Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Howard County, Mo.) 1866-1869, 1866-08-24
The Philadelphia Convention

ry organization, and the appointment of the vari-
Gus committees on permanent organization.
The Convention met on the second day and sf-
ter few appropriate airs by the band, including
that of "Should auld acquaintance be forgor' pro-
ceeded to business. Among the notables present
in the morning sesaion, we notice the names of
Chief Justice Woodward of Pennsylvania, ex-
Gov. Bigler, Postmaster General Randall Senator
Doottle, several prominent Democrats, origina-
tors Of the CALL and other distinguished gentlemen.
The report of the Committee of organization was
made through Hon. Montgomery Blair, the chair
man.
| The announcement OF Senator Doolittle,s name
for President was greeted with prolonged and
deafening tokens of appreciation, the members
rising TO their feet and the outside throng testify
ing their feelings in a no less enthusiastic manner
The cheers were repeated on the announcement
Of Vice Presidents selected from New York. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina,
5. Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, in the degree of
their reputation or notoriety. When Gen. Dix
introduced Mr.. Doolite, and the latter stepped
forward, thunders of applause rolled up from the
benches, sweed by vociferous chorus Of shouts
from the galleries.
MIR. Doolittle spoke as follows:
Gentlemen Of the Convention and Fellow-citi
zens Of the United States For the distinguished
honor of being called upon to preside the de-
! liberations Of this Convention | sincerely thank
you. | could have wished that its responsibilities
| had fallen upon another, but relying upon the
courtesy and generous confidence which has call
ed me to the chair, enter at once upon its du-
ties with desire for the success of that great
| fha
| great events Of our own day this Convention, in
my opinion, will prove to be one of the greatest,
for "peace hath her victories not less renowned
than war; and this Convention is one of her VIC
tores-may not say q crowning victory? For
the first time in six years National Convention,
representing all the States, is now assembled-sx
| long, weary years. As l look back, oh! what an
interval it is of blood and fear and agony and
tears during that periodl We have been engaged
in the most gigantic civil war that the world has
| ever seen, wasting our resources, drenching
thousand battle-felds in fraernal blood, and car
rying to fraernal graves fathers, our sons and
our brothers, by hundreds of thousands; but thanks
be to Almighty God, the war is over. Thrice
| blessed pence has come. The assurance to which
we bear witness tells us that peace has come, and
come TO stay. Oh! my felow-cizsns, il the
whole people Of the United States could see what
we now witness, the North, the South, the East
and West joining in frs terna association friends
| and feliow-citzens, our work would be already
| dcne. If they could have seen. as we saw, Massa-
chusetts and South Carolina by their full deega-
tions coming arm and arm into this great Conven-
ton, if they could have seen this body, greater in
| number and in weight of character and brain than
ever has assembled on this continent under one
roof, emelting with tsats OF joy and gratitude, to
witness this ceremony, there would be strug-
gle at the polls at the coming election. When I
remember that it Massachusetts and South
Carolina that in the Convention framed the Con-
stution, voted against the abolition of the slave
trade; that it was Massachusetts in 1912 which
through some of her men taught the notification
which South Carolina reasserted in 1888 and in the
form of secession again reasserted in 1860; when
call to mind that South Carolina fired the first
gun in this contest, and that the veins of Massa-
chusetts poured out the first blood in the strug-
gle, and when call to mind all these memories,
and at the same time ask the people of this coun-
try to look in on this Convention and see those
two old States OF the Union coming here in frater-
nal embrace, approaching the common alter of a
common country, ready to make common sacri-
fee for the good of the whole, say again, could
the whole people of the United States witness all
this there would remain no further work for US
10 perform. If the people Of Massachusetts them
selves could have witnessed it not single member
would be returned TO Congress from that State
until he had given most sacred pledge thar he
would do all in his power TO recognize the equali
ty and dignity of all the States under the Consti-
tuition, including the sacred and inallenable right
of every State under the Constitution to represen-
tation in both houses of Congress.
Gentlemen of the Convention, shall 90 into no
argument on this occasion, (Cries of Ego on")
The distinguished gentleman who preceded me,
Gen. Dix, has said all | would desire to say much
better than | could say it. indorse and trke
great pleasure in indOrsng all that he has said,
sentence by sentence, word by word. Fellow
citizens, unfortunately it may be the whole peo-
pie of the United States are not here to witness
work still rests upon us. From this time until the
next election we should be uniring in our exer-
tions TO so do il that the next Congress-. il this
shall continue to refuse this sacred right OF rep
resentation to all the States, that the next Con-
gress shall recognize that right. When that is
done, the Union is restored. hnd when the I'm
ion is restored, shall be prepared, in my Judg-
ment, 10 enter upon higher and nobler career
| among the nations of the earth than has ever yet
been occupied by any Government upon which the
sun has ever shone. We shail stand in the van
guard of liberty and civilization; we shall lead the
way by the light of our examples for all the other
nations of the earth. (Great'APplause.)
Before the meeting of the Convention, Hon.
Fernando Wood, of New York, and H. Clay
Dean, of Iowa, had written letters of withdrawal
as delegates to the Convention, and on the second
day letter was read from Mr.. Vallandigham,
! declining seat in the Convention. His letter was
flled with sentiments Of the most patriotic devo-
| tion to the Constitution and Union and Republican
liberty, and IFS reading in the Convention was fol-
lowed by an outburst of prolonged and enthusias-
tic cheers, He said
Yielding to my own deliberate conviction Of du-
| ty and right and 10 the almost unanimous opinion
and desire of friends whose wisdom and sound
ness of judgment and sincerity and purity of mo-
! tiyes may not question, 10 the end that there
shall be no preteXt from any quarter for any con-
| troverted question or disturbing element in the
| Convention TO mar its harmony or hinder in any
way the results 10 the cause OF the Constitution,
| the Union and public liberty which shall follow
| from its debeTation and action, hereby with
draw from the Ohio Democratic delegation, and
decline taking any seat in the Convention.
| am profoundly conscious that the sanctity and
magnitude of the interests involved in the present
political canvass in the United States are too i'm
consideration IN struggle on the issue OF which
depends, as | most solemnly believe, the present
peace, aud ultimately the existence Of free Repub-
lican Government on the continent.
| | rust that your deliberations may be harmo'
nous, your proceedings full OF wisdom and pa
trotsm, and its results crowned with glorious
and saving trismph in The end 10 the great cause
in which every sympathy of my heart Is enlisted
The following dispatch was received from the
President and greeted with the enthusiastic cheers
WASHINGTON, d. c., August IS.
To Hon. o. II. Browning and Hon. A. W. Ran
dali, National Union Convention, Philadelphia
/ thank you for your cheering and encouraging
dispatch. The finger Of Providence is uneTing
and will guide you safely through. The peopl,
must be trusted, and the country will be restored
- fsith IL nntNnksn IN the ultimate snscsps