The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-14

work go on. 1es' ennumDered, glorious ne
roes Of the battle; yes, thousands OF suffering
patriots murdered in prisons now bearded,
seeing your lives we're not spent IN vain; yes,
martyred President; yes, sainted teacher; yes,
noble-minded patriots, the good work by you
began, for which you laid down your lives, shall
20 on until every footprint OF wrong or oppres
sion by man 10 his fellow man shall be blotted
out forever. prolonged and enthusiastic
my thanks for the honor conferred in the posi-
ton which you have ASSIGNED me. and my reli
ance on your courtesy and kindness TO aid me
in carrying out its duties
denomination of the Present state
Officers.
The Convention then proceeded 10 nomina-
tions. Each of the present State officers, from
the Governor down, we're successfully renom-
mated unanimously by acclamation.
The Address and Resolutions.
The Address says:-
I'VE beheld the strange spectacle OF the Pre-.
sident of the United States deliberately placing
himself at the head OF q combination of half
reconstructed Rebels and their defeated North
ern allies, going about the country, accom- panied
by portion OF his Cabinet, and denouncing the
legislative branch OF the Government as an
Illegal and tranorous body hanging upon the
verge of the Government, which Government
he Sione proposes to be, and avowing principles
and purposes the logical results OF which must
be a violent attemp- TO subvert Congress, or at
the very least Reputation of all its legislation
since the war broke out. We cannot be insensi-
shall expire, all the financial and business nte-
rests of the country will be subject to disturb
ance; all the legislation of CONGRESS is liable to
overthrow, CT deuial ofits validity; the Amend
ment of the Constitution prohibiting slavery is
OF precarious and doubtful permanence, and
there is most imminent danger OF losing every
thing which we won by successful war on land
and sea.n
The Address then declares:-lst. That Con-
gres5 ought not only to be sustained, but
strengthened at the coming elections through
out he country. I'd. That the country has al
ready suffered enough from the presence of
traitors in the capital, and the greatest caution
aga nst the entrance of uisloyal conspIrators or
haireconstIucted Unionists ought TO be eXer-
Clsed, and no States OF communities ought to be
rel resented in the Senate Or House unless evi-
denCe is gwen satisfactory to the Representa-
tiv, and people OF the North and the loval
people of the South that such states or commu-
mites, as well as the men chosen TO represent
them, are loyal and likely to remain so. Sd.
That so long as there exists party domi-
naut IN some of the States and defiant in
all, which heres by Presidential ald to
over the question of reconstruction, and
reinsate in their seats the representatives
of II eason and rebellion, the people have no
security except III their own continued vigilance
against a disastrous reaction which may put
lack the cause OF progress many years and dis
grace the country in the eyes OF the civilized
world Fourth. That we desire the restoration
OF ali the States to the Union under conditions
of Justice ana liberty: we approve the amend
menl to the Constiiu ution proposed by Congress
and now pending before the States, and that we
are fully prepared to believe the declaration OF
the Southern Unionists made at Philadelphia,
that there can be no safety to the country until
the national birth11ght of impartial suffrage
and equality before the law oe conferred upon
every citizen of the States they Representa-.
The principles and traditions Of the Com
monwealth impel her to second this demand
so solemnly made for the complete, entranchise-
| ment of a long-oppressed race, and the estab-
Slment American democratic nOlicU
| of government. Finally, fellow-citizens, we
| recognize the fact that all questions of recon
suuction, of suffrage, OF protection to the freed
| men, OF security to the prosecuted Unionists of
| the South, resolve themselves into these:-
| Shall the people who saved the country still
control 1T? Shall the soldiers of the Union
| whose bravery decided on the field the fate of
the war, and whose services will be held in ever
| lasting remembrance, reap the rich results of
| their labors IN regenerated country? In the
words OF an eminent Tennessee loyalist now
the guest of the people of Massachusetts,, 'Shall
4 we reconstruct the Rebels, or shall they recon
| struct usr
| The Address was unanimously adopted
| Governor Hamilton introduced
Governor Hamilton was next introduced, and
| was received with three rousng cheers. When
| he described the course of the President as not
| policy TO build up the nation, bat d plot TO
destroy the party that saved it; when he asserted
| that Congress alone had the power to determine
| the mode and manner OF reconstruction; tnat
| while no State mas legal or moral right to
| secede, yet in fact it may oy force secede, aud
thereby subject ITSELF alter conquest, to military
| law and usages alone; that the Rebel States
| having done SO are not now vital common
| Wealths and never will be until terminated by
| Congress-; that while by seeding in tact they
| lost all their own rights, and the national Gov
| ernment lost none OF ITS rights; when he ami
| hilated, with indignant sarcasm, the sophistry
Of those who argue that because the Rebels had
no right to secede, they never did secede, and
| therefore that neither PAL ty have either gained
or lost any rights; when he declared that the
Rebels should be treated as public conquered
enemies; when he spoke respectfully of the loyal
| black man, who never lifted hand or heart
against the Union; when he said that the Presi-
dent mad no right TO have any policy in opposi-
ton to the will of the people, that the Rebels
had taken the oath and they would keep il from
the teeth outward; the cheers and applause
which greeted him showed that old Massachu-
setts said amen to young Texas. His speech
was long and able, but the audience
powers. Neither Border States nor North
ern politicians badgered him into the elo.
quc2ce here with which he thrilled Philadel.
phia. He said that in Texas a thousand freed
men had been murdered within year, and vet
moi man had been punished for it. When
| Hamilton described a disgraceful scene in which
our flag was insulted in Texas, and our Officers
did not interfere, and said, would that your
worthy Chairman had been there,n the audience
| rose and cheeTed again and again in a manner
which decides the certainty of Buffers return
to CONGRESS by great popular majority, His
declarations i'll favor of I'M partial suffrage were
received with cries of ''good" and applause He
was loudly cheered ON resuming his seat.
Speech of Wendell Phillips.
Fellow-citHens:-There is no need or place
lol speech from me to-day. Texas outradicals
my radicalism. (Cheers.) All we need do is to
cry "All hail ~ aud "Amen" TO our glories allies
from the Gulf States. They Join us on the platform
OF impartial sutfrage-a vote for every man