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f arc* uf agrc. .Mid citinecs af rise I"cited state?, or
it ana way a-TiAyuc. except for paftieipatiua in
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*el i ace-Ptaeiacta', ur fecatd any idfece, civil or
uiiieay saeu tit I ar tuidcr set State, who,
- T tkf pae.iaus% \aace ac uatfe af a uf
'■iftsaLva * afenr if tfee Lai led atatec, ur
mt a an aiaac of u* ISiaau: Legislature, ur as aa
e *■.-, i' <or judicial officer af any ptate, to
*--n War < uvuurtioci uf tfee I sped S'jtu-f. efeail
feaaa ntfmgm. a lui-u-rc-.i -6 ur rabelUuß agaiart
.e*aa. oe- gnaa aid ar teaifaei to tfee eaetaier
ooaaef; fetf Ctmgn.it laay. fey a vote of two-third*
•• oaek Huaua raaeove auefe disability.
4 Tfee validity <f tfee |Mtfeiic debt of
u* I bum msiu avUturiaed fey Uw. iaetadiag
aawu. ta-.susau fur tiu pay audi: uf ,t.suMit avd
• wtic- for scmoe le aMaNaaafew: iururrcMioa or
. >-H*H4 mm* <* ' MUCMk * vt, INU Ait<JCi lis*
I z.umm uar •<■; bmu eiuJ! assume or | *y
m. arii*. or i>li|auu! ueirreii is rMofkuiimir
'••.* w rakeUauc agaiact the I"cited Mater. or any
jua for Ua im* r ecuoj .}>oti"! of asy slave,
MM at wt .ieOt*. übligaUunt. asd claiicr sball
be huM lUeg* and void."
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ATM 1 SWIUATMSK.
TLt nomination at Mai. Alex. H. Slums
mum mill prove a popular one. and his eiec
uea vili iiardiy U earnestly requested. May
"LOttaiaß rept created this district in the
Maw rienau- during the session of 1863.
hihutri* vancy caused by t l e death A
oi. Wimru*. Hi* oomrse rave entift
to his coo<iTueav. Next year
b- am- again presented by Somerset county,
m Bedford aad Fait-.* united against him.
the aumui&uue to Mr. Householder.
Time year hi* c aims were again warmly urged
j the Republicans of Somerset county, and
those uf her beat citizem were seat here to
una* mm his itominata- -n
Mr iSt ataman aiU firvr Kn.
MB M m the Senate as a .speaker, but as a
worker hi will have few c M uaK He is out
•idl ftdljr acquainted with the wants of his
•'jwmblMUU, tun. he is, persi-oally and jiecu
ruaniy buret jj intetwsfced in the completion
f the Cuaaehsvi&t Rjtiin *ad. the only one
* owr judgaseat that will speedily giver tan
outlet to the markets of the world.
i'TMOua£\ Mai. Suiuuian b one of those
warm-hearted. generous men who make
mauip every where, is our vernacular, he
* *d" ! meant by a "very clever fellow. '
Ti* peraußeacy with which he has been
.'weaeated by the people of Somerset county
or tin* (senate. having been nominated no
*m tka four tmet. it the bett evidence of
the cxttmaucw. hi which he b held by our
maghburt utthrsr side the mountain.""
*** Mr U ei*rr Somerset county * caudi
oat** tar Ammnhfe. we can only say that he
"pwWa <me of the best r ten in the
i waty. Ei is a plain, practical business
aum. BUM b i*m> ianreji nersooailv interest
d in the early rewupietMu of tiie < onaelb
11* taihuad. Mr. Weßer has held the
udboe uf Sberif ol Sc-octvst county.
John I. Richards. of Fuhoa county. the
othur iMVif'u' nominee for Assembly. is a
-imager to to aad we know very iitaie of
ha mm'- that be b a trae and tried l uioti
naa who arm marie.! out during the late
tuhdfam as the peea'iar ebiwt of Copper
totaad pcrmeatum. Property wa- destroyed
Mr htm to the amount of or $4 (**>
He b an OMimrt tuan and aili faithfully
aad cuoaoeu tiotusiy discharge the duue* de
••oivisg upon hiui as a Representative
Ml* SI Ulul.-lht utter 1 ailure of
eoppuchuadr U comprehend the }~j!iticai
uLuatma, as a a exposition of oubbc eaii
me* am- never more nnkiugly illu-imted
than w the apparent ounfidet**.-. which they
* xprom at leewmt m their ability to combine
m t dor atat* mm* aatagosisui ck- meais as
aad drwarter-- loyal men and rebels
flunk of loyal men aooepimg \ allaudigliais
aad Krigbt as political kmdm, or of the
wnmuM uf aaourc af hatile field * marching j
the poS akmgaide deserter*, bounty j
riMapera. aad skwedadtßsm. How do you j
4e the propoeod asaori&ti >n "boys it
Idas'!
