I, -, k - m Elcuotclf to politics, itcrnturc, Agriculture, Science, iilovnlitvi, miD cnerol 3ntclltgcncc. VOL. 25. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., SEPTEMBER 6, 18CC. NO. 25. Ll 1 J Published by Theodore Schoch. TEItMS Two dollars a yrar in advance and if not paid befire the end oTthe year, two dollars and filfy cts. will be charged. No paperdisoontiniica until all arrearages are paid, exceptat the option of the Editor. IDAdvertiseinents of one square of (eigl.t lmesior less, one or three insertions 5 1 50. Each .additional insertion, 50 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB P11INTI3G, OF ALL KINDS, Eiccuted in the highest Myle of I he Art.andonthe most reasor.nble terms. S. HOLIEST, .115., TTORNE Y-AT-LAW, AND GENERAL CLAIM AGENT. STROUDSBURG, PA. Office with S. tf. Drchcr, Esq. All claims agaiost the Government prose cuted with dispatch at reduced rates. An addilional bounty of 8100 and of $50 procured for Soldiers in the late War, FBEK OF KXTRA CIIAttUE. August 2, 1800. DR. A. REEVES JACKS O M, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Begs leave to announce that, in order to prevent disappointment, he will hereafier de rote TiriiSDAY and SATURDAY ot cacli week exclusively lo Ccnsvltations and Sirgical Operations at his office. Parties from a distance who desire lo con sult him, can do so, therefore, on those days. Stroudsburg, May 31, lSGG.-tf. Furniture ! Furniture ! Marty's Hew Furniture Store j DREIIER'S NEW BUILDING, two doors below the Post-office, Strouds burg, Pa. lie is selling his Furniture 10 per cent, less than Easton or Washington prices, to say nothing about freight or break age. P'aT 1 l-CG.-tf. LNNgTrOOAI FU11N ITU RE in Wal nut, Oak and While Ash, Extension Tables, any size you wish, at McCARTY'S new Ware-Rooms. May 17, 1 rGG.-tf. OSE AND GILT FRAMES made to order. A fine lot of Ov-1 Frames on hand J. II. McCARTV. May 17, 18G6.-tf. IF YOU WANT A GOOD PARLOR Suit in Rose, Mahogany or Walnut, McCARTY his it. May 17, lSGG.-tf. IF YOU WANT A GOOD MELODEON, from one of the best makers in the Uni ted States, s-olij Rosewood Case, warranted 5 years, call at McCARTY'S, he would es pecially invite all who are good judges ot Music to come and test them. He will sell you from any maker you wish, $10 less than those who sell on commission. The reason is he buys for cash and sells for the same, with less than one-half the usul per centage that agents want. J. II. McCARTV. May 17, I5GG.-tf. UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRAN ches. Particular attention will be given to this branch of the subscriber's business. He will always study to please and consult the wants and wishes of those who rmpioy him. From the number of years experience he lias had in this branch of business he cannot and will not not be excelled either in city or country. Prices one-third less than is usual ly charged, from 50 to 75 finished Coffins al ways oa hand. Trimmings to suit the best Hearse in the country. Funerals attended at one hour's noticr-. J. II. McCARTY. May 17, lGO.-lf. Saddle and Harness Manufactory. The undersigned respectfully iuforms the citizens of Slroudsbui g, ami surrouu diog couutry, that he has commenced the above .business in Fowler's building, on Elizabeth street, and is Tally prepared to furnish auy article iu his line of business, at short notice. Ou hand at all times, a large stock of Harness, Yhij)x, TnmJ.s, Yalices, Car jct U'fx, Horse-JHanucts, Dells t Skates, Oil Cloths, Cr. Carriage Trimming promptly attended to. JOHN O. SAYLOll. Stroudsburg, Dec. 14, 1803. uuuifti n&uzi I'sii" uiyivi E1 tV AYiEIiam BZo!ttiahc;;(l, Wholesale and Retail Druggist. STIiOUDSBUllG, Pa. Constantly on hand and for sale cheap lor cash, a fresh sup ply of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oil, Glass, Putty, Varnish, Ker osene Oil, Perfumery aud Fancy Goods; also Pure Wines aud Liquors for Medicinal purpose. . P. S. Physicians Prescriptions care fully compounded. Stroudsburg, July 7, 1801. TJN SHOP I i" The undersigned bes leave to inform his friends and the public generally, that he has now opened a TIN SHOP, on Main street, near the Stroudsburg Mills, opposite Troch & Walton's, formerly R. Staples' Store, where he is prep.ued to manufacture and sell at wholesale and retail, all kinds of Tin, Copper and Sheet Irou-Warc. ALSO, Stoves Slovc Pipe and EIIxiivk. Old and second hand Stoves bought and sold, at cash rates. c CASH paid for Old Lead, Copper and Brass. (& Roofing, Spouting and Repairing promptly attended to und warranted lo give satisfaction. Call and see for yourselves. WILLIAM