The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-30
The National Union Convention.
FROM an exchange of yesterday We make the
following interesting extract H.:

~ I'LL oAchahee OF yesterday we make the
foiioWlng interesting extract:
THE UNION .CoHvENTIoN-1Ts FRIENDS.
The proposed National Union Convention seems
poi'ical necessity OF tho day. If there is to be
any organized opposition to radical rulo in tb;s
country II must somewhere be comm enced To
concentrate the conservative elemcnts now s,t
sereu a ana without head, and give them proper
inc INVENTION now called for. This body is not
70 nominate any persons to Office It is not to
n, 9dstri3uto spoils, butio harmonizo tho country
The North has had none but party conventions
LOT years. We want one convention of the Union
men respecting tho people. l learn that Score
tary Sc" ard commends the plan and that Thur
representatives from the exonded soutSern So aS@
states, without the iron. clad oath but unon rea-
on tb evidence Of patriotic intention to main
Convention should be held PennsyIyania ia ntb tbe
tnattie-gIonnd T Of the Union at the coming cleo
strength should concentrate.
CALL FOR THE NATIONAL UNION CLUB.
The following call has just been prepared. and
has the approval Of gentlemen of promiponce in
ADDITION to those whose names are appended. It
may. therefore, be regarded as possessing much
political significance: ~
A National Union Convention OF at least two
aeiegates from each Congressional District of all
District Of Columbia, and four delegates at large
from each, will be held at the city OF Philadelphis
on the 14th OF August next. Such delegates will
who sustain the Administration in maintaining
unbroken the union Of the States under the Con.
stltutlon y which our fathers established, and who
agree to the following propositions, viz
The union Of the States is, in every case indis-
soluble and perpetual and the Constitution Of the
United States, and the laws passed by Congress
in pursuance thereof are supreme, constant and
~ The rights, the dignity and the equality OF the
States In the Union, including the right Of rep
resentation in Congress, are mutually guaranteed
by that Constitution, to save which from over.
throw, 30 much blood and treasure were expend-
ed in the late civil war.
There is no right anywhere to dissolve the
by voluntary withdrawal, by force Of arms or BY
Congressional action; neither by secession OF
states, nor oy the exclusion OF their loyal and
qualified representatives., nor by the National
Slavery ID abolished, and neither can or ought
to be re-established in any State or Territory
within our jurisdiction.
Each State has the undoubted right to prescribe
the qualifications OF its own electors; and no ex-
ternal power rightfully 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 its own domestic concerns
iect only to the Constitution of the United Ststes
10 20 that paiauco of power on which the
depends, and the overthrow Of that system by
usurpation in Capitalization Of Power in Congress-
would be revolution, dangerous to Republican
Government and destructive of liberty. Each
House of Congress is made by the Constitution
the sole judge Of its election returns and qualf-
cations Of its memberB but the exclusion OF 10y al
Senators and Representatives,, properly chosen
and qualified under the Constitution an laws, is
unjust and revolutionary.
Every patriot should frown down upon all these
acts and proceedings everywhere, which can serve
no other purpose than to rekindie the auimosities
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 Con-
stitution by putting down the rebellion, and the
rebellion having been ruppressed all resistance to
the authority of the General Government being at
| an end, and the war having ceased, measures
should also cease, and should be followed by
measures Of peaceful administr alton, 30 that
union, harmony, and concord may be encouraged,
and industry, commerce, and arts Of peace re-
vived and promoted, and the early restoration of
all the States to the exercise of their constitution
al powers in tho National Government is inds-
pensably necessary to the strength and the de-
Tense OF the Republic, and to the maintenance
of the public credit All such electors in the
thirty,six States and nine Territories OF the
United States, and in the District Of Co.
lumbia, who, in spirit Of patriotism and love
for the Union can rise above personal and
sectional CONSIDERATIONS. and who desire to
see truly National Union Convention, which
shall represent all the States and territories Of the
Union, assemble as friends and brothers under
| the natl, dag, to hold counsel together upon
the state of the Union, and to take measures to
avert possible dangers from the same are special
ly requested to take part in the choice of such
delegates But no delegate will take seat in
such convention who does not Loyalty accept the
national situation, and cordially endorse the prin-
ciple above set forth, and who is not attached in
true allegiance to the Constitution, the Union,
and the Government Of the United States.
WASHINGTON, June Is, 1865.
A. W. RANDALL, President
J. r. D0OLITTLE,
o. Fl. BROWNING,
EDGAR COWAN,
CHARLES KNAP,
SAMUEL FOWLER,
Executive Committee National Union Club.
We recommend the holding Of the above con-
vention, and endorse the call therefor.
JAMES DIXON.
T. A. HENDRICKS.
DANIEL 8. NORTON.
J. W. NESMITH.
DELEGATES TO THE CoNvENT1oN.-We cannot too
earnestly urge upon the people Of the South the
carly appointment Of delegates to the National
Congress- OF Representatives from the States to be
held in Philadelphia on the second Tuesday In