Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-07-20


ton of Southern Unionsts to be held at
Philadelphia, in Independence Hail. on the
first Monday of September, 1906
$40 THE PFoPLE OF THE SOUTH: :"
The great issue is upon Us. The ma
jorty in Cong ess, aud lis supporters.
firmly declare that the rights of the citi-
zen enumerated in the Constitution and
established by the supreme law, must be
maintained inviolate. Rebels and rebel
sympathizers assert that the tights of the
citizen must belong to the State alone,
and under such regulations as the respec-
tive States choose voluntarily TO prescribe.
We have seen this doctrine of State SOW
ereigniy carried out in its practical re-
suits until all authority in Congress was de-
MED, the Union temporarily destroyed, the
constitution al rights Of the citizens of the
South nearly nnnihilated, and the land
desolated by civil war. The time has
come when the structure of the Southern
States governments m st be laid on con-
stitutional principles, or the despotism
grown up under an atrocious leadership
be permitted to remain. We know of
no other plan than that Congress now ex-
ercise its authority 10 establish the prnci-
pie whereby protection is made co-exten-
sive with citizenship. We maintain that
no State, either by law or legislation, Gao
make ,ransgression on The rights of the
citizen legitimate. We demand, and ask
you to concur in the demanding protection
TO every citizen of the great Republic on
the basis of equality before the law and
further, that no State Government shonld
be recognized as legitimate under the Con-.
stitution in SO far as it does not by its orr
ganic law make impartial protection full
and complete.
Under the doctrine of State sovereign
ty, with rebels in the foreground control
ing Southern Legislatures and embiuered
by disappointment in their schemes to des-
troy the Union, there will be no safety
for the loyal element of the South. Our
reliance for protection is now on Con-
gress, and the great Union party that has
stood and is standing by the nationality,
by the constitutional rights of the citizen,
and by the beneGcent principles of a free
government.
For the purpose of bringing the loyal
Unionists of the South into conductive
action with the true friends of the repnb-
lican government of The North, we invite
you TO send delegates in goodly numbers
from all the Southern States, including
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mary
land and Delaware, to meet at Indepen-
dence Hall, in the city of Philadelphia,
on the first Monday of September next.
1t is proposed that we should meet at
that time to recommend measures for the
establishment of such Government in the
South as accords with and protects the
rights of all citizens. We trust this call
will be responded TO by numerous delega-
lions of such as represent the true loyalty
of the South and that kind of government
which give full protection TO all the rights
of the citizen, such as our fathers intend
ed, and we claim as our birthright. Eli
Their the lovers of constitutional liberty
must rule the nation, or rebels and their
sympathzers be permitted to misrule it.
, Shall loyalty or disloyalty have the keep
. ing of the nation? Let the responses to
this call, which is now in circulation for
j signatures and is being numerously signed,
c answer. Notice is given that gentlemen
4 at distance can have their names attach
e ed TO it by sending a request by letter d.
e rected to ID. w. Bingham, Esq, Washing
! ton, d. c. (Signed)
|. w. B. STOKES, Tennessee.
@ JOSEPH S. FOWLER, Tennessee
t. JAMES GETTYs, Tennessee.
d A. j. HAMILTON, Texas.
= GEORGE w. PAscHAL, Of Texasl
= and Fl others.