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V - !-): Chnrsday Evening, Aug. S3, Ilea. THE OLD NORTH STATE. ! Uuion- iu questioned, weup- fVB7a tU V WVMIHVU l9V JlMrW ICOWICf the writ of habeas corpus in all th State, aud that consequently civil goverumcut has been restored as eoropleU-lyju If jtxlstcd before the war. Nothing isnow wanted to complete the work of restoration but the admission of our Senators and Represents tives to their scaU in Congress. . , 13 WIS XXAXIXS, Editor. FOR GOVERNOR, JONATHAN .WORTH; , OF RANDOLPH, i - The jTesideBt'n Speech. We surrender Most of our space to-day to the conclusion of the address of theFbil- T1& National Convention. , adttlpbia Convention and the President's . jpeech en the occasion f the presentation to him by the committee of the proceed bp of said Convention. The speech is a noble, manly and patriotic one. and but re Iterates his formerly declared purposes and ncntfmenta. Like aUTlls speeches It h characterised by much force of expression. We commend it to the careful perusal of -our readers. S"S . " ' , - y tea to cau was first tkade " for this ConTeutlon we Aid not ddns' It probable " that then would be a single representative .there ; from North Carolina. In this, it seems that we were mistaken. We learn . from our exchangee that a meeting has been held In Henderson county, which fully en dorsed 'the Howard Amendment, and re commended the appointment of two dele gates to represent the Mountain District in aid Convention. The New York Tribune a few days ago, stated that a State-Convention would soon he held in Lexington, N. C; for the pur pose of appointing delegates to represent "this State In the Hamilton Stokes Con vention in Sej t ;mber. This is news te us. We have never heard of a District or State Convention proposed to be held there, but we think it quite probable that a few radi cals of Davidson County, headed by Hen derson Adams and Col. Billy Henderson; better known in Davidson as "Windy Bil ly," contemplate a county meeting for some such purpose. Billy was for Secession be fore the appearance of President Lincoln's proclamation in 1861, and for a long time thereafter a rampant war man. When the Confederate cause began to wane he aban- LjW-TJ Third Days Proceeding;. An Enthusiastic Assemblage. Report qfthe Committee on Resolutions. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES. A National - Platform. - ADDRES3 XTO . THE PEOPLE OF v : , TIIE UNI t ED' STATE& , -'-ion i-Arlej!!0"" Tlie Closing Scenes. v Adjournment SinelJDie. &c, Ac,, &c . fcosci.rDXD.1 First That these Statet, by the act of rebellion, and by voluntarily withdrawing their members from Congress, forfeited their right of representation, and that thej can only receive it again at the hands of tne supreme leirisiaiive aumomj 01 me government on its own terms and its own discretion. If representation in Congress and participation in the government were simply privileges conferred and lield by ta vor, this statement might have the merit of plausibility but representation is, un der the constitution, not only expressly re cognized as a right, but it id imposed as a duty, and it is essential, in both aspects, to the existence of the crorerument and the maintenance of its authority. In free gov em meats fundamental and. essential rights cannot be forfeited, except against individ uals, by due process of law. Nor can con stitutional duties and obligations be dis carded or kid 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. withdrawal of their members fio the government gives aJJilional at and power to that government, fsp-: y that It enlarges the jurisdiction of Conn s( and gives" that body the right to exelu.l? States from representation In the national councils, without which the nation Its If can have no authority and no existence, it seems to us. is at variance alike with the principles of the constitution and with tLe publio safety. Third. But It is alleged that In certain particulars the .constitution of the , United States falls to secure that absolute Justice and impartial equality which the principles I son j North Carolina, Thomas 8. Ashe end Joseph II. Wilson Boutb varoiuia, J as, L, Orr aud B. F. Perry j Georgia, J. II. Christy and Thomas S. Hardeman ; Flor ida. Wm. Marvin and Wilkinson Colli Mississippi, W. L. Sharkey and George L Las been the courso and