East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-08-23


to the States or the people thereof
and among the rights thus reserved tc
the States is the right to prescribe
/ qualifications for the elective franchise
therein. with which right Congress:
cannot interfere No State or conven.
ton Of States has the right to with.
drsw from the Union or to exclude
through their action in Congress OF
otherwise, any State or States from
the Union. The Union of these States
is perpetual.
9th. Such amendments to the Con-
stitution of the United States may be
made by the people thereof as they
may deem expedient, but only in the
mode pointed out by resolution, and
in proposing such amendments, whe-
ther by Congress or by convention,
and in ratifying the same, all the
States Of the Union have an equal
and an indefeasible right to voice
and vote thereon.
7th. Slavery is abolished and for
ever prohibited, and their is neither
desire nor purpose on the part of the
Southern States that is should ever be
re- established upon the soil or within
the jurisdiction of the United States,
and the enfranchised slaves in all the
States Of the Union should receive, in
common with all their inhabitants,
equal protection in every right of per-
son ard property.
Sth. While we regard as utterly in
valid, and never to be assumed or
made of binding force, any obligation
incurred OF undertaken in making war
against the United States, we hold the
debt of the nation to DO sacred and
inviolable, and we proclaim our pur-
pose in discharging this, as In perform
ing all other national obligations, to
maintain unimpaired and unimpeach-
ed the honor and the faith Of the Re-
public.
9th. 1t is the duty Of the National
Government TO recognize the service
of the Federal soldiers and sailors in
the contest just closed by promptly
and fully meeting all their just and
rightful claims for the services they
have rendered the nation, and by ex-
tending to those Of them who have
survived, and the widows and orphans
of those who have fallen. the most
generous and considerate care.
10th. In Andrew johnson, Presi-
dent of the United States, who, in his
great Office, has proved steadfast in
his devotion to the Constitution, the
laws and interests Of his country, un-
moved by prosecutions and undergo
ing reproach, having faith immeasur-
able in the people and the principles
of the government, we recognize
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ton, and equal to the great crisis up
on which his lot is cast, and we ten
der to him, in the discharge of his
high and responsible duties, our pro-
found respect, and assurance Of our
cordial support
After the vote had been taken on
the adoption of the foregoing declara-
ton of principles, it was found that
the reading Of the seventh one had
been omitted by accident, and this fact
was announced by Senator Doolittle.
1t was then read and adopted with
great applause and unanimity. The
declaration of principles was then
adopted as a whole with enthusiastic
cheers.
After the adoption, three cheers
were called for and given in the most
enthusiastic manner, for Senator Cow
an, of Pennsylvania.
Senator Cowan acknowledged the
compliment, but said that as he con-
sidered himself the host Of the Con-
yention, one of his distinguished
guests would address 1t by virtue OF
authority unanimously derived from
the Committee on Resolutions and
Address, namely, the Hon. Henry j.
Raymond, of New York.
Mr.. Raymond, therefore, proceeded
to read the address, which had been
written by himself, as had also been
the declaration of principles. He was
SO frequently interrupted by applause
that the Chairman appealed to the
Convention to restrain such manifesto
tions until the reading of the address
should be concluded. Nevertheless,
ut the close of one sentence declaring
that no people subjected TO such treat
ment as that to which the South was
now subjected could long remain 10y
al, cheer after cheer resounded
through the Wigwam.
Senator johnson asked that the sem
tence be repeated.
The sentence was read again, as
follows: [" No people has ever yet OK
isted whose loyalty and faith such
| treatment, long CUntinueo, wvuiu 40.
ALLEVIATE and impair; and the millions
Of Americans who live in the South
would be unworthy citizens of free
country, degenerate sons Of an heroic
, ancestry, unfit ever to become the
guardians of the rights and liberties
bequeathed to us by the fathers and
founders of the Republic, if they
could accept with uncomplaining sub
missiveness the humiliation sought to
be imposed upon them."
This sentence was again cheered
with the greatest enthusiasm, and at
the close of the reading of the ad-
dress, Ex-Governor Perry, of South
Carolina, rose and moved its adoption.
The motion was declared carried
unanimously amid prolonged cheering.
Mr.. Samuel j. Tilden, of N. T.,
then rose and proposed, on behalf OF
the New York delegation, three cheers
for Hon. Henry j. Raymond, who had
prepared the address just read.
| Mr.. Patton, on behalf Of the Penn
sylvania delegation, seconded the call.
The cheers were then enthusiast
cally given.
The address contains about eight
thousand words, and will make not
far from four solid columns in the N.