Se&forti Inquirer. MRDFORD. PA, FBIDAF, SKPT tt, 1866 IXIOV Kfl'l BI.K A\ SrATfc luafcl. FOB GOVERNOR, MAJ. GEN. JOHN W. GEARY, OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. DISTRICT TICKET. CONGRESS, Gen. WM. JUL KOONTZ, of Somerset. SENATOR, Hon. ALEXANDER STUTZMAN, of Sorti erset county. ASSEMBLY, GoL JOHN WELLER, of Somerset, JOHN T. RICHARDS, of Fulton. COUNTY TICKET. PROTHONOTARY, J W. LI N GEN FELT ER, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF, Cart N. C. EVANS, of Colerain. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, Opt A. WKAVERLING, Bloody Run. COMMISSIONER. SAMUEL SHAFFER, of Union. POOR DIRECTOR, HENRY 11. FISHER, South Woodberry. AUDITOR. JAMES R. O'NEAL, of Monroe. CMOS POUtT OF KF.COSSTBrCTION. '•Reeolfci, By the Senate and Rouse of Repre sentatives of the United States of Amen"#, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses .-.incurring, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United states, which, when ratified by three-fourths of Hie said Legislatures, shall be valid as a part of the Constitution, namely: "AKTICUS —, .Section 1. All persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the I n fte" States, apd of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which -hall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizcrs of the United States. Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the la ws. Section 3. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their res pective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not tax cd; but whenever the right to vote at any election for electors of President and Vice-President, or for United States Representatives in Congress, executive and judicial officers, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being tweuty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representa tion therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in that State. "Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, elector of President :yad Vice-President or hold any offieo, civil or military under the U. S., or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the 1 nited States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to sup port the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House remove snch disability. "Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for service in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned, but neither the United t tates nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrec tion or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss er emancipation of any sL.ce, but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void." ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! The Republicans of this coun ty will see the necessity of organ izing at once. Do not delay an other day, yea, not another hour! Let every man be seen and his sentiments ascertained. Bedford county can he carried against the Copperheads, if the friends of freedom and opponents of rebels do their duty. Go TO WORK ! GO TO WORK! A word to the wise is sufficient! KapThe Copperhead Party is now sup porting Col. Filler for the Legislature who a short time ago was so decidedly Radical that Republicans were afraid to allow him to canva&s for them lest he would injure their cause. Negro Suffrage is looking up! J®"The Gazette shrieks against Negro Suffrage and supports Col. Filler for the Legislature. This may be consistency, but some people are not willing to believe it. If the Colonel is elected is he to introduce a joint resolution submitting an amendment to the Constitution striking out the word "white" ? tt©~Col. Filler must feel highly Sattered by the complimentary notices which he is receiving at the hands of the Copperhead press in this Legislative District. To us it is rather amusing. The same papers which eulogize him so highly contain column after column charging the Republican party with being in favor of Negro Suffrage and Negro equality, this in the face of the fact that Col. Filler is the only man in the county who has ever openly advocated Negro Suf frage. The Cops are surely advancing. ' 'They are coming up higher I" |®"We ißvite the attention of the public to an able discussion of the Rolling Mill pro ject, on the third page of this paper, from the able pen of John Fulton, Esq. of Sax ton. Mr. Fulton has given the matter very close attention, and his facts, are overwhel ming and conclusive. Let the professional man, the fanner and the mechanic read it and ponder well what he says. It seems to us that it should not require any further ar gument to satisfy anybody that tbe project should become a reality, and that it would pay large dividends. Read Mr. Fulton's letter and then take as much stock ss your circumstances will warrant. •ft-As the Union and St. Clair delega tion, with banners floating in the air, was ascending tbe hill near the residence of Hen ry Nawgle, on last Tuesday afternoon a week ago, a large grey eagle was seen hovering directly over the delegation until it passed, then taking a fine sweep it flew the whole length of.the delegation, and perched itself upon an old tree, a few feet from the road, and again reviewed the procession-, and eqeh wag on as it passed, gave it a fullroand of Cheers. Coold it have been "old Abe," of the famous Bth Wisconsin, come over to see how bis friend Geary is getting along ? The boys all agree that the conduct of tbe eagle presages victory, i tM . >WI) | 1 i i - ,;l) J{ . ft'.lCtijl Si v ia! I- iOl qb oJk; .MSHSM COL. JOHN H. FILLER PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THE COPPERHEADS. The ''i.ppcrhead Legislative Conference. which assembled- in Bedfogd, on Satitfrday, t!,.- !m ..