The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-08-01

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PHILADELPHIA RATIONAL -TEaA
CONVENTION.
AUGUST. Ia, 1850.
TuE UNov EIEeIoas on ONO:

'fAA'ftA NNA ~ vi II hNEhANG AAtfAA Az
the States and Territories in the the Union,
to 10 held at Philadelphia, on the ID Tues
day, the l4thl of August next.
All UIiun met are invited to come who
believe that the Union ct the States is in
dlc,diubic and ann0t ne hrokenup, either
by State Secession or Congressional Action,
who desire that LOYAL Representatives
should be admitted TO their seats in Con
gress, 40 matter FROM what State they may
hail, Who hold that to each Safe belongs
the regulation of its OWN elective franchise,
aud who are unwilling to declare the war
Tor the Union a PRACTICAL failure by
making its restoration contingent upon
POLITICAL issues, independent OF obedience
to the Consultation of the United States
and submission 10 the laws made IN pur-
susnee thereof.
FELLOW CITIZENS: Fearful issues are
upon Us, and unless wise counsels prevail a
majority in Congress will perpctuate in our
country ciyii late aud intcrIninable teuds,
hoping thereby merely 10 prolong their wi
hold on otice, regardless of the public wei
Iare. or that harmony and rep0se now need
ed by the RepdblIc after the long tension of
u pUtrautcd civil war-a war TO which our
citizens contribute freely their blood and
treasure Tor the maintainance of the Union,
but not to make any partot our free land a
Poland or ireland, TO be held as conquered
provinces by satFapS and bhyonets, after re-
sistancc to the Constitution and laws had
ceased.
Ohio always firmly stood by the restora
tion policy Of the late lanlented President
Lincoln, even when il was most, violently
a.yntlnl la, M ~ hnr ANS, Gopatar, that
policy be bequeathad, as it were a LEGACY,
to his successor IN his farewell speech to
the American people, April 18th, 1865,
three days before his assassination, which
trust President JohnSun has refused to SUR
RENDER at the behcst OF a Congress which
could not have been elected had they en-,
nounced to the people their opposition to
this main feature Of President Lincoln
Admin ~tfation, which was emphatically
ENDORSED Icy his reelection President
.Johuscn, in his North Carolina Proclama-
zion Of May 18th, 1865, aud subsequent
ProclamatlonS, only pursued the WELL
KNOWN policy of his predecessor, and On
the Dist Of June, 1865, the Union State
Convention Of Ohio, under pressure of the
gallant soldler-delegates fresh from the
field. who repressed the eagerness OF certain
stay-at home politicians to make negro sut
trage a pretext for a prolonged struggle,
IGNORED that issue: and resolved President
Andrew Johnston, by his unwavering de-
votion to the Union, through years of the
Severeot trlll, has won our highest conf
dcnce-that We cheeltuliy endorse the
Policy OF ms Administered n, looking to the
RESTORATION OF peace and clvilorder in the
So-calted Seeded States, and as Union men
OF Ohio we will give HIM eur hearty and
UNDIVIDED support" That pledge was
given by Hauy OF us III good faith, and not
tor the purpose Of decelving the people by
an electlOneerlng platform, or Of misleading
the President as TO popular sentiment and
then dciOunelng hIm as a traitor to the
party, because he believed that the politi.
clans who pissed it were IN EARNEST; and
We intend 70 abide by that resolution, which
still stands U~NREPEALED by any Subsequent
Union, State or National Convention.
The people Of lhe rcb i States have, with
wonderful ulaEimity accepted the lTUA,
Ti0N const qu,nt upon the war in the aboli-
ton OF slavery ana the reputation of the
rebel debt: the other c9naltlonS, now press,
cd upon them, are matters for ORDINARY
political action in the regular working Of
our Government under the Constitution,
and can be- settled in due time. The greaI
IMMEDIATE issue is, whether the Uniot
snail be practically DISSOLVED, by the ac
ton OF a Congressional majority, in eXcIud
Ing loyal Representatives from the late re
bel States IRON seats to which they have
been elected. On this point the platform
OF the last MON State Convention is silent
80 that EVEN by party usage every llnlor
man Is free to carry out his W conviction
by practical action. There is no denial O
the EXCLUSIVE right OF Congress to pass OF
the return, election and qualification OF it
own members, under the Constitution o
the United States, but life complaint is lha
they refuse to EXERCISE this tight.
Are the State Governments of the late Sc
coded States any less republican, in form nov
than before The rebellion, because slavery /
al'olIshcd2 and what difference does it max,
WHO organizes them II they are assented t
b. the legal electors over Tlum they are t.
operate? The President and his friend
have never asked for the admission OF dis
foydt men into Congress, and If treason i
not punished according to law it is becaus
the Courts do NOT PERFORM their duty,
matter over which the Executive has N
hphb NbbtlDl nun lu any NIX CiuSb v
crimes IN time of peace. " hen this charg
is made it comes with an i'll grace from thos
who have all along protested a willingness
to ADMIT all the rebels to political privilege
on the principle of universal suffrage an
universal amnesty.
Come up then. Union men, to the Con
yentlon. and see TO ltllat the best citizen
OF our State are sent as delegates to tn
National Union Convention, to Sustain tn
President in his efforts to restore the UmoI
Of those States. If citizens belonging t
OTHER political organizations choose to CO
operate with US upon this our oson platform
to give it PRACTICAL EFFECT il is only proc
that however high partisan strife may ruI
III. ordinary political contests the ISSUE noN
before the cou1try-the RESTORATION o
THE U~NIoN-ariSes ABOVE all yarty ieeiln
or sectlonallstn, and appeals DIRECTLY t
to the patriotism of the Nation to tax
care that the Republic suffers no detrl
nirnt.
Col. John NJ Council, Fairfield comfy.
VI a D~augberty,
John a Hunter, 3
o h Davis,
John Garraghty,
chi s Wiseman, ~
kiliius Ftiller,
Samuel D Harris, Portage county.
Col CS Cotter,
K a Gillette, $50
A + Price, - l
h Russell. ..
William Ward,
5 ID Norton,
CB Bishop,
George sommeryillq,
LID Campbell, Butler county.
5 b MdilEin,
james ) Is ilson,
David v Browne, "
WI Wilcox,
Peter Black,
AC Campbell,
VIM. Largalde,
J N Amsden, ."
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