Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-05
The National johnson Convention

The following Is the call in full for the
national Johnson convention:
A national Union convention, of at
least two delegates from each Congress-
ionol district of all the states, two from
each territory, two from the District of
Columbia, and four delegates at large
from each state, will be held at the city
Of Philadelphia on the second Tuesday
(the 14th) of August next Such dele
gates will be chosen by the electors of
the several states who sustain the ad-
ministratiOn in maintaining unbroken
the union Of the states under the Con
stitution which our fathers established,
and who agree in the following PROPOSE
tions, viz
The union of the states is in every
case indissoluble and is perpetual, and
the Constitution of the United States
and the laws passed by Congress, in pur-
suance thereof, supreme, and constant,
and universal in their obligation.
The rights, the dignity and the equal
ity Of the states in the Union, including
the right Of representation in Congress,
are solemnly guaranteed by the Consti-
tuition to save which from overthrow
so much blood and treasure were ex-
pended in the late civil war.
There is no right anywhere to dissolve
! the Union, or to separate states from
the Union, either by voluntary with
| prawal, by iforce of arms, or by Con-
gressional action: neither by the seces-
sion of the states, nor by the exclusion
! Of their loyal and qualified representa-
tives from the national government in
| any other form.
Slavery is abolished, and neither can
nor ought to be established in any
state or territory within our jurisdic-
| ton.
Each state has the undoubted right to
| prescribe the qualifications of its own
electors, and no external power right
fully can, or ought to dictate, control or
influence the free and voluntary action
| of the states in the exercise of that
! right. The maintenance inviolate of the
rights of the states, and especially Of the
| right of each state to order and control
| it's own domestic concerns according to
its own judgment, exclusively, subject
only to the Constitution of the United
States, is essential to that balance of
power on which the perfection and en-
durance Of our political fabric depend :;
and the overthrow of that system, by
the usurpation and Capitalization of
power in Congress, would be a revolu-
ton, dangerous to republican govern
ment and destructive of liberty.
Each house of Congress is made by the
Constitution the sole judge of the cleo
ton returns, and qualifications OF it's
members; but the exclusion of loyal
Senators and Representatives properly
chosen and qualified under the Constitu-
ton and laws, is unjust and revolution
airy. Every patriot should frown upon
all these acts and proceedings every
where, which can serve no other pur-
pose than to rekindle the animosities of
war, and the effect Of which upon our
moral, social and material interests at
home, and upon our standing abroad,
differing only in degree, is injurious like
war itself.
The purpose of the war having been
to preserve the Union and the Constitu-
ton by putting down the rebellion, and
the rebellion having been suppressed
and all resistance to the authority of the
general government being at an end, and
the war having ceased, war measures
should also cease, and should be follow
ed by measures of peaceful administra-
ton, so that union, harmony and con-
cord may be encouraged, and industry,