{ Sr adopted the f.r.o-.vin*. pnaWblde and resolution. We qsote from the proceedings of v the Confer ence : Maj. Taliaferro offered the following reso lution. which was unanimously adopted: Whereas, we believe it to be due to the hrave men who periled their lives in the late war for the preservation of the Union, that tbey should be represented npotr the legisla tive ticket for this district, and, rhereas, the Radical parte, contrary to its load professions of friendship for the soldier, has thrust aside the gallant heroes presented for its nomina tion in order to confer office upon its stay-at home partizans, Therefore . Resolved. That we make no further noni aation. but recommend to the support of the people of this Representative district, Col. H. Filler, of Bedford, who has been an nounced as an independent candidate. Was there ever a more shallow trick play ed upon the credulity of any set of men than is endeavored to be played upon the "brave men who periled their lives in the late war for the restoration of the Union, by B. F. Meyers and Col. Filler in the above shabby piece of political quackeTy. It is an insult to the good sense of every "brave" man who entered the service for the purpo ses which they now seem to commend. Shame! Shame ! And is it possible that Col. Filler can be a party to this affair! Ho, who above all others has considered it his special prerogative to denounce these men as traitors, cowards, sneaks, deserters, ske daddlers, copperheads, and so on down to the end of the chapter of political denunci ation and vituperation. It is even so ! Col. Filler, the brave, impetuous soldier, who periled his life for the preservation of our liberties, has become the bosom companion of B. F. Meyers, who was the bitter oppo nent of the war, the administration and the soldier. Alas, how have the mighty fallen! Yes, how must the mighty have fallen to concoct such a cowardly trick as the above, in conjunction with those whose base treach ery made i t necessary for the soldier to ex pose his breast to the enemy, while with stiletto in hand they hovered up on his rear, striking him in the dark when ever they could. The Radical Republicans have been faithful to every pledge they have ever made the Soldier. Look at the County tick et at the head of this paper, it consists of six names, four of these are soldiers, and for the other two positions there were no sold iers offered. Take this state of the case with that of the party which adopts the above preamble ami resolution and bow do they compare? Their ticket from Governor down to Auditor has NOT ONE -SOLDIER ON IT. Such hypocrisy! Imagine these men resolving that "we believe it to be due to the brave men who periled their lives in ttm lata war for the preservation of the Union, that thev should be represented upon the legislative ticket for this district'' 1 Men who cursed the cause in which the soldiers were engaged and prayed for the success of their eflemies! Well, we must confess that we can not do the subject justice. Now a few words in regard to Col. Filler. It is known to every body that he endeavor ed to foist himself upon a majority of the Republicans of this county as a candidate for the House of Representatives; no person made a canvass against him, and with the field to himself he failed to secure a sufficient number of votes to nominate him. The people determined that they would have some other man. They rejected him, not becaurc he was a soldier, but because they preferred a man who had lost a leg in the service to him, and they nomiuated Captain John S. Stuckey as far as this county could confer such a nomination. The district, over which Bedford county had no coptrol, determined to do justice to a county that lias not had a Representative for almost ten years. True, she did not present a soldier, but the Conference could not help that, and they nominated the patriotic gentlemen she presented. Were the claims of Fulton to be dis regarded because she did not present a soldier ? We presume the author of the above resolution would say so, but.we think differently. In our estimation if any person had a right to consider himself aggrieved by the action of the Conference, that person was Capt. John S. Stuckey, and not Col. John 11. Filler, but Capt. Stuckey, like a man of honor, after having submitted his claims to the people and having been unsuc cessful, he calmly acquiesced in the nomina tion without a murmur, as he was in honor bound to do, and the party had a right to expect no less of Col. John H. Filler. If he did not intend to abide by the decisioa of the County Convention he had no right to sub mit his claims to it. The miserable subterfuge endeavored to lie palmed off that the soldiers were badly treated is too thin a veil to hide from view the fact that if the Republicans vote for this man that they will be playing into the hands of the Copperheads. No, no, Col- Filler has thrown himselt into the hands of those who were the friends of the soldier's ene mies, and while we are sorry for him, we warn every Republican against stabbing the cause for which the nation has been periled for the last five years by voting for him for the House of Representatives. A CHANGE OF BASE. Last fall Andrew Johnson issued an order forbidding the .Government employes to contribute to the fund for carrying on the Union campaign, on the grounds of public virtue. To-day his obsequious tools are assessing every officer in the employ of the Government, down to a village Postmaster a per cent of their salaries, and they openly announce that only by the payment of this assessment will parties be permitted to con tinue in office. Never before in the history of our country has there been such an open and unblushing prostitution of public pat ronage to partisan purposes. While Andy Johnson possessed a single spark of honor or virtue ho very properlyjforbid any com pulsory assessments for political purposes. When he