The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-23
LARGE REPUBLICAN CONVEN
TgON.

the Republicans OF Berks and Eastern
Counties of Pennsylvania is being held
in this city to-day, and there will be a
tremendous meeting in Pennsylvania
Square this afternoon Five stands
have been erected for speakers.
PHILADELPHIA, August 22,-The
following resolutions were adopted at
the great Union Meeting at Reading
to-day. lp Ia9Wli4ad~ h4E i~ mig
Res6t6ed, That we give. praise and thanks
to Almighty God that he has vouchsafed
unto us full and complete victory over
those who sought during four long years of
a bloody war to destroy this last altar of
the right of man upon which to have free
Institutions; that the black and loathsoIne
stain OF slavery which classed us among
the dark and heather nation of the earth
has at last been blotted out, and in all our
land no man can say to his fellow man
IeesoIDed, That we owe a debt of gratitude
to the Union soldiers and sailors for their
Avalor and prowess in putting down the
Shareholders wicked and bloody rebel
lion; and we pledge to their wives and
orphans protection, support and patron
age whenever within our power TO give
them. .4l
Resolred, That, in the joint resolution,
which passed the Congress of the United
States by a two-thirds vote, proposing
amendments to the Constitution, we re-
cognize the only safe palladium, of the
principles, for, which we sacrificed four
hundred Thousand lives of our best blood,
and millions of our treasure; that we share
the same spirit which actuAted our fore7
fathers to proclaim the Declaration of In
dependence, in l776; we heartily indorse the
dissection of the anne ndp1ent, declaring that
all persons born within the United States
shall be citizens thereof as a means also Of
future protection as well as present fair
ness and equality; we are in2favorfof said
section which provides for edualiziflgA re-
N COnOFQGG q Elpp-
toral College, and we declare our ayowed
hostility, now and forever, against the ad-
mission of the States, lately in rebellion,
upon basis of representation which 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 perjured rebels from eligibility and
office, meets our hearty and unqualified
ResolUed, That the true interest and pur-
pose of the policy laid down by Andrew
Johnson, the made President by j. Wilkes
Booth, is to resurreet from oblivion and
disgrace the Democratic party, which for
its reasonable course during the war was
consigned to the tomb of everlasting in
fanny and shame, and we do believe that
the success of said policy would turn back
the wheels of progress q generation in our
country-that in John w. Geary, the
standard bearer of the Republican party
of Pennsylvania, we have combined the
true principles of the soldier and states-
man, the hero of many battles, and the
defender of civil liberty whenever and
wherever we have been called to vote. ts''ii
ReSoJped, That A. G. Curtin, the good
and loyal Governor of Pennsylvania, has
well earned the title of the Soldiers Friend,
and in retiring from the GubernatoTial
Chair, he takes with him the entire conf
dence and esteem of every patriot in the
State. t@s.i 'ar
ResozUed, Tlaat III. J. Raymond, who was
made Chairman of the National Republi-
can Executive Committee, by the Balti-
more Convention oflS64, which nominated
Abraham Lincoln for President, by his
having followed the lead of the infamous
Andrew Ohnson, and with him turned
traitor to the principles of his party, and
the great interests of freedom and humani-
ty, has become unworthy and odious; and
this Convention, therefore, requests that
Committee to assemble, and, without per-
mittlng him to resign, eXpel him from the
Chairlandifrom the Committee. G9TJGE3l
: READING, Pa, Aug. pa grand
Convention of the people of Eastern
Pennsylvania who are favorable to the
principles Of the Republican Union
party, and opposed to the policy of
President J ohnson, assembled in this
city to o-day Immediately upon their
arrival the different local 0rganiza-
tions and visiting delegations formed
into line and paraded through the
city. A great majority of those in the
ranks were returned soldiers. At
half past 2 o o'clock the Convention
was called to order by Col Jordan,
Chairman of the Republican Union
State Central Committee, and VIM. B.
Holmes, of Philadelphia, was called
upon to preside. In consequence of
the immense numbers in attendance,
four different meetings we're organized.
At the largest one of these, which
was held in front of the resi-
dence of George w. Damon, Esq,
Hon. Lewis w. Hall, Speaker of
the State Senate, addressed the crowd.
He said the issue was to be whether
traitors or those who had upheld the
Government in the late perilous crisis
should control the country Three
hundred thousand loyal men had
died, and a debt of four thousand
millions of dollars had been created
that the nation might live, and the
present political contest involved
exactly the same question at issue
during the war, whether treason was
not crime to be odious and pun
ished. If, however, the issue insisted
upon by the opposition was the true
one, and if, by the plea of upholding
white mans government, it was in
tended that the loyal blacks, who had
helped on the Government, were to
be deprived of their civil rights, then
the speaker desired it to be under
stood that, in a question between
loyal blacks and disloyal whites, he
was for the former. He demanded
that there should be security for the
future
He then reviewed the record of the
Democrats, as made upon the speeches
and doings of it's best exponent, the
present candidate of that party for
the gubernatorial chair, and contrasted
that record with the military services
Of General Geary, the Republican