KEISER. btroudsburg, Zec. 8, 18G5. TOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS neat J ly and promptly executed at this oHiccf Peunsj'lvania State Fair. The Pennsylvania State Fair will com mennceat Easton, September 25th, 1SGG, and continue four days. The premiums are the largest ever offered by the Society. Embracing 44 different classes and in the aggregate exceeding$S000 Dollars. The premiums for cattle, horses, sheep and swine are very large. The fol lowing is an abstract of them: For foreign imported cattle there are 5 premiums of 50 each, and 5 of $20 each. For Durham Devon, Alderny and all other thorough bred entile, one of $30, 2 of $20, 7 of $10 and $15, and 4 of $5. Best herd of cattle not less than 15 owned by exhibi tor, $50 ; 2nd best $25. Best exhibition of heifers not Ies than six, $10. Best 10 yoke of oxen from any county, $100, in this class for oxen, &c, there arc G premiums of $10, and 5 of $5 for native of grade cows, &.C., 2 of $15 7 of $1G, and 4 of $5. HORSES. For imported and thorouhg breds, 3 of $50, 2 of $30. 4 of $25,4 of $15, 6 of $10. TROTTING HORSES and MARES 1 of 300, 1 of $200, 1 of $100, 1 of $7G, 2 of $30, 1 of $10, 1 of $30 and 1 of $25. Matched and Single Horses; 1 of $10, 1 of $30, 1 of $20, 1 of $15, 7 of $10 and 5 of $3. Stallions and Mares of all work, 2 of $30, 3 of $23, 3 of $22, 2 of $15,7 of $10. Jacks and Mules, 2 of $30, 1 of $25, 2 of $20, 2 of $15, 3 of $10. SHEEP. Best flock, $50, 2 of $25, G of $20, 8 of $15, 33 of $10, 31, varying from $3 lo $4. Swine Best herd, $25, 9 of $10. IS, varying from 8 to $4. Poultry 1 of sl5, 2 of $10, 2 of $5, 8 of $3 and $2. Plows 12, varying frum $5 to $3. Reap ing and Mowing Machines Silver Medal sud 4 of $2. Threshing Machines Fan ing Mills. llorsi; Powers Cutters Cru-h-ers, etc., 15, varying from $20 to $5. Ci der Mills, Churns and Pumps, 31, varying from $5 to $3. HOLLERS, CULTIVATORS, Grain drills, planters and Sowers, 17 varying from $10 to $3, Wagons, Corts, Riggings, Car riages &.c, 3 of $10, 20 varrying from $3 to $3. Portable Sieam Eugiues, WIND MILLS, Horse rakes, Scythes, forks, rakes and &c, 29 varying from $10 to $5. Gen eral Display of .-Igriciltulal Imple ments, 3 premiams of $50, $10, and $20 each. Le ither and its Manufactures, 1 of $15, 8 of $5, 10 of $2. Bitter Cheese and Honey, 5 of $10, G cf $5. Flour and Indi an Meal, Grain and Seeds, 1 of $25, 11 of $3, 37 of $2. Beet s'gar, Sorghum sugar, & S'.gar machinery, 3 of $20, 3 of $13, G of $10. Vegetables, 1 of $20, 8 of $2, 35 of $1. Grapes, Cider, Cordials and Wines, 1 of $10, G of $5, 25 of $2. Fruits. Ap ples, pears, peaches, plums, quinces, 1 of $20, 2 of $15, 4 of $10, 45 varying from $3 to $2, flowers and designs, $3 to 10, 75 vary ing fiom $7 to $2, Stoves And Tinware, 1 of $10, 25 from $5 to $2. Manlles, glass, iras, cutlery, furniture and &.C., 4 of $10, 35 from $5 to $10. Needle work, Embroidery, Knit work. Shall work. Sic embracing every variety of articles, 100 premiums from $2 to$I. Bread, Cakes, Preserves, Jellies, air tight fruits and vegetables, and sp:ced fruits, 04 premiums, from $2 to $1. Fine arts, paintings and penmanships, ambro:ypes, photographs, &ic , 3 of $10, 30 from $5 to $2. Displays by Mechanics or Tradesmen, 1 of $10, J. of k3 and 10 of $3. Stiver Ware, pianos, sewing machines, &.c, 8 silver medal.--, 1 of $20, and 3 of $10. Essays best description of exhibition, $50, other Essays ou agricultural subjects, SLc., 9 silver cups, or $25, each. For rules roverning Exhibitors and pre miums in detail. See Catalogue. Arrangements will be made with the sev eral Railroad lines to carry freight and Pas sengers at reduced rates. (Tompetition is invited from every section. SINGLE ADMISSIONS, 25 CENTS. A. BOYD HAMILTON, President, Ilarrislurg, Pa. A. B. LoMiAKER. Secretary, Easton, Pa., August 20, lTdii. 'ERY LATEST ! si aiJsi IT0 IMPOSITION ! A OT W I TI I ST A N D I N G THE BLOW Li and blatters of new beginners, Fable at the old stand, on the corner is still main taining his reputation as the keeper of the cheapest store, decidedly, in this section ot country. There is no mistake in this as the following facts will show : He is selling PRINTS at from 10 to 20 cts. per yard. DELANES 25 cents per yard, the price before the war. SILKS at from $1 to 2 yer yard. All kinds of FINE ERESS GOODS at greatly reduced prices. MUSLINS from 12 to 23 cents per yard. READ Y-MADE CL O T1UNU, so far below war prices as to astonish pur chasers. HATS at a very low figure indeed. Fable also keeps an eye to the comfort of the inner man, and offers SUGARS at from 10 lo 18 cents per pound. COFFEES 25 to 33 cents per pound. MOLASSES, 40 cents to $1 per gallon. A good assortment of CARPETS at near ly the old rates before the war. Faulk has no desire to particularize, but if you want anything in his line, of good quality anil at less rates than can be pur chased at any other t-tore, call at Fable'm old stand corner of Elizabeth and streets, and you cannot fail to be suited. 0T"No charge for showing goods. GEORGE FABLE. Stroudsburg, Pa., April 19, 18GG. -TTTTANTED AGENTS $75 to $200 VV PER MONTH for Gentlemon, and $33 to $75 for Ladies, everywhere, to in troduce the Common Sense Family Sewing Machine, improved and perfected. It will hem, fell, stitch, quilt, bind braid, and em broider beauti'ully price only $20 mak ing the elastic lock slitch, and fully warran ted for three years. We piy the above wa ges, or a commission, from which twice that amount can be made. Address or call on C. BOWERS & CO., Office No. 255 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Pa. Alllelteis answered promptly, with circulars aud terms. August 30, lyGG.-lm. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. concluded. Xor do these extravagant and UDjust claims on the part ol Congress to powers and authority never conferred upon the government by the Constitution find any warrant in the argument or excuses urged on their behalf. It is alleged, First. That these States, by the act of rebellion and by voluntarily withdraw ing their members from Congress, for feited their rights of representation, and that they can only receive it again at the hands of the supreme legislative authority of the government, on its own terms and at its own discretion. If representation in Congress and participation in the gov ernment were simply privileges conferred and held by favor, this statement might have the merit of plausibility. But rep resentation is under the Constitution not only expressly recognized as a right, but it is imposed as a duty; and it is essen tial in both aspects to the existence of the government and to the maintenance of its authority. In free governments fundamental and essential rights cannot be forfeited, except against individuals by due process of law; uor can constitutional duties and obligations be discarded or laid aside. The enjoyment of rights may be for a time suspended by the failure to claim them, and duties may be evaded by the refusal to perform them. The with drawal of their members from Congress by the Statc3 which resisted the general government was among their acts of in surrection was one of the means and agencies by which they thought to impair the authority and defeat the action of the govcrnmeut; and that act was annulled and rendered void when the insurrection itself was suppressed. Neither the right of representation nor the duty to be rep resented was iu the least impaired by the fact of insurrection ; but it may have been that by reason of the insurrectiou the conditions on which the enjoyment of that right and the performance of that du ty for the time depended could not be fulfilled. This was, in fact, the case. An insurgent power, in the exercise of usurped and unlawful authority iu the territory under its control, had prohibited that allegiance to the Constitution and laws of the United States which is made by that fundamental law the essential condition of representation in its govern ment. No man within the insurgent States was allowed to take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States, and, asa necessary consequence, uo man could lawfully represent those States ia the councils of the Union. Hut this was only an obstacle to the eujoyment of the right and to the discharge of a dutj- it did not annul the one uor abrogate the other; and it ceased to exist when the usurpation by which it was created had beeu overthrown and the States had again resumed their allegiance to the Constitu tion and laws of the United States. Second. Dut it is asserted, in support of the authority claimed by the Congress now in the possession of power, that it flows directly from the laws of war; that it is among the rights which victorious war confers upon the conquerors, aud which the conqueror may exercise or waive in his own discretion. To this we reply that the laws in question relate solely, so far as the rights they coufcr are concerned, to wars waged between alieu and independent nations, and can have no placo or force, in this regard, in a war waged by a government to suppress an insurrection of its own people, upon its own soil, against its authority. If. we had carried ou successful war agaiust any foreign nation, we might thereby have ac quired possession and jurisdiction of their soil, with the right to enforce our laws upon their people and to impose upon them such laws and such obligations as we might choose. But we had before the war complete jurisdiction over the soil of the Southern States, limited only by our owu Constitution. Our laws were the only national laws in force upon it. .The government of the Uuited States was the ouly government through which those States aud their people had relations with foreigu nations, and it3 flag was the only flag by which they were recognized or known any where ou the face of the earth. In all these respects, and iu all other res pects involving national iutercsts aud rights, our possession was perfect and complete. It did not need to be acquir ed, but only to be maintained; and vic torious war against the rebellion could do nothing more thau maintain it. It could only vindicate and re-establish the dis puted supremacy of the Constitution. It could neither enlarge nor diminish the authority which that Constitution con fers upon the government by which it was achieved. Such au enlargement or abridgement of constitutional power can be affected only by amendment of the Constitution itself, and such amendment cau be made ouly in the modes which the Constitution itself prescribes. The claim that the suppression of an insur rection against the government gives ad ditional authority and power to that gov ernment, especially that it enlarges the jurisdiction of Cougrcss and gives that body the right to exclude States from representation in the national councils, without which the nation itself can have uo authority aud no existence, seems to us at variance alike with the principles of the Constitution and with the public safety. Third. But it is alleged that in certain particular the Constitution of the United States fails to secure that absolute justice vi v.Uumj ! Hivu pi iuv.1 i nai , auu luwitu "luiuui i tjuuivw ur res- luueed, wit u tar "realer weight upon thoso of our government require; that it was(traint upon a disorganized and chaotic so- j with whom thewar began ; that in the in these respects the result of corapro-; ciety, aud where the keen sense of defeat death of relatives and fnend tho dUr, mises ana concessions to whicu, nowever j is added to the overthrow ot ambition and necessary when the Constitution was ( hope, scenes of violence should defy for a! formed, we are uo longer compelled to j time the imperfect discipline of law, and . submit, and that now, having the power j excite anew the fears and forebodings of : through successful war and just warrautjthe patriotic and well disposed. It is un- for its exercise in the hostile conduct of ! questionably true that local disturbances ine insurgent section, tue actual govern - Trt onf r f Hia llnifnH Stnfaa --! n r i -t vroe ita own conditions, and make the Constitu- tion conform in all provisions to its own; ideas of equality and the rights of man.- Congress at its last session proposed a-jmost closely in contact, and where p?s- meudmpnts to the Constitution, enlarging sions and reseutment3 are always most , iu some very important particulars'the easily fed and fauued into outbreak ; and authority of the general government over even there they arequite as much the ' that of the several States, and reducing,! fault of uutimely and hurtful political ! uj uuett uisii uu; uibclucu I, mu I tprcauu- o,uaiiuu ui uujt uuon.ii.jr uu mo piiu ui i tativc power of the States in which slave-J the people to the authority of the nation ry formerly existed; and it is claimed that; al government. these amendments may be made valid as parts of the original Constitution without the concurrence ot the Mates to be most seriously affected by them, or may beim - poseu upon those States by three-lourths ot the rcmaiuinz States, as conditions of i their readmission to representation in Congress aud iu the electoral college. It is the unquestionable right of the people of the United States to make such changes in the Constitution as they, upon due deliberation, may deem expedient. iiut we insist that they shall be made in the mode which the Constitution itself and the spirit of that instrument, and with the principles of self-government and of equal rights which lie at the basis of our republican institutions. We deny the right of Congress to make these chan ges in the fundamental law without the concurrence of three-fourths of all the States, including especially those to be most seriously affected by them, or to im pose them upon States or people, as con ditions of representation, or of admission to any of the rights, duties