The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-17


number from their opponents Also,
four delegates from each territory, anu
four from the District of Colnmbla; IN In
those States whereof portlon oi Uuo
people were lately in rebellion, 9 oorres,
bonding number of delegates may 20
chosen BY the people generally VINO ~ =.
cent the principles stated IN tne can -
| ia NOT intended, however, that tnese
81 gcestions shall interfere with any ar
ransements already made for the seiec-
tion of delegates. It is left entreiy 10
the political organizations in the dlner-
| ant States and districts that concur IN
rhe principles of the call TO DECIDE
whether thew will choose their delegates
Inv Joint or separate meetings, or by their
| executive committees;
we have been authorized to appoint
temnorary executive committees IN the
States where the same are presumed to
he necessary. You are therefore request
ed to act as such committee, and to adopt
immediate measures to secure full deie.
cation to the proposed convention, NOV
| Interfering, however, with the action
which existing organizations may have
taken for the same object. Your action
will be such as to aid such movement
the purpose of your appointment being
| to provide for the selection OF delegates
| if no adequate preliminary arrangements
have vet been made.
The day fixed for the National Conven'
! ton is near, and we desire to impress on
Won and on all friends of this cause, that
| it is of the first Importance that district
or State conventions, or State executive
committees, Immediately appoint dele
gates. And it is particularly requested
that list of delegates and committees
appointed be speedily forwarded to the
chairman of this committee.
In conclusion, we'have to add that
the paramount object of this movement
is to bring into a great national confer
/ ence from all parts of our distracted
country wise and patriotic men, who
may devise a plan of political action
calculated to restore national unity
fraternity and harmony, and secure to
an afflicted people that which is so sin
cerely desiredby all good men, the prac..
teal blessings of an enduring peace
| .., ALEX. w. RANDALL, 10.
LEWIS D. CAMPBELL,
MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
I As we understand it, the object of this
convention is to. give expression to the
views of all our citizens of whatever pc.
litical faith who favor the immediate
restoration of the American Union. Its
purpose is to show that whatever dissen-
sions may distract the public councils,
whatever disrupting and destructive
ends may be aimed at by faithless and
fanatical representatives, the people as
mass, uncorrupted by ambitious mo-
tives, untrammelled by passion or preju.
dice, are wholly and unreserveGly devoted
to the preservation of the American
Union, in it's original integrity, and with
all its parts, with the equal rights of all
its members unimpaired and with the
enduring welfare of all its people impair.
TALLY promoted. 1t is designed to lend
the moral force of popular sanction tx
the administrative policy for preserving
the impartial unity of the States. II
| Will assert that ANDREW JOHNSON, by
his noble defence of the principles Of
constitutional liberty has deserved the
firm support of all who love their coun
try better than their party, and that il
is now their duty to uphold hi
hands, to inspire his heart with
fortitude for the great work he has
undertaken, and to proclaim that
the fearless Executive who will
thus dare destruction for duty must and
shall be sustained Since this ID to be
| a popular uprising rather than a party
| movement, we think our delegates
should be chosen and commissioned di.
rectly by the people whom they will
represent 1t is true that the Conserva-
tive Central Committee may, with per-
feet propriety, choose and authorize
these delegates At the same time, men
thus selected would not bear with them
the weight and authority they would
carry if all our citizens who favor this
call, disregardlng their party antece-
dents, would assemble, assert their deve-
ton to the objects of the Convention,
choose their representatives and bid
them act in the name of the great
source of political power, the people
themselves. The very fact that the mer-
chant las left his counting room, the
farmer his plough and the mechanic his
Workshop to endorse this movement,
th1 net thAt business is suspended and
plaa.t,re resigned in order that the
gen, raj sympathy with the cause may be
expressed, will attest deep popular in
terest in the objects Of this movement
that could be shown in no other way,
The objection that the time is too
short for this may, we think, be
readily removed Let the State
Central Committee imediately request
al who approve tho purposes of the
Convention to meet, on some early day in
August, in mass convention at some
point in their respective Congressional
districts, say Wheeling, Grafton and