The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-07-19
The Loyal Men OGtEse soutga EBe-
clare that Traitors Saagg Rot
Rule where They Sought to
Ruin.
CALL FOR A KATIoNAL CONVENTION.

A meeting of Southern loyalists was
held in Washington on the 11th instant,
ut which the following call was unani-
mously adopted and signed. Other sig
natures viii be added, making the call
more complete one, when it will be issued
in official form. In its present shape,
there will be found the names of many of the
most prominent men of the South, law
yers, journalists, merchants and officers:
To the loyal Unionists of the South
The great issue is upon US. The ma
jority in Congress and It's supporters firm
ly declare THAI he rights OF the citizen,
enumerated ia the Constitution and estab-
lishe1 bv supreme law, must be maintain
ed inviolate Rebels and Rebel sympa-
thizers assert that the rights OF the citizen
must belong TO the States alone, and an
DER such regulations as the respective
States choose voluntarily 20 prescribe
We have seen this doctrine OF State SOW
ereignty carried ont in its practical results,
until all authority in Congress was denied,
the Union temporarily destroyed the con.
stitutioual rights Of the citizens of the
South nearly anpihilated, aud the land
Gesolated by civil war. The time has
come when the structure Of Southern
States Governments must be laid or con
stituiional principles, or the despotism
grown up under an atrocious leadership
be permitted TO remain. We know Of no
other plan than that Congress, under its
constitutional powers, shall now exercise
It's authority to establish the principle
whereby protection is made coextensive
with citizenship. We maintain that no
State, either by its organic law or legisla-
ton: can make transgression on the rights
of the citizen legitimate. We demand,
and ask you 20 concur in demanding,
protection 10 every citizen of the great
Republic on the basis of equality before
the law, aud further, that no State gov
ernment should be recognized as legiti-
mate under the Constitution in so far as
it does not by its organic law make I'M
partial protection full and complete
Under the doctrine of State Sovereignty,
with rebels in the foreground controlling
Southern legislatures, and embittered by
disappointment in their schemes to des-
troy the Union, there Will be no safety for
! the loyal element Of the South. Our re-
lance for protection Is now on Congress,
and the great Union party that has stood,
and is standing by the nationality, BY the
constitutional rights of the citizen, and by
benefcent principles of free government.
For the purpose of bringing the loyal
| Unionists Of the South into conjunctiVe
action with the true friends of Republican
government Of the North, we invite YOU
to send delegates in goodly numbers from
all Southern States, including Missouri,
Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware, to meet at Independence Hall,
in the city of Philadelphia, on the first
Monday Of September next. 1t is pro-
posed that we meet at thai time to recon-
mend measures for the establishment Of
such government in the South as accords
with and protects the rights Of all citizens,
We trust this call will be responded to by
numerous delegations Of such as represent
the true loyalty Of the South-that kind
of government which gives full protection
TO all the rights of the citizens, such as
our fathers intended, and we claim as our
birthright. Either the lovers of coustitu-
tional liberty must rule the nation, or
rebels and their sympathizers be permit
ted 20 misrule it. Shall loyalty or disloy-
atty have the keeping of the destinies of
the nation? Let the response to this call,
which is now in circulation for signatures,
and is being numerously signed, answer.
Notice is given that gentlemen at dis
tance can have their names attached to it
By sending request by letter, directed to
d. w. Bingham, ESQ, Washington, d. c.
w. B. STOKES, Tenn. J. S. FowLER, Tenn.
A j. HAMILTON, Tex. G. W. PAscHAL, Tex.
LoR. SHERWOOD, Tex. HENRY G. COLE, Ga.
G. W. WAsHBURN, Ga. JOIN Il. KELso, Mo.
J. w. MCCLURG, Mo. G. w. ANDERSON, No.
T. J. BENJAMIN, No. ]. G. UNDERWOOD, Va
Dur. WARDwELL, Va. LEWIS MCKENZIE, Va.
JOHN B. TEOTH, Va. J. N. STEWART, Va.
WM. n. BERKLEV, Va. ALLEN G. HARMON, Va.
]. W. HUNNICUTT, Va. ALEX. NJ. DAVIS, Va.
GEO. REESE, Ala. II. II. BINGHAs, Ala
". J. Stafford, Ala. BYRON LArLIN, y. c.
d. r. GooDLoE, n. c. J. II. LARCoIBE, Ala.
JAMES GETTY, Tenn.
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