Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-08-22

.from our institutions. They had been
LETT by the fathers 60 time and circum-
stance They exist no longer to i'm.
lpcdc the progress of our EationalHes-
TIMES The hercsy that Congress has
the right to control the representation
loi any State in Congress or in the
electoral college, or to withhold Its
full enjoyment, or TO prescribe the
qualifications for the elective franchise
lis explicitly refuted and rcpudiated by
the delegates of the American people,
as is also that other hcresy that any
constitutional amendment can be i'm
posed upon any State without giving
lii the right to voice in proposing
and a vote upon its adoption in the
lappointed mode. This is statement
in the narrowcst compass OF the ess-
ence Of what has been effected by the
Philadelphia convention. The address
which accompanies the declaration OF
principles contains an appeal, which
no truly American bosom can resist
to mite in removing the only obsta-
cles which now remain to national
happiness-the eXtirpation ofthe fatal
heresies we have designated, and the
expulsion from place and power of
those who have promulgated and up
held their pestilent doctrines-doc-
trines which are as intolcrant and
despotic as they are utterly destruc-
tive of that social intercourse and that
harmony and affection among the
people of the States, without which
liberty is but an empty name and life
itself among the dreariest Of things.
1t contains also a noble tribute to the
manly sufferance with which the enc
mics of the constitution have so per
sistently heaped upon them, and a
generous vindication Of their truth
and manhood We quote one soul
stirring sentencc-the electric response
to which by the convention is but an
anticipation of its vibration upon the
generous soul Of the people :"
'So people has ever yet existed whose loyalty
and faith such treatment, long continued, would
not ALLEVIATE and impair. And the millions Of
Americans who live in the South would be ub-
worthy citizens Of free country, degenerate
sons Of an heroic ancestry, unit ever to become
the guardians of ihe rights and liberties be-
queathed to us by the fathers and founders Of
this republic If hey could accept, with uneom-
planning snbmissiveness, the humiliation thus
sought to be imposed upon them"
The manncrin which all the deliber-
ations of the Philadelphia Convention
have been conducted, the considerate
ness which the members have mani
tested, the cordiality which they have
shown, the wisdom and moderation
which have guided their counsels, the
enthusiastic and confident eagerness
which has waited upon their efforts,
all give the assurance that the work
Of reconciliation is about completed,
that American people are again one
people, and that the former impedi-
ments which radicaIism may, for few
months longer, ,interpose to the orderly
movements Of every department of
the public service, are but the hideous
chains which intolerance has forged
to offend for time the public eye,and
which will be remembered with a
shudder, as we remember the rack and
the thumb-screw of q more barbarous
age. Most heartily do we congmtu-
late our fellow citizens upon the happy
Termination Of the labors of the con-
,vention and we hail in our hearts the
triumph which awaits the united efforts
of a free people for the integrity OF
their institutions.
The convention, before adjourn
ing sine die, appointed a National
Union Executive Committee, of two
from each State, of which John T.
Powell, Of New Jersey, is chairman.