The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-23
=. sIdiers' and Sailors Call TO supper
rhe President...-Clevela the Place.
Time, September 17Ih.
WASHINGTON, Aug, 81, 1866

WASHlNGTON, aug, u, Icoo,
The following is the call for Cenven
{ 81 on of Soldiers and sailors, to meet OIL
! the 18th of September, at Cleveland, tC
8, lstain and endorse the reconstruction
| D olicy of President Johnson, and the ac-
| tjon of the Philadelphia Convent ton
In addition to the names of the commit
tee, the call is approved by Major Cen
erals John A. Dix, Steadman, Blair, Slo'
cum, Gordon Granger, McClernand,
Franklin, and above eighty other gener.
al officers, who further recommend the
holding OF local conventions to 60 opc-
rate III the movement:
To the Soldiers and Sailors Who Se,'red in
the Army and Nary of the United States,
daring the Late Rebellion:
In pursuance of a resolution Of il meet
ing of Soldiers, now or lately IN the
Union army, held in this city las even
ing, we invite those who approve tile
restoration policy Of the President, ii ii
the principles announced by thr Nation.
al Union Convex tioh, to assemble at
Cleveland on the 18th day of September
next, for consultation on the monentOus
issues now convulsing our country We
need not argue to you at length the i'm.
portance of these issues, nor your duty to
take part in their settlement Afr five
wears of fierce and destructive var. In
which our arms were glorIIus!Y rium'
rhut t, the Union for which we fought Is
still practically uureStoA'd. WY is
this? We struggled to nathan the
righrful supremacy Of the general Gov
ernmert, to conquer all who III aruls dis.
putel It's authority, and TO make every
Iebeuious citizen yield to its laws
We held throughout the war that the
Union is iudissoluble, and its powers, as
eXpcunded by its courts, suYremr; that
no State can of its own motion With
draw, or a. the will of its sister States
be excluded and that the duty of each
State to maintain the Union and its right
to take part in the Government are alike
absolute. Every object OF the Wal ever
recognized by or known 10 the aruur and
navy, has been thoroughly achieved.
The Southern people, decimated, impov.
erishcd and subdued, have for more than
year past abandoned the rebolliuu, and
now only ask that the Unios for which
We fought may be recognized as eX stlu .
and that they mas be dealt with Is the
Constitution and laws PIE Scribe. In
thelr anxiety 10 restore the Union and
bring harmony 10 its councils they have
goua beyond mere silent submiss lou to
It's laws Through their delegates at the
National Union Convention they solemn
" renounced the doctrines of nulihca-
ton ard secession, from which the wal
arose: repudiated the rebel debt aud de
CARED sacred the national debt; pro
claimed the faith OF the nation pledged
10 the continuance OF bounties and pen.
sions to loyal soldiers and sailors and
their families; declared slavery forever
abolished, aud the freedmen entitled to
equal protection of law IN person and
properly with their former masters
This platform is not ouly one of en-.
phatic loyalty, but it is, moreover, most
liberal in spirit on all the great issues
growing out of the war. The characteI
OF the men who represented the South
ern States In that Convention preclude;
| US from believing this, enunciation Of
principles TO be insincere. They sent to
1t their foremost statesmen, men who
like Riyes, Graham, On, Parsons, Shar
key, Houston, Brockenbrough, Hunt
Manning aud stephens, were known
throughout the land before tho war az
men OF the highest character and intiu
ence. Among the i've hundred delegate:
from the South, there was NOT a voice o.
vote dissenting from the resolutions
adopted by the Convention. II the bes
Of the Southern people are ever TO b,
believed, We must accept these solemn