diberately betrayed his party and country and undertook to hand both over to the tender mercies of unrepentant rebels, be determined to prostitute all the power and patronage under his control to the carrying out of his diabolical aims. r -ol HiiioA is •tLWmu OV SOUTHERN UNION CONYJSNTION. On the 3rd inst., there met at Philadel delphia one of the mostjjMportaot political conventions that ever assembled on this con tinent. Composed entirely of Southern Union raen- who through the dark day# of rebellion stood firm and unwavering i" 1 support of the Union, its deliverances npon i the political condition of the lately rebellious | States, publishsd in another part of this } paper, wili command the attention of all, ' without mgard to party, who sincerely dosiro the peaee and prosperity of the country. In marked contrast to the gagged conclave of: political < conspirators of the I4th of August, stands the full and free discussion of the great principles involved in the question of reconstruction which characterized its sit tings through four consecutive days. Though thousands of loyal men from aR: parts of the country were in attendance to encourage, with kindly greetings the hearts of these Southern Union men, none but.. Southern men took any part in the proceed ings of the Convention. The results of j their deliberations will be found embodied in their address, or rather appeal, to the peo ple of the loyal States for safety and protec tion from the malignant and murderous persecution of tire rebels aided and abetted by the treason of Andy Johnson. This address is a direct appeal from iff,ooo,ooo of loyal men who speak from a sad experience arid whose eloquonce is the eloquence of suffering in a holy and righteous cause. It is a most withering rebuke of "my policy. " It arraigns Andy Johnson before the free people of the United States as having betrayed the fruits of bloody victory into the hands of conquered rebels, and conspir ed with traitors to persecute, banish" and murder the Union men of the South. Be- I trayed into the hands of their enemies by a traitorous accidental president, they appeal in the name of right, justice and humanity to the loyal men of the North for deliver | ance from the hands of their oppressors and ! their country's enemies. Shall their appeal he beard ? Let every voter read and when he goes to the jxjlls in October let hint answer in such away as will make every rebel and traitor, Andrew John son included, quake with fear and vow that never again will they be found under taking to subvert a. free Government or to tyrranize over a free people. SOLDIEKS'S EXTRA BOUNTIES WHY THIiY ARE NOT PAID. Congress, just- before it adjourned, says the Detroit Dost, passed a bill giving extra bounty to soldiers. That law was intended to pay these bounties immediately. It made every necessary provision for so doing. Immediately after its passage, the Secre tary of War appointed a board, with Gener al Canby as its President, to decide upon the proper construction of the law, and to frame rules to govern the different departments in paying the expected claims. This board, it is stated in the dispatches from Wash ington. has finished its report. The report declares that the law is explicit, that the bounties ought to he paid and also present ing the required rules for carrying it into im mediate effect. This report, it is stated by the New York Tribune's correspondent, has been suprcssed by the President's direc tion. An order was issued, at the same time, to the Second Auditor of the Treasu ry, not to pay the bounties uutil further or ders. The New York lit raid's correspond ent —a Johnson man —says he is "authorized to state that the bounties will not be paid for several months." The soldiers interested will naturally ask vshy the intentions of Congress are thus de feated and their just claims postponed. The correspondent of the Chicago Tribune an swers these questions, as follows : "The contradiction telegraphed over the country last night, to the effect that the Secretary of the Treasury had not issued an order forbidding the payment of bounties under the late act of Congress is in itself unfounded. Such an order was in the pos session of the Second Auditor last week. The further statement that the Treasury Department is awaiting the conclusion of the report of the commission appointed by the Secretary of War, to ascertain if the law would justify the payment of the bounties, and to frame rules governing the disburse ments, is also a misstatement. The facts are as stated in these dispatches two nights since. 7'he report of the commission teas ready to be made on Monday, and instead, it was withheld by the President. The re port was in favor of the payment of'the bounties. 7he. whole thing- was intended as a secret attempt to prevent the payment of any bounties till after the elections, and in the meantime to create the impression that f Congress did not really intend any payment, hut simply passed some unmeaning words by which to deceive soldiers and obtain their votes. The chances are that the uncxpect ! Ed exposure of this transaction will secure the publication of the report. It is said, however, that there is a settled determina tion in Administration circles to prevent the Republican party from receiving any of the goodtoill that would spring from the pay ment of bounties before the elections.'' The soldiers can thus see how they were to he duped, if possible, into supporting "my policy," by withholding their bounties. These bounties are only due to privates and non-commissioned officers. Gen. Custer an™ the other officers who support the Philadel ' phi* scheme, and are trying to lead the sol diers into the Copperhead camp, are not in terested in the bounty law. They do not lose anything by the delay in paying the bounties; consequently