The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-08-21
Ranney was appointed Vice President,
and E. B. Eshelman Secretary, for Ohio.


tional Union Convention reassembled IN
the Wigwam to-day at 10 o'clock, pursu-
ant to adjournment. Every seat in the
building was filed. The attendance of
ladies was quite as large as on the previ-
GUS day. The greatest enthusiasm pre-
vailed.
The proceedings were opened with
prayer by Rev. Green NJ. Snyder,o of Penn
sylvania.
The President Of the Convention, Sen
ator Doolittle, then rose and said:
Before we proceed to any further bu-
siness the Chair begs leave to announce
the first response to the cali for the Con-
vention, the result Of the Colorado elec
ton, cheers]:
DENVER, Col. TER, Aug 16.-Returns
from all parts of the territory render GER
tain the election of A. G. Hunt, the Ad-
ministration candidate for delegate to.
Congress, over Chillicott, the Radical
candidate.
The dispatch was greeted with great
applause.
Mr. Crowell, OF New Jersey, offered
the following resolution:
Resolred, That National Union Exc
cutive Committee be appointed to be COM
posed of two delegates from each State
and Territory and the District of Colum-
bia. Adopted.
Hon. Reyerdy johnson, who in rising
was greeted with enthusiastic cheers, Of
fered the following resolution:
| ResolDed, That Committee, consisting
of two delegates from each State and one
from. each Territory and the District of
Columbia, be appointed by the Chair to
wait upon the President Of the United
States, and present him with an authen-
tic copy Of the proceedings of this Con-
vention.
! Mr.. Cowan rose and said on behalf of
the Committee who were appointed to
prepare an address: I have to State that
after very careful and elaborate consid-
Grafton, and the same lasting all day and
a part of the night and agreed upon the
same, beg leave to repsrt the follow
ling declarations and principles, adopted
unanimously by the Committee, which
the Secretary of the Committee will read,
and also an address to the people and the
country, which will be read by Hon. Mr..
Raymond, of New York. Applause.
The Secretary then proceeded to read the
declarations and principles, each clause of
(which was loudly applauded. The last
one, which endorses the President, was
greeted with prolonged cheering,in which
the audience and delegates united.
DECLARATION AND PRINCIPLES.
The National Union Convention now
assembled in the city of Philadelphia,
composed of delegates from every State
and territory in the Union admonished
by the solemn lesson which for the last
Eve years it has pleased the Supreme
Ruler of the Universe to give to the
American people, profoundly grateful for
the return of peace, desirous as large
majority Of their eountrymen in all sim
cerity to forget and forgive the past, re-
viving the constitution as it comes to us
from our ancestors. regarding the Union
in its restoration as more sacred than ever,
looking with deep anxiety into the fu-
ture as of instant and continuing trials,
hereby issues and proelaims the follow
ling declaration of principles and pur-
poses on which they have with perfect
unanimity agreed:
F:rst-We hail with gratitude to Al
mighty God, the end of war and the re-
turn Of peace to an afflicted and beloved
land.
i Second-The war just closed has main
tanned the authority Of the Constitution
with all the honor which it cenfers and
all the restrictions which it imposes upon
the General Government unabridged and
unaltered, and it has preserved the
Union with the equal rights, dignity and
authority of the States perfect and unim-
pared.
Third-Representation in the Congress
oflthe United States and in the electoral
college is a right recognized by the Con-
stitution as abiding in every State as a
duty imposed upon the people, fundamen-
tai in its nature and essential to the ex-
istence of our republican institutions,
and neither Congress nor the General
Government has any authority or power
to deny this right to any or withhold its
enjoyment under the Constitution from
the people thereof.
Fourth-We call upon the people ofthe
United States to elect to Congress as
members thereof, none but men who ad-
NIT the fundamental right of represen-
tation, and who will receive to seats their
loyal representatives, from every State in
allegiance to the United States, subject to
the constitutional right of each House to
judge of the election returns and the quail
iications of its own members.
Fifth-The constitution of the United
States, and the laws made in pursuance
thereof, are the supreme law of the land,
anything in the constitution or laws of
any State to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. All the powers not conferred by
the constitution upon the general govern
ment, nor prohibited by it to the States
are reserved to the States or the people
thereof and among the rights that are
reserved to the State the right to prescribe
the qualifications for the elective fran
chise therein, which right Congress can
not interfere with. No State or combi-I
nation Of States has the right to with
draw from the Union or to exclude any
State or States from the Union. This
Union of States is perpetual.
Sixth-Such amendments to the Con-