Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-08-21
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THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION
Interesting Summary of Domestic and
Foreign Intelligence.
Especial By Telegraph TO the New Orleans Times

olstes every loyal person.
The movement is looked upon as an
enormous victory.
The President is highly delighted and
encouraged by its success, which was much
greater than the most sanguine anticipated
The Radicals already exhibit unmistaka-
| Bile sym ptoms of fear.
Such journals as Forney's Press ackoowl-
edge that it will be difficult for them to
retain power in Congress.
The National Soldiers Convention will
be the next great feature Of the Conserva-
tive movement. Gems. Averill Custer,
McCook, Rousseau and others equally
prominent, have signed the call.
Southern soldiers of distinction are
equally forward in the movement.
The Convention is to be held in Cincin-
natl IN September.
The Presidents proclamation, with
drawing the provisional government Of
Texas, and restoring power to the elected
government, and restoring the writ of
habeas corpus throughout the country, are
looked for tomorrow.
The cholera has appeared in Richmond,
Virginia.
Extensive arrangements are making for
the trip of the President and Cabinet TO
the Northwest, to participate in the inau-
guration of the Douglas monument.
The Queen of the Sandwich Islands
spent the day at Mount Vernon.
TO the Associated Pressl
WASHINGTON, August Is The commit
tee with the official proceedings Of she
National Union Convention will wait on
the President Saturday. 1t is understood
the President will, on that occasion, pre-
sent his views on the present political
situation.
PHILADEL Aug. Is Senator Doc
! little said in bis opening address the Con-
venton was ore Of the grandest events Of
our day 1t was the first National Con-
vention in six years. In the interim there
had been blood, agony and tears. Our
brothers had fallen and our resources been
wasted on u thousand battle fields, but
thank God, the assurances here tell us
pence has come ut last. If the people of
the whole country could see the fraterna
| feeling here there would be no struggle at
the polls this fall, [Great applause but az
| the whole people cannot be here to witness
what is transpiring, the greater work rents
on Us. From this time until the election of
the next Congress we should be untiring in
our exertions to see that the next Congress,
| if this one shall continue to refuse the
sacred right Of represen tafion to equal
States, that the next shall recognize them.
| Applause w hen that is done tho Union
is restored. We shall be prepared to enter
the nations Of the earth than has ever been
occupied by any Government upon which
| the sun of heaven ever shoGe. Applause
| ORsANTsATIoN.-J. r. Doolitte, Presi
dent. Among the Vice Presidents are:
J. W. Broken borough, Virginia: John A.
| Gilmer, North Carolina; Judge Wardlow
South Carolina; r. L. Lyons, Georgia;
Judge Randall Florida; Cuthbert Bullitt,
Louisiana;J j. NJ. Dibbetts, Arkansas; d.
G.. Burnett, Texas; Geo. S. Houston, A Ia
bama; r. A. Z. Nelson, Tennessee; Edgar
Cowan, of Pennsy lvania, Chairman Of the
Committee on Resolutions; Senator Dixon,
| Connecticut; Raymond, New York; Bixler,
Pennsylvania; Reverdy johnson, Mary
land Graham, North Carolina; Governor
Perry, South Carolina; G. G. Langdon,
| Alabama; William S. Yerger, Mississippi
John Ray, Louisiana; McDougal, Califor-
MIA, and others.
| PHILADELPHIA, August 16.--At meet
| ing Of the National Union Executive Com
| mlttee, resolutions were adopted earnestly
recommending to the friends of peace
nnion, liberty and law, in each county Of
the States and Territories, to hold mass
meetings, for the ratifying the action Of
the Convention, and provide means to
| place It's proceedings in the hands of every
citizen of the Republic.
PHILADELPHIA, August 16.-The Con-
| ventIon address has been adopted. 1t in
vokes the people of the United States to
remember that the war has ended, and
that the nation is again at peace, and to
accept with all their legitimate conse-
quences the political results of the war
that it has established beyond all further
controversy, and by the highest of all hui
man sanction, the absolute supremacy Of
the National Government as defined by
the Constitution; that the permanent in
tegrity and iEdissoubility Of the Federal
Union are necessary consequences that il
has put an end, finally and forever, to the
existence of slavery upon the soil within
the jurisdiction Of the United States; thai
the Government Of the United States ha,
maintained by force of arms supreme au
thority over all Territories and over all
States and people within its jurisdictions
which the Constitution eonfers upon it
that it has acquired thereby no new
power or enlarged Jurisdiction, no rights
either of territorial possession or of civil
authority which it did not possess before
the rebellion; that the Constitution to-day
is precisely as it was before the war; thu
supreme law Of the land, anything in The
Constitution or laws Of the State to The
contrary Notwithstanding, aud to day
precisely as before the war, ell powers no
conferred by the Constitution upon the
General Government nor prohibited by i
to the states, are reserved to the severa
StateR or to the people thereof.
During the war every Executive mes
sage and proclamation explicitly declared
that the sole purpose Of the war was t
maintain the authority of the Constitution
and preserve the integrity Of the Union
and Congress ratified this solemn declara
ton. Congress has since proclaimed tina
the Government has the right Of conquer
ors to subject the territory conquered ant
it's inhabitants to such penalties as tn
Legislative department may impose. I'm
der this claim that clause of The Constitu
ton declaring that no State, without 1t
consent, shall be denied equal suffrsg
in the Senate, has been annulled, and tel
States are deprived of representation, al
though the Federal Courts are reopenet
and taxes imposed,
This claim, 50 enforced involves as fata
an overthrow of the authority of the Con
stitution as that sought to be effected b.