The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-31
Hancock, 90
National Union Convention.

national union convention of at least two
delegates from each congressional district OF all
the states, two from each territory, two from
the District of Columbia, and four delegates at
large from each state will be held at the city of
PHILADELPHIA on the second Tuesday, (l4M) of
August peIt. --s r-
Such delegates viii be chosen BY the electors
of the several states who sustain the administra-
ton in main tanning unbroken the Union of the
states under tbs. constitution which our fathers
established, and who agree in the following
propositions viz:o ~
The Union OF the states is IN every case indis-
soluble and is perpetual and the constitution
of the United States and the laws passed by con-
gress in pursuance thereof are supreme, ana con-
slant and universal in their obligations.
The rights, the dignity and the equality CT the
8 tates in the Union including shs right of repre-
sentation IN congress, are -solenlnly guaranteed
by that constitution, to which from over
throw so much blood and treasure were expend-
ed in the late civil war
There is no right anywhere to dissolve the
Union or to separate states from the Union, eth
er by voluntary withdrawal, by force of arms, or
by congressional action, neither by the secession
of states nor by the exclusion of their loyal and
qualified representatives nor by the national
government in any other form.
Slavery is abolished, and neither can nor
ought to be re-established in any state or terri
tory within our Jurisdiction.
Each state has the undoubted right to pre.
scribe the qualifications of its own electors, and
no external power rightfuly can or ought to
dictate, control or influence the free and volun.
tary action of the states in the exercise of that
right. t4
The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the
states, and especially of the right of each state
to order and control its own domestic concerns
according to its own judgment exclusively, sub
ject oni5 to the constitution of the United States
rs essential to that balance of power on which
the perfection and endurance of the political fab
ric depend, and the overthrow of that system b.
the usurpation and Capitalization of power il
ongress would be a revolution, dangerous e
republican government and destructive of liber
ty. .~-f@4a*szf $685.
Zach house of congress is made. nv the con
stitution, the sole judge Of the elections returns
and qualifications of it's members, but the ex
cIusion of loyal senators and representative,
properly chosen and qualified under the const;
tuition and laws, is unjust and revolutionary.
Every patriot should frown upon all those act
and proceedings everywhere which can serve N
other purpose than to rekindle the animosities O
war, aud the effect of which upon our moral
social and material interests at home, and upo
our standing abroad, differing only in degree, i
injurious like war ITSELF *@9n
The purpose of the war having been to pre-
serve tho Union and the constitution by putin
down rebellion, and the rebellion having bee
suppressed, all resistance to the authority of til
general government being at an end, and the wa
having ceased, war measures should also cease
and should be followed by measures Of peaoefu
administration1 so that union, harmony and COZ
cord may be encouraged, and industry, CON
meree, and the arts Of peace revived and promo