The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

sxtention to those Of them who have sur
Fzived, and to toe widows and orphans Of
those who have fallen, the most generous
and eonsiderate care.
10. In Andrew Johnson. President of the
HDnited States, who ia his great Office has
hpToved steadiast 10 his devotion to the laws
and interests Of his country, unmoved by
prosecutions and undeserYed reproach,
haViug faith immeasurable in the people
lRnd the principles Of the Government, we
Fecognize Chief Magistrate worthy Of the
pation and equal to the great crisis upon
snieh his lot is cast. and we tender to him
ths discharge Of bis high and responsi-
= S@%ies. our profound respect sud sssur-
ance of our cordial and sincere support.
After the vote had been taken on the
adoption Of the foregoing Declaration Of
Principles, it was found that the reading Of
9TH one had been omitted. by accident. and
the fact was announced by Mr.. Doolittle.-
1t was then adopted with great applause
and unanimity. The Declaration of Prin-
ciples was then adopted as q whole, with
enthusiastic cheers for the adoption. Three
cheers we're called for and given in the most
enthusiastic manner for Senator Cowan, of
Pennsylvania.
Senator Cowau acknowledged the compli-
ment, but said that as he considered him
self the host of the convention, his distiu-
gnished guest would address it by virtue Of
authority unanimously derived from the
Committee on Resolutions and Address,
named Hon. H J. Raymond, of New York
Mr.. Raymand therefore proceeded to read
the Address, which had been written by
himself, as had also the Declaration of
Principles.
He was so frequently interrupted by ap-
plause that the chairman appealed to the
convention TO restrain such manifestations
until the reading of the address should be
concluded. Nevertheless, at the close Of
the sentence declaring that 40 people sub
jectsd to such treatment as that to which
the South was now subjected could long
remain loyal, cheer after cheer resouuded
through the wigwam.
Senator johnson asked that the sentence
be. repeated, aud it was read again as fol
lows: ''No people has ever yet existed
whose loyalty and faith such treatment, long
continued. would not ALLEVIATE and dispair.
/ The ten millions of Americans who live ia
the South would be unworthy citizens of
! free country, degenerate sons Of heroic
ancestry, unfit ever to beooG.e the guardi-
ans of the rights aud Liberties bequeathed to
US by our fathers and founders of this Re-
public, if they could accept with uncom-
planning submission the humiliation thus
sought to be imposed upon Them"
This sentence was again cheered with
the greatest enthusiasm, and at the close of
the reading of the address, Ex-Governor
Perry, of South Carolina, rose and moved
it's adoption.
The motion was declared carried unani-
mously amid prolonged cheering.
Mr.. Tildeu, of New York, then rose and
proposed, on behalf of the New York dele
cation, three cheers for Hon, II. ]. Ray
mond, who had prepared the address just
read.
| Mr.. Patton, on behalf of the Penusylva-
MIA delegation, seconded the call.
Three cheers were then enthusiastically
given.
The address contains about 5000 words,
and will make not far from four solid col
umns in the New York morning papers. It
demands the universal acknowledgement of
of the legitimate consequence of war, which
are the perpetual maintenance of union and
the destruction of slavery; it asserts, next,
that the Government acquired no new rights
or powers by the war; that it acted only on
the defensive.
Congress had passed resolutions that
when the war closed, all the powers and
dignity Of States should remain unimpaired.
The power assumed by the Government ip
the States since the war closed was in yio-
lation of the Constitution.
The Constitution declares that 10 State
shall, without its own consent, be deprived
of its equal representation in the Senate
This action of Congress denying represen-
tstion to the Southrn States, appears as great
an effort to overthrow the Government az
vas that Of armed rebellion. II Congress
can exclude on one Pretext, another Con-
gress may exclude other States on anothsI
pretext.
] There is no warrant for this IN the Con.
stitution. Not only caanot representatives
be excluded from Congress, but no STATE
without its own consent can be deprived o.
equal representation in the Senate even by
an amendment of the Constitution. The
only pretext for the action of Congress IL
, that the States lately in rebellion have los
r their right to representation, which th'
. supreme Government only can restore, bu
it Is principle that no right can be i'm
. paired by rebellion only its enjoyment o
that privilege.