Sgk. The Uuc'ungu n Globe, it seeras v
aa takm to O-mrperheadiMQ ahtut as readi
ly a* a duck tali* to water/ ! Tcrily, % H sog
mmmk K fais raajt. M
% POLITIC4L PROTEUS.
Tii once proud Democratic Party, pro
i.tuf l by it? leaders to the propagation of
Mav-ry with all its vile concomitants, was
aircnly making rapid stride? in the down
ward though the memory of its an
fame ?till commanded foritsome slight
dey v of respect, but when it at last lent
it 11 to the infamous attempt to destroy
government, it became such a stench in
the • -trip of all true patriots and loyal
i ■ that the people in indignation uprose
.fid hurl- d the degenerate and traitorous
organization from power throughout the
land. Disgraced, dethroned, sunk to the
■ i >ths <>f "he filthy pool of political
sit beyond the hope of redemption
„!j it • load of crimes and treason, yet
,t i.iug all its ancient lost for power and
_!< i ..f official patronise, and unwilling to
t- fi om it? assocta'ions with traitors,
i. w. Piotetw like utidcr cover of a decep
! ;i'i . essays to rid itself of its load of
rim- by sifispiy casting off be
;i • ' Democracy, and with all its foulness
i. lion still embraced and rankling
,i- ,-oui. take shelter under the fair
1.. ..<• of "".1 4 'o*a%otme National In ton
Jof v. Hut change of name cannot screen
■i l -j :.r. consequences of its crime while
a-lcrs -land forth so proininent"
in?!* programme. Gravitating to their (
true levei, and seeking their natural affint ,
ti - tie weak may be frightened, the simple,
-. -G i d and the corrupt, bought over to
iss r.iok-. but tire accessions thereby will
i. .itparatirely small, while the true In- {
ion Party, reieived of the incubus of such (
dreg.-, will be renewed and strengthened and
,o forth to an easy victory. Under no ,
i; however fair, upon no platform of {
jiti i -ipies, however specious can any party ,
awcoecd. where such men as Vallatldigham. ,
Bright, Wickliffe, Ben Wood, Harris of Ma
ryiaud- Salisbury, Garret Davis, and the
wl, -t host of rebel leaders stand in thefore
gr uud as godfethere to the bantling. The
crime* and corruption of thirty r ears of po
;itica'prostitution cannot so easily be pur
ed awav Not only must the party name
bedr q-i- d. but the men who have control
led its destinies must content themselves in
the future to take back seats in any organi
rati'ifl that may happen to receive them.
N t oJv must they change their party
uauifcs and professions but every leader, in
any way identified with those who were reb
els themselves or sympathized with
mu -t be content to be consigned to political
oblivion. The American people having
made unexampled sacrifices for liberty, un
! i n and equal rights will never consent to
give the ruling power to the traitors who
attempted to destroy our nationality. The
Kaud&h convention may succeed m chang
ing the name of the party organization rep
r — tnting copperheads, rebels and traitors,
but it can neither change its nature nor
bring victory to its standard. New parties
there doubtless will be in the future, but it
will he essential to the success of any such
that its leaders be loyal men true, and tried,
aud up to the progressive standard of the
** in their political ideas. Its faith bro
ken, its ti ast thoroughly identi
fied with traitors and treason, its very name
made infamous, the Democratic party has
run its race, Its doom is sealed. Its ca
reer is ended. No change in its name, no
new profession of principles can ever resus
citate it, and the sooner its leaders recognize
the fact and consign its festering carcass to
Che well merited disgrace of a felon's grave,
the better for themselves and the country-
STRONG CLAIMS.
The following questions and answers may
be considered as embracing the chief claims
of the Democracy for restoration to power :
Who first originated the pernicious doc
trine of State Sovereignty ? John C. Cal
houu, the leader of the Democratic party
while be lived. Who preached the divine
institution of slavery ? The Democratic
party. Who declared that the Negro had
no rights which a white man was bound to
voepbu*, ? J ud&c Taii.,y, a Democratic
Judee of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States. Who tried to force slavery into
Kansas against the will of the people ? The
Democratic party under James Buchanan.
