The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-30
National Union Convention.

A national union convention of at least two
delegates from each congressional district of al
the states, two from each territory, two from
the District of Columbia, and four delegates al
large from each state will be held q. the city oil
Philadelphia on the second Tuesday, (l4h) Of
august merit.
Such delegates will be chosen by tie electors
of the several states who sustain the administra
tion 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
states in the Union, including the right of repre-
sentation IN congress, are solemnly guaranteed
by that constitution, to save which from over
throw 80 much blood and treasure were expend-
ed in the late civil war
There ia 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 10 abolished, aud neither can nor
ought to be rs.establshed in any state or terri
tory within our jurisdiction.
A@ch ssase mas the unuouDted right to pre-
scribe the qualifications of it's own electors. and
no external power rightfuliy can or ought to
dictate, control or influence the free and yolun.
tary 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 sta tie
TO order and control its own domestic Concerns
according to its own judgment exclusively, sub
ject only to the constitution of the United States
ieessential to that balance of power on which
the perfection and endurance of the political fab
rae depend, and the overthrow of that system BY
the usurpation and Capitalization of power in
Congress- would be a revolution, dangerous to
republican government and destructive of liber-
ty.
Eacn mouse OF congress is made. by the con-
stitutiou, the sole judge of the elections returns
and qualifications of its members lint the ex-
clusion OF loyal senators and re,rosant.t;ros
properly chosen and qualified under the cons,;.
tuition and laws, is unjust and revolutionary
Every patriot should frown upon all those acts
and proceedings everywhere which can serve No
other purpose than to rekindle the animosities of
war, and the effect of which upon our moral
social and material interests at home, and upon
our standing abroad, differing only in degree, is
injurious like war itself.
The purpose Of tho war having been to pre-
serve the Union and the constitution by putting
down rebellion and the rebellion having been
suppressed, all 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
sominissraton1 SO that union, harmony and con-
cord may be encouraged, and industry, COM
ulesoe' ana sne arts OF peace revived and promo