East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-08-23
The Philadelphia Convention.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16.


The National Union Convention re
assembled nthe Wigwam at 10 o'clocl
a. m, pursuant to the adjournment
The attendance of ladies greater thai
on any previous day. The creates
enthusiasm prevailed. The proceed
ings were opened with prayer by Rev
r. M. Snyder, Of Pennsylvania.
The President of the Convention
(Senator Doolittle) then rose and said
Before we proceed to any further bus
iness the Chair begs leave to announce
as the first response to the call for tn
Convention, the result of the Colorad
election. (Cheers.)
Denver, Colorado Territory, Aug. l6, 1866.
Returns from all parts Of the Territory rcnde
certain the election Of the Administration candl
date for Delegate to Congress over Chillcott tn
Radical candidate.
The despatch was greeted will
great applause.
Mr.. Crowell, of New Jersey, offer
ed the following resolution
Resolred, That a National Execu
tive Committee be appointed, to b.
composed of two delegates from eacl
State and Territory and the Distric
Of Columbia.
The resolution was adopted.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, who, OF
rising, was greeted with enthusiastic
cheers, offered the following resolu
ton
ReSolued, That committee, consist
ing of two delegates from each State
and from each Territory and the Dis
trict of Columbia, be appointed by the
Chair to wait upon the President o.
the United States and present hin
with an authentic copy of the proceed,
ings Of this Convention.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
Mr.. Charles Knapp, of the District
of Columbia, offered the following
resolution:
ReSOlred, That a committee OF
finance be appointed, to consist of two
delegates from each State and Terri
tory and the District of Columbia.
The resolution was adopted.
General Patton, Of Pennsylvania,
offered u resolution on the subject OF
representation in the Convention,
which, under the rules of the Conven-
ton, was referred without reading OF
debate.
Mr.. Cowan then offered the follow
ing resolution:
Resolred, That the thanks of this
Convention be and are hereby tender
cd to Morton McMichael, Esq, Mayor
of the city of Philadelphia, for his ad-
mirable police arrangement for the
preservation of peace and good order
H The resoaidnR S siRT wss Ss Tbs SeGpSfn9P went
plause and carried unanimously.
Mr.. Cowan again rose and said: On
behalf Of the committee who were APP
pointed to prepare resolutions and an
address, l have to state that aHAa
very careful and elaborate considera-
ton Of the same, lasting all day and
a part of the night, we have agreed
upon the same. 1 beg leave to report
the following declaration of principles,
adopted unanimously by the commit
tee, which the Secretary of this Con-
vention will read and also an address
to the people of the country, which
will be read by the Hon. Mr.. Ray
mond, of New York. applause. J.
The Secretary then proceeded to read
the declaration of principles, each
clause of which was loudly applaud
ed. The last ono, which endorses the
President was greeted with prolonged
cheering, in which the audience and
delegates united.
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES.
The National Union Convention,
now assembled in the city of Phila-
delphia, composed of delegates from
every State and Territory in the Union
by the solemn lessons
which for the last FIVE years it has
pleased the Supreme Ruler of the
Universe to give to the American peo-
pie, profoundly grateful for the return
of peace, desirous as are a large ma
iority Of their countrymen in all sim
cerity to forget and forgive the past,
revering the Constitution as it comes
to us fronisbur ancestors, looking with
deep anxiety into the future as of in
slant and continuing trial, hereby is
sue and proclaim the following decla-
ration of principles and purposes, on
which they have agreed with perfect
unanimity:
1st. We hail with gratitude to AL
mighty God, the end of war and the
return of peace to our afflicted and
beloved land.
I'd, The war. lust closed has main
tanned the authority OF the Constitu-
ton, with all the powers which it con.
fers and all the restrictions which il
imposes upon the General Govern.
ment unabridged and unaltered, and
it has preserved the Union with the
equal rights, dignity and authority Of
the States perfect and unimpairod.
3D.. Representation in the Congress:
of the United States, and in the Elec-
toral College, is a right recognized by
the Constitution as abiding in every
State, and as duty imposed upon it
people, fundamental in its nature, ant
essential TO the exercise of our repub
lican institutions, and neither Con
gress nor the General Government ha'
any authority or power ITO deny thi
right to any or withhold its enjoymen
under the Constitution from the peo
pie thereof.
4th. We call upon the people of thu
United States to elect to Congress, a
members thereof, none but men wh'
admit this fundamental right of repre-
sention, and who will receive to seat
the loyal representatives from ever.
State in allegiance to the United States
subject to the constitutional right o
each House to Judge of the election re
turns and qualifications of its owl