Who were in power when the rebellion
began ? The Democratic party. Who said
there was no constitutional right to coerce a
state ? The Democratic party. Who at
the beginning of the war, afler having ru
led the country through eight years of
peac- had so bankrupted the U. S. Treasu
ry that it could not borrow a dollar of mon
ey ? The Democratic party. Who propo
sed a plan for legalizing seoessioO ? Cle
ment Li Vallandigham. a prominent leader
of the Democratic party. Who at the
ojKitting uf the rebellion stole the arms and
munitions of war from the U. S. Arse nals
and sent them South ? A Democratic Sec
retajy of war. Who stole all the funds of
the Department of the Interior at the
' breaking out of the Rebellion ? A Demo
va
the aa\ a! forces of the United States to the
the ends of the earth at the breaking out of
the war ? A Democratic Secy of the navy.
What was Jefferson Davis ? A Democrat
ic ex-Secretary of war. What was John
C. Breckt-nridge ? A Vice
I'resident of the United States? What
was ex-Governor Wise ot Virginia ? A
Democratic Governor. What were all the
Governors of the rebellious States? Deut
crivts. Who opposed every measure pro
posed for the suppression cf the rebellion ?
The Democratic party. Who encouraged
desertion* from the army ? The Democrat
jie party. Who called our gallant soldiers,
!iue bellied \ ankees. Lincoln pups, Lincoln
; hirelings, and every other opprobrious epi
tiie-' ? The Democratic j>arty. Who deci
ded that soldiers in the army had no right
to vote but that deserters had. Judge
Woodward a Democratic Judge of the Su
| pwwne Court of Pennsylvania. Who was
'in ftvor of elevating the negro above the
white man by exempting him from military
service ? The democratic party. Who
threatened t resist the draft and inaugu
gur .te civil war in our own homes ? The
Democratic party. Who burned churches,
and School houses, murdered enrolling offi
cers ? Ac. Democrats. Who were opposed to
soldtwre voting ? The Democratic- party.
:\N ho now insist on deserters voting ?
Democrat*. Who are now in favor of re
storing rebels tw plaoe and power without
requiring any guarantee* for future good
behavior ? The Democrat!!: party. Who
now pri>|x&e to unite with the rebels and
plate the National tioverranent in their
hands ? The Democratic party.
"THE TIfWKER CHURCH ON lILACK
ANP WHITE KtiUALITY."
A story has gained currency that the JI un
kers, at their last AnuuiU Council, decided
that negro members of the church must be
saluted by the white brethren and sisters with
"a holy kiss." This tale was put in ctrcula
t ion by the Kadical Abolitionists in order to
influence the members of the church in favor
of their equality doctrine. Thus, as in a
hundred other instances, they seized upon
sacred things to aid them in accomplishing
their profane ends. It gives us pleasure,
however, to be able to refute this calumny,
and to expose the trick to electioneer at the
expense of the church- No avh decision as
that referred to ever passed the Annual
Council of the Tunker Church. The charge
is false from beginning to end.— Gazette, Jxdy
2t> 18G6. . ,
The above extract is a fair specimen ot the
down-right falsehoods-Much are to he found
is the eoluihns of Copperhead papers. The
sympathy of the country for the unfortu
nates who control these jourtmls is all that
saves them front being brandotl all over as
liar?. The weakness of the cause which
they endeavor, in this unholy manner, to
support make? tbeiu general objects ol char
ily and eoumiseration or they would uot be
tolerated any longer than any other nui
sance.
The above' 'calumny' aud 4 'trick instead
of being "put in circulation by the Radical
Abolitionists" was manufactured outof whole
cloth by the Hagerstown Mail, a miserable,
contemptible, secesh-rebel sheet of the Ga
zette stripe, which was suppressed several
times and its editor incarcerated by the Gov
ernment, In this it has the advantage of
the Gazette ; it has same warrant for its
falsifications.
Now, there is a stroDg presumption that
the Gazette knew whenee this 4 calumny or
iginate d, but it did not suit its purpose to
toll the truth and it manufactures this whole
sale lie for a little political capital. Rut the
idea of the Gazette becoming the especial
champion of the Tunkers is enough to ex
cite to laughter even tue editor of the
Gazette himself. We have a faint idea of a
small article, something like the following,
appearing in the Gazette several years ago:
"Ought men who talked in favor of the
war anu urge others to enlist and then when
a draft come* swear themselves out of it on
account of their "conscientious" scruples
4 have the rights and privileges of citizens
who are compelled to fight for their country?
aught they to have the right to hold office or
to 'cote at elections? This question will doubt
, less be investigated."
KOONTZ vs. COFFROTH.
This ease was reached last week and dis
posed of without as much as a division of
the House. Permission was given the
ousted, the contestant and the chairman of
the Committee on Elections to print half
hour speeches and Gen W 111. 11. Koontz was
sworn iQ and here ended the matter. A
proper ending of this villainous scheme to
defraud the citizens of the 16th Congres
sional District of Pennsylvania. At last
justice has tjeen done us and the geuiiea,
who was legally elected, can act for his con
stituents. Gen. Koontz was the victim of a
conspiracy to pay the distinguished gentle
man who retires for his support of the Con
stitutional Amendment abolishing slavery
or this case would have been settled months
ago. Let all good people pray that it may
never again became necessary to carry so
great a measure by such foul means. The
district is now for the first time for several
years properly represented and it will be the
| especial duty of the people to see that for
I the next two years it continues in the same
hands.
COPPERHEAD CONS ISTENCV.
During the last five yeais one of the lead
ing cues of the Copperhead party against the
abolition of slavery, even as a war measure,
was that it would bring the cheap labor of
the blacks in competition with, aud thereby
reduce the wages of the white laborer of
the Iree States. They don't dare to openly
advocate the "ten cents a day" theory of
that defunct apostle ot Democracy, Jimmy
Buchanan, but they do the same thiDg cov
ertly, when as now their newspapers and
representatives in Congress, almost en mas e,
favor free trade for the purpose of bringing
the pauper labor of Europe into competition
with our own free iabor. There is no use
disguising the object at which you aim.
Why not openly declare the true object of
your Free Trade notions, the reduction of
American laboring men's wages to the level
of European paupers. Why uot put the
issue fairly and honestly and let laboring
men choose whether they will have a pro
tective tariff and well remunerated labor, or
Free Trade and ten cents a day. They will
have no difficulty in deciding when the ques
tion is plainly and honestly stated.
CONGRESS.
President Lincoln in bis annual message,
under date of December I, 1562, addressed
Congress in these memorable words :
"Fellow citizens tre cannot escape history.
We of this Congress and thi3 administration
will be remembered in spite of ourselves.
No personal significance, can spare one or
another of us. The fiery trial through which
we pass will light ns down, in honor or dis
honor. to the latest generation. We say we
are for the Union. The world will not for
get that we say this. We know how to save
the Union. Ihe world knows we do know
how to save it. We —even tee here —holu the
power and bear the responsibility. In giving
freedom to the slate , we assure freedom to
the free —honorable alike in what we give,
and what we preserve. We shall nobly save
or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Other means may succeed; this could not fail.
The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a
way which if followed the world will forever
applaud, and God must forever bless."
If he hail been addressing the present
Congress, he jould not have used more ap
propriate language. No Congress will stand
out more conspicuously in history than the
Congress which is about to clo.se its labors.
All thanks to Hiin Who rules the destinies ■
of nations. When treachery and treason had
ruu mad from one end of the land to the
other, Congress, like a wall of adamant, has
stood contending for Justice and Liberty,
and in Freedom's name will triumph. Let
the Americans always keep the standard of
Congtess up to the XXXIXth, and the peo
ple of the Tinited States need never enter
tain any fear for the perpetuation of their
institutions,
ANDY JOHNSON ON NEGRO BIJF
FHAGE.
A continual hue and cry is kept up by 'he
Copperhead press upon the subject of Negro
Suffrage, As these same Copperheads are
just now assiduously praising Andy Johnson,
we submit for -their perusal his opinions on
Negro Suffrage as expressed in his famous
letter to Gov. Sharkey of Mississippi :
OrncK, |
Washixgt '. P. Aug. 15, 1855. {
Gor. IF. L. *rkey. Jackson, Mum.:
I am gratifieu to see that you have organi/.
Ed your convention without difficulty. I hope
thai without delay your convention will
amend your State Constitution, abolishing
slavery and denying to all future legislatures
the power to legislate that there is property
in man ; also that they will adopt the amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States
abolishing slavery. If yon could extc-i d the
elective franchise to all persons of color -who
can read the Constitution of the United States
ic English and write their names, and to all
](trrsons of color who own real estate valued
at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars.
Mid pay taxes thereon, you would completely
disarm the adversary and set an example the
other States will follow. This you can do
with perfect safety, and you thus place the
Southern States, in reference to free per? v ta
of color, upon the same basis with the free
States. I hope and trust your convention
will do this,'and, as a consequence, the rad
icals, who are wild upon ndgro franchise, will
lie completely foiled in their attempt to keep
tho Southern States from renewing their rela
tions to the Union by not accepting their
Senators and Representatives
Anukkw Jouksok,
President of the United States.
Here are the sentiments of the President set
forth over his own signature less than a year
ago. Neither Stevens. Sumner nor Grcely
at this moment ask more than is here urged
upon Gov. Sharky and the Mississippi Con
vention. This is a suggestion made as he
states for the express purpose of heading off
the Radicals, the same object he still pro
fesses to have in view, and for which the
Copperheads are now, and have been for
several months loudly praising him. Will
they not give this honest, straight forward
letter a wide circulation. It would certainly
do much toward reconciling party differen
ces and settling the vexed question of recon
struction.
t££~ lion. Himon Cameron and his family
have been stopping at the Springs for the
last week. The General appears to be en
joying excellent health and looks as if he
could endure the prospective United States
Senatorial canvass without, any material det
riment to himself. lie is one of Pennsyl
vania's noble champions, and hut few men
can say that they have done as much for the
development of this great State as General
Cameron. We wish him many more
years of usefulness and may a grateful peo
pie ever stand ready to account him the
applause and gratitude so justly due him.
ficsT" We were pleased to receive a \ isit
from our highly esteemed editorial confrere,
George Bergner, Esq., of the Harrisburg
Telegraph on last Friday. It gave us great
pleasure, indeed, to see his genial face up in
this section and to hear his words of encour
agemeut from the capitol We felt quite
sure that tbc Johnson movement would
receive no countenance in the heart of the
State ana. bis assurances confirm our former
impressions. No paper has done more to
bring about this healthy state of affairs than
the Harrisburg Teleymph.
Among the scenes and incidents of
the Mass meeting at Reading is one repre
senting a good Democrat wearing a badge
containing the name of' John C Breckin
ridge. This is nothing astonishing. In
Bedford county we expect them to trot out
the veritable cepjierhead and butter-uut
badges which they wore during the war.
Of course they have treasured them up and
will run them out on all special occasions.
THE Gazette of last week prints a portrait
of Andrew Johnson which is very sugges
tive. His optics look very much as if
their owner had been slightly incoherent
lately and run against, a circumstance. If
ever Andy sees that " fine steel engraving "
the editor of the Gazrtfe can consider him
self down for a "post ortis." He may even
beat Nasby for the much coveted prize at
the Corners.
The G rand Copperhead Meeting at
Read hig is pronounced a fizzle by the Read
ing Journal, there having been le>.- than
5,000 people in attendance. Dick Vaux,
who was president of the meeting, is report
ed to have aid, while enjoying some "side
door arrangement," that he was very hapny
th. t he was not the. candidate for Governor
as the "show was a one."
fitsT"The last week brought a number of
the editorial fraternity to town. Ed. Scull,
Esq. of the Somerset Jlrrald, David K.
Wagner Esq.. of the MeConncllsburg Il>
]iblic<iH and M. Edgar King. Esq., "an
ex." of the same paper. These gentlemen
were all interested in the Senatorial and
Representative conferences.
B%.The -Copperheads and Johnsonian
papers complain very tiinch of the people
being led by the nose by their political icad
cis. This is all a mistake, the people gen
erally act for themselves, and they cause
their leaders to fully comply with the scrip
tural injunction : "Like people, likeprie>t."
BP%„Thero were two political clubs in
Washington, the Johnson and the Copper
head. They have united their fortunes,
come weal or coiue woe, for better or for
worse; it was a solemn act, nevertheless
some wicked wag has said it was "Jonah
swallowing the whale!" Lt was only a rever
sionthe old siw "dog won't eat dog."
tZaf The Huntingdon GMw. after an
earnest and determined advocacy of the
measures necessary to crush the rebellion,
has veered about and is just as earnestly en
gaged in advocating a policy which will
give the rebels ail the advantages which
they expected to gain by resorting to arms.
Oh ! consistency ! thou art truly a jewel.
Cholera in New York.
N EW YORK, July 21. —The official reports
show that, the cholera is making rapid head
way, and appears to be spreading over the
entire Metropolitan district It broke out
among the troops on Hart's Island yestei
day, nine deaths occurring during the day
at that place. Ten deaths also occurred on
Goverernor's Island. Two cases proved fa
tal in the city out of seven reported, and six
teen cases were reported in Brooklyn of
which five resulted fatally, A soldier from
Hart's Island, on furlough in Boston, died
of cholera there yesterday,
SHALL THE SOLDIER HAVE A
RIGHT TO VOTE.
On the sth day of January, 1804 (see
Le/fixlaMv? Record , page 8, of that year),
Mr Johnson moved that the Senate proceed
to the consideration of the following amend
ment to the Constitution, vh:
Be it resolved by the. St rate and House of
Repr(tentative* of the (\yninumwealth of
/rnnsylvania in General Assembly met,
That the following amendments be proposed
to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
in accordance with the provisions of the
tenth article thereof:
There shall be an additional section to the
third article of the Constitution to be desig
nated as section four as fol'ow.s- Section 4.
Whenever any of the qualified electors of
this Commonwealth shall be in any actual
military service under a requisition from the
President of the United States, or by the
authority of this Commonwealth, such elec
tors may exercise the right of suffrage in all
elections by the citizens under such regula
tions as are or shall be prescribed by law. as
fully as if they were present at their usual
place of election.
On the question, Will the Senate proceed
to the consideration of the same? the yeas
and nays were called by Messrs. Donovan
and Glatz. and were as follows:
YEAS—Messrs. Champneys, Conned.
Dunlap, Fleming. Graham, lioge, House
holder, Johnson, M'Candless, Nichols,
llidgway, Turrell. Wilson, Worthingtonand
Penney, Speaker—lfi.
NAYS—Messrs. Beardalee, Buchcr, CLY
MKK. Donovan, Glatz, Hopkins, Kinsey,
Lumbcrton, Latta, Lowry, M Sherry, Mont
gomery, lleilly, Smith, Stark, Stein and
Wallace—l(j.
So the motion was not agreed to.
Ci.vmer voted here against giving the
soldier the right to vote!— Harridmrg Trie
graph.
SECRETARY SEWARD AND THE
PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION.
Secretary Seward is reported to have
written the following letter expressing bis
views with regard to the Philadelphia Con
vention ;
"DEPARTMENT OK STATE, >
WASHINGTON. July 11, 1800. j
' Sir : Excuse me for expressing surprise
that you ask uie whether I approve of the
call of a proposed Union National Conven
tion at Philadelphia. After more than five
years of dislocation by civil war, I regard a
restoration of the Unity of the country its
most immediate as well a# its most vital in
terest. That restoration will be complete
when loyal people of the eleven states so
long unrepresented in Congress. Nothing
but this can complete it Nothing more
remains to be done, aud nothing more is
necessary. Every day's delay is attended
by multiplying and increasing inconvenien
ces, embarrassments and dangers, at home
and abroad. Congress, after a session of
seven months, still refuses to exercise that
power. What can be done tr induce Con
gress to act'! This is the question of the
day. Whatever is done must be done in
accordance with the Constitution and laws.
It i- in perfect accordance with the Coast i
tuliou and laws th.it the people of the Uni
ted Slates shall assemble by delegates in
convention, and that when so assembled
they shall address Congress by respectful
|H-tiuon and remonstrance; and that the
I>eople in their several states, districts and
territories shall approve, sanction and Unite
in such respectful representations to Uon-
Ccn press.
"No one party could do this effectually
or even seems willing to do it. alone. No
local or popular organization could do it
effectually. It is the interest of all parties
.•tike, of all the states, and ot all sections —
a national interest —the interest of the
whole people. The convention, indeed,
may succeed in inducing Congress to act ;
but if they fail, the attempt can make mat
ters no worse. It will be a lawful and patri
otic attempt made in the right direction —
an effort to be remembered with pride and
satisfaction whether it succeed or fail. The
original Union of the States was brought
about by movements of the same character.
The citizen who objects to the convention is
bound to propose a better plan or proceed
ing to affect the desired end. No other
plan is offered, or even thought of. Those
who should oppose it would st em to me to
manifest at best unconcern if no opposi
tion, to all reconstruction, reorganization
and reconciliation between the alienated
masses of the American people. To admit
that the convention will fail would be to
admit that the people of the United States
are deficient in either wisdom or the virtue
necessary to continue the existence of the
republic. I believe no such thing. A great
political writer says that government is a
secular religion, and that the people of every
country are divided into two classes, each
maintaining a distinct political faith. The
onedess always feariDg the very worst that
can possibly happen, and the other hopes,
under every circumstance, the very best that
can in any event happen. Without accept
ing this theory as absolutely true, I think
that all men do generally act from a motive
to guard against public danger, or else from
a positive pesire to do good. Both classes
may, therefore, favor the present attempt to
restore the unity of the nation.
