The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-22
UNION REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
All the States In the Field-The Battle
of Ideas-ResOlutiOnsO OF the Union Re-
publican Senators.

in either House of Congress;-
Edwin d. Morgan, Senator nom New York. Chair
jacob iSs H. Ella. Ri Representstive New Hampshire.
Worthington Q. Smith, Representative, Vermont
Wiiiism % mIpTa spTaF1e' Tpi Senator Rhode Island
Orris g. Ferry, Senator, Connecticut
William p Kelley KspreSen,tStlvs Ps51nsylvania
famss fRnnS'V w i1SITsf STe senspoT. NeSSds
Joseph s. Fowler, Senator; Tennessee.
Robert g. sc6enck, Representative. Ohio.
sdh9ey Sohn ySoSST5 SaTb Indiana
John A. Logan; Represeniatiye. Hi In9is: 0...,
cbPSnS SsfPa hSnSe MSSs SioSsan
BENJAMIN j II r. Hopkins Representative, v iscOnsin.
5Shn Comes Senator CsIltStpIS ,t,nns,oa
George WhlIbS@Ss Senator STegSn west vrp
John M Broomail. Representative, Pennsylvania,
i0i N''@"N EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Robert c. schenck, Representative, Ohio, Chairman.
John Conness, Senator, California,
William D. Kellsy psnnsylvAnia
John JohR H. BTco%a % %PeRnsylvanla
oakes Ames, RePresentative,, ,d Massachusetts; n ,
WILLIAM s. HUNTINeToN, Cashier First National
Bank, Washington d. g., Treasurer.
UNION REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL ExEcU-
TIVE COMMITTEE, WAsHINGToN, d. O., July 20,
lS67.-To Hon. -, Sir;-Ihe Union Hepnoll-
gress assembled on the evening of July Is. In
the Hall of Representatives, to hear the report
of the Union Republican Congressional Execu-
reconstruction campaign.
The following resolution was adopted
OF the Fortet6 hSSing s
with great e Sne @n oers S s9s
said committee therefore pledge our personal efforts
money for the use OF said committee Immediately
upon our return To our constituents.
The Committee, therefore, In urging the I'M
portance of immediate and vigorous labor,
desires to briefly recapitulate what has been
done; the agencies and opportunities now at its
command, and the necessities which require
assistance. During the few months that nave
elapsed since the Reconstruction acts were
passed, this Committee has been earnestly at
work. For the first time opportunity offered
for discussion in the south OF the principles.
zation-the party of national progress, po-
litical justice. and territorial integrity. 1t
was determined to inaugurate vigorous and
comprehensive agitation of questions connected
with these subjects This purpose has been as
fHIly carried out as the means at the disposal
of the CommiLtee would permit The Com
mittee has recesved but SIS, ,25O, mainly derived
from the two Houses of Congress There is now
expected from various sources sums amounting
in all to 4.500, which will about cancel ooliga:
s@oSt' ai1nS the COMMITTEES has sent several hun
dred thousand suitable documents through the
South. 1t has employed ouer seventy active
and intelligent speakers and organizers, who
have been at work in the unreconstrucled
States, and to a limited extent in Tennessee
Both white and colored men have been and are
now employed. In addition to those directly
controlled by the Committee, State Committees,
and Union League Councils with other auXili-
aries have been aided. Under this stimulus, in
manv localities, funds have been raised to de-
fray the expenses of local agents, and much
The Committee has the names of twenty
thousand loyal persons at the south 70 Wnom
fourth of that number large packages are for
warded, so that 1t is in the way OF i'm mediate
| distribution of one hundred thousand or more
| copies of any document 1T desires to circulate.
| This list is being daily augmented. The Com
mlttees correspondence Is very extensive,
| hundreds of letters being received weekly from
| all parts of the South. From their contents a
| minute knowledge OF the necessities OF almost
every Congressional district is readily attained.
| or agents Low in the field, some are at work
| in every State, Republican organization
| exists in each State, the representatives
| of which are in constant correspondence
| with this Committee. Union League Councils
| are being rapidly formed. Our agents are all
| empowered and directed 80 aid the organiza-
| ton and as the Grand Presidents Office is
located iu this city, we are enabled to bring
| ample means at the committees disposal there
| would be no diHiculty in widely extending its
| Operations The demands made far exceed its
| means, present and prospective. A large num-
| Der of intelligent men, white and colored, are
| advantageously employed. Our funds have
| been altogether devoted TO circulating suitable
| reading matter and employing speakers and
J oIeanizers They will continue to be so used.
| This committee cannot undertake the esta-
| bishment or supporter Republican newspapers
| although that important agency demands at
| tention When the military bills became law,
| there were in the South but fifteen Republican
! are now ninety, twenty OF which are dailies.
| The speediest method of establishing avigorous
| Republican press, without which no permanent
success can De obtained, is to give the Republi-
can party control of the State organizations.
This object can be permanently seedred
corresponding efforts are made. The present
c0mpaign is but continuation OF the
war. 1t has however, assumed another
shape 1t is no longer the shock of armirs
but the conflict of ideas, The thunder OF guns
no longer rends the sky or makes the earth
tremble; but the results tor which our best lives
were given are still trembling In the balance
We contend for the principles for which we
| fought. We seek power, because we believe in
our principles They cannot control unless
aid those who work for that success. Shall we
| lose an empire from want of this material aid
Shall we, victorious in the field be defeated al
OF the hour with those who desire to see the
entire South, lately cursed with slavery and
music of the Union" in the solid column
of Republican States, are active work
ample means, and unfaltering faith. your
Committee have faith and can work efficiently
Means only are lacking to carry each one OF the
unreconstructed States at the elections provided
for by Congress: II adequate funds are fur
ensure the electoral vote of each regenerated
State for the Presidential standard-oearer o.
are very poor they are with us in every desire
for success, but they need assistance both O
money for political organization, and OF know
ledge for the best means of etfecting il, Slavery
crushed the white friends of the nation as
well as oppressed It's colored allies. The Rebel,
lion impoverished them as we'll as those who
rebelled. Shall be let them again be sacrificed
for want OF means to send men to them or &C
enable them TO help themselves? In lhe spirit
of the foregoing resolution, we ask earnest and
immediate work In obtaining funds. PRESSING
calls are constantly being made. to many o
which we are wholly unable to respond II
view Of the great objects for which we strive
we assure our friends that 500 now will acoo n
I plsh far more than $4,000 win twelve month";
; later.