana ihey could not love in the midst of their desoa
0n Lion Bgt they knew that the issue Of the appeal 70
saw mat they had lost by the what they had at
temptea by work to save. They had suffered too much
before them but that of citizens of the United Sta
he Were ready TO return to their allegiance defined
10 1nem anew by the event of the strugg o.
| When congress FIST assembled they had acquired q
temper towards the National Government as healthy as
one;s wss possible for any people to attain after such
resaiu OF me war was unexamped in the history OF
Thew had upon he eGn4emen 81 t6e
thie surrendered every position which could truth
c ee not SSee1 hostile TO- the ana py nus