Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-08-23
NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION.

The National Union, alias Breadan d
Buttcr-Copper--Johnsonte Convention
which met in Philadelphia last week, adopt
cd the following declaration of principles.
1t is great improvement upon the Cop
pcrhead platform, but we shall have occa-
sion hereafter to comment upon il:
The National Union Convention, now
assembled i'm the city of Philadelphia. com
posed of delegates from every State and
Territory in the Union, admonishcd by the
solemn lessons which for the last five
years il has pleased the Supreme ruler of
the universe TO give to the American peo-
pie; profoundly grateful for the return of
peace: DESTROYS as a large majority of their
countrymen i'm all sincerity. to forget and
forgive the past; receiving the Constitution
as it comes to us from our ancestors: re-
garding the Union in its restoration as
more sacred than ever; looking with deep
anxiety into the future as of instant and
continuing trial. hereby issue and pro-
claim the following declaration of princi-
Piles and purposes on which they have with
perfect unanimity agreed:
First-We hail with gratitude to AL
mighty God the end of war and the return
of peace to an afflicted and beloved land.
Second-The war just closed has main
tanned the authority of the Constitution.
with all the powers which il cOnfers, and
all the restrictions which it imposes upon
the General GOvernme ut unabridged and
unaltered, and il has preserved the Union
with the equal rights, dignity and authori-
ty of the States perfect and unimpaircd.
MISREPRESENTATION in the Congress of
the United States and in the electoral col
lege is right recognized by the COnstitu-
ton as abiding in every State, and as a du
~ imposed upon its people, fundamental
| i'm its nature and essential TO the exercise of
our republican institutions, and neither
Congress nor the General Government has
any power to deny this right to any or with
hold its enjoyment under the Constitution
| from the people thereof
FOurth-We call upon the people of the
| United States to elect 10 Congress, as men,
| bcrs thereof, none but men who admit the
| fundamental right of representation, and
who will receive to seats their loyal repre-
sentativcs from every State in allegiance TO
the United States, subject to the COnstitu-
tional right Teach House to judge of the
election returns and the qualification of its
| own members.
Fifth-The Constitution of the United
states ana the laws maue- Ill pursuance
thereof, are the supreme laws of the land,
anything in the Constitution or laws ofany
State to the contrary notwithstanding. All
powers not conferred by the Constitution
| upon the General Government nor prOhib-
tied by it to the States, are reserved to the
States or the people thereof, and among
the rights thus reserved to the States is the
right to prescribe qualifications for the
elective franchise therein, which right
Congress cannot Interfere with. No State
or convention of States has the right to
Withdraw from the Union or exclude thro'
their action in Congress or otherwise, any
State or States from the Union. The Union
of these States is perpetual.
Sixth-Such amendments to the Consti-
tuition of the United States may be made
by the people thereof as may be deemed
expedient, but only in the mode pointed
out by its resolution, and proposing such
amendments, whether 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
| therein.
Seventh-Slavery is abolished and forev-
ar prohibited, and there is neither desire
nor purpose on the part of the Southern
] States that it should eyer be re-estab}ished