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The undersigned having lately pur based the " nUMHLER lior.-E " property, has already com menced sa.h alterations and improvements as will lender this old and popul,-; House equal, if not supe rior, to any Ho tl in ilie ( itv of .larris' i.rg. A continuance of the public patronage refpect fully solicited. GI .-Q j, BOLTON' WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUSK.IIAN SOCK, VV V O.VIINU CvL, PA. establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention will be given to the comfort and convenience of those who patronise the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor.. Tunkhanneck, September 11, ISOI. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MES HOP PEN, WYOMING COI'NIY, PA VVui. 11. UOIIT ItKiHT, Prop'r a -VYING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will .pare no effort to render the house an agreeable place of sojourn for all who may favor it with \^ r RXRIGIIT . dune, 3rd, 1863 fjta* jDotfl, TOWANDA, 3?A . ). 11. B ART LET, | Late oit. p BRAINARD HOUSE, ELMIRA, VV • PKOI'IUETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i* one of the LARGEST and BEST ARRANGED Houses in the country—lt is fitted up in the most modern and improved -style, and no pain ire spired to make it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for all, v 3, n'2l, ly- CLARKE, KEENE*. &CO., 11 AN C FACTL'HKHS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN LADIES', MISSES'& GENTS' §ilk ant) £assimm I)ats AND JOBBERS IN IIATS. CAPS, FI RS, STRAW GOODS, JPAR.VMH.S AND L'MHRELLAN. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, 349 BH O AID WAY, CORNER OF LEONARD STREET, susw w©an. B R. CLARK, A. C KEEMEV, > 8. LKEENEV. J M7GILMAN, BENTIST. \ T OILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk 1* L. hannock Borough, and respectfully tenderhi professional services to the citisens of this placeand surrounding country. „ . — T n ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIT ' Office over Tattoo's Law Offiencar the Post Office NEW TAILORING SHOP The Subscriber having had a sixteen year* prac tical experience in cutting and making clothing, now offers his services in this line to the citixensof NICHOLSON and vicinity. Those wishing to got Fits will find his shop the Place to get theui. JOEL, R. SMITH. vd-n59-6mos THE GREAT NATIONAL CONVENTION AT PIIILADELPiIIA. HARMONIOUS ASSEMBLAGE OF UNION MEN FROM EVERY STATE AND TERRITORY. DIsrrwiONISM AND RADICALISM IOSSIGSED TO THEIR GRAVE, SOUTH CAROLIN* AND MASSACHUSETTS STRIKE HANDS AND SMoKE THE CAL UMKT OF PEACE. "A rxios of lilies, a union of land 3, A union of states Done can sever, A union of hearts a union of h.inJs, And the flag of our union foruvek." THE MEETING OF THE CONVENTION. At about noon the members of the Con vention began to arrive, and soon fili d up the body of the hall. The galieries also he came pretty well filled. A hand, stationed over the entrance door, beguiled the time with music. The impulse given to the pro ceedings was the announcement by post master! iein ral Randall,that the delegations from Massachusetts and South Carolina would now enter, arm in arm. This caus ed the whole assemblage to rise and cheer lustily ; and, as the representatives of those two States, headed b\ Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, and General Couch of Massachu setts, walked up one of the aisles in this fraternal manner, the highest degree of ex citement and enthusiasm was manifested the band playing successively, "Rally around the Flag," "Away down South in Dixie," "The Star Spangled Banner," and "Yankee Doodle." Men waved their hats, clapped their hands, and cheered vocifer ously ; and the few ladies present (not more than a score or two) waved their handkerchiefs. Mr. llogan, number of Congress from Missouri, then called for like honors to President Johnson, to the Union, to the Red, White and Blue, cVe.— Altogether, the Convention seemed to open under very promising auspices as to. har mony and general good feeling. Hon, A W. Randall, at half-past 12 o'clock, eal ed the Convention to order, and said : For tiie purpose of the temp >rarv or ganization of this Convention, I propo-e that General John A. Dix, of New York,act as the temporary Chairman. The proposition was unanimously agreed to. SPEECH OK GENERAL JOHN A, DIX. General Dix, \* .