they can well afford to support the President, who holds in his hands the power of promotion; hut the keeping hack of the poor private's well earned bounty for tliree or four mouths, for political effect, is cruel injustice, and, in many cases, a great hardship. Congress voted him the money; he is fairly entitled to it immediately; and it is meanness of the most despicable sort to withhold it, for the sake of depriving the Republican party of the political credit of having shown itself the friend of the soldier. fSjgrThe Gazette is kindly referred to a late letter of Hex? Wasd Beechek, for that gentleman's views of President Johnson. It is quite doubtful whether that distinguished divine "thinks that all good men ought to ' stand by the President." | ' ait * * '* THE WAV THE tWPEKHEAIM GARBLE ! ILcad Ike Gazette on Thnddous Stevens. Itt tbe last, Gazette it undertakes to report a 6tnfcettr.<* from Mr. Stevens' speech which it doj| lit this wise : "WGRO UJ'THE ISSUE. GERMANS. IRISHMEN AND AFRICANS VVKI!K ALI EQUAL. SO LONG AS I LIVE I WiLL MAINTAIN THIS DOCTRINE." The capitals are the Gazette's. Here is what Mr. Stevens did say : " "As 1 said before the great i.sue to be met at litis elocton is the question of negro rights. I shall not deny but admit that a fundamental principle at' the republican creed is that every being possessing an immortal soul is equal before the law. They we not and cannot be equal in strength, height, beauty, intellectual and moral culture, or social ac quirements, these are accidents which must govern their condition according to circum stances. RUT IN THIS REPUBLIC, THE SAME LAWS MUST AND SHALL AP PLY TO EVERY MORTAL, AMERICAN, IRISHMEN, AFRICAN. GERMAN OR TURK. It is written by the finger of the A! MIGHTY L.UV O'TKR •, 'YE SHALL HAVE "ONE MANNER OF LAWS, AS WELL "FOR THE STRANGER AS FOR ONE "OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY : FOR I AM "THE LORD YOURGOD.' " No man could honestly misrepresent au bther in this manner. Rut the man who can deny protection to five millions of human beings because they are a shade darker than he is, can simpjy be guilty of auy thing. & JS""A Copperhead who could not avoid displaying his chagrin at the Republican masses coming to town, on Tuesday, consoled himself with, "They are only boys !" The reply came quick, "They are the boys who settled Jeff. Davis and his minions down South and they will settle Copperheads equal ly well in October !" ANOTHER VICTORY! HAVE YOti HEAR!) THE NEWS FROAI MAINE? 29,000 Majority for the Radicals! A. GAIN OF 14,000! A full Republican Congressional Dele* gution 1 A CLEAN SWEEP GENERALLY. How is '"Mv I > olic.y ,, \ > AHGUSTA, Maine, September. 10.—The victory in this State to day for the Union party is unparalled. Our majority is fully twenty-nine thousand. Our average majority for the past eight years has been less than fifteen thousand. We have carried every Congressional district —the closest by nearly four thousand majority. Have swept every county; elected every Senator and nino tenths of the House. The total vote is a very full one. and our victory is complete. THE DESERTER LAW. We would call especial attention to the following provisions of the Disfranchising act which .Sheriffs are required to publish in their Election Proclamation; WHEREAS, By the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act to amend the several acta heretofore passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," and approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, all persons who have deserted the military or naval ser vice of the United States, and who have not been discharged or relieved from the penalty or disability therein provided, are deemed and taken to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citizenship arid their rights to become citizens, and arc de prived of exercising any rights of citizens thereof; and. WHEREAS, Persons not citizens of the United States are not, under the constitu tion and laws of Pennsylvania, qualified electors of this Commonwealth: SECTION 1, licit enacted, etc.. THAT IN ALL FLECTIONS HEREAFTER TO BE HELD IN THIS COMMON WEALTH. IT SHALL BE UNLAW FUL FOR THE JUDGE OR INSPEC TORS OF ANY SUCH ELECTION TO RECEIVE ANY BALLOT OR BAL LOTS. FROM ANY PERSON OR PERSONS EMBRACED IN THE PRO VISIONS AND SUBJECT TO TUB DISABILITY IMPOSED BY SAID ACT OF CONGRESS, APPROVED MARCH THIRD. ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-F1 YE AND IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY SUCH PERSON TO OFFER TO VOTE ANY BALLOT OR BALLOTS. Skc. 2. THAT IF ANY SUCH JUDGE AND INSPECTORS OF ELECTION, OR ANY ONE OFTHEM. SHALL RECEIVE, OR CONSENT TO RECEIVE ANY SUCH UNLAWFUL BALLOT OR BALLOTS FROM ANY SUCH DISQUALIFIED PERSON. HE OR THEY SO OFFEND ING SHALL KB GUILTY OF A MISDE MEANOR, AND UPON CONVICTION THEREOF IN ANY COURT OF QUAR TER SESSIONS OF THIS COMMON WEALTH. HE SHALL. FOR EACH OFFENSE BE SENTENCED TO PAY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN ONE HUN DRED DOLLARS, AND TO UNDERGO AN IMPRISONMENT IN THE JAIL OF THE PROPER COUNTY FOR NOT LESS THAN SIXTY DAYS. SEC. 3. THAT ANY PERSON DE PRIVED OF CITIZENSHIP. AND DISQUALIFIED AS AFORESAID, SHALL, AT ANY ELECTION HERE ALTER TO BE HELD IN THIS COM MONWEALTH, VOTE OR TENDER TO THE OFFICERS THEREOF, AND OFFER TO VOTE, A BALLOT OR BALLOTS, ANY PERSON SO OF FENDING SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND ON CONVICTION THEREOF, IN ANY COURT OF QUARTER SES SIONS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH. k SIIALL, FOR EACH OFFENSE, BE PUNISHED IN LIKE MANNER AS IS PROVIDED IN THE PRECEDING SECTION OF THIS ACT IN THE CASE OF OFFICERS OF ELECTION RECEIVING SUCH UNLAWFUL BALLOT OR BALLOTS. SEC. 4. THAT IF ANY PERSON SHALL PERSUADE OR ADVISE ANY PERSON OR PERSONS, DE PRIVED OF CITIZENSHIP AND DIS QUALIFIED AS