The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-08-02


have, with wonderful unanimity,
accepted the situation consequent
upon the war in the abolition of
slavery and the reputation of the
rebel debt; the other conditions,
now pressed upon them, are mat
terS OF ordinary political action in
the regular working of our Gov
eminent under the Constitution,
and can be settled in due time
The great immediate issue is,
whether the Union shall be practi-
cally dissolved, by the action of a
Congressional majority, in exclud-
ing loyal Representatives from the
late rebel States from seats to
which they have been elected. On
this point the platform of the late
Union State Convention is silent,
so that even by party usage every
Union man is free to carry out his
own conviction by practical action.
There is no denial of the exclusive
right of Congress to pass on the
return, election and qualification
of its own members, under the
Constitution of the United States,
but the complaint is that they re-
fuse to exercise this right.
Are the State Governments of
the late seeded States any less
republican in form now than before
the rebellion, because slavery is
abolishedl and what difference
does it make who organizes them
if they are assented to by tiie legal
electors over whom they are to op.
erate9 The President and his
friends have never asked for the
admission Of disloyal men into
Congress, and if treason is not
punished according to law it is be-
cause the Courts do not perform
their duty, matter over which the
Executive has no more control
than in any other class of crimes
in time Of peace. When this
charge is made it comes with an Ill
grace from those who have all
along professed a willingness to
admit all the rebels to political
privileges on the principle of uni
versal suffrage and universal am
nesty. d.. .....-.
Come up then, Union men, to
the Convention, and see to it that
the best citizens of our State are
delegates to the National Union
Convention, to sustain the Presi-
dent in his efforts to restore the
Union of these States. If citizens
belonging to other political organi-
cations choose to cooperate with
us upon this our oacn platform, to
give it practical effect, it is only
proof that however high partisan
strife may run in ordinary polit-
ical contests the issue now before
the country-the restoration of the
Union rises above all party feel
ing or sectionalism, and appeals
directly to the patriotism of the
Nation to stake care that the Re.
public suffers no detriment."
Colonel John NJ Connell; M A Daugterty;
John A Hunter; o f Davis; John Garraghty /,
M s Wiseman; Killius Frier of Fairfield
county; Samuel b Harris; Colonel G Cot
ter; r A Gillette; Poice; L g Russell;
William Ward; 5 D Norton; Bishop;
George Sommerville of Portage county; L b
Campbell; J B Millikiu; James s Wilson;
David V Brown; William II Wilcox; Peter
Black; G Campbell; VIM Largalde; NJ
Amsden; Edward Patton; Ferd Van Derver;
Nathaniel Reeder, John Fisher of Butler
county, VIM Baldwin; X P Raber; Sol
8 Henkle; John Geary; W Cushman; Jo-
seph H Geiger; W Dolson; Colonel II B
Hunter; B Coffroth; Gwynne; Colonel II
B Wilson; H S Miller; Z Blount; Colonel
g S lnns of Franklin county; A T Ready
of Tuscarawas county; Moses Kelly; ] A
Vincent; + Scovill, o G scovill; Leonard
Case; r X Winslow; B White, Benz A STAN
nard Of Cuyahoga county; John Z Hurlo ird of
NVuhVJt ~ hAItil
Of Lake county; D E Cunningham; Shelby
Tayfcr; W H Harper; Matthias Ridenour Gf
Allen county; General John Cummins NJ
Hale Of Shelby county; E Kreider; L S
Bort; W NJ BOwen; L Collins; Jno " Work
Of Hooking county; Colonel II II Sage; G f
Bitzer; Major Emanual Gephart; James Reber;
General ] E Taylor; John Walker; q A Show
er; M Shower Of Pickaway county; j An
derson; Gilbert Brady of Licking county; G
B Arnold; G B POtwin; G X Norton; A Wolf
Of Knox county; Colonel T B Hunt; W NJ
Murphy, Theo Cook; Thos Sherlock; J
Quinn; L Devinney; Colonel VIM H Gill; Jas
Bradford; H Grotenkemper; W Patterson;
s NJ Murphy; Geo Hafer; W P vandudrsa !;
O H Marshall; Colonel W B Cassidy; w Van
Ham; v T raliaferro; II G Young; II W
Biown; N P Gaddis; Gen 3 Bassett Lang
don; H Buckner; Frank Phelps; r J Ga2-
rette; Andrew p Ward, General s A S trick
land Of Hamilton county; Major David Cor
don Of Warren county,