Year: 1866

1st Resolved, That the contest upon
which we are now entering is simply
whether the Federal Union, under
the Constitution as adopted by its
iHustrious authors, with the reserved
rights of the States unimpaired, shall
continue to be our form of govern
ment, or whether we shall have forced
upon us by Congressional usurpation
or revolutionary action, a central or
consolidated government, bound by
no consolidated restraints, and in
which the liberties of the people
would be at the mercy of bare ma
iority of Congress, controlled by a
self constituted and irresponsible CEN
trail directory.


2. Resolued, That, no State has a
right to secede from the Federal
Union, and that theiFederal Union is
composed of all States that have
hitherto been legally admitted into
the. Union. That under the Constitu-
ton each State is entitled to an equal
representation In the Senate, and to
its proper representation in the lower
House; that the Constitution is the
supreme law of the land that the
President is sworn to enforce the laws
and we cal1 upon him, In the name of
an outraged and violated Constitution,
and an imperiled Union, to make the
Congress what the Constitution re-
quires it to be, the representative body
of the whole people.


3. Resolued, That we will hold all
the departments of the Government
of the United States to its official and
solemn declaration that the war was
not prosecuted for any purpose of
conquest or subjugation, but to main
tain the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton, and to preserve the Union with
all the dignity, equality, and rights of
the several States unimpaired; that
the war .haying ended by the surren-
der of the rebel armies, the people of
the South are subject only to such
penalties as the Constitution of our
common country, and the laws passed
in pursuance of it may prescribe, and
are entitled to all the rights which
that Constitution insures to all the
people of all the States. Z


4. ReSolUed, That we denOunce the
proceedings of the Radical majority
in the so-called Congress as lawless
and revolutionary, and intended by its
leaders to utterly subvert and destroy
our wise and benefcent system of
government, and to establish in its
place a consolidated despotism, con
trolled by the worst spirit of New
England fanaticism.


5. ResolUed, That we tender to
President johnson our hearty thanks
for his bold and steadfast determine
tion to restore the Union of our
fathers ii its original purity, and we
abjure him by the memory of the i'm
mortal. j Jack son to, convince the Radi-
cal disunionists, by word and deed,
that the Federal Union must and shall
be preserved a4h&AK


6. Resolyed,, That we, are opposed
to negro suffrage; and believing. that
the white men. of America are able to
govern, themselves without the aid of
an Inferior races and that we disap-
pr9Yaa OF. the amendment to the Con-
stitution, lately proposed by the So
called Congress, II being nothing but
the offer of a reward to the States for !
granting negro suffrage, and the threat |
of a punishment in case Of refusal.


z. Resodued, That the soldiers, who /
fought for the Union and Constitution, !
deserve well of the country; and that |
repeated declaration of the Radicals, ,
that the rebellion could not have been !