< advancing to the desk of the presiding officer, was greeted with cordial and prolonged cheering, said : Gentlemen of the Convention, and Fel low-citizens of the whole Union, (applause:) I return you my sincere thanks for the hon or you have done me in choosing me to preside temporarily over your deliberations. I regard it as a distinction of no ordinary character, not onlv on account of the high personal and political standing of the gen tlemen who compose this Convention, but because it is a convention of the peopie of all the States r.f this Union (elw ers), and because we cannot doubt that, if its pro ceedings are conducted with harmony and good judgment, it will lead to the most im portant results. It may be truly said that no body of men has met on this continent under circumstances so momentous ami so delicate since the year 1 787—'he year when our ancestors assembled in this city to frame a better government for the States which were parties to t l, e old Confederation —a government which has been confirmed and made more enduring, as we trust, by the fearful trials and perils which it lias en countered and overcome. [Applause.] The Constitution which they enme here to frame wo are here to vindicate and to restore.— [Cheers.] We are here to assert the supre macy of representative government over all who are within the confines of the Union ; a government which cannot, without the violation of its fundamental principles, be extended over any but those who are rep resented in it (loud applause), over those who, by virtue of that representation, are entitled to a voice in the administration of the public affairs. (Renewed applause.)— It was. such a government our fathers fram ed and put in operation. It is the govern ment which we are bound bv everv consid eration of fidelity, justice and good faith to defend and to maintain, [cheers]. Gen tlemen, we arc not living under such a gov ernment. [Applause and cries of "That is true."] Thirty-six States have for months been governed by twenty-five ; eleven States have been wholly without represen tation in the legislative body of the nation ; the numerical proportion of the represent ed States to the unrepresented has just been changed by the admission of the dele gation from Tennessee —a unit taken from the smaller and added to the larger number. Ten States are still denied the representa tion in Congress to which they are entitled under the Constitution. It is this wrong which we have come here to protest against, and as far as in us lies, to redress. [Great applause.] MTben the President of the United States declared that armed resis- tance to the authority of the Union was orer, all the States had a right to be repre- "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERT FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "-Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1866. sented in the National Legislature. [Loud cheering.] They had the right under the Constitution. They had the right under resolutions passed by both houses of Con gress in 1801. Those resolutions were not concurrent, hut they were substantially identical. Moreover, the Slates were entitled to be so represented on other grounds of fairness and good faitii. The President, not in pur suance of any constitutional power, had called on the confederated States to accept conditions for tliwir admission to the exer cise of their legitimate functions as mem bers of the Union, those conditions being the ratification of the amendments to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, and the repudiation of the debts contracted in the effort to overthrow the government. These conditions were met and accepted. The exaction of new conditions is unjust, a vio lation of the faith of the government, sub versive of the principles of our political system, and dangerous to the public pros perity and peace, [Applause.] Each House of Congress may, as the judge of the qualifications of its own mem bers, r ject individuals for just cause, but the two bodies, acting conjointly, cannot exclude entire delegations without an un warrantable assumption of power. [Ap plause] Congress has not only done this : it has gone farther. It has incoiporated new condiiious into amendments to the Con stitution, arid submitted them for the ratifi cation of the States. There is no proba bility that these amendments will be rati fied by three-fourths of the States. To in sist on the conditions they contain is to prolong indefinitely the exclusion of more than one-fourth of the States from represen tation in Congress. [Applause.] Is this the government our fatliers fought to estab lish ? [Cries of "No ! No!"j Is this the Union we have been fighting to preserve? ["No! No!"] The President has done all in his power to correct this wrong [ap plause,] and to restore the legislative body to its full proportions, by giving to all the members of the Union their proper share in the public counc.ls, [Cheers.] Legis lation without representation is an anomaly in our political system Under any other form of government it would he but anoth er name for usurpation and misrule. Gentlemen, I trust that in our delibera tions here we