The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-01

IxD1AxAro1us, ThursIday, July 10.


INDIANAPOLIS, Thursday, July 10.
The johnson National Union Convention,
at this City, to-day, was very thinly atten-
ded, the number Of delegates not exceeding
one hundred and twenty five. Three Con-
gressional Districts were unrepresentsd.
None Of the speakers invited from abroad,
were present Only those who supported
Lincoln and johnson in 1884, and now sup
port the johnson restoration policy, were al
lowed to participate. Gen. Sol. Meredith
presided Delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention were appointed.
81. a series Of resolutions were adopted.
The first expresses ardent attachment to
the Union of the States under the Gonstitu-s
ton: denies the right of secession; holds
all attempts null and void; declares all
States in this Union as before the rebellion;
denies the power of the general government
to exclude State from the Union or govern
it as territory.
The second declares confidence in Presi-
dent johnson undiminished; approves the
general policy of his administration; endor-
scs his restoration policy as wise, patriotic,
constitutional, in harmony with the loyal
sentiments and purposes of the people in the
suppression of the rebellion, with the plat
form on which he was elected, and with the
declared policy of the late President.
The third, under the Constitution, rightly
prescribes the qualifications of electors re-
served to States, and it would be subversive
of the principles of our government for Con-
gress to force universal suffrage upon any
part of the country in opposition to the
wishes of the citizens thereof.
4th. All States are entitled by the Consti-
tuition to representation, and all loyal mem
bers duly elected should be admitted into
Congress without unnecessary delay, each
House judging the qualifications Of its mem
bers.
9Th. The payment Of the National debt is
a sacred obligation never to be repudiated,
and no debt whatever incurred to aid trea-
son or rebellion should ever be paid.
9Th. The nation owes lasting debt of
gratitude to the soldiers and sailors, and the
families of the fallen should be cared for by
the government, and the Presidents deter
mination to give Offices to soldiers is in
dorsed. g eA
18th. Delegates to the Philadelphia Con-
vention are expected to cooperate only with
Union men.
We copy the above as specimen of the
johnson feeling among the people of the
Northern and Northwestern States. These
proceedings breathe loyal spirit. Are
Southern fre-eaters, who are making haste
to press into the Philadelphia Conven-
ton, prepared to endorse the test-oath r.
Are they ready to pledge themselves to the
payment of the national debt, as /" a sacred
obligation" never to be ignored, and to agree
that NO part of the rebel debt shall ever be
paid ? Are they prepared to declare that
/" the nation owes lasting debt ofgratitude
to the soldiers and sailors" who saved the
Union, and that the families of fallen feder-
al soldiers should be cared for by the gov
eminent Unless z. B. Vance, Thos. Bragg,
W. K. Lane. John Spelman, VIM. Robinson,
and others of their school, who are moving
in this business, are prepared to say these
things and do them, they ought not to go
themselves, or send delegates to Philadelphia.
But if they are ready to say these things,
and will do them, we will hail such conduct
on their part with much satisfaction, for we
shall then begin to believe they are Union
men.
SIGNIFIcANT-Someo of the secession pa
pers are congratulating themselves on the
fact that Hamilton Fish, John A. Dix, and
other loyal men of New York, are taking
steps to be represented in the Philadelphia
Convention. To show the basis on which
these gentlemen are acting we quote as fol-
lows from their call for meeting to appoint
delegates:
"By the language and spirit of the call,
it will be perceived that those who refused
their support to the Government in putting
down the rebellion, and those who approve
of the action of Congress ins&eeping loyal
Representatives out of their seats, and loyal
States out of the Union, are excluded from
the invitation, and are not expected to par
ticipate in the preliminary meetings, or to
take seats in the Convention" ~
The meaning of which is, that no radical,
so-called, will be admitted, and no man from
the South will be admitted soho Refused his
support to the gooer1maent in putting doom the
rebellion. c-ya
THE CLAIMS OF LOYAL CITIzENs.-The
day afterthe Tennessee delegation was adj