AFORESAID, TO OFFER ANY BALLOT OR BAL LOTS TO THE OFFICERS OF ANY ELECTION HEREAFTER TO BE HELD IN THIS COMMONWEALTH, 011 SHALL PERSUADE OR ADVISIi ANY SUCH OFFICER TO RECEIVE ANY SUCH BALLOT Oli BALLOTS FROM ANY PERSON DEPRIVED OF CITIZENSHIP, SUCH PERSON SO OFFENDING SHALL BE GUIL TY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND UPON CONVICTION THEREOF IN ANY COURT OF QUARTER SES SIONS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH, SHALL BE PUNISHED IN LIKE MANNER AS. IS PROVIDED IN THE SECOND SECTION OF THIS ACT, IN THE CASE OF OFFICERS OFJSUCH ELECTION RECEIVING SUCH UNLAWFUL BALLOT OR BALLOTS. LOYALTY! ADDRESS OF THE SOUTHERN DELE GATES TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. The Appeal of the I.oyal met of the South to their Fellow Citizens of the United States. The representatives of eight millions of American citizens appeal for protection and justice to their friends and brothers in the Suites that have been spared the cruelties | of rebellion, and the direct horrors of civil war. Here on the spot where freedom was proffered and pledged by the fathers of the Republic, we implore your help against a reorganized oppression, whose sole object is to remit the control of our destinies to the contrivers of the rebellion after they have been vanquished in honorable battle—thus at once to punish us lor our devotion to our country, and to entrench themselves in the official fortifications of the Government. Others have related the thrilling story of our wrongs from reading and observation. We couie before you as unchallenged wit nesses, and speak from personal knowledge our said experience. If you fail us we are more utterly" deserted and betrayed than if the contest of arms had been decided against us; for in that ease even victorious slavery would have found profit in the speedy par don of those who had been among its bra vest foes. Unexpected perfidy in the highest place of the Government, accidently filled by one who adds cruelty to ingratitude, and forgives the guilty as he proscribes the innocent, has stimulated the almost extinguished revenge of the beaten conspirators ; and now the rebels, who offered to yield everything to save their own lives, are seeking to consign us to bloody graves. Where we expected a benefactor we find a persecutor. Having lost our champion, we return to you, who can make Presidents and punish traitors. Our last hope under God, is the unity and firmness of the States that elected Abraham Lincoln and defeated Jefferson Davis. The best statement of our case is the appalling, yet unconscious confession of Andrew Johnson, who, in savage hatred of his own record, proclaims his purpose to clothe four millions of traitors with the pow er to impoverish and degrade eight millions of loyal men. Our wrongs bear alike upon aU races, and our tyrants uuchccked by you, will award the same fate to white and black. We can remain as we are only as inferiors and victims. We may fly from our homes ; but we should fear to trust our fate to those who, after denouncing and defeating treason, refused to right those who had bravely assisted them in the good work. Till we are wholly rescued there is neither peace for you nor prosperity for us. We cannot better define at once our wrongs and our wants than by declaring that, since Andrew Johnson affiliated with his early slanderers and our constant ene mies, his hand has been laid heavily upon every earnest loyalist in the South. Histo ry the just judguieut of the Present and tne certain confirmation of the Future, invite and command us to declare— That after rejecting his own remedies for restoring the Union, he has resorted to the weapons of traitors to bruise and beat down patriots. That, after declaring that none but loyal should govern the reconstructed South, he has practiced upon the maxim that none but traitors shall rule. That, while in the North he has removed conscientious men from office and filled ma ny of the vacancies with the sympathizers of treason, in the South he has removed the proved and trusted patriot and selected the equally proved and convicted traitor. That, after brave men who had fought for the old flag have been nominated for posi tions, 1 heir names have been recalled and avowed rebels substituted. That every origional Unionist in the South who stands fast to Andrew Johnson's cove nants from 1861 to 1865 has been ostracised. That he has corrupted the local courts by offering premiums for defiance of the laws of Congress and by openly discouraging the observance of the oath against treason. That, while refusing to punish one single conspicuous traitor, though thousands had earned the penalty of death, more than a thousand of devoted Union citizens have been murdered in cold blood since tho sur render of Lee, and in no case have their assassins been brought to judgement. That, he has pardoned some of the worst of the rebel criminals, North and South, including some who have taken human life under circumstances of unparalleled atroc- ity- That, whiie denouncing and fettering the operations of the Freed men's Bureau, he, with a full knowledge of the falsehood, has charged that the black men are lazy and rebellious, and has concealed the fact that more whites than black shave been protected ami fed by that noble organization ; and that while declaring that it was corruptly managed and expensive to the Government, he has connived a system of profligacy in the use of the public patronage and public money wholly without parallel, save wheu the traitors bankrupted the Treasury, and sought to disorganize and scatter the army and the navy, only to make it more easy to capture and destroy the Government. That, while declaring against the injus tice of leaving eleven States unrepresented, he has refused to authorize the liberal plan of Congress, simply