"lain, sir, your oliedientservant,
"WILLIAM 11. SEWARD.
"Hon, J. R. Doolittle, Chairman Execu
tive Committee, &c."
TENNESSEE RATIFIES THE CON
STITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
The President Rebuked by his own
State !
The following dispatches were received in
Washington on Thursday last;
NASHV ILLE, July 19. —In the House of
Representatives this morning the constitu
tional amendment was ratified by a vote of
43 yeas to 13 nays —two members refusing
TO ANNRTI TO TIICLR NAUIC?.
The Press andttmrs (the radical sheet of
Nashville) says the loyal men of Tennessee
by this vote repudiate the President, who
has go basely betrayed them."
Gov BROWNLOW TO . STANTON.
Governor Brownlow sent the following
telegraphic dispatch to Washington:
NASHVILLE, Tenn.. July 19 —12 ML
To lion. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of
HW, )Yashing ton, I). C.
My compliments to the President. We
have carried the Constitutional Amendment
in the House. Vote 43 to 11 —two of his
tools refusing to vote.
W. G. BROWNLOW,
Governor of Tennossee.
Gov, BROWNLOW TO FORNEY.
The following is the despatch of Gov.
Brownlow to Colonel Forney, exactly as it
was received :
"NASHVILLE. July 19, 18t><>. To Hon.
•J. W. Forney, Secretary IJ. S. Senate.-
We have fought the battle and won it. We
have ratified the Constitutional Amendment
in the House —forty-three votes for it,
eleven against it—two of Andrew Johnson's
tools not votiug. Give my respects to the
dead dog of the White House.
W. G. BROWNLOW."
The news of the great victory in Tennes
see was received by the Union men in Wash
ington with great enthusiasm. Immediate
measures will now be taken by Congress to
admit the loyal Representatives from that
State.
JUarThey r have a marvellous Mayor in
Brooklyn, N. Y., who, baring his salary
increased from $3.000t0 $5 000 by the com
mon Council, has vetoed the ordinance. He ]
is it Republican, of course. V 1
THE AUGUST CONVENTION.
Attorney General Speed on the Politi
cal Situation.
WASHINGTON, D. C., .July 14, 1866.
To Hon. J. R. JDooUtUe, Chairman, <kc.:
Silt T have the honor to acknowledge'
the receipt of your note of the 10th inst.,
with a printed copy of a call for a National
Convention, to be held at Philadelphia on
the 14th day of August next. Vou request
in case the call and the principles enuncia
ted in it meet my approval, tnat I reply at
my earliest convenience. This language
would seem to imply that no answer is de
sired if I do not approve the call and the
principles avowed in it; in other words that
a failure to reply may be interpreted as a
disapproval, not only of the call out of each
and all of the principles announced in it.
This is a position in which I am unwilling
to be placed when I approve of many of the
principles set forth in the call and yet do
not approve of the call itself. I will briefly
state my reasons; first premising that Ido
not recognize the very respectable gentlemen
who have made this call as the acknowledged
organs of the great Union party of the
country.
Since the outbreak of the terrific struggle,
from which the country has now emerged
wc have had a National Union party that
has exhibited more devotion made greater
sacrifices, and manifested more unselfish
patriotism than any party erer did previous
ly in the history of the world. That party
is stil] in being with its organization intact,
and its organs known: and as that party, by
its faith, it- doctrines and its exertions, has
in the face of the prophecies of half the
New and all the Old World, saved the Gov
ernment and the republican institutions of
our common country from demoralization and
indeed from utter ruin by vindicating at all
hazards the primordial theory of the eternal,
indissoluble union of the States through
which only can a particle of the theory of
State rights ever be maintained and carried
out, it would appear to me to be still the only
or at any rate the most effectual means as
far as party can do it of finally adjusting all
the remaining minor and unsettled matters
of reconstruction consistently with the re
quirements of the theory mentioned.
