The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-13
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ventfOn.
! I'nionists of the South

meya,ed IN The Constitution, and established
by tie Supreme iatc, must be maintained in
rioidte.'
Rebels and rebel sympathizcrs assert
that "he rights Of the citisen must he tcft
10 the States alone, and under s7tch reguid-
tons as the respective States choose rot,nfd-
rilyto prescribe"
We have seen this doctrine Of State so
vcrcignty carried out in its practical re-
suits until all authority in Congress was
denied, the Union temporarily destroyed,
the constitutional rights of the citizen ri
the South nearly annihilatcd, and the land
dcSolatcd by civil war.
The time has come when the rcstruc-
tire of southern State government must
be laid on constitutional principles, or the
dcspotiSm, grown up under an atrocious
leadership, he permitted to remain. We
know of no other plan than that Congress,
under its constitutional powers, shall now
exercise its authority to establish the prin-
ciplc whereby protection is made co-cXtcn-
sivc with citizenship.
We maintain that no State, either by its
organic law or legislation, can make trans
grcSSion on the rights of the citizen lcgiti-
mate. We demand, and ask you to concur
in demanding, protection to every citizen
of the great Republic on the basis of
equality before the law; and further, that
no State government should be recognized
as legitimate under the Constitution in so
far as it does not by its organic law make
impartial protection full and complete.
Under the doctrine Of State sovereign
ty," with rebels in the foreground, con-
trolling southern legislatures, and embit-
tered by disappointment in their schemes
10 destroy the Union, there will be no
safety for the loyal element of the South.
Our reliance for protection is now on Con-
grcss and the great Union party that has
stood and is standing by the nationality,
by the constitutional rights of the citizen,
and by the bcncficcnt principles of free
government.
For the purpose of bringing the loyal
Unionists Of the South into coniunctivc ac-
tion with the true friends of republican
government in the North, we invite you to
send delegates in goodly numbers from all
the southern States, including Missouri,
Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and
Delaware. to meet at independence Hall,
in the city of Philadelphia, on the first
Monday of September next. 1t is pro-
posed that we should meet at that
time to recommend measures for the cs-
Establishment Of such government in the
South as accords with and protects the
rights of all citizens. We trust this call
will be responded TO by numerous delcga-
tionS of such as represent the true loyalty
Of the South. That kind of government
which gives full protection to all rights ofthc
citizen, such as our fathers intended, we
claim rs our birthright. Either the lovers
of constitutional liberty must rule the ma
ton or rebels and their sympathizers be
permitted 10 miSrulc it. Shall loyalty or
di~loyalty have the keeping of the dcSti-
nics Of the nation, Let the responses to
this call, which is now in circulation for
signatures, and is beingnumerously signed,
answer. Notice is given that gentlemen at
a distance can have their names attached
to it by sending request by letter di-
rcctcd to ID. W. Bingham, Esq, of Wash
ington, ID. {.
W. Is. STOKES, Tennessee.
JOSEPH 5. FOWLER, Tennessee.
JAMES GETTYs, Tennessee.
4. J. HAMILTON, Texas.
GEORGE W. PAsCHAL, Texas.
LORENZO SHERWOOD, Texas.
C. b. SABIN. Texas.
e.. W. ASHBURN, Georgia.
HENRY e.. COLE, Georgia.
}. W. McCLuRG, Missouri.
,IoHN X. kEIso, Missouri.
J. +. BENJAMIN, Missouri.
GEORGE W. ANDERSON, Missouri.
JonN B. TRoTH, Fairfax county, Va.
J. NJ. STEWART, Alexandria, Va.
WM. n. BERkLEY, Alexandria, Va.
ALLEN c. HARMON, Alexandria, Va.
LEWIS MCkENZIE, Virginia.
J. W. IIrNNICCTr, Virginia.
JOIN c. UNDERWOOD, Virginia.
BrRNHAM WARDwELI, Virginia.
ALEXANDER NJ. DAVIS, Virginia.
BYRON LAFLIN, North Carolina.
DAHL II. GoopLoE, North Carolina.
GEORGE REESE, Alabama.
ID. II. BINGHAM, Alabama.
NJ. II. SAFFoRD, Alabama.
J. II. LARcoMBE, Alabama.
WASHINGTON, July 1, 1866.
Louisiana Delegates to the Phiiadel.
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