The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-17
The Phfladelphia Convention.

The attendance rof ladies was greaSer
than on any previous day. The great
est enthusiasm prevailed.
The proceedings were opened with
PRAYER by the Rev. Refine NJ. Snyder, of
Pennsylvania. ssl1C Ia ,B1.4tf ID Z
[ The President ofthe Convention, Sem
atOr Doolittle, then rose and said Be-
fore we proceed to any further business
the Chair begs leave to announce the
first response to the call for this Com
vention-the result of the Colorado
electfon. LCheers.li btt AZ
( DENVER, COLORADO TERRITORY,
Aug. 16, 1S66.-Returns from all parts
OF the Territory render certain the cleo
ton Of @, Hunt, the administration
candidate for delegate to Congress, over
Chilcott, the radical candidate.
The dispatch was greeted with great
applause. arrr.i = 4s-,f7 r.lir
Mr.. Crowell, of New Jersey, offered
the following resolution:
ResoEued, That a National Union Ex-
ecutive Committee be appointed, to be
composed of two delegates from each
State and Territory, and the District of
Columbia. The resolution was adopt
ed.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, who on ris-
ing was greeted with enthusiastic
cheers, offered the following resolu-
ton:
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ing of two delegates from each State,
and one from each Territory and the
District OF Columbia, be appointed by
the Chair to wait upon the President Of
the United States and present him with
an authenticated copy of the proceed
ings of this Convention. rasA :
The resolution was unanimously
MI. Charles Knapp, ofthe District of
Columbia, offered the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved, That a committee on
Finances be appointed, to consist of two
delegates from each State and Territory
and the District OF Columbia. The res
Gen. Patton, Of Pa, offered aresolu-
ton on the subject of representation in
the Convention, which, under the rules
ofthe Convention, was referred without
reading or debate. stsstsNt u
Mr.. Gowan then offered the following
resolutions:
ResoIved, That the thanks of this
Convention be, and are hereby, tender
ed to Morton McAIichael, Esq, Mayor
Of the City of Philadelphia, for the adj
mirabte police arrangement for the
preservation OF peace and good order
during the sitting of the Convention.
The resolution was greeted with ap-
planse, and carried unanimously.
behalf of the COMMITTEES who were ap-
pointed to prepare resolutions and an
address, 1 haVeto state that AFTER a very
careful and elaborate consideration of
the same, lasting all day and a part of
the night, we have agreed upon the
same. beg leave to report the follow
ing declaration of principles adopted
unanimously by the COMMITTEES, which
the Secretary of this Convention will
read and also an address to the people
Of the country; which will be read by
Mr.. Raymond, of n. Y. [Applause.1
The Secretary then proceeded to read
the declaration OF principles; each
The last one, which endorses the Presi-
dent, was greeted with prolonged cheer
ing, in which the audience and dele
gates united.
- tDBCLARATIoN OF PRINCIPLES. s
The National Union Convention, now
assembled in the city of Philadelphia,
composed of delegates from every State
and Territory in the United States, adj
monlshed by the solemn lessons which
for the last five years it has pleased the
supreme Ruler of the universe to give
to the American people; profoundly
gratitied for the return of peace; desir-
Gus, as q large majority of their coun-
trymen, in all sincerity, to forget and
forgive the past; revering the Constitu-
ton as It comes to us from our ances-
tors; regarding the Union in its restor-
alton as more sacred than ever; looking
with deep anxiety into the future, as of
instant and continuing trials, hereby
issues and proclaims the following
declaration of principles and purposes
on which they have with perfect unani-
nifty agreed:
! We hail with, gratitude. to Al
mighty God the end of the war, and the
return of peace to an afflicted and be-
loved land. -'I.i a.5l5sltszi. ftt ~
2. The war Just closed has maintained
the authority of the Constitution with
all the power which it confers, and all
the restriction which It imposes upon
the general government, unabridged
and ;unaltered; and it has preserved the
Union with the equal rights, dignity,
and authority Of the States, perfect and
unimpaired.
8. Representation in the Congress of
the United States and in the electoral
college. is q right recognized by the
Constitution asabiding in every State,
as q duty Imposed upon its people
fundamental in its nature and essential
to the existence of our republican insti-
buttons, and neither congress nor
the general Government has any
authority or power to deny this
right to any, or to withhold its entOy--
meut under the Constitution from the
people thereof.
4. We call upon the people of the
United States 10 elect to Congress as
members thereof none but men who
admit this fundamental right of repre-
sentation, and who will receive to seats
the legal represeht atives nom every
State in allegiance to the United States,
subject to the constttutto nal rights of
each House-to Judge OF the elect ion re-
turns and qualifications of its own
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5. The Consultation of the United
States and the laws made in pursuance
thereof are the supreme law of the
land, Anything in the Constitution or
laws of any State to the contrary not.
Withstanding. All the powers not COM
ferred by the Constitution upon the
General Government, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to the
States or the people thereof; and among
the rights that are reserved to The States
Is the right to prescribe qualifications
for thete lBetive franchise therein, which
right Congress cannot interfere with,
No State or IeonYention OF States has
the right to Withdraw from the Union;
to exclude by their action in Congress or
otherwise, any State or States from the
Union. The union of the States Is per-
petual. z iis,.-5
g. Such amendment to the Gonstitu2
ton of the United States may be made
by the people thereof as theyzmay deem
expedient, but only In the mode point
ed out by its uttOnj and proposing
such amendments, whether by Con-
gress orIby b Convention, and In ratis
Tying the shme. All States Of the Union
have an equal and an, indefeasibIe
right to 4. voice and vote therein.
h q. Slavery Is abolished and forever
prohibited, and there iS neithera desire
hpEpuHpose on the part of the South
FERN States that IT should ever be re-es-
tablished upon the soil or within the