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Address
JOHN G. HALL,
EDITOR A noriUKTOK.
THE R1T .V.riO..fc
co.ri'E.rTio.v.
Speech of Sen. DoolHtle.
TITE RESOLUTIONS.
The Union One and Insepa
rable Now and Forever.
The Committee on Permanent Organ
ization yesterday (15th) reported lion.
J. R. Doolittlo as permanent President,
and a long list of Vice Presidents and
Secretaries. Mr. Vallandigham's letter
of withdrawal was read. A committee
of two from each State was appointed
on resolutions Messrs. Cowan and Big.
lcr representing Pennsylvania the for
mer as cbainnnn. The following dis.
patch was received from the President:
Washington, Ang. 14. To the
Hon. 0. II. Browning and Hon. A. W.
Randall, Convention at Philadelphia : I
thank you for your cheering and en.
couraging dispatch. The finger of
Providence is unerring, and will guide
you safely through. The people must
be trusted, and the countty will be re
stored My faith is unshaken as to the
ultimate result. Andrew Johnson.
An immense number of people were
present in the Wigwam, among them
many ladies. Great enthusiasm snd the
utmost harmony prevailed. Hon.
Iliester Clymer entered the Convention
at a quarter of twelve o'clook, and was
received with deafening applause from
the whole vast assemblage. The Phila.
dclphia Inquirer says :
At 12 o'clock yesterday the scene in.
side the Wigwam baffled description.
It becoming generally known that the
Convention would assemble at the Wig
wam, notwithstanding reports to the
contrary, long ueiore tno nour announ
ced for tho commencement of business
the spacious edifice was completely fil
led, not an available seat was vacant,
and such a perfect sea of human heads
as presented itself to the sight has rare.
ly been seen in thhi city.
The contractors for the Wigwam
have informed us that the building will
accommodate nearly fifteen thousand
people. If such is tho fajt, there were
fifteen thousand present, for while Sen-
tor Doolittlo was speaking there was not
a nook or corner in the vast auditorium
that did not display a human head.
BPEKCH OF HON. 3. R. DOOTITTLB.
Gentlemen of the Convention and
. Fellow Citizens of the United States :
(Cheers.) For the distinguished hon
or of being called upon to preside I sin
cerely thank you. I would that these
responsibilities had fallen upon another,
but I rely upon that perfect and gener
ous confidence which has called me to
the chair. I enter upon my duties with
earnest hopes of the success of our great
cause. Among the great events of our
day this Convention will prove, I be
lieve, to be one of the greatest ; for
peace has ber victories not less renown'
cd than war, and this Convention is one
of her victories may I not say, a
crowning victory. For the Bret time in
six years, a National Convention, repre
senting all the States now assembles.
Six lotg, weary years ! and, as wo look
back, what an interim of blood and ago.
ny of tears! During that period we
have been engaged in the most gigantic
war tho world has ever seen, wasting
.our immense resources, and drenching
hundreds of battle fields with the blood
of onr fathers and brothers, aud spend,
iog hundreds of millions of dollars.
But, thank God, the war is now over,
cheers. Peace, blessed pcaco, is with
us, and the assurances now before us
tell us peace has now come and come
to stay.
Oh ! my fellow.citizcus, if tho wholo
people of tho United States could look
upuu mil vuuvcuuuu auu bvo as nu uu,
the North and the South, the East acd
tho West, joining together as friends
and fellow-citizens, our work would be
already done. If they could have 6cen
as we did, Massachusetts and South
Carolina, by their full delegations, com
ing into this placo arm in arm ; if they
could have seen thisbody greater in num
bers, weight of character and brain than
JOHN a. HALT, Editor.
ever before assembled under one roof
there would bo no struggle at tho polls
iu the coming election. When I re
member it was Massachusetts and South
Caroli na that in the Convention that
framed the Constitution voted ngainst
tho abolition of the slave trade ; that
Massachusetts men favored secession
piinciplcs first; that in 1S32 and 13C1
South Carolina reiterated ; that South
Carolina first seceded, and Massachusetts
blood was first poured out in this war
when I remember these, and see Massa
chusetts and South Carolina approaching
the common altar of a common country,
making all sacrifices, I say again, if the
whole people could see this, there
would be no more work for us.
If the people of Massachusetts could
have witnessed it, not another member
from there would have been returned
to Congress until he had pledged him
self not to deny the inalienable right of
every State to an equal representation
in Congress.
