Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-08-27

rent, however, that the people, North
as well as South, have not escaped the
miserable fate which has ever in the
worlds history attended such strife
When republics embrace the hazards
Of armed civil conflict, the liberties OF
the victor and the vanquished have
ever been alike endangered, never
escaping the struggle without impair
ment, and generally sinking into one
common grave of despotism without the
hope of resurrection, Scarcely any
form of popular Government, however
ample its provisions may have been for
the preservation of the liberties of the
citizen, has been found sufficient for free
dom against the terrible shock of civil
war. The South has been made pain
fully aware Of this truth. The people Of
the North seem likewise to have been
aroused to the imminent dangers that
threaten their liberties as well as those
of the beaten South, and have deter
mined to resist the inroads being made
on Republican freedom by rump Con-
gress, and an usnrping minority They
appear resolute to defeat the attempted
destruction by bad men, of the free, repre-
sentative aud republican form Of gov
eminent bequeathed to all of us by
common ancestry. To restore as
fast as the situation will per-
nit, the Federal Union of the
States in its original integrity, and
reinvest the entire people Of all sections
with that civil and political liberty which
our institutions were designed to secure,
and which they once enjoyed, is now
proposed by the intelligent and conser-
vative men of the North, who have, ir-
respective of past diversities of political
opinion, united TO achieve this result
They have invited the people Of the
South to aid them in this noble work,
and have organized the movement
through convention recently assembled
in the city Of Philadelphia. There is
nothing in the terms proposed by these
men TO the South, that ought to repel
any of our section from a most hearty
cooperation with them. The political
doctrines announced by this Conyen-
ton are those with which we have been
familiar in the past history of the coun-
try, and to which we and our fathers
have in the main adhered from the foun-
ddtion of the Government, while the
questions declared to have been settled
by the result of the war, are in fact and
in truth so accepted and received by the
great mass of the Southern people. Duty
and principle alike prompt us TO receive
frankly and cordially this, the first and
only offer of reconciliation, which has
been made since the termination of the
struggle, by our late foes II has been
so presented as to leave our manhood
untarnished in its acceptance. There
fore,
ReSolced, That we most heartily APP
prove of the political doctrines enunci-
ated by the late National Union Con-
ventiou, which assembled in the city Of
Philadelphia on the l4th day of August,
1866, and most cheerfully agree to accept
its action, promising our utmost efforts
to secure the triumph of its principles
throughout q REsTORED UNION 500.
Resolred, That only in the success of
those principles do We discern either for
the North or the South, security for the
present, or hope for the future HUI
manly considered, unless their success
be attained, in at least their general
scope and intent, American liberty will
die and make mo sign.
Resoiced, That we specially and
heartily respond to that sentiment enun.
ciated in the address and resolutions of
the. Philadelphia Convention, embodied
IN these words:
Resentment of injustice is always
and everywhere essential to freedom
and the spirit which prompts the States
and the people lately in instruction,
but insurgent now no longer, to protest
against the imposition Of unjust and de-
grading conditions, makes them all the
more worthy to share in the government
of free commonwealth, and gives still
frmer assurance Of the future power and
freedom of the Republic"
Language, which we are told was re.
ceived with earnest applause by the
masses assembled at the time, and which
we are assured will meet with like
response from the conservative good men
throughout the nation.
Resolred, That we cordially indorse
the policy Of Andrew Johnson, and we
recognize in him the man, who, Of all
others, is now under God, ordained to
lead this people ont of the present
trouble and danger; and adopt as our
own bis noble and patriotic sentiments
announced by telegraph to the country
The Finger Of Providence Is uner-
ring, and piH guide you safely through
.fThe people must be trusted, and fhe
country wiH be restored"
And we hail them as destructive to
Radicalsm, and as bringing hope aud
healing, and assured promise of eonsti-
tutional restoration.