because it recognizes the loyal majority, and refuses to perpetuate the traitor minority. That in every State south of the Mason and Dixon's line his "policy" has wrought the most deplorable consequences, social, moral and political. It has cmboldenea returned rebels to threaten civil war in Ma ryland, Missouri, West Virginia and Ten nessee, unless the patriots who saved and sealed these States to the old flag surrender before their arrogant demands. It has corrupted high State officials, elected by Union men, and sworn to enforce the laws against returned rebels, and made them the mere instruments of the authors of tbc rebellion. It has encouraged a new alienation between the sections, and by impeding emi gration to the South, has erected formidable barriers against free and friendly intercourse with our couutryinen in the North and the West. It lias allowed the rebel soldiery to perse cute the teachers of the colored schools, and to burn the churches in which the freed men have worshipped the living God. That a system so barbarous should have culminated in the frightful riot at Memphis and the still more appalling massacre at New Orleans, was as natural as that a bloody war should flow from the teachings of John 0. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis. Andrew Juluwon is responsible for ail these unspeakable crimes and cruelties. As he provoked, so he justifies and applauds them. Sending his agents and emissaries into this refined and patriotic metropolis, to insist upon making his reckless policy a test upon a Christian people, he forgot the protection extended to the, 14th of August Convention in Philadelphia was not only denied to the free people of New Orleans, on the 30th of July, when they assembled to discuss how best to protect themselves, but denied amidst the slaughter of hundreds of innocent men. No page in the record of his recoct out rages upon human justice and constitutional law Is more revolting than that which con victs him of refusing to arrest the prepara tions for that savage carnival, and not only of refusiug to punish its authors, butof toiling to throw the guilty responsibility upon the unoffending and innocent freemen. The infatuated tyrant that stood ready to crush his own people in Tennessee when they were struggling to maintain a govern ment erected by trim self against his and their traitor persecutors, was even more eager to illustrate his savage policy by clothing with the most despotic power the impenitent and revengeful rebels of New Orleans. Notwithstanding the heartless desertion and cruel persecution by Andrew Johnson, in the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Ten nessee, West Virginia, Maryland and Dela ware, democratic republican principles—• principles which the fathers of the Repub lic designed for all America—are now making determined battle with tbe oligar chial enemies of free constitutional govern ment ; and by the blessing of God these States will soon range themselves in the line with the former free States and illustrate the wisdom and benificence of the great charter of American Liberty by their increasing population, wealth and prosperi ty. In the remaining ten States—the seods of oligarchy planted in the Constitution by its slavery features have grown to be a monster power. Recognition thus wrung frotn the reluctant framers of that great instrument, enabled these States to intrench themselves behind the perverted doctrine of States Rights, ami sheltered by a claim of consti tutional obligation to maintain slavery in the States, presented to the American Gov ernment the alternatives of oligarchy with slavery, or. democratic republican govern ments without slavery. A forbearing Government, bowing to a supposed constitutional behest, acquiesced in the former alternative. The hand of the Government wus stayed for eighty years.'The principles of consti tutional liberty languished for want of gov- | eminent support. Oligarchy matured its power witli subtle design. Its history, for eighty years, is replete with unparalleled "injuries and usurpations." It developed only the agricultural localities —geographic- ally distinct from the free labor localities, and less than one-third the whole —with African slaves. It held four millions of human beings a9 chattels, yet made them the basis of unjust representative power for themselves in Federal and State Govern ments to maintain their enslavement. It excluded millions of free white labor ers from the richest agricultural lands of the world; forced them to remain, inactive and unproductive, on the mineral, manufactur ing and lumber localities—comprising two thirds of the whole South, in square miles, and real undeveloped wealth —simply be cause these localities were agriculturally too poor for slave labor. Condemned them to agriculture, on this nnagricultural territory and consigned them to unwilling ignorance and poverty—by de nying capital and strangling enterprise. It repelled the capital, energy, will, and .