Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12
Democratic Endorsement of the
Philadelphia Convention.

Sntels, duu sOou uedl Vi hauSluS uaCh
among Democratic Congressman, the lat
ter have finally with but few exceptions,
signed an address endorsing the call for
the PHILADELPHIA Convention. The fol- |
lowing 8 the address:
To The People Of the United States
Dangers threaten the Constitution |
The citadel of our liberties is directly |
assaulted. The future is dark unless the
people will come to the rescue. In this |
hour of peril National Union" should |
be the watchword of every true Union
man. AS essential to national union we
must preserve unimpaired the rights, the
dignity and the equality of the States,
including the right of representation in
Congress, and the exclusive right of
each State to control its own domestic
concerns, subject only TO the Constitu-
ton of the United States. After a uni
form construction of the constitution
for more than half century in the as
sumption of new and arbitrary powers,
the Federal Government ia subversive of
our system and destructive of our liber-
ty. A free interchange of opinion and
kind feeling between the citizens of all
the States is necessary to the perpetuity
of the Union. At present, eleven States
are excluded from the national council.
For seven long months the present Con-
gress has persistently denied any right
of representation to the people of these
States Laws affecting their highest
and dearest interests have been passed
without their consent and in disregard
of the fundamental principles of free
government. The denial of representa-
ton has been made to all the members
from State, although the State, in the
language of the President presents it
self not only in an attitude of loyalty
and harmony, but in the persons Of rep
resentatives whose loyalty cannot be
questioned under any existing constitu
tional or legal test The representatives
of nearly one third of the States have
not been consulted with reference to the
great questions of the day. There has
been no nationality surrounding the
present Congress. There has been no
intercourse between the representatives
of the two sections producing mutual
confidence and respect. In the language
of the distinguished Lieutenant General
at is to be regretted that at this time
there cannot be greater cOmmingling
between the citizens of the two sections
and particularly those entrusted with
law-making power" This state Of af-
fairs should be removed at once and for
ever. Therefore, to preserve the ma
tional Union, and to bring together those
who are unnaturally severed, and for
daily approve the call for National
Union Convention, to be held at the city
of Philadelphia, on the second Tuesday,
fourteenth day of August next, and
hereby endorse the principles therein set
forth.
We therefore respectfully but earnest
ly urge upon our fellow citizens in each
State and Territory and Congressional
District in the United States, in the in
terest of union and with spirit of har-
mony, and with direct reference to the
principles contained in said call, to act
promptly in the selection of wise, mod
crate and conservative men to represent
them in said Convention, to the end that
all the States shall at once be restored
to their practical relations to the Union,
MISREPRESENTATION hlId BStSS
bless the country.
Signed by W. E. Niblack, Anthony
Thornton, Michael c. Kerr, G. S. Shank
lin, Garrett Davis, II. Order, Thomas L.
NOEL, Samuel j Randall Lewis W. Ross,
Stephen Taber, j. NJ Humphrey, John
Hogan, B. M. Boyer, U. g. Bergen, Chas.
Goodyear, Chas. H. Winfield, A. H. Cot
froth, Lowell H. Rousseau, Phillip John
son, Chas. A. Eldrdge, John L. Dawson,
Reverdy johnson, Thomas A. Hendricks,
William Wright, James Guthrie, j. A,
McDougall, William Radford s. s. Mar
shall, Myer Strouse, Charles Sitgreaves
S. L. Ancona E. N. Hubbell, B. G. Rit,
ter, A. Harding, A. J. Glossbrenner, E
r. V. Wright, A. j. Rogers, Fl. McCul
Tough, +, G. LeBlond and W. E. Finck
LIS. TRMBLE.
Washington, July A, 1866.
The substance of the address, it will
be noticed, is that dangers threaten the
Union, because those who so recently
inaugurated and carried through to it,
inglorious end one of the bloodiest wars
of the worlds history, for the purpose
of destroying the Union, are not immedi
ately admitted to power in its govern
ment. The logic of this proposition il
difficult of discovery.
The cause of the hesitation on tn
part of Democrats to sign this addres
was fear that it would amount to al
abandonment of the Democratic party
But the fact now seems to be that tn
convention will be nothing but Demo
cratic Convention, with bakers dozel
or so of boiling Doolittle Republicans
who have lost their constituencies
thrown in. There will be no abandon
ment, therefore, Of the Democratic par
ty, as the Democratic congressman hav
doubtless finally concluded, but it vii
be the Democratic party itself Of tn
North and South, met together to dis
cuss the propriety of assuming som
other name by which it "may smell a
sweet" as the Democratic name nov
does to the true Union men of the coun
try. Those who wish to train with tn