The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-27
The National Convention.

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terday morning: THE PROPOSITION To HOLD
A CONVENTION OF ALL THE STATES il
PHlLApELrHIA on THE SECOND TUESDAY IN
AUGUST NEXT. The manner of constituting
this Convention--two delegates for each
representative and tive for each Sena'orh'
Ccneress-must give the body a very s'ea'
degree Of dignity which it could not nave
possessed had not the representative res"-
lations of the Constitution itseii been con-
sidered. The body, thus constituted mus
have the moral force of primary .'"-
cress of the people of the United states
met to consider the general welfare Oh 'n'
nation. In this view il will be ent'tieo 10
vastly more respect aud weight than the
section Of A Congress now sitting at Wash
inq,on. with all its impertections, all It's
animosi,ics, all its vindictive passions,
which warp its Judgment, impel it to wrong
and violence, and destroy its usefulness.
This Convention will present the striking
spectacle of the first dSsenblage m'der tie
same roof Of the representatives Of all
the States Of the Union since the 'ear began.
That fact will impress itself upon every
mind as the first tangible and positive IN
dica,ion of the restored Union that eyes
have beheld since that war Numbered
forth its first guns. 1t cannot he regarded
without some degree of emotionby even
the bi,terest Of those who have for mere
party advantage exerted their influence to
delay and obstruct the restoration of the
southern States to their representative
rights. There will be met together in this
convention-called indeed without the re-
quirement of law, but having the moral
force of the people in their primary cha
racter, whose will properly ELECTED ana
expressed through that channel is OF the
highest dignity-we say there will be met
together in this convention, so assembled,
the representatives Of all the States under
the most solemn circumstances that ever
gave interest and importance to a deGbe-
tive body in this country. Its object will
be to put an end, if possible, to the sec
tional strife which now agirates the ma
ton, and 10 take measures for the prompt
and positive restoration of perfect
equality among the States under the
Constitution of our fathers. AS 1t Is
for the want of this equality that the
country is now torn by discord and disscn-
sions, and the best interests of the nation
are suffering injury or ruin, this Conven-
tion finds no less an occasion for its meet
ing than the salvation of the country from
impending ruin. 1t is impossible that
body of intelligent men, whose motives
are sanctified by q desire to rescue from
ruin the work Of the fathers of the Repub-
lie, and protect from desecration and revo-
luton the sacred charter of the rights OF
the States and liberties Of the people, can
proceed in any other spirit than that of
patriotic devotion to the national good, and
can act in any manner unbecoming the
dignity and solcmnity of the occasion.
How different its objects, how different its
means, from those Of the unconstitutional
Congress in Washington city What Il
pity for this nation that TO the Philadelphia
Convention were not coniided the making
of the laws and the conducting of the
country through the period of restoration
and recrpcration from the exhaustion and
Affections of war. What contrast Will
the two bodies present-that at Phiiadel-
phia having the interest Of the whole ma
ton al heart, and ardently DESTROYS of re-
storing peace To the country, equality 10
the States, and the impartial and faithful
administration Of the General Govern
ment that at Washington being only a
fraction of the representative department
OF the Government, delaying the restora-
tion for merely selfish and ambitious pur-
poses-iostering and perpetuating hate be-
tween the sections of the Union-endra- |
voring to alter or abolish the work OF our
foretathers, even the sacred covenant OF
the Union of the States. 1t is impossible
that this contrast shall not impress itself
upon the public mind with powerful force.
We repeat that this Convention will be
the most important event of our times,
and will look more like union than any
thing that has happened since the war.
Its influence upon the spirit of the nation
is too plain not to arouse amongst the Ra-
ideals the most painful anxiety as to its
proceedings. From these, all true patriots
must hope the most benefcent results.
The Convention will meet the general APP
prevail of the nation, and we have not a
doubt that its proceedings will be worthy
of it. To doubt it would be to doubt that
general law Of humanity which makes all
true and loyal men rise with the emergency
and acquit themselves with devotion and
honor.
The following is a copy Of the call:
NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION.
A National Union Convention, OF at |
least two delegates from each Congress
sional district Of all the States, two from .
each territory, two from the District of
Columbia, and four delegates at large from
each State, will be held at the city of Phil
adelphia on the second Tuesday Q4th) of
August next.
Such delegates will be chosen by the
electors of the several States who sustain
the Administration in maintaining un-
broken the union of the States under the
Constitution which our fathers established,
and who agree in the following PROPOSE
tions, viz: