Year: 1866

L D.
troduced the following resolutions, which were
adopted unanimously


hesotUed, That the loyal people of the North
return thanksgiving to Almighty God, through
whose Will rebellion unparalleled for its cause
lessness, Its cruelty and its criminaliy has been
overruled, to the vindication of the supremacy of
the Federal Constitution over every State and
Territory of the Republic


hesotued, That we demand as we have de-
manded at all times since cessation of hosfilites,
the restoration of the States in which we live to
their old relations with the Union, on the simplest
conditions consistent with the protection of our
lives, property and political rights, in jeo-
pardy from the unquenched enmity of rebels late
ly in arms.


hesotOed, That the unhappy policy of Andrew
johnson, President of the United States in its
effects upon the loyal people of the South unjust
and oppressive, and accordingly, however ar
IDENTIFY we desire our respective States once
more represented in Congress, we would deeply
regret their restoration on the inadequate condi-
tions presented by the President, as calculated
not to abate, but only magnify the perils and
sorrows of our condition


Res0LUed, That the welcome we have received
from loyal citizens of Philadelphia under the
roof of the tme-honored Hall in which the Dec
laration of independence adopted inspires
US with hope that principles of just and equal
Government which were made the foundation of
the Republic at its origin, shall become the cor
ner-stone of the Constitution


RESOLVED, That with pride in the patriotism of
Congress, with gratitude for the fearless and per-
sstent support they have given to the cause of
loyalty and their efforts to restore all the States
to their former conditions States in the Amer
lean Union, will stand by the position taken by
them and take all means consistent with peace
full and lawful course to secure the ratification
of the amendments to the Constitution of the
Union, as proposed by Congress whilst we re-
gret that Congress in its wisdom did not provide
by the law for the greater security of the loyal
people in the States not yet admitted to repre-
sentation.


Resotoed, That the political power of the Gov
ernment of the United States, in the administra-
tion of its public officers, is by its Constitution
conhded to the popular or law-making department
of the Government


ResotUed, That the political statuets OF the
States in rebellion to the United States Govern
ment, and the rights or the people of such States
are political questions, and therefore clearly
within the control of Congress. to the exclusion
OF, and Independent of, any and every other de-
partment of the Government.


Resolved, That there is right, political, le-
gal constitutional in any State to secede or
withdraw from the Union; but they may by wick |
ed and unauthorized rebellion and force sever
the relations which they have sustained to the
Union; and when they do they assume the atti-
tude of public enemy at with the United |
States subjecting themselves to all the rules
and principles of international law and the law
of war, applied to belligerents, according to
modern usage.


Resolved, That we are unalterably in favor Of
the Union of the States, and earnestly desire the
legal and speedy restoration of all the States to
their proper places in the Union, and the estab-
lishment in each, of the influences of patriotism
and justice, by which the whole Nation shall be
combined to carry forward trumphantly the prln-
G,vs vi freedom and progress, until all men OF
ali races, shall everywhere beneath the flag OF
our country have accorded to them freely all
that their virtues, industry intelligence and en-
ergy may enttle them to attain.


Resolced, That organizations in unrepresented
States, assuming to be State Governments, not
having peen legally established, are not le-
gitimate Governments until recognized by Con-
gress.


the memory of the virtues, patriotism, sublime
faith upright character of life, and generous
nature, of the martyred President, Abraham
Lincoln.


Resolped, That we are in favor of universal
liberty the world over, and feel the deepest SYM
pathy with the oppressed people OF all countries
in their struggles for freedom, and the inherent
right of all men to decide and control for them
selves the character of the Government under
which they live.


Re,olped That the lasting gratitude of the Ma
tion ia due to those men who bore the brunt Of
the battle, who in covering themselves with i'm
perishable glory have shown to the world the fu-
ture hopes of a free Government, and relying on
the inyincible soldiers and sailors who made up
the grand army and navy of the Republic, to be
true to the principles for which they fought, we
nledve them that we will stand by them IN main
tanning the honor due the saviours of our Nation,
and in securing the fruits of their victory


Resolved, That, remembering with profound
gratitude the precepts of Washington, we should
sccustom ourselves to consider the Union as the
principal object of our political desire, which nc
has heretofore sustained us in our love OF the
Union when many of our nelghoors III 'he
South were waging war for its destruction and
that our deep abiding love for the memory of the
Father of his Country and for the Union, is
more deeply engraved upon our hearts than ever