shall confine ourselves to one main purpose —that of redressing the wrong , to which I have referred. There is much | in the administration of the government, i which needs amendment —some tilings to be done and others to be undone. Tliere i are commercial and financial reforms which | are indi>pen*able to the public welfare. But we shall r.ot have the power to carry out these until we change the po! tical com plex on of Congi ess. [Enthusiastic aid long continued applause.) This should be our first, oor immediate aim. It is in the Congressional districts that the vital con test is to take place. The control of one i branch of Congress will enable us to pre ! vent partial, unjust, and pernicious legisla tion. The control of both bouses, with the power to introduce and carry out Salutary ! reforms, and "bring the government back," | in the language of Jefferson, "to the repub lican tack," will come later. [Cheers.] But. with wise, harmonious and judicious i action on our part, and on the part of those I we represent, this need not he long delay -1 ed. [Applause ] I believe that public opinion is right, and that it is only necessa ry to present to the peop'e clearly the is | sues between us and the political organiza tion which controls the action of Congress. And, genth men, is not the object for ! which we are contending a consummation | worthy of our highest and mo-t devoted 1 efforts, to bring back the republic (purified, I strengthened by the fiery ordeal through , which it had passed) to its ancient prosper ; lty and power (applause) to present to the ; world, an example worthy of imitation, not j a mere Utopian vision of good government, but the grand old reality cf the better times (applause) with which the memory of our ; fathers, the recollections of the past, and all our hopes of the future, are inscparabjy i entwined (cheers) one country, one flag, one Union of equal States. PRATER BY REV. MR. M'DONALD Thccliaiiman then said : It has been sug gested that the proceedings be opened with prayer, and the Divine blessing will now be invoked by by llev. J. N. McDonald. — The call for the convention was then read. THE CALL FOR THE CONVENTION. A National Union Convention of at least two delegates from each Congression al district of all the States, two from each Territory, two from the District ot Colum bia, and four delegates at large from each State, w ill be held at the city of Philadel phia, or the second Tuesday (14th) of Au gust next. Such delegates will be chosen by the electors of the several States who sustain the Administration in maintaining uniuo ken the Union of the States, under the Constitution which our fathers established, and who ag*ee in the following proposi tions, viz: The Union of the States is, in every case, indissoluble, and is perpetual; and the Constitution of the United States, and the laws passed by Congress in pursuance thereof, supreme and Constant, and univer sal in their obligations. The rights, the dignity, and the equality of the States in the Union, including the right of representation in Congress, are solemnly guaranteed by that Constitution, to save which from overthrow so much blood and treasure were expended in the late civil war. There is no right, anywhere, to dissolve the Union, or to separate States from the Union, either by voluntary withdrawal, by force of arms, or by Congressional action, neither by the secession of the States, nor by the exclusion of their loyal and quali fied representatives, nor by the national government in any other form. Slavery is abolished, and neither can nor ought to be re established in any State or Territory within our jurisdiction. Each State has the undoubted right to prescribe the qualifications of i's own electors, and no external power rightfully can, or ought to, dictate, control, or influ ence the free and voluntary actiou of the States in the exercise of that right. The maintenance ihvi date ot the rights of the St ates, and especially of the right of each State to order and control its own domestic concerns, according to its own judgment exclusively, subject only to the Constitution of the United State, is essen tial to that balance of oower on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and the overthrow .of that system by the usurpation and centraliza tion of power in Congress would be a revo lution, dangerous to republican govern ment and destructive ot liberty. Each House of Congress is made, by the Constitution, the sole judge of the elec tions, returns, and qualifieations of its members; but the exclusion of loyal S n ators and Representatives, properly chosen and qualified, under the Constitution ami laws, is unjust and revolutionary. Every patriot should frown upon all those acts and proceeding*, everywhere, which