Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-09-06
Philadelphia Union Convention
Grand Assemblage of Patriots
A Magnificent Welcome.
First Days Proceedings.

quarters is decorated with flags. Hotels
are overAowing with delegates.
The Press publishes the following:
SAN Francisco. Sept. lst TO Hon. A.
J Hamilton, of I eras, care Of Hon j. W.
Forney, PhiJadclphta. The Pacific States
send cordial congratulations to your conven-
tion. May your deliberations promote the
adoption of the only wise plan of reconstruc-
b. f. Low, Governor of California; H. G..
Blaisdel, Governor OF Nevada; A 9. Gibbs,
Governor of Oregon; Geo. +. Woods, Gov.
ernor elect of Oregon"
The Union League, about five hundred
strong, assembled at the League House,
formed in procession, and, while marching
down Chestnut street. were Joined by the
members of the National Union Club
Each had bands and banners, and an abun.
dance of flags. They entered Independence
Square, and, forming in line, received with
hearty cheers the Southern delegation, as
well as the delegations from the Northern
States. Generals Butler and Burnside,
Governors Sprague and Brownlow, Fred,
Douglas and others, were welcomed with
cheers. The procession then formed on
Walnut street. headed by the Union League;
the National Union Club followed, escorting
the Southern delegation. Kentucky came
first, and was followed by Tennessee, seventy
five in number, headed by carriage, con
tanning Governor Brownlow, and other
prominent delegates. Other Southern
States followed, including West Virginia,
Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas
the 'boys in blue" carrying some tattered
flags that passed through the war, and also
a handsome stand of colors, preceded by
delegations from the Northern States, the
prominent members of which were cheered
by the spectators. The Republican Invinci-
bles, five hundred strong, followed carrying
guidons, and were succeeded by a large dele
cation of firemen with seven hose carriages
and one steam engine, beautifully decorated
with flowers. Large delegations followed
from Delaware and Allegheny Counties,
and from Camden, N. j., and Wilmington,
Del. The New Jersey delegates bad nu-
merous banners with notices, Welcome
to the Southern delegates" and, ''1s there
no Mayor in Philadelphia The process
sion marched down Walnut street to Third,
up Third to Chestnut, and then up Chest
mt to Broad street. Chestnut street is lib.
orally decorated with bunting, and the side
walks were densely packed with spectators
throughout the line of march,
The formal welcome to the Southern dele
League House. An address was delivered
by Charles Gibbons, and was responded to
by Governor Hamilton, of Texas.
NATIONAL GUARDS HALL PHILADEL
PHIA, Sept 81 p. M.-The Southern dele
CATION have just entered and occupied their
seats, the Tennessee delegation in 'front.'
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the delegates. Col. Newnes, of Kentucky,
who read the call for the Convention Dr..
Sydney; of Mississippi, was then requested,
hy the Chairman, TO announce the Tempo.
rary officers of the Convention. Pe nomi-
mated Thomas j. Durant, of L uisiana, for
temporary President The nomination was
received with great applause, and the noIn-
nee was unanimously elected. Mr.. Durant
replied in brief speech TO the compliment.
The Temporary Secretaries were then nomi-
mated and elected. The proceedings were
then opened by prayer by the Rev. j. w.
Jackson, of Mississippi. G. G. Fulton, of
Baltimore, has been selected by the Mary
land delegates to represent that State in the
Committee on Resolutions. Special Com
mittees on Credentials were appointed. -
About quarter to IL o'clock the procession
from Independence Hall passed in trent of
the Union League house on Broad street,
which was decorated with bunting. On the
portico stood, in company with several
Directors of the Union League, Gov. Curtin,
of Penn, and John Minor Bolts, of Va. I,
and others. The procession was headed by
a platoon Of police on foot, who we're follow
cd by a mounted squadron Of boys In blue
sashes." Then came the men on foot
accompanied by bands of music and singing
patriotic songs. When Governor Curtin
was recognized by the men marching past,
he was loudly cheered and open barouche,
containing Gov. Hamilton, of Texas, and
Gov. Brownlow of Tennessee, headed by the
Southern delegates, were cheered with much
enthusiasm. The Southern delegates form
ed in front Of the Union League House, and
the crowd filed up the whole space which
had been until then kept clear. Cheers
we've given for Hamilton, Brownlew and
Gen. Geary, and for Gov. Curtin as the next
Senator from Pennsylvania. After some
time, while the procession was still in
motion, with music playing and banners
waving, the reception speech was delivered
BY Mr.. Charles Gibbons, Chairman of the
Committee ofReception. There must have
been over ten thousend people in the street
VubO VT. OluOOuo wan cpOhhiuk.
Mr.. Gibbons greeted the delegates from
the South as fellow loyalists, fellow citizens,
friends and brethren. There was no blood
on their hands, and their souls were free
from the guilt of treason. They had held
fast to their integrity although their homes
had been desolated, their pleasant places
laid. waste and them aud their wives and
children driven into exile. The sympathy
which the men Of the North felt for them
at that time was flashed. from a million
Northern bayonets aud pronounced by the
mouths of Northern cannons. He proclaim
ed it as the honest sentiment OF the North
that when the South returned to her duty
she must come in new robes with new Gov
enants for liberty, equality and justice, led by
her own loyal Unionists who are free from
the guilt OF treason. Cheers. What hope
in the future or what security had they if
unpunished and unrepentent traitors were
to he reinstated in power by the arbitrary
and besotted will of one man under Con
stitution they had deliberately foresworn.
The answer was already written in the blood
Of the murdered oyalists OF New Orleans.
They, the men of the South, were here on
the high and solemn mission Of the re-es-
tablishmsnt Of the American Union on the
broad and sure foundation of equal and ex-
act justice to all men. GCheers. II would |
stand upon no other. They could not be so |