or obligations which belong under the Constitution of all the States alike. And with still great-1 er emphasis do we deny the right of any! portion of the States, excluding the rest! of the States from any share iu their councils, to propose or sanction changes in the uonstitutiou which arc to atiect permanently their political relations and control or coerce the legitimate action of the several members of tho common Uni on. Such au exercise of power is dimply a usurpation; just as unwarrantable wheu exercised by nothern States as it would be if exercised by southern, and not to be forfeited or palliated by any thing in the past history either of those by whom it is attempted or of those upon- whose right3 and liberties it is to take effect. It fiuds uo warrant in the Constitution. It is at war with the fundamental principles of our government. If tolerated in one iustance, it becomes the precedent for fu ture invasions of liberty aud constitutional right dependeut solely upou the will of the party iu possession of power, and thus leads, by direct sequence, to the most fa tal and intolerable of all tyrannies the tyranny of shifting and irresponsible po litical factions. It is against this, the most formidable of all the dangers which menace the stability of free government, that the Constitution of the Uuited States ' was intended most carefully to provide. We demand a strict aud steadfast adhc reucc to its provisions. In this, and iu this alone, cau we find a basis of perma nent uniou and peace. Fourth. But it is alleged, in justifica tion of the usurpation which we condemn, that the coudition of the southern States and people is not such as renders safe their readraissiou to a share in the gov ernment of the couutry, that they are still disloyal in sentiment aud purpose, and that neither the honor, the credit, nor the interests of the nation would be safe if they were readmitted to a sharo iu its councils. We might reply to this, 1. That we have no right, for such rea sons, to deny auy portion of the States or people rights expressly conferred upon them by the Constitution of the United States. - 2. That so long as their acts are those of loyalty, so long as they conform in all their pubhe conduct to the requirements of the Constitution and of the laws, Ave have uo right to exact from them conformity in theirscntimentsand opiuionstoourowu. 3. That we have no right to distrust the purpose or the ability of the people of the Uniou to protect and defond, uu der all contingencies and by whatever mean's may be required, its honor aud its welfare. These would, iu our judgment, be full and conclusive answers to the plea thus advanced for the exclusion of these States from the Uuion. But wo say further that this plea rests upon a complete mis apprehension or au unjust perversiou of existing facts. AVe do not hesitate to affirm that there is uo section of the country where tho Constitution and laws of the United States find a more prompt and eutire obedience than in those States aud among those people who were lately iu arms against them, or where there is less purposo or danger of any future attempt to overthrow their authority. It would seem to be both natural aud inevitable that, iu States and sections bo recently swept by tho whirl wind of war, where all the ordinary modes and methods of organized industry have been broken up, aud tho bonds aud iuflu ences thatguarautee social order have been destroyed where thousands aud tens of thousand of turbujeut spirits have been 'suddenly loosed from the discipline of j or mis Kinu, accompanied by more or less! ! ft VIAAnnA -fi rf ill snM.m !.. iLa confined entirely to the cities and larger towns of the southern States, where dif- fercnt races and interests are brought But the concurrent testimony of those best acquainted with the coudition of so-' ciety and the state of public sentiment in lthe South including that of its rcpresen- Itatives in this convention establishes that: the great mass of the southern people cept, with as tun and sincere submission as do the people of the other States, the cept, with 1 j re-established supremacy of the national authority, and are prepared, in the most loyal supirit, and with a zeal quickened alike by their interest and their pride, to co-operate with other States and sections j in whatever may be necessary to defend ! mote the welfare of our common country History affords no iustance where a peo ple, so powerful in numbers, in resources, and in public spirit, after a war so long iu its duration, so destructive in its pro gress, and so adverse in its issue, have ac cepted defeat