the policy of one E ortion of your Government, lhe hum le individual who is now addressing you stands the' representative of another de partment of the Government. The man ner in which he was called opon to occupy that position, I shall not allude to ou this occaaion. HUtnce It to say, mat no is nor under the Constitution of the country, and Edward 8. Martin j' Maryland,1 Governor being here by virtue of its provisions, be ley and Col. II. F. Wortlmm Massachu setts, Jouiah Dunham and 1L 8. Spaflord UUode Island, Alfred Anthony and James U. Parsons j Connecticut, James T.Bab fock aud D. 0. Scratiton Ne York, R. U. Owyn and 8mls S. Tildeu New Jer ley, James T. Crowell and Thos. T. Ban ialli Pennsylvania, s. M. Zullick and J. S. Black Delaware, J. O. uomegys ana wann and T. G. Pratt t Virginia, James ?, Johnson and Dr. E. 0. Robinson j West Virginia, Daniel Lamb and John J. Jack doncd it, and became a sitnon pure Union man. Some months, ago he was in our of 11 fice and asked as which party would tri- umph that of the President or the Radi cals. We told htm It was doubtful, but we " feared the access wf the Radicals. He "- said that was bis opinion, and therefore, he " had thus far. remained neutral between them. We suppose, he is now entirely satisfied that the Radicals will succeed, and , taken his side accordingly. Ifa delegate is to be sent from Davidson; we hope Billy will be the 'man. He has always been radical on some subject or other, and his great prudence, caution, and especially, his .excessive JlfodVrfv amply qualify him for the position. , Unttsunped Instruments.. The following provision in the "Amend ed act Jo provide Internal Revenue," &c, in regard to unstamped instruments will be a general interest to oar readers. It -will be remembered that some months ago ' we called the attention of the authorities to the, fact that without additional legislation many small notes, bonds &c, must be lost to the holders of themas no instruments of certain date could be stamped without the payment of a tax of 150, which In hun dreds of cases would not be justified to the parties. Whether our articles had any in- : fluence in the premises we know not. but he that as it may, we are glad to be able to inform our readers that the necessary I fers upon the conquerors, and which lerialation has been had. and that until q?n"nay werc.se or the first day of January 1867, parties are ' empowered bj the act of Congress above recited, to stamp all such Instruments them--selves as are yet unstamped. Remember, this most be done before the ,n day of January next after that time it will be ; too late. ; -" 4 v'-'..,.-. ' '' vy - The fonowing is the extract of the law of Congress referred to above i i , ii i i i 1 i . ir fa .Affixed the stamp! rMniid -by law npo led, at The withdrawal ot tnew mem Lers uom Congress by the States which rcsinted the general government was among their acts of insurrection was one of the means and agencies by which they sought to impair the authority and defeat the action of the government. . And that act was committed and rendered void when the insurrection itself was suppressed. Neither the right of representation nor the duty to be repre sented was in the least impaired by the fact of ineurreetMHK But it may have been that by reason of the insurrection, the condi tions on which the enjoyment of that right and the performance of that duty for the time depended could not be fulfilled. This was in fact the case.- An insurgent power, in the exercise of usurpation aud unlawful authority in 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 represen tation in its government. No roan within the insurgent States was allowed to take the oath to support thn constitution of the United States, and, as a necessary conse quence, no man could lawfully, represent those States in the councils of the Union. , But this was only an obstacle to the en joyment of the right and to the discharge of a duty. It did not annnl the one not abrogate the other, and it ceased to. exist when the usurpation by which it was crea ted had been overthrown, and the states had again resumed their allegiance to th constitution and laws of the United States Second But it is asserted, in support of the authority claimed by the Congress now in Dossession of Dower, that it flows direct ly tern the laws of war j that it is among the