Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-08-22

With prayer by Rev. Riene NJ. Snyder,
If Pa.
The President of the Convention, Sen
ltor Doolittle, then rose and said: Before
We proceed to any further business, the
Chair begs leave to announce as the first
to the call of this Convention,
the result of the Colorado election
Cheers: !
"DENvER, COLORADO TERRITORY,
August 16.-Returns from all parts of
the Territory render certain the election
of A. G. Hunt, the Administration candi-
date for Delegate to Congress, over Chill
licott, the Radical"
The dispatch was greeted with great
applause.
Hon. Reverdy johnson, who, on ris
ing, was with enthusiastic cheers, offered
the following resolution:
ResolUed, That committee, consisting
of two delegate 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 authentic
copy of the proceedings of this Conven-
ton
The resolution was unanimously adOp-
ted.
Mr.. Charles Knapp, of the District Of
Columbia, offered the following resOlu-
tiOn
Rssozyed, That committee on Finance
be appointed, to consist of two delegates
from each State and Territory and the
District Of Columbia.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Cowan then offered the following
resolution:
Reaozued, That the thanks of this Con-
vention be and are hereby rendered 70
Martin McMichael, Esq, Mayor of the
city of Philadelphia, for his admirable
police arrangements for the preservation
Of peace and good order during the sit
ting of the Convention.
The resolution was greeted with ap-
plause and carried unanimously.
Mr.. Cowan rose and said:
On behalf of the committee who were
appointed to prepare resolutions and an
address, I have to state that, after a very
careful and elaborate consideration ol
the same, lasting all day and part Of the
night, we have agreed upon the same.
beg leave to report the follOwing deelara-
ton of principles, adopted unanimously
by the committee which the Secretary ot
the Convention will read, and also an ad-
dress to the people of the country, which
will be read by the Hon. Mr.. Raymond
of New York. FApplause.
The Secretary then proceeded to reac
the Declaration of Principles, each clause
of which was loudly applauded. The
last one, which indorses the President
was greeted with prolonged cheering, il
which the audience aud delegates united
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES.
TaE National Union Convention, now as
sembled in the city of Philadelphia. compos
ed OF delegates from every State and Territor
in the Union admonished by tie solemn les
sons which for the last five years it has pleas
ed the Supreme Ruler Of the universe to civ
tolthe American people: profoundly CRATE
nl for the return OF peace desirouS as larg
majority Of their countrymeu are in all SINGER
tv 10 forget and forgive the past reverin
the Constitution as il came 10 MS from OF
ancestors, regarding the Union in its resto
alton as more sacred than ever; booking wi
deep anxiety into the future as of instant a:
confirming trial: hereby isSues and proclaim
the following Declaration Of Principles an
purposes on which they have, with Per!e
unanimitv, agreed.
1St. We hail with gratitude TO Almiaht
God the end Of war and return Of peace
an afflicted and beloved land.
81. The war Just closed has maintained Il
authority OF the Constitution all the powe
! which it confers and al the strictioEs viii,
:: | it imposes upon the General Government u
altered. and It has preserved the Union wi
the eqral rights diguilv and authority OF Il
States nerfect and unimpaired.
81 Representation in the Congress Of d
; United States and in the Electoral College
| right recognized bv the Constitution
abiding in every State and as dutv impose
; upon iIs peonle, fundamentals in its nature al
, essential 10 the exercise of our republican i
7 sti.ulions. and neither Congress nor the Ge
eral Government has any authority or poy
er to deny this right to anv or withhold
: ENJOYMENT uader the Constitution, from Il
people thereof
4th. We call upon the people of the Uni
D ed States to elect TO Congress, as membe
= thereof. none but men who admit this tUnd
D mental right of representation, and who W
receive to seats loyal representatives fro
y every State in allegiance to the United State
subject to The constitutional right OF -eaC
; house to Judge of the election returns al
) qualifications of its own members.
(; 5th. The Constitution of the United Stat
D and the laws made in pursuance thereof, a
/ the supreme law of the land, anything in Il
+ Constitution or laws of any State to the co
: trarv Notwithstanding. All .he powers al
conferred by the Constitution upon the ge
y eral Government, nor prohibited by it to t
) States or the people thereof; and among 4
= rights thus reserved to the States is the rig
to prescribe qualifications for the elect
D franchise therein, which right Congress ca
- not interfere with. No State or Convent
: of States has the right to withdraw from t
D Union or to exclude, through their action
= Congress or otherwise anv State or Stat
from the Union. The Union of these Stat
T is perpetual.
} 9th. Such amendments to the Constitute
/, of the United States may be made by t
people thereof, as they may deem expediel
but only in the mode pointed ont by it; a
r. in processing such amendment, whether
Congress or by Convention. and in ratifyi
the same, all the States of the Union have
equal and indeleasible right to voice and
" vote thereon.
l, 7th. Slavery is abolished and forever p1
hbited, and there is neither desire nor pr
J. pose on the part of the Southern States Il
, it should ever be re-established upon the s
, or within the jurisdiction Of the Unit
States. and the enfranchised slave in all t
j States of the Union should receive, in &C
'r nectiou with all their Inhabitants equal p
ct lection in every right of person and proper
l. Sth. While we regard as utterly invalid a
never to be assumed or made OF bindi
Ie force, any Obligation incurred or undertaB