The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-08-23
The Pbila delphia Convention.

We publish in the Democrat of thi:
week an account Of the action of the Phil
adelphia Convention, in general, and viii
next week publish the address issued By
the convention to the people of the United
States.
The meeting was one of the most i'm
portance of any ever convened in this
country, in fact the most important of any
save the convention of 1877.
For the five years last past the country
has been distracted, divided and shaken to
its very center by civil war of frightiul
magnitude. For the FIVE years last past
the people of the north and the people of
the south have not met save in angry,
bloody strife war has prevailed, the
avowed purpose of which on the one hand
was the division Of the country and the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the American Union.
and on the other hand for the preservation
Of the Union and enforcement of the laws.
Immediately upon the conclusion of the
war by the success Of the federal arms. We
witness the astounding spectacle of another
war, for the purpose of dissolving the
Union, commenced by part Of the very
men who were SO recently actively engag-
ed in procuring men to fight for its pres.
ervation.
The radical Congress commences its
campaign for disunion with its seth ses-
sion, aud continues it with vigor for seven
months, and but for the stern resistance Of
the executive and the patriots he was en-
sbled to call to his aid. would have proved
more successful than was the preceding
struggle. Declaring as their fundamental
principle, the right of secession by ord-
nance, the radical Congress have struggled
bitter y for disunion, and have gone to the
people of the north for endorsements
The conservative element Of the country,
after holding them in check, with the aid
Of the executive, during the session of
Congress called for meeting of the peo-
pie of the United States, at which meas
ures were to be proposed to maintain the
integrity of the government, and the call
was issued to all the people, and responded
to By every State of the Union, and for
the first time in FIVE years convention
composed of representatives from both
north and south meet for a common pur,
pose, and act in harmony and with the
fraternal feeling of old, and that glorious
purpose is no less than the protection of
the Union and the American Government
from the assaults of its most deadly and
dangerous enemies.
Having war, not for the preservation
of the Union. as they professed, but for
the determination of the people of the
south, the radicals of the north, now ap
pearing in their true colors, commence
struggle for dissolution of the Union.
determined that if they cannot exterminate
the people of the south, at least not to
live with them in common Government.
This is no idle assertion, but fact, sus.
ceptible of perfect demonstration, and pat
ent to every intelligent man who has read
the proceedings of the session of Congress.
recently adjourned. They do to-day de-
clare the Union dissolved, and say the
south may not enter it again, except on
conditions. To defeat their Infamous.
reasonable scheme the conservatives and
patriots Of the north have appealed to the
people Of the south TO come to their aid
and the people of the south having seen
the danger and folly of their own late
act, and clearly approaching where their
real danger lies respon dcd to the call, and
We invite the careful attention of the PEG
pie of Marshall county to the result of the