rights which victorious war always con the waive, -in his own discretion. To this we reply that the laws in question relate solely, so far as the rights tbey confer are concerned, to .wars waged between alien and independent na tions, and can have no place or force in this regard in a war waged by a government to suppress an insurrection -of its owifpeople, upon its own soil, against its authority. If we had .carried on successful war, against any. foreign nation, we might thereby have acquired possession and jurisdiction of their soil, with the right to enforce our laws opon their people, and to Impose -n r i or oui rovernmeut reonire 1 hat it was in these, respects the result of compromise and concessions, to which however neces sary when the constitution was formed, we are no longer compelled to submit, and that now, having the power, through suc cessful war, and just warrant for its exer cise.in the hostile conduct of the insurgent section, the actual government of the Uui- Gibson and A. W. English r Texas, B. li. ted States may impose its own conditions 'jlppersftn and John Hancock ( Tennessee, aud make the constitution conform, in all IK T, Talisen. and William D. Campbell j its provisions, to its own ideas of euul ty Kentucky," R. II. Stanton and IL J'ope; and the rights ef man. ; f)hio, L. D. -Campbell and George B. CongTifl'-t It Imxm uu, iiiM ruiJiU; Indiana, k.i. Uoodlngaua 1O0J. amendments to the constitution, enlarging Dowlingi Uliuois, John A. McClernand in some Tery important particulari. the an- and Jesse O. Norton Michigan,' Alfrwd thonty o(the general government over that I Rnssell and . Byron . o. Stuart ; Juissourt, of the several States, and reducing by in- Hon. Barton Abell and James 8. Rollins; takes his stand opqu that character of our i;ttertiia as the rreat rampart 01 Civil ana n-llslous liberty. f Prolonged lf 1Tv in hotm Untrht in my early life, to bold it sacred, and hving practiced npon it daring my whole public career, ana j shall ever continue to reverence the Con stitution of my fathers, and to make it my i 1 ft 'I T1-. ; nude. Hearty applause. w ri C3 1. . Potter Alabama, W. II. Cruikshank and dent proceeded, and denied the charge that O.lluckabee; Louisiana, Randall Hunt no Had ever ooen lyranwc d Alfred Henningj Arkansas, Ixirenso but said sucn enarges were wimr nd to smm ana aeiuae uie vuuihi hhn into the belief that there is some one in power, who is usurping and tramnliugnpon ,the,rights of the Constitution. J It is done by those who make . such : charges for the so. and applause. 1 I have, felt it my duty, in vindication of the principle and I'onsU- tution of my country, to call the attention of my countrymen to ineso procenainga. When we come to examine, who has been playing the tyrant, by whom do we find dispotism exercised! As to myself, the elements of my nature, the pursuits of my lifn bv not made me. either in my feel ing or iu my practice, oppressive. My na ture on the contrary is rather defensive in its character, but I will ay that, having -lucipie of liberty and the Constitution, there is nAtnower enouerh oaJeartli to drive me i . fmnt it fTiiH and nrolonered applaose. Havin? Diaced mvsclf upon that broad Dlatform. I have not been awed or dismay ed, or intimidated by either threats or eu croachments, but hive stood there iu con junction with piitriotic spirits, sounding the tocsin of alarm when l aeemea me cnauei of liberty in danger. Great applauee.J said on a previous occasion, and repeat now that all that is uecessary in this great struggle against, tyranny aud despotism, was that the struerclu should be . sumcient- ly audible for the A nu-rican people to hear and properly understand. They did hear, and looking on and seeing who tue contes tants were and what the struggle was about to be determined, that they would settle this question on the side of the Constitu tion, and of principle. I proclaim here to day, as I have on previous occasions, tliat my faithTs TirtTiiTgreat Tnass of fntrpronler Iu the darkest hour of tbis strusirie, wuen the clouds seemed to be most lowering, my faith, instead of giving way, loomed up through the cloud beyond which 1 saw that all would be well in the end. My countrymen, we all know that tyrauny and despotism in the language of 1 nomas Jef ferson, can be exercised and exerted more effectually by the many thau the wue. Wa