The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-09-05
VISlT OF THE PHILADEL.
PHIA CONVENTION GO M .
MIETEE TO Il III Il PRESE.
DENT.
HON. REVERDY JOHNSON'S AD.
erss2g DRESS n
The President'sIRenIy

Inc Presldents q lRenIy.
r. WAsHINsYoN, August 1S.-About /
O'clock the committee, headed by banc
Of music, reached tho White House,
They were conducted into the East room
i by Marshal Gooding, and SO arranged a;
to form a circle. The delegates to tht
Convention were then urshered in, anC
took position 10 rear of the Committee
President johnson soon appeared, accom-
panied by Secretary McCulloch, Weles
and Browning, and Postmaster General
Randall Hon.. Reverdy johnson ther
advanced and said =: 20 ,...t.r. 81,
| Mr.. Presideut-We are before YOU as 9
Committee of the National Union Conyen
tion which met in Philadelphia on Tues
day, the l4th)instant, charged with the
duty of presenting you with an authenti
cal copy Of the proceedings. .,,.t
Before placing it in your hands, you
will permit us to congratulate you that in
the object for which the Convention was
called, in the enthusiasm with which ev.
cry State and Territory responded to the
call, in the unbroken harmony Of its de.
liberations, in the uDanimity with which
the principles it has declared were adopt.
cd, and more especially in the patriotic
Constitutional character Of the principles
themselves We are confident that YOU
and the country will fnd gratifying and
cheering evidence that there exists among
us public sentiment which renders an
early and complete restoration of the
Union, as established by the Constitution,
certain and Inevitable. "'
Party faction, seeking the continuance
Of its misrule, may momcnsarily delay it,
but the principles Of political liberty, for
whichroar fathers successfully contcndsd,
aud to secure which they adopted the
Constitution, arc SO slarinsly incogsistent
with tie cordition in which the county
has been placed bS such '"isrule, that it
will not be permitted a much longer dur.
alton. We wish, Mr. President, you
could have witnessed the, spirit of con-
cordant 'brotberly affections which was
manifested w every member of tho Col.
mention. W tN' 9 NJ yt 'fNN
Great as your confidence ever has been
in the intelligence and patriotism of your
fellow citizens in their deep devotion to
the Union, and in their present dotermip.
alton 10 reins;ate nnd maintain it, that
confidence would have become a positive
conviction if you could bavo seen and
heard all that was done and said on the
occasion. Every heart was evidently full
OF joy J every eye beamed with patriotic
animation despondency gave place ito
the assurance that our late dreadful strife
was ended, and that the blissrul reign of
peace, not under the protection Of arms,
but Of the Constitution and laws, would
hpvc sway, and be in every part of our
laud c'e"rfully acknowledged, aud in pep
feet sood iaithiobeyed. aN en
You would not have doubted that the
recurrence OF dangerous domestic ipsur.
Iection in the future is not to be appre.
heOded. il you could have seen, Sir,
the men Of Massachusetts and South Car.
oliua coming into the Convention on the
first day Of its meeting, hand in hand,
amidst the rapturous applause of the
whole body, awakened by heartfelt graft.
ficOtiOn at the evcnty filing the eyes of
thousands with tears Of joy, which they
neither could nor desired to suppress, you
would have feltas every person present
fell, that the time had arrived when all
sectional and other perilous dissensions
had ceased, and that nothing would be
heard in the future but the voice Of har-
nony, proclaiming devotion to common
country, of q pride in being bound to.
sether by common Union, existed and
by forms Of Government proved
BY experience to be eminently fitted for
he exigeucies of either war or peace.
In the principles announced by the
and in the feeling there map-
tested, we may have every assurance that
,arm, BY Throughout our entire land will
oou prevail. We know that, as 10 form. d,
y days, as was eloquently declared by !,
Webster, the nations most gifted states. !,
nan, massachusetts and South Carolina
vent shoulder to shoulder through the i
Revolution, and stood, hand in hand, I
round the administration ofWashington, {
nd felt his own great arm lean on them i
or support So will they again with {
ike unadimity, devotion and power, stand q
round your administration, and cadse '
'ou to feel that you may also lean on t
hem for support. w HIUa4 t
In the proceedings, Mr.. President. t
'hich we are 10 place in your hands, You "
ill fiud that the Convention performed i
he duty imposed upon them by their n
nowledge Of your devotion to the Con. d
titulion the tax interests Of your coun. o
'y--as illustrated by your entirs Presi. r.
entail Car6ofAOf declaring that in Won "
iey recognize chief magistrate of the o
alton equal to the great crisis ID which
ii your lot, and in this declaration il m
ives US unmiSed pleasure to add, we arc ii
,nfident that tho Convention bavo but h
'okcn the intelligent aud patriotic senti. | P
cnt Of the country !; ever inaccessible p
the law and influences which often con. :
Of mere partisaps, and governed alone p,
an honest opinion of constitutional OBJ, n
cations and rights, and of the duty of fr
Oking solely to the true,intefests, safetyy th
d honor of the nation. h,
Such a .class Isl inchnnble, /,