Gentlemen of tht Convention : I shall
go into no argument now. Tho gentle
man who preceded mo spoko much bet
ter than I can. I take great pleasure
in endorsing all he said, Ecntenco by
Eentenco word by word. Unfor.
tunately, fellow citizens, tho whole
people of the United States arc not here
with un to witness this scene ; and thus
the greater work remains for us to do.
Until the assembling of the next Con
gress wo must be untiring in our labors
that at least the next Congress shall
recognize tho right of all the States to
representation. wVhcn this is done tho
Union is restore1
cheers. Then we
o enter upon a high
shall be prepare
cr and nobler el
er than has ever been
givon to any xii
n on tho face of the
globe. We shu
then stand in the van
guard of liberty and civilization, and so
lead the people throughout the earth.
Gentlemen, without further words, I
shall now enter upon my duties as your
presiding officer.
Thursday's proceedings.
Philadelpaia, Aug. 10. The Con.
vention assembled in the Wigwam at
10 o'clock a. m., pursuant to adjourn,
ment. Every seat in the auditorium
was filled. The attendance of ladies
was much larger than to any previous
session.
After prayer by tho Rev. Mr. Re
mensnyder, of Pennsylvania, Mr. Doo
littlo rose and said : Before proceed
ing to any further business, the Chair
begs leave to anuouncc, as the first re
sponse to the call for this Convention in
political action, the result of the Colo,
rado election. Applause.
Denver, Colorado Territory, Aug.
15. Returns from all parts of the Ter.
ritory render certain the election of A.
C. Hunt, Administration candidate over
Chillicote, the Radical. Great ap
plausc.
Mr. Crowell, of New Jersey I offer
the following resolution ;
Resolved, That a Union National ex.
ccutive committee be appointed, to be
composed of two delegates from each
State and Territory, and the District of
Columbia. Adopted.
Jlevenly Johuson who in rising was
greeted with loud applause I offer the
following resolution :
Resolved, That a committee, consist
ing of two delegates from each State,
and one from each Territory and the
District of Columbia, bo appointed by
the Chair to wait upon tho President of
the United States and present him with
an authentic copy of tho proceedings
of this Convention. Carried.
Charles Knapp, of the District o1
Columbia. I offer tho following reso
lution :
Resolved, That a committee of finance
be appointed to consist of two delegates
from each State and Territory and the
District of Columbia. Carried.
Gen. Patteu, of Penn'a., then offered
a resolution on the subject of rcpresen
tation in the Convention, which, under
the rules of the Convention, was refer
red without reading or debate.
Mr. Cowan. I offer tho following res
olution :
Resolved, That the thanks of this
Convention be and they are heroby ten-
dcrcd to Morton M'Michael, Esq.; may
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or of the tity ol Philadelphia, for his ad.
mirablc police arm n go merits for the pre.
scrvation of peace and pood order dur
ing the sittings of this' Convention.
Applause Carried unanimously.
Mr. Cowan, ou behalf of the commit
tee who were appointed to prepare reso
lutions and an addie, after a very
careful and elaborate consideration of
the same, lasting all day and a great
part of tho night, offered tho following
declaration of principle, adopted unani.
niously by tho committee, which the
Secretary of this Convention will read ;
and also an address to the people of the
country, which will be read by the Hon.
Mr. Raymond of New York. Ap.
plauso.
The Sccrotarythcn proceed to read
the declaration of principles.
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES.
Tho National Union Convention, as
sembled in tho city of Philadelphia,
composed of delegates from every State
and Territory in tho Union, issues and
proclaims tho following declaration of
principles and purposes, on which thoy
havo with porfect unanimity agreed :
Ibt. Wo hail with gratitudo to Al.
mighty God tho end of war and tire re.
turn of noaco to an afflicted and
beloved land.
2d. Tho 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 up
on tho General Government, unabridged
and unaltered ; and it has preserved the
Union with equal rights, dignity and
authority of the States perfect and un.
impaired.
3d. Representation in tho Congress
of the United States, and in the Electo
ral College, is a right recognized by the
Constitution as abiding in every State,
and as a duty imposed upon its people.
4th. We call upon the people of the
United States to elect to Congress as
members thereof uouo but men who ad
mit this fundamental right of represen
tation, and who will receive to seats
therein loyal representatives from every
.State in allegiance to the United States,
subjects the constitutional right of each
House to judge of 'ho election returns
and qualifications of its own members.
