The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-07-05
A CALI FOB THE NATIONAL UNION coNvEN-
TI0N

delphia on the 14th of August next, telegraphlc
summary of which was published in the Times yes
terday morning 1t is understood to have the ap-
proval of gentlemen of prominence, in addition to
those whose names are appended, and may there
foss be regarded as most important political pa
per:
ga National Union Convention of ut least two
delegates from each Congressional district of all
the. States; two from each Territory two from
the District of Columbia, and four delegates at
Arge from each State, will be held at the city of
Philadelphia on the second Tuesday, the 18th 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 our
9orefathers established, and who agree in the fol-
lowing propositions, viz: "The Union of the States
IS in every case udssoluble and is perpetual, and
the Constitution of the United States and the laws
paasod by Congress in pursuance thereof, supreme,
and constant, and universal in their obligation.
"The rights the dignity, and the equality of the
States in the Union, including the right OF repre-
uentation in Congress, are solemnly guaranteed by
that Constitution, to save which from overthrow
much blood and treasure was expended in the late
civil war.
sThere is no right anywhere to dissolve the
Union, or to separate States from the Union either
by voluntary withdrawal by force of arms, or by
Congressional action-neither by the secession Of
the States nor by the exclusion of their loyal and
qualified representatives, nor by the National Gov
ernment or any other power
"Slayery is abolished, and neither can nor
ought to be re-estabished in any Slate territory
within our jurisdiction.
sEach State has the undoubted right to pre-
scribe the qualifications of its electors, and no ez-
ternal powers rightfuly can or ought to dictate,
control or influence the free and voluntary action
Of the States in the exercise of that right.
"The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the
States and especially of the right of each State to
order and control its Own domestic concerns &C.
cording to- It's own judgment exclusively, subject
only to- the Constitution of the United States, is
essential to that balance of power on which the
perfection and endurance of our political fabric
depends, and the overthrow of that system by the
usurpation and Capitalization of power in Con-
gress would be revolution dangerous to republ-
can government and destructive of liberty.
4Each House of Congress is made by the Con-
stitutior the sole judge of the election returns and
qualifications of its members, but the exclusion Of
loyal Senators and Representatives, properly
chosen and qualified under the Constitution and
laws, is unjust and revolutionary. Every patriot
should frown upon oil those acts and proceedings
everywhere, which can serve no other purpose than
to rekindle the animosities of the war, and the
effect of which upon our moral, social and national
interests at home and upon our standing abroad,
differing only in degree, is injurious, like war
itself
oThe purposes OF the war having been to pre-
serve the Union and the Constitution, by putting
down the rebellion, and the rebellion having been
suppressed, oil resistance to the authority of the
General Government being at an end, and the war
having ceased, war measures should also cease and
should be followed by measures of peaceful ad-
ninis.ration, so that union, harmony and concord
nsay be encouraged, and industry, commerce and
the arts Of peace revived and promoted; and the
early restoration of all the States to the exercise OF
their constitutional powers in the National Gov
ernment is indispensably necessary to The strength
end to the defence of the Republic and to the
maintenance of the public credit.
stAll such electors in the thirty-six States and
nine Territories of the United States, and in the
District of Columbia, who in spirit of patriotism
and love for the Union, can rise above personal
and sectional considerations and who desire to see
. truly National Union Convention which shall
represent oil the States and Territories of the
Union, assembled as friends and brothers, under
the national flag, to hold council together upon
the state of the Union, and to take measures to
svert possible danger from the same, are specially
requested to take part in the choice of such dele
gates But no delegate will take seat in such
Convention who does not Loyalty accept the ma
tional situation and cordially endorse the princi-
pie above set forth, and who is not attached in
true allegiance to the Constitution, the Union and
tho Government of the United States.''
A. w RANDALL, President.
j. R. DooLITTLE,
O.. H. BROWNING,
EoDAR CowAN,
CHARLES KNAP,
SAMUEL FOWLER,
Executive Committee Nationsl Union Club.
Washington, June Is, 1866.
We recommend the holding Of the aboTe Convcn
tion and endorse the call therefor.
JAMES Dixon,
T. A. HENDRICKS,
DANIEL S. NORTON,
J. W. NEsMITH.
A letter from q source to be creditedi received
at Washington, 1st inst, dated Tampico, Mexico
June Is, says that the people Of Hujuta, and oil tn
other principal towns in the Huastela District
have risen again in. favor Of JuareA Victoria
also in the hands of the Juarists. The letter say