Year: 1866

Elsewhere in this issue will be found the
most important part Of the proceedings OF
the Philadelphia convention. The declara-
ton of principles will not be found to be
quite as obnoxious and disloyal as those
adopted by the Chicago convention, but
when we take into consideration the fact
that both conventions were ruled, in a
measure by the same men, we don't see
much change for the better. These men
in the north who so enthusiastically shout
"Union," and clamor as loudly for the ad-
mission of southern representatives,, are
the very men, with but few exceptions,
who did their utmost to render aid and
comfort to the rebels in arms. The same
men who were unable to conceal their sat


sfaction when our flag was traled IN the
dust. whea the assaults Of our troops at
Bull Run, Fredericksburg Richmond, and
other rebel strongholds, resulted SO dlsas-
trously; the same men who refused 10
vote one dollar or give one man to hight
our "southren brethren J" the same men
who expressed a wish that every northern
soldier might rot in a southern prison, or
his bones bleach on southern battle tield


the same men who declared the war for
the Union failure. Yes, these men have
now turned "Union Savers" and call the
men who have done the work and fought
the battles, disunionists. From the south,
the neil who went as delegates to that con-
yention were not the men who left their
homes, friends and kindred, and joined
their country's army, or the men VINO
were hunted like wild beasts, lmprison-
ed, whipped, and shot because their love
for the old Union would not perm I
them to fight against it; but they were
men who have been rebels for five years,
and in fact are rebels yet. Men who
starved our soldiers to death men who
refused to take prisoners s,-shootlng them
down in cold blood. These are the men
who now congregate in convention and de-
nounce the saviours of the country as dis


unionists. These are the men who n0N
acknowledge the services Of the soldiers
and extend to the Survivors most geneT


Gus and considerate care. And if the sol
diers Of the Union army, together with
their friends who have supported them at
home, can now work with and vote for
these men, we are very much mistaken.
Can the men who have fought our battles,
cry disunionists to the same Congress
that voted the money to feed, cothe,
and equip them, and vote with and sup
port the men who fought against them
and their allies, who refused to vote one
dollar 10 feed them? And what has con-
gress done that it should be called 'ds-
union" and dominant faction % Sim
ply asked the people to amend their consti-
tuition in the interest Of freedom and jus
tice simply tried to place every state on
an equal footing, by remedying the defect
in our. constitution which gives thirty
thousand or fifty thousand Carolinians,
or Georgans, or Mississippians as much
power in our national assemblies, as one
hundred and twenty-seven thousand New
Workers, or Ohioans, or Iowans. Is that
disnnion act +? Congress asks a guar
antee that those who enter our halls OF leg
isiation from the South, shall be loyal and
not the same men who led the rebel army,
and still boldly defending their previous
course; and for this they are charged with
trying to keep the southern people from
their rights, and plotting the overthrow Of
the constitution and the Union. This
guarantee is demanded by congress and
this guarantee is demanded by the north


ern people, and as soon as it is given, the
southern states will be admitted to repre-


sentation, and not till. Let our readers
peruse the proceedings of the convention


remembering who composed it, and We
doubt not they will do right.