serve no other purpose than to re kindle the animosities of war, and the ef fect of which upon our moral social, and maternal interests at home, and upon our standing abroad, differing only in degree, is injurious like war itself. The purpose of the war having been to preserve the Union and ihe Constitution bv putting down the rebellion, and the rebellion having been suppressed, all re sistance to the authority of the general government being at an end, and the war having ceased, war measures should aUo cease, and stould he followed by measures of peaceful administration, so that union, harmonv, and concord may be encouraged and industry, commerce, and the arts of peace revived and promoted ; and the ear ly restoration of all the States to the exer cise of their constitutional powers in the national government is indispensably ne cessary to the strength and the defense of the republic, and to the maintenance of the public credit. All such ( lectors in the thirty-six States and nine TM rttoi ies of the United Stabs, and in the District of Columbia, who, in a sp tit of patriotism and low for the Union ••an rise above personal and sectional con sidera'ions, and who de-ire t > s'e a truly National Convention, which shall represent all the States and Territories of the Union, assemble as friends and brothers, under the national flag, to hold counsel tog' ther upon the state of the Union, and to take meas ures to avert possible danger from the same, —are specially requested to take part in the choice of such delegates. But no delegate will take a seat in such Convention who does not loyally accept the national situation and eordiallv endorse the principles above set forth, and who is not attached in true allegiance to the Con stitution, the Union, and the government of the United States. WASHINGTON, June 25, 1860. A. W. RANDALL, I 'rest., J. R. DOOLITTLE, | Executive O. 11. BROWSIMG, ! Committee of EDGAK COWAN, j the National CHARLES KNAP, | Union Club. SAMUEL FOWLER, ADJOURNMENT. After reading, the address of the Demo cratic menbers of congress. The circular letter of invitation issued by A. W, Ran dall,and Lewis D. campbeil. The appoint ment of Committees on credential, perma nent organization <fcc. On motion of lion. Montgomery Blair, the convention ad journed to meet to-morrow at 12 o'clock M. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. At 12 o'clock M. the temporary chair man, Gen Dix, called the convention to order, and announced that Rev Mr. llol singer, of Tennessee, would open the pro ceedings with prayer. PERMANENT OFFICERS. Hon. Montgomery Blair, from the com mitlee on Permanent Organization, report ed the following list of permanent officers of the convention : For President Hon. James R. Doolit tle, of Wisconsin. (The list of Vice Presidents and Secreta ries, which our limited space will not allow us to publish, embraced the names of scores of the most distinguished statesmen, Jur isls, and generals, selected from every state and Territory in the Union. — ED.) The report of the committee was adopt ed. The chairman then said : I hare the pleasure, gentlemen, of intro ducingtoyou, as the permanent presiding officer of this convention, the lion. James R. Doolittle, ot Wisconsin, (cheering.) SPEECH OP SENATOR DOOLITTLE. Mr Doolittle, who was most enthusiasti cally received, said: Gentlemen of the Convention and Fellow citizens of the United States, (applause.)— For the distinguished honor of being call ed upon to preside over the deliberations of TERMS, S2 00 FUEL AimtJM this Convention, I sincerely thank you. I could have Wished that its responsibilities had fallen upon another ; but relying upon that courtesy and,generous confidence which have called me to the chair, I will enter up on its duties with an earnest desire for the success of that great cause in which we are now engaged. Among the great events of our day, this Convention, in my opinion,will prove to be one of the greatest, for , , "Peace hath her victories, No* less renowned, than war." [Applause ] And this Convention is one of her victor ies—may I not say, a crowning victory ? For the first time in six years, a national convention, representing all the States,now assembles. [Loud aud long-continued ap plause.] Six long weary years! As we look back, O what-an interval of tears, and agony, and blood ! During that period we have been engaged in the nios gigantic civil war the world has ever seen —wasting our resources, drenching a thous and battle-fields in fraternal blood, and car rying to premature graves our fathers, our sons, and our brothers, by hundreds of thousands. But, thanks be to Almighty God, the war i p over. [Applause.] Peace, blessed peace, has come (cheers): and the assurances which we here witness tells us that peace has come, and "come to stay."