The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-10

eG" OFFICE OF PENNSYLVANIA STATE
EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE, No. 716 LOMBARD

PHILADELPHIA, July 81, 1852.
The PENNSYLVANIA STATE EQUAL RIGHTS
LEAGUE again issues it's call to the Leagues of this
State and TO the citizens who yet
esty urging them TO attend the Annual Meeting of the
League, which will convene in Huidekopers Hall, MEAD
WILLIE on TUESDAY August II, 1862 at 10 O'Clock A. NJ
The many startling events which have transpred since
our last meeting make the approaching which will be
the fifth annual session of the League of importance
than have held. The Great Republican Party
is triumphant; the Great Military Chief of the Age is
President of the Nation the Constitution of the United
States is amended, and its ratification by the requisite
number of States nearly completed that claim
1T as an accomplished fact and black and
fill offices of trust, honor, and emolument.
At the coming meeting of the League the most vital
issues must be met and fully discussed the graves sub
eots must be presented subjects involving present
peace, political and social condition as well as our security
for the future Our destiny by the will of God appears
be indissoluby bound to that of native country
With it we will risewith it we may fall The unfolding
OF the broad platform of equal political rights with equal
political privileges, to all the responsibilities and
duties OF the citizen which yrans have long denied US,
ana to-day we constitutea part OF the great governing
power of the republic.
Not in days past does the League now summon you
not to aid the fleeing fugitive nor to shield him from the
CORY grip of the inhuman kdnapper the official clutch
OF the debased United States mercenary Neither
petition Congress for rights denied grievances to be
dressed person and property to be protected freedom
and life to be secured Morris ask the Legislature of
Pennsylvania to pass bill to in the right
moested travel in railroad throughout this Common.
wealth; right which denied by of color
and which, through the instrumentaty of a committee
OF the League we now enjoy in defiance of the prejudice
OF the dominant classes and in defiance of others still
more unmany who being prompted by envy and personal
malgnity, lent their ruess efforts the jeopardy
of this great right TO embarass the League in
deavors to this just act of legislation It is the
call of Men, Brothers, and american C=es that you
summoned. You called to this living important
crisis which unparalleled events the rending ntwain O..
the cord Of CASTE" the overturning of oppression and
the judgment of God have forced upon the nation.
You called upon calmly consider and resolutey
adopt some feasible practical plan, by which may
the vote of people to uphold and sustain intact the
Republican party and those noble representatives
that courage and heroism which have saved the nation
who in the Congress of the United the
state Legislatures unnchngy met the question raised
by the lifelong enemies of and of the country as
to the right of the coored throughout the North to
vote and to exercise all other rights enjoyed by virtue OF
citizenship.
Come from workshops from your fields Of labor,
from the factory the schoohouse and farm Come from
your homes and families For this occasion let
ters leave their pupits working their avocations
and our professional men their duties.
Let thCughtu, active, vigant men come together
and completely organize and combine that vote
shall be lost ut that they may be poed to crush the
enemies of law and order-of UnioH and Liberty
To the great principles which animate the Repu pcan
party stand pledged by every tie of honor and graft
tude.
To God, Liberty and Country, over the broken
chains and crushed manacles that bound the limbs of
millions, we have written deathless adherence.
BY order of the Executive Board.
WILLIAM NESBTT, President.
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