Year: 1868

i AT the late semi annual Convention
of the Grand Army of the Republic
department of Ohio, held at Toledo
July 2, the following resolutions wer
adopted:


/ The delegates from the severa
1 Posts Of the Grand Army'of the Re
public, Department of Ohio, in Semi
Annual Convention assembled, de


hereby resolve


l. That we recognize our obliga


tions to the Giver of all good, fol


the protecting care manifested over


our organization, in that under His


guidance, it has flOurished to a de.
lgree almost unprecedented in the an
nails OF the benevolent enterprises OF


the country, and that brotherly love


dwells in all our borders, and actu


ates our conduct to one another.
2. That we have no new platform


of principles to enunciate, but adhere


to the cardinal principles of our Or
der, a desire to preserve the friend
ships formed under many trials, and
dangers, at the cannon's mouth, in


the camp, on the weary march, and


the hospital.


B. That no political preferment or


ambition is allowed to control or in.
fuence our organization, but that


we desire to excel in kind works, and


render material aid to those who by


land and sea, have fought for the
preservation of those sacred rights


handed down to us by our fathers.


4. That we desire to the survivors


OF the late war, proper appreciation


on the part of the government and
people, of the services rendered by


the soldiers of the Union in giving
them preference over the civilian, in


the Office, in the counting room and


the workshop.


5. That we will care for and pro-
tect those who have been left widows
and orphans by the sacrifice of those
dear to them on the altar of their
country.


6. That we extend the right hand
eff fellowship to the various benevo-
lent and charitable organizations of
our land, who, like ourselves, are
endeavoring in an humble way to
initiate the example of the Divine
Master in going about doing good.


Z. That the diabolical outrages
daily being perpetrated upon Union
citizens in the South by the society
of unhung rebels called the Ku Klux-
Klan, convinces us that the victory
for which we fought so many years,
is not yet ours, and will not be COM
pletely within Onr grasp until the
lives and property of loyal men are
respected throughout the length and
breadth of the land. And we call
upon the various District Comman-
ders to so perform their duties that
this vile band of midnight murderers
and assassins shall be completely ex-
terminated, and their aiders and
abetters brought to a realizing sense
of their duty and the obligations
they are under to the loyal masses
and the government, which in the
midst of wrath remembered mercy.


8. That we will ever maintain true
allegiance to the United States OF
America, and as in the past, so in the
future we are ready at all times to
uphold and defend, at whatever cost,
the permanency Of free institutions,
universal liberty and equal and exact
justice to all men,


o. That the Grand Army of the
Republic and the nation at large owe
a debt of gratitude to our honored
chief, General John A. Logan, for
his General Order No. IL, designa-
ting a day in each year for the pur-'
pose of decorating the graves of CON-
rades who died in defence of their
country, and that the noble manner
IN which the women Of the land, ever |
last at the cross and first at the tomb,
lent us their aid in carrying out the
good work, entities them to our ever
lasting praise and esteem; and we
hereby pledge ourselves on each re-
currence of the anniversary "to gather
around the sacred remains, and gar
land the passionless mounds above
them with the choicest flowers of
spring time; to raise above them the
dear old flag they saved from dis
and in their solemn presence
renew our pledges to aid and assist
those whom they have left among US,
as sacred charge upon a nations
the soldiers and sailors
widow and orphan"