The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-19
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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS CoNv'oN,
CLEVELAND, o., Sept. Is.
TO r. B. Forest and others, Memphis,
Tennessee:
The National Union Convention of
Soldiers and Sailors assembled here
are profoundly grateful for the patriotic
sentiments expressed in your dispatch.
We hail with pleasure every effort to
restore peace, prosperity and brOtherly
affection throughout our country. War
has its victories, but peace and Union
are blessings for which we will man
fully contend until harmony and JUS
tice are restored under the Constitution.
(Signed) GORDON GRANGER,
at President Contention.
u. A. Custer, JAS. b. Sherman, John
u. Wool, ThOs. Ewing, jr., Thos. Crit
tenden, Chas. E. BramIette.
Letters from Thomas 81. Benton, Jr.,
and Col. Dale were announced, the
reading of which was greeted with en-
thusiastic cheering.
A delegation of one from each State
and Territory, with Gen. Granger as
Chairman, was appointed to lay the
proceedings of the Convention before
the President at Washington.
Hon. IL. ID. Campbell, from the Com
mittee on Resolutions, reported the fol-
lowing platform, which was adopted
WIN immense cheering:
The Union Soldiers and Sailors who
served IN the army and navy of the
United States in the recent war for the
suppression of the instruction and the
maintenance of the Constitution,
grateful to Almighty God for His pre-
serYation of them through the
perils and,hardships ofwar, and his mer-
cy in browning their efforts with Victo-
ry, freedom, and peace, depIoring the
absence from their midst those who
have sealed with their life's blood their
devotion to the sacred cause of American
nationality, and determined as hereto
fore to stand to the principles for which
their glorious dead have fallen and by
which the survivors have triumphed.
vention in the city of Cleveland, Ohio,
tins 18th day of September, 1866, do re-
solve and declare:
LIST. That we heartily approve the reso-
lutionS adopted by the National Union
convention held in the city of Phila-
delphiaJ on the 18th of August last, COM
posed of delegates representing all the
States and Territories of the United
States.
I'd. That our object in takingup arms
to suppress the late rebellion was to de-
fend and maintain the supremacy of
the Constitution, and to preserve the
Union With all the dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpaired,
and not IN any spirit of oppression, nor
for any purpose of conquest and subiu-
cation, and that whenever there shall
be any armed resistance to the lawfully
constituted authorities of our National
Union, either in the South or in the
North, in the East or in the West, emu
lating the self-sucrificing patriotism of
our revolutionary forefathers, we will
again pledge to its support our lives,
our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Gen. Este, from the same committee,
reported lengthy address, which was
and adopted with waving of flags,
flag boys"
Gen. Slack offered resolution depre-
eating the action of the soldiers in Join
ing secret political societies. Great
confusion ensued, delegates from all
sides addressing the chair Mt once. The
resolution was withdrawn. Three
cheers for the F'enians was called for by
the remains, by Custer, and three for
the struggling Mexican Republicans,
by Mr.. Campbell, was loudly respond
ed to.
Gen. Heath offered resolution which
was supposed to be against negro suf-
frage and equality. Great excitement
followed, during which Mr.. Campbell
moved to adjourn, but he subsequently
drewdrew his motion, and the resolu-
non was withdrawn.
Gen. Thos. u. Crittenden responded
TO loud calls by short speech, conclud-
ing with the poem by Miles O'Rielly on
the Cleveland Convention.
The customary resolution of thanks
were adopted, the doxology sung by
the entire assemblage, benediolion
pronounced by the Chaplain and the
convention, with cheers for Grant,
Farragut, the President and the Com
vention adjourned sine die.