Year: 1866

| that it be published by the Executive Com
m1ttee, and committee was appointed to
visit the President and lay before him the
proceedings of this Convention


The Committee on Resolutions and Adj
dress presented the following resolutions


The Union soldiers and sailors who served
In the armies and navy of the United States
IN the recent war for the suppression of the
1nsurrection, the maintenance of the Con-
stitution, the Government, and the flag of
the Union, grateful to Almighty God for
his preservation of them through the per-
lis and hardships of war, and for His mercy
in crowning their efforts with victory, free
dom and peace, deploring the absence from
our midst of many brave and faithful COM
rades who have sealed with their life blood
their devotion to the sacred cause of Amer
ican nationality, and determined now, as
heretofore, to stand by the principles for
which the glorious dead have fallen, and
by which their survivors have triumphed,
being assembled in national mass Conven-
ton, in this city of Cleveland, Ohio, this
18th day of September, 1866, do resolve and
declare, first that we heartily approve the
resolutions adopted by the National Union
Convention held in the city of Philadelphia
on the 18th day of August last, composed of
delegates representing all the States and
Territories of the United States that our
object in taking up arms to suppress the
rebellion was to defend and maintain the
supremacy of the Constitution, and to pre-
serve the Union with all it's dignity and
equality and the rights of the several States
unimpaired, and not in any spirit of op
preston, or for any purpose Oh conquest
and subjugation and that whenever there
shall be any armed resistance to the lawful
ly constituted authorities of our National
Union, either in the South or in the North,
or in the East Or in the West, emulating
the self-sacriticing patriotism of our Revol,l-
tionary forefathers, we will again pledge to
its support our hives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor.


They were adopted by acclamation, the
Convention rising and calling upon the
band for Rally Round the Flag after
which cheers upon cheers were given.


The address is a beautifully written docu-
ment, full of force and patriotic sentiment.
night, but it will have an effect upon every
patriotic heart wherever it is read


After the reading of the address, various
resolutions were offered that had already
been considered by the Committee on Reso-
lutions, all of which were withdrawn, and
after resolutions of thanks to the officers of
the Convention and the citizens who had
endered hospitalities to the Convention, it
was proposed to close the Convention by
singing the Doxology and benediction.


The closing scenes of this Convention
were grand and impressive beyond all de-
scription. The whole proceedings had
been dignifed and orderly. but more en-
thusiastic than any but body of soldiers
could make them. Old habuues of Con-
ventions have remarked that never have
they witnessed so much dignity, order and
enthusiasm ir any Convention. The tele-
graph arrangements will only permit it to
be said that it was a grand success The
storm and the inadequacy of the telegraph
force compels this meagre statement of the
greatest Convention in enthusiasm and pa
triotism that has ever been held in the
country. OBSERVER.