The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-29
Tisc oaasiasi.i'Gaai.
:ss.ss Tise oaiieiaI Gaai.
The scs..sss::;ae IS the ofHs;al call for
the National gnion ConTention 70
which We referred yesterday: E


gressional District of all the States,
two from each Territory, two from
the District of Columbia, and four
delegates at large from each State,
will be held at the city of Philadol-
phia, on the second Tuesday OATH
Of August next.
Such delegates will be chosen by
the electors of the several States who
sustain the Administration in main
tanning unbroken the union of the
States'uhder the Constitution which
our fathers established, and who
agree in the following propositions,
VII. -s-5a ~,
The union of the States is in every
case indissoluble, and is perpetual;
and the Constitution of the United
States, and the laws passed by Con-
gress in pursuance thereof, supreme,
and constant and universal in their
obligation.
The rights, the dignity, and the
equality of the States in the Union,
including the right of representation
in Congress, are solemnly guaranteed
by that Constitution, to save which
from overthrow so much blood and
treasure were expended in the late
civil war;
There is no right, anywhere, to dis
solve the Union or to separate States
from the Union, either by voluntary
withdrawal, by force Of arms, or by
! Congressional action; neither by the
secession of the States, nor by the
exclusion of their loyal and qualified
Representatives, nor by the National
Government in any other form.
Slavery is abolished, and neither
can, nor ought to be, re-established
in any State OF Territory within our
jurisdiction.
Each State has the undoubted
right to prescribe the qualifications
of it's own electors, and no external
power rightfully can, or ought to,
dictate, control or influence the free
and voluntary 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 State to order and
control its own domestic concerns,
according to its own Judgment ex-
clusively, subject only to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, rs essen
tial to that balance of power on which
the perfection and endurance of our
political fabrics depend and tho over
throw of that system by the usurpa-
ton and Capitalization of power in
Congress, would be revolution dan
gerous to republican government,
and destructive of liberty.
Each House of Congress is made,
by the Constitution, the sole Judge
of the elections, returns and qualifi-
cations of its members; but the exclu-
sion of loyal Senators and Represen-
tatives, properly chosen and qualified
under the Constitution and the laws,
is unjust and revolutionary.
Every patriot should frown upon
all those acts and proceedings every
whore, which can serve no other pur-
pose than to rekindle the animosities
of war, and the effect of which upon
our moral, social and material inte-
rests at home, and upon our stand
!, ing abroad, differing only in degree,
is injurious like war itself.
The purpose of the war having
been to preserve the Union and the
Constitution by putting down re-
bellion, and the rebellion having been
suppressed, all resistance to the nu-
thority of the General Government
being ut an end, and the war having
ceased, war measures should also
cease, and should be followed by mea-
sures Of peaceful administration, SO
that union, harmony and concord
may be encouraged, and industry,
commerce and the arts of peace re-
vived and promoted; and the early
restoration of all tho States to the
exercise of their constitutional powers
in the National Government is indis-
pensably necessary to the strength
and the defence Of the republic, and
to the maintenance of tho public
credit
All such electors in the thirty-six
States and nine Territories of the
United States, and in the District Of
Columbia, who, in q spirit Of patriot
ism and love for the Union, can rise
above personal and sectional consi-
derations, and who desire to see n
truly National Union Convention,
which shall represent all the States
and Territories Of the Union, assem-
bic as friends and brothers under the
national flag, to hold counsel together
upon the state of the Union, and to
take measures to avert possible danger
from the same, are especially request