New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-23
oNE CoUNTRY--oNE PEop1E--oNE RULE.
10 TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

W,sr1vGrox Ana 1s-Tbe committee an.
pointed bv the National Union Convention 10 Will
np0n the President for the Dnrnose Of TTespntino,
to him an official cony Of the nroceedinGs Of the
convention. held a meeting this morning and most
none6 un+I / o'clocb tha time Far m dnfnfr RI
mas originally intended that II N ehonjd hn +he
hour at which their reception would be had The
committee followed hy the deler0tes to the late
convention and after them in REGULAR ordar At
I9.90 o'cIonl, nrocan5s n fba evecutivn 11arsinn
Ahnnt o:clocl, +ha committee baadnd Nv
hand of r7rsic raanbad 4ba Whf+a HCTse rTIeT
we're conducted INTO the Fast Room bv MarsbsI
G0odinr. and SO arranged as to form a circle,
The deiepates to thp convention were tben shered
in and t6ok a nosition in the rear Of the commit.
tee, and President johnson appeared, accOrnDa-
MED nv Secretaries McCnIIorb WeIles Browning
and Postmaster. General Randall
The Hon. Reyerdy johnson then advanced and
sail
N., President-We are before Won as A Com
roittee of the National Trnion CoHvention which
met in Phiadelphia on Tuesday the 18th instant,
CHARGED with tie dpfr Of nresentinr Won with an
authenticated copv Of the proceedings Before
placing in your hands, YOU will permit me to con.
rratuI9te Won. that in the object for which the
Convention was called in the enthusiasm with wbiclr
every State and Territory responded to the call.
in the unbroken harmony of its deliberations, in
the unanimity with which the PRINCIPLES it has de-
clared were adopted, and more especially
in the matrotic and constitnt0nol chnract tc,
Of tbe nrincinjes +bemseives we are conidant
that you and the country, will find crafty.
ing and cheering evidence that Here
a1siets aInon1s+ 1s ,91bIic sentiment rTb;cb rar
dars an cary and eonn1ete restnratian of tha
TniOn as established nv the Constellation certain
and Inevitable. Party faction, seeking the con.
tinnance of its risrnle NAV mnmentoriiy DELAY il
hnt tbe T,rinciDIos of noI+icaI liberty fnr ,vEirb
onr fathers successfulty cOntended. and to secure
which thpv adoDted the Constitution are an oInr-
inqly Inconsistent with the condition in which the
! c0u1trv has been placed by such misrule that il
! will not he nermitted a much longer duration. We
! n. I n.
| spirit of concord and brothery affection which
was manifested by every member of the con.
| ypnti0n. Great as your confidence ever has
been in the intelligence and patriotism of
your felow-citizens, in their deem deyo
| lion TO the Union and in their present determine
tion to reinstate and maintain IT. that confidence
| wonld have become a positive conviction. if vor
could have seen and heard all that was done and
said on the occasion Every heart was evidently
fnii Of ioy. every eve beamed with patriotic ami
matinn Desuondency rave pIace to the assurance
that our late dreadful civil strife was ended: tha
the blissful reign of peace under the protection
not of arms but the Constitution and laws wouIt
have sway and be in every part of our land cheer
f1Ilv acknowledged and in perfect good faitl
obeyed. You would not have doubted that the
recurrence of dangerous domestic insurrectol
in the future is not to be apprehended
If Won could have seen. sir, the men o
Massachusetts and South Carolina comins
into the convention on the first day of Its meeting
hand in hand, amidst the rapturous applause 0
the whole body, awakened by the heartfelt graft
ication of 10y at the event. filling the eyes of thou
sands with tears, which they neither could nor de
sired to repress, you would have felt as ever,
person present felt that the time had arrived whei
all sectional or other perilous dissensions hat
ceased, and that nothing would be heard in thu
future, but the voice of harmony proclaiming thei
devotion to common country.of pride in beny
} bound together by common union existing ant
protected by forms of government proved by ex
! perience to be eminently fitted for the exigen
: cies of either war or peace. In the principle
} announced by the convention, and in tn
feelings there manifested, and we may have ever
f assurance that harmony throughout our entir,
land will soon prevail. We know that, as in for
mer days, as was eloquently declared by Webster
the nations most gifted statesman Masssachusett
7 and South Carolina went shoulder to shoulde
through the revolution, and stood hand in han
!, around the administration of Washington, and fe
his own great arm lean on them for support, S
will they again, with like devotion and powel
. stand around your administration and cause you
q feel that you mean also to lean on them tor.suI
i port. In the proceedings Mr.. President, whc
J. we are about to place in your hands, you will fin