— [Applause.] Oh ! my fellow citizens, it the whole people of the United States could at this moment look in upon this Convention, if they could see what we now witness—the North and the South, the East and the West, joining together in fraternal association as friends and fellow citizens, our work would be already dene. [Great applause.] If they could have seen, as we saw, Massachusetts and South Carolina (cheers,) by their foil del egations, coming arm and arm into this great Convention ; if they could have seen this body, greater in numbers, in Weight of character and in brains than ever yet assembled on this continent, under one roof, (applause,) melting to tears of joy and gratitude to witness this commingling, there would he nostrnggle at the pons in the coining election. [Loud applause.] Wlicn I -euiember that it was Massachu setts and South Carolina, that in the Con vention which framed the Constitution, voted against the abolition of the slave trade ; that it was Massachusetts that in 1812, through some of her citizens, taught the doctrines of nullification which South Carolina reasserted in 1833, aud in the form of secession again reasserted in ISfiU; when I call to mind that South Carolina tired ih • lirt gun in this contest, and that the veins of Ma*sacltn*efts poured out the first blood in the struggle [abplanse;]- wiien I call t<> mind all these memories and, at the *anie time, ask the people of the country to look in on this Convention and see those two leading States of the Union coming here in fraternal embrace, approaching the common altar of a com mon country, ready io make common sac rifices for the good of the whole—l say. could the whole people of thee United States witness all this, there would re main no further work for us in the fall elections. [Applause.] If the people ot Massachusetts could have witnessed it, not a single member would lie returned to Congress from that State until he had giv en the most sacred pledge that he would do all in his power in Congress to recog nize the equality and dignity of all the States under the constitution, including the sacred, inalienable rights of every State under the constitution to representa tion in both houses of congress. [Loud and prolonged cheering.] Gentlemen of the Convention, I shall go into no argument on this occasion. (Cries of "Go on'.'') The distinguished gentleman who spoke from this place yesterday (Gen eral l)ix) said all that 1 would desire to say, aud much better than I could say it.— 1 indorse, and take great pleasure iu fully indorsing, all that he said, sentence by sentence, word by word Fellow-citizens, (uufortniiately, it may be.) the whole peo ple of the United State are not here to wit ness what is now transpiring. Therefore the great work still rests upon us. From this time until the election of the next Con gress we should be untiring in our exer tions to see to it that if the present Con gress shall continue to refuse the sacred right of representation to equal States, the. next Congress shall recognize that right.— When this is done the Union will be re stored, and when the Union is restored w*e shall he prepared, in my judgment, to en ter upon a higher and nobler career among the nations of the earth than has yet been witnessed in the history of any government upon which the sun of heaven ever shqne. We shall stand in the vanguard of civiliza tion aud of We shall lead the way by the light of for all the oth er nations of the earth. Gentlemen, without detaining you long-. e., I will :nter at once upon the duties ot the Chair. (Mr. Do-'little tdok his seat amid enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.) General J B. Steadman of Ohio, chair man of the committee ou credentials then made a report. A letter was then read from Hon, C. L.' Vallandigham approving the objects ,of the convention, but tor the sake of harmony declining a seat in that body. COMMITTEE ON RESOLVLION AND ADDRESS. Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, offered the following resolution : •* Resolved, That a committee of two from each State and Territory be .appointed to prepare resolutions and an address for the convention. • v ■ ' A'\ W- > ' (>) b' m '' VOL. 6 NO. 3. After the appointment of the committee ot wtach l-fon. Edgar Cowan was the chair man. The chairman of the convention arose and said: I beg leave to announce a telegraphic dispatch just received from the President of the United States. The delegates and audience generally rose from their seats, and stood while the following dispatch was being read, which l was received with great enthusiasm, cheers waving of hats, kc. WASHINGTON, August 14, '66. To the Hon. 0. H. Browning, and Hon. A- IV. Randall, convention at Philadel phia : I thank you for