The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-23
The Soldiers Convention.

The address Of officers Of the Fcdc'
raj army calling convention of soldiers
and sailors at Cleveland, Ohio, on the Inc nc
September, came to hand ycste,TIfSesssen an
northern papers. The siGccmbered names.
imposing array OF Vie call is strong and
The iangQemands the entire restoration
cleeaS southern States to perfect equai''y
as the object for which the Federal army
fought, and charges upon the Radicals the
DELAY of that object, in violation OF the
clear provisions of the Constitution. We
extract the following paragraph
uTbc intention of Congress seems TO DC
"a dcnr;ve them of representation inst SO
long as Il suits the purposes oil the hadl-
col Marty. Many assert that it will con-
c.ae the right whenever the constitutional
amendment shall have been adopted and
each prescribed State shall have ratified il.
Rnt il is quite certain that the amendment
will not be ratified by thrce-fourtbs of the
States, and therefore that it will not be
adopted. Some, perhaps many, ofthe north
crn States will reject it, and We cannot ex-
pectits DISQUALIFICATION by any Of the lately
insurrectionary States. II there were no
other reason why the southern States will
reject it, it is enough that it proposes to
disfranchise nearly all the men in the
South who have influence over the masses
of the people. If none were to be dis
franchised except officers of the rebel
army, we still could not expect the South
to adopt it-for large majority of men III
the lately insurrcctionary States, through
compulsion of choice, served in the rebel
armies and their votes alone would over
whelmingly defeat it. Would Union sol
diers, to recover political privileges, dis.
franchise their leaders, whom they love and
revere for their heroic virtues! How,
then, can VIC expect southern soldiers TO
disfranchise and degrade their own COM
mandcrs?'
The call declares that those who sign 1t
will have no political association with men
who are not sincerely faithful to the con-
stitutional principles for which they fought
and that they prefer to "act with those
"who hare been ,crong and are no,o right,
"rather than with those who trere right and
"arc no,r orrony.'
The Committee on the Address are:
G.. A. Gustav, Major General L. S. A.
A.McD. McCo2k, Major-Gcncral L. 5. a.
l.. ii. Rousseau, Major-G General; George
Crook, Major General S. Meredith, Brc-
vet Maior-Gcneral; Thomas Ewing, Jr.,
Brevct Major-Gencral.
Following these are the names of great
number of officers of all grades, making
more than half column. We copy those
of the ,najor generals, as follows:
John A. Dix, Frank 2. Blair, Daniel +.
Sickles, John A. McClernand, w. W.
Avcrll, Orlando b. Wilcox, Gcrshom
Mott, Theodore Runyon, William Is. Frank
lin, Marsena K. Patrick, j. j. Bartlett,
jeff. C. Davis, Fitz Henry Warren, John
S. Clark, James B. Stcedman, IL. W. Slo-
cum, Gordon Granger, d. n. Couch, III.
+. Davies, Jr., Alpheus s. Williams, Hugh
Ewing, Thomas kilby Smith, Thomas h.
Crittcndcn, Alvin C. Gillem, G. X. War
rem, Joseph +. Knipc, c. G. Walcott, John
Lane, A. II. MARYLAND, Superintendent
United States army mail.
This proposed convention is one that the
South may implicitly conlide in. 1t isnot
from the soldiers that We have anything tC
fear. Brave men who have fought in tho
field and endured the privations and peril:
of war are not malignant and cruel. The!
incline to magnanimity and fair dealing
They are satisfied with the blood shed
they have witnessed and fully appreciate
the blessings of peace. 1t is only those
who were towards in war-of whom BIT
LER is the type-who would be cruel and
tyrannical when the war is ended. These
with the miserable and heartless Radical
politicians, who never Smclt powder, would
keep up the war for the promotion of their
corrupt ambition and greed. These ut
tcrly heartless and INSCRIPTIONS mel
would ruin the country to accomplish then
own selfish ends. But the good sense O
the masses, the just sensibilitics and mag
unanimous impulses of the soldicrs-th,
sincere patriotism which animates both
will put down the dcstructivcs and rescue
the country.
OF course the South regards these
movements with very deep interest. She
has been denied all participation in The
Government while she has been made t.
bear her full share of its burthcns. lie
rights and privileges have been discussed
and the disposition to be made of her Ia
been debated in councils in which she hat
no voice, and where the generous sympa
thiscr hardly dared to demonstrate agains
the expressions and humiliations hcapc'
upon her. A barbarian nation, subduc'
by the Roman army, received more con
sideration and humanity at the hands O
the Roman Senate than did the South a
those of the Radical American Congress
But the better portion of the nation, TIN
more rejecting part Of the northern
people, are outraged at the conduct of tn
Congress, and are banding together to re
form its policy, correct its errors, an'
wipe out its malignitcs that have founC
expression in unconstitutional acts. Tia
they will triumph we arc fully con
WINGED.
The movement is full of Importance t,
the South. Her rights, her welfare, are al
stakcd on the result of the great struggle
She is now paralyzcd in her industry and
retarded in the recuperation Of her cner.
gies. She cannot make her resources
whose fate is uncertain and alarming. II
would be indeed day of rejoicing that
would drive from Office and power the