-kill of the free States, from the free labor localities, by unmitigated intolerance and proscription—thus guarding the approaches to their slave domain against democracy. Statute books groaned under despotic laws against unlawful and insurrectionary assemblies; aimed at the constitutional guarantees of the right to peaceably assem ble and petition for redress of grievances. It proscribed democratic literature as in cendiarv. It nullified the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and the press. It deprived citizens of the other States of the "privileges and immunities' in their States, an injury and usurpation alike unjust to Northern citizens and destructive of the liest interests of the States themselves. Alarmed at the progress of democracy in the face of every discouragement, at last it sought immunity by secession and war. The heart sickens with the contemplation of the four years that followed —forced loans, impressments, conscriptions, with blood hounds and bayonet, murder of aged Union men, who had long laid aside the implements tif labor, but had been summoned anew to the field by the conscription of their sons, to support children and grand-children re duced from comfort to the verge of starva tion : the slaughter of noble youths, types of physical manhood forced into an mi holy war aeainst those with whom they were identified by every interest; long months of incarecraiion in bastiles, banishment from homes and hearthstones, are but a partial recital of the long catalogue of horrors. But Democracy, North and South com bined. defeated them. They lost. What did they lose? The cause of oligarchy ? They lost African slavery by name only. Soon as the tocsin of war ceased—soon as the clang of arms was hushed—they raise Cheery of "immediate admission,' and with that watchword seek to organize under new forms a contest to perpetuate their unbridled sway. They rehabilitate their sweeping control of all local and State organizations. The Federal Executive, easily seduced, yields a willing obedience to his old mas ters. Aided by his unscrupulous disregard of Constitution and laws, by his merciless proscription of true democratic opinion, and by all his appliances of dosjtotic power, they now defiantly enter the lists in the loy al North, and seek to wring fiom freemen an endorsement of their wicked designs. Every foul agency is at work to accomplish this result. Falsely professing to assent to the abolition of slavery they arc contriving to continue its detestable power, by legisla tive acts, against pretended vagrants. They know that any form of servitude will answer their unholy purpose. They pronounce the four years' war a brilliant sword scene in the great revolutionary drama. Prescriptive public sentiment holds high carnival, and, profiting by the example of the Presidential pilgrim, breathes out threatenings and slaughter against loyalty, ignores and de nounces all legal restraints, and assails with the tongue of malignant slander the consti tutionally, chosen representatives of the peo pie. To still the voice of liberty—dangerous alone to tyrants—midnight conflagrations, assassinations and murders in open day, are called to their aid. A reign of terror through all these ten States makes loyalty stand silent in the presence of treason, or whisper in bated breath. Strong men hesitate openly to speak for liberty and decline to attend a convention at Philadelphia for fear of de struction. But all Southern men are not yet awed into submission to treason; and we have assembled from all these States, determined that liberty, when endangered, shall find a mouthpiece, and that the "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." We are here to consult together how best to provide for a Union of truly Republican States ; to seek to resume thirty-six stars on the old flag. We are here to see that ten of the States are not opaque bodies, paling their ineffectual fires beneath the gloom and dark ness of oligarchical tyranny and oppression. We wish them to be brilliant stars; em blems of constitutional liberty; glittering orbs, sparkling with the life-giving princi ples of the model Republic !—fitting adorn ments of the glorious banner of freedom. Our last and only hope is in the unity aDd fortitude of the loyal people of America in the support and vindication of the Thirty ninth CoDgress, and in the election of a con trolling Union majority in the succeeding or Fortieth CoDgress. While the new article amending the Na tional Constitution offers the most liberal conditions to the authors of the rebellion, and does not come up to the measure of our expectations, we believe its ratification would be the commencement of a complete and lasting protection to all our people; and therefore we accept it as the best present remedy, and appeal to our brothers and friends in the North and the West to make it their watch word in the coming election. The tokens are auspicious of overwhelming success. However nttle the verdict of the KJwiXE • ffwt th,; in th, residential chair, we cannot doubt that the teutons and sympathized hehas encourag.'d will recognize that verdict as the surest mdi the In V? ht / poWer wh *h CTUfln 'l the rebellion is still alive, and that those who | JffK 5 Jfy it rfjs a their own destrueti'fn i Our confidence in the overruling provi- I - ?T-Z C ¥ t W, ts the SndM i and lnt-nsifiesthe belief that when this warning in sufficiently taught tn these misgukh i] .ml reck ess men, the liberated millions of the rebellious South will be proffered those rights and franchises which may be nec<> ry to adjust and settle this mighty contro versy in the spirit of the most enlarged and Christian philanthropy. GBO W. Pascuai of Texas, Chairman. It. O. ftiPNEV, of Mississippi. John li. Atkinson, F WEST Virginia. * w ri of Delaware A. \V. Haw kins, of Tennessee. Samuel Knox, of Missouri Wtuoirr It. Fish, of Louisiana Milton J. Spabtold. of Alabama. Philip Fraseb, of Florida. D. R. GooHLOE, of North Carolina. D. C. Forney*, of District of Columbia. John A. J. Creswell, of Maryland. G. W. Asijbirn, of Georgia. 