The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-28
National Union Convention.

A national union convention of at 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
large from each state will be held at the city of
Philadelphia on the second Tuesday, ll4h) OF
August merit.
Such delegates will be chosen by the electors
of the several states who sustain the administra-
ton in maintaining unbroken the Union of the
states under the constitution which our fathers
established, and who agree in the following
propositions, viz:
The Union of the states is in every case indis-
soluble and is perpetual and the constitution
OF the United States and the laws passed by con-
gress in pursuance thereof are supreme, and con-
slant and universal in their obligations.
The rights the dignity and the equality of the
tates in the Union including the right of repre-
sentation IN congress, are so$emnly guaranteed
by that constitution, to save which from er-
throw so much blood and treasure were expend-
ed in the late civil war
There is no right anywhere to dissolve the
Union or to separate states from the Union, eth
er by voluntary withdrawal, by force of arms, or
by congressional action, neither BY the secession
of states, nor by the exclusion of their loyal and
qualified representatives nor by the national
government in any other form.
Slavery is abolished and neither can nor
ought to be re-established in any state or terri
tory within our jurisdiction.
Each state has the undoubted right to pre-
scribe the qualifications of its own electors and
no external power rightfuy can or ought to
dictate, control or influence the free and volun-
tary action of the states in the exercise of that
right.
The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the
states, and especially of the tight of each state
to order and control its own domestic concerns
according to its own judgment exclusively, sub
ect only to the constitution of the United States
is essential to that balance of power which
the perfection and endurance of the political fab
ric depend, and the overthrow of that system b.
the usurpation and Capitalization of power il
ongress would be a revolution, dangerous e
republican government and destructive of Hber
ty. 1886
Each house of congress is made. by the con
stitution the sole Judge of the elections. returns
and qualifications of its members hut tho ex
cluson of loyal senators and REPRESENTATIVE,
properly chosen and qualified under the consti
tuition and laws, is unjust and revolutionary.
Every patriot should frown upon all those act,
and proceedings everywhere which can serve n,
other purpose than to rekindls the animosties o
war, and the effect of which upon our moral
social and material interests at home, and upol
our standing abroad, differing only in degree, i
injurious like war itself
The purpose of the war having been to pre-
serve the Union and the constitution by putting
down rebellion, and the rebellion having beer
suppressed, all resistance to the authority of thu
general government being at an end, and the wa
having ceased, war measures should also cease
and should be followed by measures of peaceful
ADMINISTRATOR 80 that union, harmony and con
cord may be encouraged, and industry, com
meroe, and the arts of peace revived and promo