and its conquences with so much of good faith as has marked the conduct of the people lately in insurrec tion against the United States. Beyond all question this has been largely due to the wise generosity with which their en forced surrender was accepted by the President of the United States and the generals in immediate command of their armies, and to the liberal measures which were afterwards taken to restore order, tranquility and law to the States where all had for the time been overthrown. ! No steps could have been better calcula ted to command the respect, win the con fidence, revive the patriotism, and se cure the permanent aud affectionate al legiance of the people of the South to the Constitution and laws of the Union than those which have been so firmly taken and so steadfastly pursued by the Pres ident of the United States. Aud if that confidence and loyalty have been since im paired, if the people of the South are to chy less cordial in their allegiance thau they were immediately upon the close of the war, we believe it is due to the chang ed toue of the legislative department of the geucral government towards them ; to the action by which Congress has en deavored to supplant aud defeat the Pres ident's wise and beneficent policy of res toration; to their exclusion from all par ticipation in our common govcrnmeut; to the withdrawal from them of rights con ferred and guaranteed by the Constitu tion, and to the evideut purpose of Con gress, in the exercise of a usurped and unlawful authority, to reduce them from the rank of free and equal members of a republic of States, with rights aud digni ties unimpaired, to the condition of eou qucrcd provinces aud a conquered people, iu all things subordinate aud subject to the will of their couquerors ; free ouly to obey laws in making which they are not allowed to share. No people has ever yet existed whose loyalty and faith such treatment long con tinued would not alienate aud impair. Aud . the ten millions of Americans who live iu the South would be unworthy citizens of a free country, degenerate sons of an heroic ancestory, unfit ever to be come guardians of the rights and liberties bequethed to us by the fathers and foun ders of this republic, if they could ac cept, with uncomplaining submissiveness, the humiliations thus sought to be im posed upon them, liescutmcut of injus tice is always and everywhere essential to freedom ; aud the spirit which prompts the States and people lately in insurrec tion, but insurgcutnow uo longer, to pro test against tho imposition of unjust and degrading conditions, makes them all the more worthy to share in the government of a free commonwealth, and gives still firmer assurance of the future power and freedom of the republic. For whatever responsibility tho southern people may have incurred iu resisting the authority of the national goverutucut and iu taking up arms for its overthrow, they may be common prudeuco compels us to antici held to answer, as iudivinuals, before the pate augmented discouteut, a sullen with judicial tribuuals of the laud, and for that'drawal from the duties and obligation of conduct, as societies and organized com-1 the Federal government, iuterual dissen uiunities, they have already paid the most 1 sions, and a geueral collission of senti fearful penalties that cau fall on offend- ments and pretensions which may reuew, mg States in the losses, tho sufferings aud humiliations of unsuccessful war, But whatever may be the guilt or tho puuih mcnt of the conscious authors of the in surrection, candor aud common justice demand tho concession that the great uia3 of thoso who became involved in its res ponsibility acted upou what they believed to be their duty in defense of what they had beeu taught to believe their rights, or under a compulsion, physical aad mor al, which they wero powerless to resist. Nor can it be amiss to remember that, terrible as have been the beieavemeuts and tho losses of this war, they nave Uil - 'leu exclusively upou ucither sectiou uu& ' upon neither party that they have fallen thp. disrLf sion of families, the disruption of social systems and social ties the overthrow of governments, of law and of order the destruction of property' and of forms' and modes and meaus of industry, the loss of political, commercial, and moral influence in every shape and form which reat A ua if & I'll t calamities can assume, the States and peo ple which engaged in the war against the government of the United States hav ! suffered tenfold more than those who re- maincd in allegiance to its Constitution and laws. These considerations may not, as