1 he reading of the address was interrup ted with cheers, and at its conclusion three cheers were given for it. After some discussion the address was unanimous adopted. THE -RESOLUTIONS. The foUpwiqg resolutions were read, amidst great applause, and unanimously adopted, vis : 1. Resolved, That the loyal people of the South cordially unite with-the ioyal people of the North in thanksgiving to the Almiirh ty God, through whose aid a rebellion un paralleled for its causclessncss, its cruelty and its criminality, has been overruled to the vindication of the supremacy of the Federal Constitution ever every State and Territory of the Republic. ■' 2. lit solved, That we demand "now. as wo have demanded at all times, since the cossa tion of hostilities, the restoration of the States in which we live to their old relations with the Union, on the simplest and fewest conditions consistent with the security of the nation and with the protection of our lives, property and political rights, now in jeopardy from the unquenchcd enmity of rebels lately in arms. 3. Resolved, That the unhappy policy pur sued by Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, is in its effects upon the loyal peonle of the South unjust, oppressive and intolerablelCand accordingly, however ar dently we desire to see our respective States once more represented in the Congress of the United States, we would deplore their restoration on the inadequate conditions prescribed by the President, as tending not to abate but to magnify the sorrows and perils of our condition. 4. Resolved, That with pride in the patri otism of the Congress, with gratitude for the fearless aud persistent support they have given to the cause of loyalty, and their efforts to restore all the States to their fir mer condition as States in the American f'nion. we will stand by the positions taken by them, and use all means consistent with a peaceful and lawful course, to secure the ratification of the amendments to the Con stitution of the United States, as proposed by the Congress at its recent session, and regret that the Congress in its wisdom did | not provide by law _ for the greater security of the loyal people in the States not yet ad mitted to representation. o. Resolved, That the political power of the Government of the United States in the administration of public affairs is. by its Constitution, Confided to the popuiar law making department of the Government. d. Resolved, That the political status of the States lately in rebellion to the Uuited States Government, and the rights of the people of the United States, are political questions, and are therefore clearly within the control of Congress, to the exclusion of the independent action of any and every other department of the Government. 7. Resolved, That there is no right, politi cal. legal or constitutional, in any States to secede or withdraw from the Union: th it they may by wicked and unauthorized revo lution aud force sever the relations which they have sustained to the Union, and when they do so and assume the attitude of public enemies at war with the United States, they subject themselves to all the rules and prin ciples of international law, and the laws ot war applicable to all beiligereuts, according to modern usage. i 8. Resolved, That we are unalterably in favor of the Union of the States, and earn estly desire the legal and speedy restoration of all the States to their proper places in the I tninn and the establishment in each of them of influences of jratriotism and justice by which the whole nation shall be combined to carry forward triumphantly the principles of freedom and progress, until all men of all raoes .-hall, everywhere beneath the flag of our country, have accorded to them freely all that their virtues, intelligence, industry, patriotism and energy may entitle them to attain. 9. Resolved, That the organizations in the unrepresented States, assuming to be State governments not having been legally estab lished, are not legitimate governments until recognized by Congress. h). Resolved, That the welcome we have received From the loyal citizens of Philadel phia, under the roof of the time honored hall in which the declaration of Independence was adopted, inspires us with an animating hope that the principles of just and equal government, which were made the founda tion of the .Republic at its origin, shall be come the corner-stone of the reconstruction. 11. Resolved, That we cherish with tender hearts the memory of the virtues, patriotism sublime faith, upright christain life and gen erous nature of the niartyr President. Abra ham Lincoln. 12. Resolved , That we are in favor of uni versal liberty the world over, and feel the deepest sympathy with the oppressed peo ple of all countries in their struggles for free dom, and the inherent right of all men to decide and control for themselves trie char acter of the government under which they live. 13. Resolved, That the lasting gratitude of the nation is due to the men who bore the brunt of the^battle and in covering themselves with imperishable glory, have saved to the world its hope of free govern ment, and relying upon the invincible sol diers and sailors who made the grand army and navy of the Republic to be true to the principles for which they fought, we pledge them that wo will stand by thciu in main taining the honor due ihe saviors of the na tion and in .securing the fruits of their vic tories. 14. Resob'd, That remembering with profound gratitude and love the precepts of Washington, that wc should accustom ourselves to eon -ider the Union as "the primary object of patriotic desire," which n*s heretofore sustained us with great pow er in our love for the Union, when so many of our neighbors in the Bouth were War for its destruction, our deep and abiding love forftlie tiu iuoiy. of the Father of" his Country, for the Union is more deeply on graven upon our hearts than .ever. The resolutions were unanimously adop ted. The one relative to the memory of Lin coln was adopted by the Convention lising. A resolution of sympathy from Kansas and Michigan was read and received with much enthusiasm. A delegate moved that a eommitteeof one from each State be appointed to lay t he address and resolutions before (ongr•*?." Agreed to. The committee to pivseuc resolutions to Congress was appointed.
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