American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-09-19


can States to seek to resume thrty-six
stars on the old flag. We are here to
see that ten of these stars these Opaque
bodies paling their Intellectual fires be-
meath the gloom of darkness, Of oligar-
chial tyranny and oppression. We wish
them to be brilliant stars, emblems OF
constitutional liberty, glittering orbs
sparkling with the life giving principles
Of the model republic, fitting ornaments
of the glorious banner of freedom. Our
last and only hope is in the fortitude of
the loyal people of America, in the sup
port and vlndication Of the Thirty ninth
Congress, and the election Of a controll-
ing Union majority in the succeeding or
Fortieth Congress. While the new ar
ticle amending the National Cons Stu
ton offers the most liberal conditions to
the authors of the rebellion, and does not
come up to the measure of our expecta
tions, We believe its ratification would be
the commencement of complete and
lasting protection to all our people, and
therefore we accept it as the best pres
ent remedy, and appeal to our brothers
and friends in the north and the west to
make it their watchword in the coming
elections. The tokens are auspicious OF
overwhelming success.
However little the verdict of the bal
lot box may affect the reckless man in
the Presidential chair, we cannot doubt
that the traitors and sympathizers will
recognize that verdict as the surcst indi-
cation that the mighty powers which
crushed the rebellion is still alive, and
that those who mpted to oppose or
DEFY it will do so at the risk of their own
destruction. Our confidence in the over
mling providence of God, prompts the
prediction and intcnsifies the belief that
when this warning is sufficiently taught
to these misguided reckless men, the lib
Grated millions of the rcbellious South
will be proffcred those rights and fran
chse which may be necessarily to ad-
just and settle this mighty controversy
in the spirit of the most enlarged christ
ian philanthropy.
Mr.. Hamilton, of Texas, from the
Committee on Resolutions, reported the
following:
l. Resolccd, That the loyal people of
the South cordially unite with the loyal
people of the North, in thanksgiving to
the Almighty, through whose will re.
belion unparalleled for its causeessness,
its cruelty, and its criWinality, has been
over.rulcd 20 the vindicalion of the su-
premacy of the Federal Constitution over
every State and Territory of the Repub
lie.
.. Resolcea, That we demand now, as
we have demanded at all times since the
cessation of hostilities, the restoration of
the States in which we i've, to their old
relations with the Union, the simplest
conditions consistent with the protection
Of our lives, property and political rights,
now in jeopardy from the unquenchcd
cnmity of the rebels lately in arms
3. Rcsoloed, That the unhappy poll
cy Of Andrew johnson, President of the
United States, is, in its effect upon the
loyal people of the South, unjust and
oppressive, and accordingly however ar
dently we may desire to see our rcspec-
tive States once more represented in
the Congress of the nation. we would
deplore their restoration on the made
quate conditions prescribed by the Pres
ident, as tending not to abate but only to
magnify the perils and sorrows of our
condition.
4. Resolced, That the welcome we re
ceived from the loyal citizens of Philaa
delphia under the roof of the time hon
ored hall in which the Declaration Of In
dependence was adopted, inspires US with
the animating hope that the principles OF
ust anl quail government which were
made the foundation Of the Republic at
its origin shall become the corner stone
of the Constitution.
8. Resolced, That with pride in the
patriotism in the Congress with grati2
tude for the fearless and persistent sup
port they have given to the cause of 10y
atty. and their efforts to restore all the
States to their former conditions as States
in the American Union, we will stand
by the position taken by them and use
all means consistent with pacific and
lawful course to secure the ratification OF
I amendments to the Constitution of the
United States as proposed by Congress
at its recent session, and regret that the
Congress, in is wisdom, did not provide
by law for the greater security Of the
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