have Seen a Congress gradually encroach, step by step, and violate, day after day, and mouth after month, the Constitutional rights and the fundamental principles of the Government. We have seen a loi gress that seemed to fo-get that there was a limit to the sphereand scope of legisla tion. We have seen a Congress in a mi nority, assume to usurp powfer which, if al- it becomes the precedent for Ian eloquent prayer, returning thinks for lowed to be carried out, would result iu n of liberty and constitution- ike harmony of the hearts which had been despotism, or in monarchy itself. ThisTS purpose of eoycrjns ihcirown arts "JM! jjcLhLJtn the vthef sj; 'iai.cs cIlW-0rr-- nch laws and such obligations as we might Chooie.Hut xs JiadbefQte Ihewar com- nay instrument made, signed, or issai Jcctwn district was established 1 shall beli ssfisnjTs;! (Ail fur Miii kf tMm. nr in Mrf li.. . ' r . I - - Z-Zr rr," - -r "- ttt T mnnt through w hicH tSSia Kfailea arid thr WJ?lJ!!r?a tb people hadrelatlons with foreign nations, r efBxed Ptter-to Ae first 5T-ofanaary, indaglEalay fi-gy whrch one thousand eifeht hundred and sixty nsev- j J on, and the record thereof, shall be as yal id to all intents and purposes as if stamped hy the collector in manner hereinbefore provided. But no right acquired in good faith before the stamping of snch instru ment or copy thereof, and the recording thereof, as Lorein provided, if such 'record be required by law, shall in any manner be affected by snch stomping as aforesaid." they were recognized or known anywhere on tne lace of the earth, in all these re spects, and in all other respects involving national interests ana ngnis, our posses sion was perfect and complete. It did not need to be acquired, but enly to bV main tamed, ana victorious war against tne re bellion Could do nothing more than "main tain it could only vindicate and re-establish the disputed supremacy of the. consu lt could neither enlarge or dimin mm . i tut iuii - W A.WUWVWV S.WMWMkWW- I IaU ,1.. ..1 I. .ki-k V,.f :The President has at length issued his confers uponihe government by which it proclamation, declanng civil government. I was achieved.' . Su,ch an enlargement or restored in' the State f-Texaa. He recap-j abridgement of constitutional power can be. ttolates all his former proclamations on this I ftnocte1 only by tne amendment or tne con- rabject, ana declarea tne Ins an action is at ( On and. and that peace ia restored through--nt all the land in ererr State in the - smntwtt rtseii, aod sucn amendment can be made only in the modes which the con- direct disfranchisement the representative power of the State In which slavery for merly existed. And it is claimed that these amendments may be made valid as parts of the original constitution without the con currence of the States to be most seriously affected by them, or may be imposed upon these States by three-fourths 6f the remain ing States as conditions of their re-admission to representation in Congress and in the electoral college. - It is the unquestionable right of the peo ple of the United States to make such changes in the constitution as they, upon due deliberation, may deem expedient But we maidt that they shall be' made in the mode which the constitution itself points out, iu conformity with the letter aud the spirit of that instrument and with the principles of self-government and equal rights which lie at the basis of our republi can institutions? We deny the right of Congress to make these' changes iu the fun damental law without the concurrence of three-fourths of all the States, including especially those, to be most seriously af fected by them, or to impose them upon States or people, as conditions of represen tations or of admission to anv of the rights. duties or obligations which belong, under the eonstimtiWy to all the States alike. And with still greater emphasis do we deny the right of a portion of the States to exclude the rest of the States from any share in their councils, or to proiiose or sanction changes iu the constitution which are to affect permanently politjcttl rtlatioiis and control or cocrtje. the, legitimate action of the several members of the common Union., Such an exercise of power is sim- ' a usurpation just as unwarrantable en exercised by iJtacnr mater: as would be if exercised by Southern ; and not to be forfeited or