Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-07-11
FROM WASHING TON.
Democratic Address to the Ped
pie Of the United States
ExclnsisE Of Eleven States from Representa-
tiOn in Congress.
NATIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILA-
DELPHIA APPROVED.
MINES or THE DISTINGUISHED
,SIGNERS or THE CALL.
WASHINGTON, July 3, 1866.
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To the People of the United States
Dangers threaten The Constitution. the
citadel ofour liberties, is directly assailed.
The future is dark; unless the people will
come to the rescue In this hour ofperil the
National Union should be the watchword of
every true man. AS essential to National
Union, we must maintain unimpaired the
rights, the dignity and the equality of the
States, including the right of representation
in Congress, and the exclusive rightof each
State to control its own domestic concerns.
subject only to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States. After uniform construction
of the Constitution for more than halfa CEN
tury, the assumption of new and arbitrary
powers In the Federal Government is sub
verslve of our system and destructive of lib
erty.
A free Interchange of opinion and kind
feeling between the citizens of all the States
is necessary to the perpetuity ofthe Union.
At present eleven States are excluded from
the National council. Forseven long months
the present Congress has persistently denied
any right OF representation to the people of
these States
Laws affecting their highest and dearest
interests have been passed without their con-
sent, and in disregard of the fundamental
principle of free government This denial
of representation has been made to all the
members from State, although the State,
in the language of the President, 'presents
itself not only in an attitude of loyalty and
harmony but in the persons of representa-
tIves whose loyalty can not bequestioned un-
der any existing Constitutional orlegal test
The representatives of nearly one-third of
the States have not been consulted with ref
erence to the great questions of the day
nar.n hay
the present Congress. There has been no
intercourse between the representatives of
the two section, producing mutual confidence
and respect
In the language ofthe distinguished Lieu
tenant general, 1T is to be regretted that at
tins time there can not bea greater comming-
ling between the citizens of the two sections,
and particularly of those intrusted with the
law-making power" This state of things
should be removed at once, and forever
Therefore, to preserve the National Union,
to yindicate the sufficiency of our admirable
Constitution, to guard the States from CO.
vert attempts to deprive them of their true
position in the Union, and to bring together
those who are unnaturally severed, and for
these great national purposes only, we cor
daily approve the call for National Union
Convention, to be held at the city of Phila-
delphia on the second Tuesday, the 18th of
Augustnext, and indorse the principles there
in set forth.
We therefore respectfully but earnestly
urge upon our fellow-citizens in each State,
Territory and Congressional District in the
United States, in the interest of union and
in a spirit of harmony, and with direct ref
erence to the principles contained in said
call, to act promptly in the selection ofmod-
crate and conservative men to torepresent them
in said Convention, to the end that all the
States shall at once be restored to their prac-
teal relations to the Union, the Constitution
be maintained, and peace belss the whole