5th. Tho Constitution of tho Unitad
States, and the laws made in pursuance
thereof, are the supremo law of the land
anything in the Constitution or laws of
any State to tho contrary notwithstand.
ing.
Gth. Such amendments to the Consti.
tution of the United States may bo
made by tho people thereof as they may
deem, expedient, but only intho mode
pointed out by its provisions.
7th. Slavery is abolished and forever
prohibited, and there is neither desire
nor purpose on the part of the Southern
States that it should ever be reestab
lished upon the soil or within the juris
diction of tho United States ; ond the
enfranchised slaves in all tho States of
tho Union should recaive, in eommon
with all their inhabitants, equal protcc
tion in every right of person and prop
erty. 8th. While we regard as utterly inva
lid and never to be assumed or made of
binding force, any obligation incurred
or undertaken in inakiug war asamst
tho United States, wo hold the' debt of
the nation to be sacred and iuviolable ;
and we proclaim our purpose in dis
charging this, as in performing all othei
national obligation, to be to maintain
unimpaired and unimpcacbed the honor
and the faith of the Republic.
9th. It is tho duty of tho National
Government to recognize the services of
the Federal soldiers and sailors in the
contest just closed, by meeting promptly
and fully their just and rightful claims
for the services they have rendered tho
nation, and by Extending to those of
them who have survived, and to the
widows and orphans of those who have
fallen, the most generous and consider,
ate care.
10th. In Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States, who in his great
office has proved steadfast in his devo.
tion to tho Constitution, the laws and
interests of his country, unmoved by
persecution and undeserved reproach,
having faith uuatcailablo in tho people
and in the piicciplcspf tree government.
we recognize a Chief Magistrate worthy
of the nation and equal to the great cri
sis upon which his lot is cast ; and we
tender to him, in the disrharirc of bis
high and responsible duties, our pro
found respect, and assurance of our cor
dial and sincere support.
Tho reading of the various resolutions
was interrupted by frequent applause.
The resolutions were unanimously adop.
ted.
The Chairman then put the question
on the adoption of the resolutions, and
the response from the Convention was a
most earnest and general ayo." The
Chairman then said : ' These opposed
to the adoption of the resolutions will
say " no.', Not a single ucgativo re.
eponse was heard ; and the Chairman
declared the resolutions unanimously
adopted. The result was greeted with
a universal cheer, and the baud srtruck
up " Hail Columbia." The harmonious
action of the Convention caused a gen
eral hilarity of feeling ; and it was some
minutes before business could proceed.
After the adoption of tho resolutions,
Colonel Thomas C McDowell, of liar.
risburg, rose and proposed throe cheers
for the Hon. Edgar Cowan.
Three cheers were given with hearty
fvaajI trill
VUVA 111.
Mr. Cowan in acknowledging the
compliment, said :
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention : I claim to be the host of
this Convention (laughter), and ono of
my distinguished guests will now ad
dress you by,viitue of authority unani
mously derived trom the Committee on
Resolutions and Addtess ; I mean the
Hon. J. Raymond. Cheers.
READING THE ADDRESS.
Mr. Ruymoud, of New York, then
proceeded to read tho address. Parts
of it were received with considerable ap
plause, so that the Chairman appealed
to the Convention to withhold such
manifestations until after the reading
should be concluded. One of the sen
timents expressed in tho address was
however, so congenial to tho feelings of
the members that, notwithstanding this
request, they broko out into tumultu.
ous applause, thereupon tho Hon. Rev
crdy Johnson, of Maryland, arose and
requested that Mr. Raymond repeat the
sentence which had been applauded.
Mr. Raymond thereupon read as fol.
lows :
" No people has ever yet existed
whose loyalty and faith such treatment,
long continued, would not alienate and
impair; and the ten millions of Aineri.
cans who live in the South would be
unworthy citizcus of a free country, de
generate sous of a heroic ancestry, unlit
ever to become guardians of the rights
and liberties bequeathed to us by the
fathers and founders of this republic, if
they could accept, with uncomplaining
submissiveness, tho humiliation thus
sought to be imposed upon them."
Tho members of the CWivcntion rose,
clapped their hands, aud cheered most
lustily, after which Mr. Raymond pro
ceeded with and concluded the address
The address is too lengthy for our
columns at present. Wo will publish
it as soon as practicable.