your cheering and en couraging dispatch. The finger of Provi dence is unerring and will guide you safely th*pngh. The people must be trusted and the country will be restored. My faitlbia nnshaken as to ultimate success. ANDREW JOHNSON." ' THE THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Hon J. R. Doolittle, the chairman, at ten o'cock called the convention to order, and announced that Rev, J. B. Reirnensyn der, of Lewis'iown, Pa-, would open the proceedings with prayer. DECLARATIONS OF PRINCIPLES. Hon. Edgar Cowan—Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the committee who 1 were ap ( f>ointed to prepare resolutions and an ad dress, 1 desire to statu that the committee ' have givui very careful and elaborate con i >i J oration to the subject during all of yes 'terdfay and a good part of last night, and 1 beg leave lo report a declaration of prin ciples, adopted unanimously by the com mittee, (which the Secretary of the con vention will read.) and an address to the people of the country, which will -be read by the Hon. Henry J. Raymond, of New York. [Applause.) The Secretary then read the followiDgr DECLARATIONS OF PRINCIPLES. The National Union convention, now assembled iu the city of Philadelphia, com posed of delegates from every State and Territory in the Union, admonished by the solemn lessons which for the last fire years it has pleased the Supreme Ruler of the Universe to give to the American peo ple : profoundly grateful for the return of pt-ace; desirous as are a large majority of their countrymen, in all sincerity, to forget and foreiveithe past: revering the Constitution as it comes to us from our an cestors:- regarding the Union in its resto ration as more sacred than ever; looking with deep-anxiety into the future as of in stant and continuing trial, hereby issues and proclaims .the following Declaration of Prin ciples and Purposes, on which they have,, with perfect unanimity, agreed: Fi •st. We hail with gratitude to Al mighty God the end of war, and the return of peace to an afflicted and beloved land. Second. The war just closed has main tained the authority of the constitution, with all the powers which it confers, and all the restrictions which it imposes upon the general government, unabridged and and it has preserved the Un ion, with the equal rights, dignity and au thority of the States, perfect and unimpair ed. [Applause.] Third. Representation in the Congress of the United States, and in the electoral colleges, is a right recognized by the con stitution as abiding in every State, and as a duty, imposed upon its people—fundamen tal in its nature and essential to the exist ence of our republican institutions; and neither congress, nor the general govern ment, has any authority or power to deny this right to any State, or to withhold its enjoyment under the constitution from the people thereof. [Loud cheering.] Fourth. We call upon the people of the United States to elect to congiess, as members thereof, none but men who ad mit this fundamental light of representa tion, and who will receive to seats therein, loyal representation from every State in allegiance to the United States, subject to the constitutional rights of each House to judge the elections, returns and qualifica tions 'of its own members. [Applause.] Fifth, The constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof are "the supreme law of the land, ,anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.— Alf the powers not conferred by the con stitution upou the general government nor prohibited by it to the States are "reserved tq the States or to the people thereof," and among the rights thus reserved to the States is the right to prescribe qualification for the elective franchise therein, with which right congress cannot interfere.— [Long continued cheering.] No State or combination of States has tiie right to with draw troru the Union,or to exclude,through their'action in congress or otherwise, any other State'dr States from the Union.[Great applause] The Union of these States is per, petual and cannot be dissolved. Sixth. Such amendments to the consti tution of the United States may be made by the people thereof as they may deem expe dient, but only in the mode poiuted ont by its provisions; and'in proposing such amend* lufnta, whether by congress or by a con vention, and in ratifying the same, all the States of the Union have an equal and an indefeasible right to a voice and a Yote thereon. [Enthusiastic oheers.j Seventh. Slavery is abolished and forev er prohibited—aid there is neither desire nor purpose on the part of the Southern States that it should ever be re-established upon the soil or within the jurisdiction of •<. i .ft i> . i i ■ "* "t
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