The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-08-03
The Philadelphia National rptoi fmunlion
AUGUST IL, 1864

AZ AAlE Apho VI
A Mass Convention will assemble ut
Columbus, o.. on Tuesday. August tie
9Th. for the purpose Of elecling four Scua-
t%orial, with two Congressional Delegates
from each District, TO attend a National
I Mon Convention Of Delegates from all
the STAKES and Territories in the Union,
to BE- held at Philadelphia on The second
Tuesday (the illh) Of August next.
Az Union men are invited to come
yho believe That the Union Of the States
is indissoluble ana can not be broken up
tither by State secession or Congressional
a%ctjoa; who desire that loyal Representa-
tiyes should be admitted TO their seats in
Congress. no matter from what State they
MAY hail; who hold that 10 each State
belongs the regulation Of its own elective
franchise, mud WIG ARE unwilling 10 de.
cl lore the wal for the Union q practical
failure by making its respiration ooniin>
gent upon political issues, independent Of
obedience to tic Constitution Of the Lni'
ted states md submission TO the laws
made in pursuance thereof.
Fellow ~citizcns /: Fearful issues nre
upon us, and unless wise countels prevail
a majority Of Congress will perpetuate in
our country civil hate and inferno hbl&
feuds. hcpeing thereby merely to p%rolong
their own hold on Office, regardless Of the
public welfare. or that harmony and re.
pose now needed by the Republic attn
the long tension Of a proIraiced war-a
war 20 which our citizens contributed
freely their blood and treasure for the
maintenance OF the Union, but not 10 make
any part Of our free land n Poland or
Ireland, to be held as conquered proyin.
ces by. satrnps and bayonets, resistance TO
the Constitution and laws had cohsod.
Ohio always FIRMLY stood by the res
toraGon policy Of the late lamented Prebi
dent Lincoln, even when il was most vio'
lenlly assailed by one Of her own Semi
tors-that policy .he bequeSthed. as it
were, a legacy, to his successor in his
farewell speech to the American people,.
April IL. 1865. thee days before his Os-
~sass;nation. which trust President Johnson
has refused 10 surrender at the behest Of
a Congress which could not have been
elected had they announced 10 the people
their opposition TO this main feature Of
President Lincoln's Administration, which
was emphaiicnl!y indorsed by his r~e-elec.
ton. President Johnson, in his North
Carolina Proclamation Of May 90. 1865.
nn1 subsequent proclamations, only pur-
Eued the well known policy OF his prede'
%cessor, aud on the 2lst OF June, 1865, the
Union State Convention of O., under she
pressure Of the gallant soldier. delegates,
fresh from the field, who repressed the
eOgcrness OF certain stay,at home politi-
ciaps to make negro suffrage a pretex'
4OI a prolonged struggle, ignored that
issue, and resolved "that President An
drew johnson, by his unwaying devotion
10 the Union, through years Of tho s~everes'
trial, has won our highest confidence;
that we cheetfully indorse tie policy oI
his administrator, loakiug TO the res!ora'
ton Of peace and civil order ia the So
called States, and MS Union men Of Ohio
we will give him our hearty and undiyi-
ded support" That pledge was giver
BY many of us in good faith. and NOT 70,
the purpose Of deceiving the people by al
clectiOneeriDg platioTT. or OF misleading
the President Os to populOr sentiment, anC
then denounciag him AS a traitor to tn
! party. because be believed that the poll
, ljeiqas who passed il were in earnest; an'
> we intend TO abide by that resolution
which still stands unrepealed by any sub
sequent Union. State o: National Con
/ vention.
The people Of tie rebel States have
with wonderful u~uanbnity, accepted ID
situation consequent upon tho var in tht
abolition Of slavery aud lhe repudiatioI
Of the rebel debj the other condition,
now pressed upon them, are matters fo
J ordinary political action in the resula
G working of our Government under III
: Constitution, and can be settled in du
Time. The great immediate issue Is
whether the Union shall DO POLITICAL
d dissolved. by the action Of COMPRESSION
Q majority in excluding lojul Represents