The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-23
FR0n RRADINe, PA.


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RsADua, Pa, Aug. %.
A graua convssf;oa d the people Of East
en- fsons,ivaaiA, vho ~ isvorsble to the
principles Of IL Republican Union party,
end opposea 70 IL policy q President John
son, assenbIsd IN this city to-day. Immedi-
assly upon the arrival of the local organize
tioos and visiting delegations they formed
into line and paraded through the city. A.
great majority Of those in the ranks we're re-
turned soldiers. At 230 the convention v0
called TO order by Col. Jordan, Chairman Of
the Republican Union State Central Conmit-
tee. Vim. B, Reynolds, Of Philadelphia, vas
called on to preside. In Consequence of the
immense numbers in attendance four different
meetings we're organised, At the largest Of
which, held in front Of the residence of
Geo. W. Sawyer, Esq, Hon. Lewis W. Holt,
Speaker of the State Senate, addressed the
crowd. He declared the issue to b whether
traitors or those who had upheld the Govern
ment in the late perilous crisis should control
the country in the future. Three hundred
thousand loyal men had died, and debt of
ated that the nation might i've, and the pres.
ent political contest involved exactly the
same questions At issue during the war,
whether treason was not . crime 70 be made
odious and punished. II, however, the issue
insisted upon by the opposition was the true
one, and if it be the plea Of upholding =
white mans government. it was intended
that the loyal blacks who had helped in the
Governmeui, we're to he deprived Of their
ciyiI rights, then the speaker desired It TO be
understood that in questions between loyal
blacks and disloyal whites, be was for the
former. He then contrasted the changed
condition of political sentiment Of our own
days With that which existed before the
gar, arguing that the march Of freedom vas
ever Onward; the conseqences ofthe abolition
Of slavery, none could compute, while its
financial results we're alike incalcalable; one
of these results was the opening Of Southern
country TO the people OF the whole country,
for which blessings the nation was indebted
TO the valor Of her soldiers and to the courage
and sagacity of her statesmen.
The speaker reviewed a, length the political
history Of the times, eulogising the loyalty
and devotion of an oppressed race and crit
cising the course Of President johnson.
At the other stands at which meetings we're
held, speeches were delivered by Col Jordan,
Gen. Fisher, Of Lancaster; Col. Albright, of
Carbon; Gen. Geay, Capt Tower, Thomas
T. Cochran and others.
The following resolutions we're unanimous
ly adopted:
Resotred, Tha. We give praise and thanks
to Almighty God in that He has vouchsafed
unto us full and complete victory over those
who sought during four long years Of bloody
war, to destroy the last altar of the rights Of
ms sab b~a thst
the black and loaihspme stain Of slavery
which classed Us among the dark and heather
nations Of the earth, has at last been blotted
out and in all this land no man can say 10 his
fellow msn-'sThou art mine
Rcso{red, That We owe . debt OF lasting
gratitude to the Union soldiers and sailors,
for their valor and prowess in putting down
the slavehoder's wicked and bloody rebel
hon, and We pledge to their wives and or
phans protection and patronage whenever
vithia our power to give tnem.
Resplred, That ia the resolution which
passed the Congress the United States by !
tvo-thirds vote, proposing am endments to
the Constitution of the United States, We
recognize the only safe palladium of the
principles for which We sacrificed four hun
dred thousand lives Of our best blood, and
three thousand millions of our treasure; that
Al AdC sallc sEilfk WHICH bltudttu Ouf lJtE~
fathers to proclaim the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence In I7T6, w most heartily epdorse |
the first section Of the amendment declaring !
that all persons born within the United States
shall be citizens thereof AZ = means. also, Of
future protection, "a well as present fairness
and equality, we are IN favor oftbe I'd section, |
sA'eh ,.e-.e - C. eq1-:.s representation
ic Congress. and in the electoral College: and
we declare our avowed hostility, now and for I
ever. to the admission Of the States lately in
rebellion u.son hasis of representation that
gives to the south sixty per cent more power
in Congress and in the Electoral College than
an equal number of white people In the
North while the third section, excluding all
periured rebels from eligibility to Office, meets
our hearty approval.
Resotred, That the true intent and purpose
of the policy laid down by Andrew Johnson,
that man made President by j. Wilkes Booth,
is to resurrect from oblivion and disgrace the
democratic party, which, for its reasonable
course during the war, Was consigned to the
tomb Of everlasting iniany and shame. We
lelieve that the success Of said policy would
turn back the wheels of progress generation
in our countrys march TO greatness and to
glory.
Resolred, That in Gen. John w. Geary. the
standard bearer Of the Republican party of
Pennsylvania, we have combined the twin
principles of the soldier and statesman-,he
hero of many battles and the defender Of civ
il liberty whenever and wherever be has
been called to govern
Resoired, That Andrew J Curtin, the good
ard loyal Governor of Pennsylvania, has well
earned the noble title Of the Soldiers
Friend, = and in retiring from the guberna>
torial chair he takes with him the entire con-