I have said that many of the principles
stated in the call are in my view objectiona
ble, but content myself with stating that the
call fails to take any notice of one of the
great issues now before the American peo
ple. I allude to the question whether the
several States shall iatify or reject the last
amendment proposed by Congress to the
Constitution of the United Slates. This is
a grave and all important question. The
issue upon it cannot be avoided. It should
be placed fairly and squarely before the peo
ple. The failure to take ground upon so
important and all absorbing a question must
be attributed either to a desire to avoid the
issue or as a declaration of belief and policy
against the adoption of the amendment.
Being myself earnestly and decidedly in
favor of the adoption of the amendment by
the States, I cannot go into an organization
that would either openly oppose that meas
ure or that would smother it by avoiding its
discussion.
This party its the same to day as it was in
the days of its trial; the same party now as
when hut a few months ago it elec ted Lincoln
and Johnson, and the majority of the pres
ent Congress; and as I acted with it then,
for paramount reasons my sense of duty de
mands that I remain and act with it now.
The pith and marrow of the present call,
I should say tends towards a convention tO|
form a party for sustaining not the Govern
ment in its entirety, (as has been the mis
sion ofthe Union party,) but a department of
the Government. And here I must take
the liberty of adding that I can hardly con
ceive of any sadder spectacle, under the cri
sis of present circumstances than that of the
tried Union party of this country becoming
dislocated and broken up by divisions or
that of one branch of tne Government of
the country taking an isolated position upon
questions of deep and common interest and
placing itself in hostile conflict with co ordi
nate department*.
For these and other reasons, which might
be mentioned, I cannot join in the call for
the Convention in Philadelphia.
I must also add, that no man is more de
sirous than I am to attain the entire restora
tion of the American Union, with its prac
tical workings in more perfect harmony and
concord than ever, and the surety, as far as
mortal a flairs can be made sure, of endless
perpetuity in the future. The blessings to
flow from such a Union are countless and in
estimable. But such a Union, consistent
within itself, maintained by the universal
con.-ent of all classes and sections, and
laughing to scorn both the assaults of foes
internal or external, and the ravages of time
and change, will only be obtained by sternly
retracting every departure from, or compro
mise with, the supreme and general idea of
the American fundamental law, the Consti
tution. That general idea consists, in brief,
of the political liberty and equality of man
kind under the law. Such, and such only,
can he the Union, the nationality, that will
put in form the magnificent and lofty
dreams of the American continental mind,
and fulfill in the future the highest efforts
of tin; present and the past. It is uot the
vague delusion that the rights of the States
need doctoring. The American theory cul
minates properly in the sacrednees of the
rights of individuals—of each single indi
vidual. That, after all, is what Washington
carved out with the sword, r.nd Jefferson,
filtering it through his subtle and free mind,
drew up and put on recond with the pen.
It is well known that in the political and
legal history of the United States, the only
departures or compromises ofthe kind allu
ded to have been those in the interests of
slavery, and of its manifold incidents. Ido
not, or course, propose to go over the thou
sand times told tale of the past sixty years,
as a confessed legality, it is, as we all know,
no more. But some of the most important
of its incidents or compromises still remain
•c'ots aud incongruities upon the law. What
equitable reason cajf be given why these in
cidcntsalso should not be erased? Time
was that when the brains were out the man
would die; but now we see the limbs de
manding to live and move, as if the nervous
center still existed.
The per; istent, attempt to keep in the
Constiftition the rule of an unequal and un
fair basis of representation is perilous to
the future peace of the country, aud will
surely cause a chafing sense of injustice as
long as it is continued.
Furthermore, the high mission of the Union
party, as avowed in the Baltimore Conven
tion, to "extirpate slavery,' includes the
removal of all the hateful and auti-popular
excrescences engrafted by that institution
for its ovru selfish aggrandizement upon our
free national laws and polity. That high
mission and obligation cannot be accomplish
ed until allwhioh slavery has so engrafted
is cut out; for until theu slavery is not "ex
tirpated.
Earnestly sympathizing with the men who
look to a law of equal representation as the
only guarantee both for popular rights and
popular acquiescence, I would feel myself
out of place in a party that favors a basis of
representation giving peculiar and unrighte
ous advantages to a portion of the body
politic, to the detriment and dissatisfaction
of the whole.
Uniting with you and all good men in the
soul-felt desire that peace, prosperity, and
that amicable brotherhood which is more
than any worldly prosperity, may soon pre
vail, and continue unbroken through our
beloved common country, that former enmi
ties shall die out and be forever lost, and
that all over the broad domain of America
equal laws shall protect equal rights to all
mankind. I have (he honor to subscribe
myself your obedient servant,
JAMES SPEED.
/ i.
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