After the reading of a letter from
Maj.-Gen. John A. Dix endorsing the
proceedings of the Convention, the
Chairmau (Senator Doolittle) said :
Gentlemen of the Convention: For
the kindness and courtesy by which you
have sustained the Chair iu the efforts
to which, by your resolution you have
been pleased to allude, I return you my
sincere thanks. Before putting that
motion which shall terminate the pro
ceedings of this Convention, I shall ask
you once inoro to join with tho Rev.
Mr. Elliott in invoking the benediction
of Almighty God, by whose support wo
are sure of success, but without which
we should inevitably fail.
ADJOURNMENT.
The Chairman then put the question
upon the motion that the Convention
do now adjourn sine die, and declared it
carried unanimously. The Chair, there
fore, at half-past 12 o'clock, pronoun,
ced tho Convention adjourned without
day.
The band thereupon struck up tho
appropriate air of " Home, Sweet
Home," while the members ot the Con.
vention and tho vast audience mingled
together in a most friendly manner, be.
fore separating finally. Cheers wore
given for President Johnson, and for
J. 1 MOOUi:, Publisher.
TEKiTls-i r i'rr IVr in .Id ventre.
Senator Doolittlc ; and members and
apcelatois were gradually dispersed,
thus closing in perfect harmony aud
without the occnrior.ee of a single disa
greeable circumstance, thi.s great Na
tional Convention.
Xuiuiial Union .'.
The following v
adopted by the Natl
'i'cc Cohitiiitt' e,
I'ion Ion been
I Uoion Exceii
five Committee :
PlIILADVLPITtA. A Ml'. 16, lSOtt.
At a meeting oft'.ic National Union
Executive Contmittco, hell at Phila
delphia, August 10. 1SG6, tho following
resolution was unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That the National Union
Executive Committee earnestly recom-
incml.to (lie ti icn as of Peace, Union,
Liberly, and Law, in each county of the
thirty six States and uino Territories of
tho American Union, as early as prac
ticable to hold mass meetings for the
purpose of ratifying the action of tho
National Union Convention, and also to
provide means to place its proceedings
in the bands of every citizen of tho re.
public. (Skned)
JosEni W. Crowell,
Chairman National Uuion Executive
Committee.
A Par-isian Story.
A London correspondent gives the
lowing singular and ludicrous, yet won
derful narrative of a certain count who
was once to be seen in all the fashiona.
blc saloons of Paris :
" His real name it would be hardly
proper to give while ho has near rcla.
tives living, but all Paris knows who
served Sardon us a model for a marquis,
in his play of Les Vicux Garcon. The
count in question had a horror of ago
which almost amounted to monomania,
lie had been an Adonis, an ' irrcsisti.
ble," in his youth, aud he was detcrmin.
ed never to grow old. Long after be
had passed the grand climacteric he be.
lievcd that all his friends regarded him
still as a young man, and was quite cer
tain that the ladies found him as capti.
vating as iter. II is figure was piuched
in aud padded out, and braced up, and
his wriukled cheeks were painted and
filled out with plumpers, and his bald
head covered with a juvenile wig, and
his eyebrows colored ; in a word, all the
auxiliaries which the most consummate
art could devise to produce the appear
ance of rejuvenation, were called into
play. He was perfectly happy, because
thoroughly self.dcccivcd. A few years
ago he suddenly disappeared from Pa
ris, and wrote to one of his faiends that
he had been carried off just like Helen
of Troy, only that he was the Helen,
and that he had been carried off from,
not by Paris, and that be had been tak
en to Troyes in Champagne, not Troy of
old. Nothing more was heard of him,
and his friends quite lost sight of his
locality, until sonio engineers were scut
from Paris to a certain littlj village
through which a new line of railway
was to pass. In examining the propos
ed road, they found it must run through
the park attached to a handsomo cha
teau. They attempted to gain admit-
tauce to coufer with tho master of the
bouse, but were refused. They came
on business und would take no denial.
In answer to their inquiries, tho con
cinrge, replied that she had no master,
and scarcely a mistress ; thero was, to
be sure, a sort of a governess who took
care of an idiot, but that was neither a
master nor mistress for folks in their
senses. The eugineers insisfel on see
ing the chief occupants of tho house,
whoever they might be, and the con.
eicrge pointed to tho garden and disap.
pcarcd. The engineers 'made their way
across the lawn ; it was profusely litter
ed with balls, bright colored balloons,
kites, trumpets, hoops, and gaily.paintcd
dolls dressed iu fashionable costumes.
