Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-07-05
The johnson National COma
ventIOn.
WASHINGTON, June Is.

WASHINGTON, June rs.
A National Union Convention of at least
two delegates from each Congressional dis
trict of all the States, two from each Terri
tory, two from the District of Columbia,
and four delegates at large from each, will
be held at theH city of Philadelphia on the
18th Of August next. Such delegates will
be chosen by the electors of the several
States who sustain the Administration in
maintaining unbroken the Union Of the
States under the Constitution which our
fathers established, and who agree in the
following propositions, viz:
The Union of the States is in every case
indissoluble, and is perpetual; and the
Constitution of the United States and laws
passed by Congress in pursuance thereof are
supreme, constant and universal in their OBJ
legation.
/ The rights, the dignity. and the equality
of the States in the Union, including the
right of representation in Congress, are
solemnly guaranteed by. that Constitution,
to save which from overthrow so much blood
and treasure were expended on the late civil
war.
There is no right anywhere to dissolve
the Union, or NJ separate States from the
Union either by voluntary withdrawal, by
force of arms, or by Congressional action,
neither by secession Of States, nor by the
exclusion of their loyal and qualified rep
resentatives, nor by the National Govern
ment in any form.
Slavery is abolished, and neither can nor
ought to, be re-established in ANY. State or
Territory within our Jurisdiction.
Each State has the undoubted right to
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ors; and no external power rightfully can
or ought to dictate, control, or influence the
free and voluntary action Of the States in
the exercise of that right. -
The maintenance inviolate of the rights
Of the States, and especially the right of
each State to order and control its ownsdo
nestle concerns according to its own judg
ment exclusively, subject only to the Con-
that balance of power on which the perfec-
ton and endurance of our political fabric
depends, and the overthrow of that system
by usurpation, in Capitalization of power in
Congress, would be revolution
dangerous to Republican Govern
ment and destructive of liberty. Each
House of Congress is made by the
Constitution the sole judge of its election
returns and qualification Of its members
but the exclusion of loyal Senators and Rep
resentatives, properly chosen and qualified
under the Constitution and laws, is unjust
and revolutionary. Every patriot should
frown upon all these acts and proceedings
everywhere, which can serve no other pur-
pose than to rekindle the animosities of
war, and the effect of which upon our moral,
social and material interests at home, and
upon our standing abroad. differing only in
degree is injurious like war ITSELF The
purpose of the war having been to preserve
the Union and Constitution by putting down
the rebellion, and the rebellion having been,
suppressed, all resistance to the authority
of the General Government being at an end,
and the war having ceased, war measures
should also cease, and should be followed
by measures of peaceful administration, SO
that union, harmony and coneordm be en-
couraged, and industry, commerce and the
arts of peace revived and promoted; and
the early restoration of all the States to the
exercise of their constitutional powers in
the National Government is indispensably
necessary to the strength and defence of
the Republic, and to the maintenance of the
public credit.
All such electors in the thirty-six States
and nine Territories of the United States,
in the District of Columbia, who, in spirit
of patriotism and love for the Union, can
rise above personal and sectional considera-
tions and who desire to see truly National
Union Convention, which shall represent all
the States and Territories of the Union, as,
semble as friends and brothers under the.
national flag, to hold council together upon
the State of the Union, and TO take meas
ures1to avert possible dangers from the
same. are specially requested to take part
in the choice of such delegates. But no
delegate will take a seat in such convention
who does not Loyalty endorse the principles 1
set forth, and who is notattached in true al 4
legiance to the Constitution, the Union, and
the Government of the United States.
Washington, June rs, 1895.
q ~ A.rW. RANDALL,
Pres't.