they certaiuly do not, justify the action of the people of the insurgent States; but no just or generous man will refuse to them very v, r-t t 11. "1.1. V 1 . vuuaiuciauiu weiguL iu uetermining the line of conduct which the government of the Uuited States should pursue towards them. They accept, if not with alacrity, cer tainly without sullen resentment, the de feat aud overthrow fhnv liivn cu;r..7 ac-jThey acknowledge and acnuiese in the r'e- ;SUlts, to them and the country, which that defeat involves. Thev no longer claim for any State the right to secede from the Union; they no longer assert for any State an allegiance paramount to that which is due to the general govern ment. Thev have accented th r1p$irno. tion of slavery, abolished it by their Stat constitutions, and concurred with th States and people of the whole Union in prohibiting its existence forever upon the soil or within the jurisdiction of the Uni tcd States. They indicate and evinco their purpose just so fast as may be pos sible and safe to adapt their domestic laws to the changed condition of their society, and to secure by the law and its tribunals equal and impartial justice to all classes of their inhabitants. They admit the in validity of all acts of resistence to the na tional authority, and of all debts incurred in attempting its overthrow. They avow their willingness to share the burdens and discharge all the duties and obliga tions which rest upon thetn in common with other States aud other sections of the Union; aud they reuew, through their representatives in this convention, by all their public conduct, in every way and by the most solemn acts by which States and societies' can pledge their faith, their engagement to bear true faith aud allegiauce, through all time to come, to the Constitution of the Uuited States, aud to all laws that may be made in pursuance thereof. Fellow-countrymen: We call upon you, iu full rcliauce upon your intelligence aud your patriotism, to accept, with geuc rous and ungrudging confidence, this full surrender ou the part of those lately iu arms against your authority, and to share with them the. honor and renown that a wait those who briug back peace and con cord to jarring States. The war just closed, with all its sorrows and disasters, has opened a new career of glory to the nation it has saved. It has swe'pt away the hostilities of sentiment aud of inte rest which were a standing menace to its peace. It has destroyed the institution of slavery, always a cause of sectional agi tation and strife, and has opened for our country the way to unity of interest, of principle and of action, through all time to come. It has developed in both sec tions a military capacity au aptitude for achievements of war, both by sea and land, before unknown even to ourselves, and destined to exercise hereafter, under uni ted councils, an importaut influence upon the character and destiuy of the continent aud the world. And while it has thus re vealed, disciplined and compacted our power, it has proved to us beyond con troversy or doubt, by tho course pursued towards both contending sections by for eign powers, that wo must be the guar dians of our own independence, and that the principles of republican freedom wo represent can find among the nations of the earth uo friends or defenders but our selves. We call upon you, therefore, by every consideration of your own diguity and safety, aud in the name of liberty through out the world, to complete the work of restoration and peace which the President of the United States has so well begun, and which tho policy adopted aud the principles asserted by the present Con gress alone obstruct. Tho time is close at hand when members of a new Congress shall perpetuate this policy, and, by ex cluding loyal States and people from rep resentation in its halls, shall continucthe usurpation by which the legislative pow- icrs of the government arc now exercised, :iu a still more fearful shape, tho civil war from which we just emerged. We call upou you to interpose your power to pro veut tho recurreuce of so trauscedeut a calamity. Ve call upon you, in tiny Cunyrasional uistrkt of evert State, to secure the elect ion of members iclio, what ever other tlifcroices may characterize their jtolitieut action, will unite in rery nizimj the 111 ill IT OF KVKUY STATEOF TIIK Union to 11 efu es k x tat ion in Con (uless, who will admit to seats ix K1T11EU 1511ANCII tVKltV LOYAL IiKl'HE SKNTAT1VES FUOM LVLKY Sl'ATK in all"- atancc. to the wnernuunt, um maybe J'uunJ If each Llouse in the cxerciit of f .
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