A lady was seated on a garden bench
with her back to the intruders. She
arose with a cry ot alarm. They ad.
vanced to reassure her, and found that
somo accident htd terribly disfigured
her face. As she was calling tho gar.
dener to conduct them to tho park,
which they desired to visit, there sud
denly stood before them a most grotcsquo
though touchingly sad looking object.
A very old man, feeblo and bent, but
dressed like a child, in skybluo tuuic
and short frilled trowscrs, socks and red
merocco shoes, with a straT hat and
1 saw
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Ailvulisrn.Mits (Kf-plnyH more tliiin
oidiimrily ill Le clini;il for Hi
tl.e idle ( it r (,:i:ii.n; I-.- !;0 (,J
I'uo lilbiiis e n h: bald l.tid. He was
dit-fgirg a torn kite, mid tritd out 8
be ti.lteicd Itwaids the parly: " Wbtra
is tM bonne ? Toto is hungry, Toto
wants his toup,' and caught the lady's
skirt and pulled at it impatiently. Ono
of the gentlemen started in amazenifiit
ii t , i . ...
I ami uorror ; uc nau seen ti.at poor With.
ei cd face at many a Parisian bull ho
recognized it instantly, in spite of the ab
surd costume. He turned to the lady
and said : " Surely that is Count ,
who disappeared with the renowned
M'l'e , of tho Follies Paritdonncs."
The lady burst into a violent fit of weep
ing, and answered : "It is Count ,
und I, alas! am Mademoiselle ."
It appeared that ecoii after their flight,
the old man, whose mind must have be
come deranged through the constant
dwelling upon one thought the unecas'
effort to regain his youth suddenly
lapsed into complete childishness. He
fancied himself a child, and insisted up
on being dressed and treated as a child.
In the commencement of this delusion,
when his companion had thwarted his
wishes, and regarded his insisting upon
being put to bed in a baby's cot by tho
fire as a joke, he grew furious, and seiz
ing a flambeau, set fire to her lmir. The
flames caught her clothes, and her face
and neck were frightfully burned. She
had become such a hideous ppectacle
that she was glad to accept the offer
made by the count's brother, to watch
over the poor idiot for his few remain,
ing years."
A Story on Geary. A gentleman,
whose word may bo implicitly believed,
tells us the following characteristic story
on Geary, tho loyal candidate for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania: When Geary
returned from his Kansas mission, ho
was taken ill with a fever, somewhere
across the liver, but not far from Stcu
bcnville. A physician was called, ti
whom Geary said : " Doctor, you know
my life is worth more than thoso of all
the farmers in the v ciuity, and so I
beg that you will discontinue your vis
its to other patients, and give you:
whole attention exclusively to me."
" My dear sir," replied the physician,
" the lives of those farmers are as pre
cious to them as yours is to you. I
will give you tho attention you need,
but I ci.nnot neglect tho good friends
who have entrusted their health to my
care. I will do the best I can for all."
Some years afterward, the doctor wat
telling tho story, and added : ' Now it
baa turned out that all of those farmers,
whose lives were of so little value in
tho estimation of Geary, havo honestly
and faithfully paid mo their bills, bu'
that of the high-priced Governor re
mains unsettled to this day ! "
No physician should vote for G eary
until he pays that bill, and no farmer
should vote for him under any circum
stance. G rcrnshurej Democrat.
Plain Facts for Thinking Men.
Tho man who votes for John W. Geary,
votes for a colonel who hid in a ditch at
Chcpultcpcc, aud left his men to fight
without a commander.
The man who votes tor Geary votes for
colonel who ran away at the battlo of
Cerro Gordo, and left the major of his
regiment now, Gen. Wni. Briudle, of
Muncy to take charge of hi men,
The man who votes for Geary votes
for a General who hired bis army cor
respondent to report that he hr.d fought
a terrifio battle at Snicker.sville lost
his arm, and the Lord knows what ail
but gave the " re'os" a fearful thrash
ing where thero was not a Confeder
ate soldier within two days march of
him.
And besides this, tho man who votes
for tho coward Geary, votes also in fa
vor of negro suffrage, negro equality,
high taxation, amalgamation, disunion,
another war, end all tho evils that abo.
lition fauatielsm can inflict upon our
country and race. Dan. Watchman.
" Well, boy, what docs h-a-i-r
spell?"
Roy I don't know.
What havo you got on your head f
Boy (scratching) I gueps it's i
muskectcr bite, for it itches like thun
der .' '