The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-01-31

CoNvENTtoN or TIE urlvEhshL fkAoh
al Hsrmouisi Hail gi on b, between Tenth and |
Eleventh streets, at 10 am; Yesterday: a., ,v,,.
evcrsveea wresths, portraits, notices, Sc, the |
lawful ~ Ghflstisn 70 bear arms. PIT W ny
bciaiI any colntry, i-aen. Wool. "Mcn who
have nice notions about religion have no busi'
:. Among those present We noticed Alfred II.
Love, Philadelphia James M. PEBBLES, Ney
Jer.ey, Father gceson, o5sgon, T. Ii X: JS.lin, X
Grange, wilmington 3. o. Y Suhninsh.n,
Washington, D. o., Joshua Hutchinson, Of tho
,m9S, H If he 4 pa.t Once
Department; Dr.. j. A. Rowland, of,wsshington.
Mr.. Alfred II. Love took the chair.
S. fsw oss sr gssS sna sSo
city had been In operation about two years, and
ahs,T SSssr sher foot '" TSsg would
nounco war as a relic OF barbarism.
Levi X. Josiin read the minutes OF tho last
On motion. Rev. James M. PEBBLES and Mrs
Anna Denton Grange, Of Warrington, were ap..
pointed as secretaries for tho present series OF
The CHAIR announced letters from Mrs. NJ. $.
Townsend, now IN wissonsin, Esra H. Hayward,
Ion White, in Rhode Island, and others, who re.
GREETED their absenee from the meetings, and
hs e
The Chair read the report Of MI Isaac Wins
low on resolution adopted BY the last conycn-
ton an IN re s 10 coh
which no states that he had sent the resolution
70 MT, Brooks sna nnss mas o'on fe''Ff'a 10
MI. L. K. Joslin here presented tho following
resolutions, and rcmsrklng Upon them said they
wss SH S i ss
Am o Of ,s sss ssS So RE would nS ss
thnwgbt war was right he desired they should
ward and ,hST who Is
hcerd.
Firs,-That tho right of men TO life, liberty,
i nMJ t lie " A"'''''
second-That the wAr system denies nll these
rights breaking Up The family re,a'i9n, o sna
where 10 assert their frecdom Is death, and as TO
cnsaye men upon the battlefield IL as unjust as
=, o. phsisr vh upo" INV p'A"''' '"'s'
"ThirS-Thatu for ono man 20 ut out A shin to
prey upon commerce, and 70 sink opposing yes.
sSins ~ do the very same acts is piracy, and war
Is piracy.
Fourth-Tha. II for one man to kill another at
Ma dIseretion. and for his benefit, Is murder, then
for sc.o y, ma ~, thspt bcnsat 4, murs
der, AndN -oyernments bayo no right to legal
Finh-As -ery and murder, they have no
re piracy, sln, ssr, and IL Is the right OF men
ssI syns Killing n n sass
they ssGS,Is the T MSunS ryng and
fraud The king has no NOR. g th, 20 suScct 40
death the Innocent subject than
sixth. As hell torture in tho future uie 10, KS
masses Of humanity isa thing never to b. Seh TO
battlefield in the earth life, where thous VIZ ~
arc maimcd and tortured in every concelyao:
manner, is a thing clearly illcgitimate anu nn.
of church or State is worth tho slaughter Of a
single innocent man for Its support. man
Seventh. That we rightly deem the people bar.
barous who, In tho past, tortured and killed men
for religion, and we rightly deem the cannibals OF
ifS FOR PSrSo.ss o. domestic
politics as 1t has been in the past to torture and
kill men for religion, and no m ore Justifable to
Kill men for purposes of political economy than
it is to kill men for purposes OF domestic coon
0pEy Eighth rA.. America stands ,o-lsy Inundated
before the world, In that for the Of
Of slaves she has M C 1taef
has emancipated u OoO, 900 serfs, and England has
en ass s%oaS aa Without the sacrifice Of human
i1 M,0,, rn,, tho working man 4. especially
,uterestcd in the question OF peace, as 10 war ho
has to sacrifice his home, do the nghting. suffer
the wounds, and pay the cost while the mca who
| from his misery.
Mr.. James M PEBBLES here presented ne o ~,
I lowing resolutions, winch ne cOhtehueu couiu
| not be refuted in principle:
! Resolved, That man, the child OF God, being
| tuition, or any government, and consequently
neither churches or governments are worth the
| deliberate taking of one human lie TO preserve
tehcm.
kssoiped, That, as love and wisdom are the no.
liest as well as the most potent principles IN the
therefore neither individuals or nations
| are iustifablc In resorting to any other 10 pro-
mote order, sustain tho ends Of justice, or CON
/ duct tLsSGancisl and eommereialinserests of the
world.
Resolved, That human rights, nor woman's
rio hts nor frsemen'a rights, nor Indians rights
\ nor Chinamcn's rights, on tho Pacific coast, but
hunSn rights. f,siernity, and equality, be con.
s msSte ''' l' '.,.,
Resoise n,,ai and spirItod than man, her power
more nnc, are reouifed in ali nstructions
anu tho baiiat IN her hand. peace prInciplei
md WIN n .S NAVAL and war no more cursC
| nouiu $780, as, a. tbs worli.
| ihis county Enys 9tbs Chairman, admitted TN,
| MT. q. n. soru,ions Ihich with thc last re-
fouowihf aasav.nJ r. thr onnronri.tc com
fefed 10, WINS Vief'e' w '~ "PP'N' wa
r@W We IN. foundation rock of religion 1,
4 Nhe.Sas. nv ,ntont ~ govcrnment a. peAee
aud the prayer n,ppeispm. tipns given 10 III,
| a. the thIeu Et nn Ph.It NOT GIil 2 WPeacc M
world, VIZ: d, NY ~ sm". ~ an insIic,able rigb
| Garth" ana All men hnse snt.niu Ii.rn1n,sSal
to lHc," nave pcen any hIo sotsuy o'sieb"iuSN