The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-07-19
National Union Convention.

National Union Convention, Of at least two dere.
gates from each Congressional District Of all tho
States two from each Territory, two from the Dis
trct Of Columbia, and four delegates at large from
esch State will be held az the city Of Philadelphia on
the second Tuesday OATH Of August next.
Such delegates will be chosen by the electors of the
several States who sustain the Administration In
maintaining unbroken the union Of the States under
the Constitution which fathers established, and
who agTeo In the following propositions, viz!
The union Of the Staes IL, In every case indissou
bic, and is perpetual; and the Constitution of the
United States and the laws passed by Congress IN pur
suance thereof supreme and constant, and universal
In their obligation
States in the Union, including the right representa-
tion In Congress, are solemply guaranteed by that
COnstitutioni TO save which from overthrow much
blood and treasure were expended in the late civil
war;
There is no right, anyw here, to dissolve the Union
either by voluntary withdrawal, by force Of arms or
by congressional action neither by the secession Of
the States, by the exclusion Of their oyal and
qualified representatives, BY the national Govern
Slavery is abolished, and neither can nor ought to
be re,estaJlished in any State Territory within
Each State has the undoubted right to prescribe the
qualifications Of its own electors, aud external pow.
er rghtiuly can, or ought to, dictate, control nu.
once the free and voluntary action Of tho States in the
exercise Of that right;
The maintenance nviolae Of the rights Of the States
andepecialy Of the right Of each State to order and
control its own domestic concerns, according to its
own judgment exclusively, subject only the COnsti-
tuition OF the United States, is essential to that bal
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Of our political fabric depend, and the overthrow OF
that system by the usurpaon and Capitalization OF
power in Congress, would be revolution, danger.
Gus to republican government and destructive of lib
erty;
Each House Of Congress is made by the Constitution
the sole Judge Of elections returns and qualifications
Us MEMBERS but the exclusion Of loyal Senators and
Representatives, properly chosen and qualified under
he constitution and laws, is unjust and revolution
ISryi
Every patriot should frown upon all these acts ans
proceedings everywhere, which other pur
tn ralf AIa Nh, faa.
effect Of which upon moral, social and material in
erests at home, and uTon our standing abroad, differ
ing only in degree, IL injurious like itself;
The purpose Of the having been to preserve the
Union and the Constitution by putting down the re
bellion and the rebellion being suppressed all resis
lance to the authority Of the General Government
ing at an end, and the having ceased measure
should also cease, and should be followed by
Of peaceful administration, so that upion harmony
and concord may be encouraged aud industry, com.
merce, and the arts Of peace revived and promoted
aud the early restoration Of all the States to the
else oil their constitutional powers in the National Gov
ernment is ndispensably necessary to the strength
and defence Of the Republic and to the
the public credit;
All such electors in the thirtysix States and min
Territories Of the United States and in the District
Columbia, who In spirit Of patriotism and love 70
the Union, can rise above personal and sectional con
siderations, and who desire to see a truly Nations
Union Convention, which shall represent ali the State
aud Territories of the Union asse be as friends ant
brothers, under the national flag to hold counsel to
gether on the State Of the Union and to take
20 avert the possible danger from the same, spec
gates;
But no delegate will take seat in such Convention
VINO does not loyalty accept the national situation ard
cordially endowe the principles above set forth and
VINO IS not attached in true allegiance, to the Constu
tton, the Union, ana the Government Of the United
stat1s' A: w. RANDALL, President.
| ]. r. D00LITTLE,
| .. II. BROWNING,
| EDGAR COwAN,
| CHARLES KNAP,
SAMUEL FOWLER,
| Executive Committee National Union Club.
We recommend the holding Of the above Con Ventlo
and endorse the call therefor.
| DANIEL S. N0RToN,,.5
| J. W. NESMIrH, 'HFl5c9B
| JAMES DIXON,
T. A. HENDRICKS.
WASHINGTON, uuo 25, 1866.