Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-17

served to the States or the people
thereof; and among the rights thus
reserved to the States is the right
TO prescribe qualifications for The
elective franchise therein, which right
Congress cannot interfere with. No State
or Convention of States has the right to
withdraw from the Union, or to exclude,
through their action In Congress or other
wise, any State or States from the Union.
The Union of these States is perpetual.
9Th. Such amendments to the Constitu-
tion of the United States may be made by
the people thereof, as they may deem expe-
dent, but only In the mode pointed out by
it; and in proposing such amendment,
whether by Congress or by Convention,
and in ratifying the same, all the States of
the Union have an equal and indefeasible
right to voice and vote thereon.
7th Slavery is abolished and forever
prohibited, and there is neither desire nor
purpose on the part of the Southern States
that it should ever be re-established upon
the soil or within the Jurisdiction of the
United States, and the enfranchised slave
In all the States of the Union should re-
ceive, In connection with all their inhabi-
tants, equal protection in every right of
person and property.
Sth. While we regard as utterly invalid
and never to be assumed or made of bind
ing force, any obligation incurred or un-
dertaken In making war against the Unit
ed States, we hold the debt of the nation to
be sacred and inviolable, and we proclaim
our purpose, in discharging this as in per-
forming all other national obligations, to
maintain unimpaired and unimpeached the
honor and the faith of the republic.
9th. 1t Is the duty of the National Gov
ernment to recognize the services of the
Federal soldiers and sailors in the contest
just ended, by meeting promptly and fully
all their just and rightful claims for the
services they have rendered the nation, and
by extending to those of them who have
survived, and to the widows and orphans of
those who have fallen, the most generous
and considerate care. s.
10th. In Andrew johnson, President of
the United States, who in his great office
has proved steadfast in his devotion TO the
Constitution, the laws and interests of his
country, unmOved by persecution and un-
deserved reproach, having faith immeasura-
BILE in the people and in the principles ofthe
Government, we recognize Chief Magis-
trate worthy of the Nation and equal to
the great crisis upon which his lot is cast,
and we tender to him, in the discharge of
his high and responsible duties, our pro-
found respects and the assurance of our
candid and sincere support.
After the vote had been taken on the
adoption of the foregoing Declaration of
Principles, it was found that the reading of
the seventh one had been omitted. by acei-
dent, and this fact was announced by
Senator DOOlittle. 1t was then read and
adopted with great applause and unanim-
ity. & t.e x
The Declaration of Principles was then
adopted as whole, with enthusiastic
cheers. After the adoption three cheers
were called for and given in the most en-
thusiastic manner for Senator COwan, of
Pennsylvania. Senator Cowan acknowl-
edged the compliment, but said that as he
considered himself the host of the COnven-
tion, one of his distinguished guests would
address 1t. by virtue of authority unani-
mously derived from the committee on Res
olutions and Address, namely, the Hon.
Henry j. Raymond, of New York.
Mr.. Raymond then proceeded to read the
Address, which had been written by him
self, as hal also been the Declaration of
Principles. He was so frequently inter-
rupted by applause that the Chairman APP
pealed to the Convention to restrain such
manifestations until the reading OF the Ad-
dress would be concluded. Nevertheless,
at the close of the sentence declaring that
''no people subjected to such treatment as
that to which the South was now subjected
could long remain loyal" cheer after cheer
resounded through the Wigwam.
Senator johnson asked that the sentence
be repeated.
The sentence was read again as follows
"NO people has everyet existed whose 10y
atty and faith such treatment, long con-
tinued, would not ALLEVIATE and impair. The
ten millions of Americans who live in the
South, would be unworthy citizens of a
free country, degenerate sons of heroic an
cestry, unfit ever to become the guardians
of the rights and liberties bequeathed to us
by the fathers and founders of this repub-
lie, y, they could accept, with uncomplain-
ing submission, the humiliation thus sought
to be imposed upon them"
This sentence was again cheered with
the greatest enthusiasm, and at the close OF
the reading of the address Ex-Governor
Perry, of South Carolina, rose and moved
its adoption.
The motion was declared carried unan-
imously amid prolonged cheering.
Mr.. samuel j. Tilden, of New York, then
rose and proposed, on behalf of the New
York delegation, three cheers for Hon,
Henry j. Raymond, who had prepared the
address Just read.
Gen. Patten, on behalf of the Pennsylva-
mia delegation, seconded the call. The
cheers were then enthusiastically given.
The Address contains about eight thou
sand words, and wilfmake not far from four
solid columns in the New. York morning
papers. It demands the universal acknowl-
edgment of the legitsmate consequences of
the war, which are for the perpetual
maintenance of the Union and the de-
struction of slavery. 1t asserts, next,
that the Government acquired no new
rights Or power by the war; that
1t acted only on the defensive. Congress
had passed resolution that when the war
closed all the powers and dignity of the
States should remain unimpaired and in
tact. The power assumed by the Govern
mrnt in the States since the war closed was
in violation of the Constitution. The Con-
stitution declares that no State shall, with
out its own consent, be deprived of its
equal representation In the Senate. The
action of Congress denying representation
to the Southern States appear, as great an
effort to overthrow the Government as was
that by armed rebellion. If one Congress
can exclude on one preteXt, another Con-
gress may exclude other States on another.
There Is no warrant for this in the Con-
stituti0n. Not only cannot representatives
be excluded from Congress, but no State
without its own consent can be deDrived