palliated by anything in the past history either of those by whom it is attempted or of those upon whose rights and liberties it is to take effect. It finds no warrant in the constitution-; it is at war with the fundamental principles of our form of government, and it tolerated in one mstance, future invasion al right, dependent solely upon the will of manifested throughout the convention ; for truth, and because others as well as my the party in possession of power, and thus ike spirit of conciliation seen in all its mem- self have seen proper to appeal to the patr icuub, ujr uucvt " uvvvodoi j oviiucuic, hi i is, aiiu in ait us procecuintrs ; ior ine noiism ana iM-puuiicau iociiukui iuo cuuu- thetnost fatal and intolerable of all tyran- blessings which now crown the nation, and try, we have been denounced iu the c ver mes the tyrannies of shifting and irre- tapecially for the President of the - United est terms. Slander upon slander, vitupc- sponsible factions. It is against this,, the -tates, so worthy of his situation and posi- ration upon vituperation of the most villian- most formidable of all dangers which me- J tion. - ous character has made iti way through nace tne stauiiitjr 01 iree government, mat The chair, then, at half-past 12 o'clock, the press; What, gentlemen, has been the constitution of the United States was j ut the question, amLannounced with the your and my siu I what has been the cause intended most carefully ' to provide. We convention stood adjourned without, delay, of oar offending t I will tell you. 'Daring demand a strict ana sieoaiasi aanerence to I The band played the appropriate air of i to stand by the (JonslitUtion of our fathers. In this, and in this alone, '-Home, Sweet Home." . MI consider the proceedings of this Conveu- Minnesota, Hon. II. M. Rice and D. F Norton j Wisconsin, J ames A. Noonan and 3. A, Pearte ; Iowa, George A Parke and William A; Chase j Kansas, JameS A. Mc Dowell nnd W. A. Tipton ; California; Hon. 8amu-l Purdy and Joseph P Uoge Nevada, John Carmichael and Hon. G. B. Ifall . rtiwMin. .Tamp W XHimilli and B. W. Bonham ; District of Columbia, Jo- taken my stand upon the broad priucipl iian u. li cover and j. a. make; iaxo tah, N. K. Armstrong and N. W. Miner ; Idaho, W. H. Wallace and U. Cummins ; Xebnieka, Gen. II. H. Heath and Hon J. 8. Norton. . . t XIECtrriVKCOMMITTEK AT WASHINOTOJf. Charles Knapp, of New Jersey, Chair man ; Hon. 31outgomery JJlair, ot Mary land ; Hon. - Charles Manon, of Iowa ; Ward II. Lamnn, of the District of Colum bia; John T. Coyle, D. C; A E, Perry, D. C; Samuel Fow!sjr, D. C; Col. James ft. O'Beirne. D. C: aud Cornelius Weu- dell.D. C. Hon. Reverdy Johnson was appointed the chairman of the committee to wait up on the President, and Charles Knapp, of the District of Columbia, was appointed chairman of the committee of finance Alt the business of the committee having been thus disposed of, IIou. John Hogan, of Missouri, rose and mdred that as the copventiou had performed so gloriously all the busiiiess for which it hud met, it ad journ sine die. CLOSING feCEXX. The Chauuian, Senator Doolittle, then Gentlemen qf the Convention For the kiudueesiand courtesy by which you have sustained the chair iu the efforts to which, by your resolution, you haveVbeen pleased roRirnda, I return you my sincere thanks, liefore putting that motion, which shall terminate the proceedings of this conven tion, I shall a A you once more to join with the Rev. Win. Elliott in invoking the ben ediction of Almighty GoJ, by whose . sup poit we are sure of success, but without vhich we should Inevitably fail. 1 be ttev. Mr. Elliott thereupon made ina conversational manner, whila formally ( receiving the proceedings of this Couvvn tion, I may be permitted again to ask, what have I to gain, consulting htraian ambi tion, more than I have gained! (Except In one thing, my race Is nearly run I have been placed in the high office which. I oc cupy under the Constitution of the country, and I may say that I have held from low est to highest, almost every position te which a man may' attain "far our Govern ment and surely, gentlemen, this should booMougk to-graiily a reasonable amo tion. If I wauted authority, or if I wished, to perpetuate my own power, bow easy it would 1 ave been to. hold and .wield that which was placed in my bonds by the mea sure called the Freedmed's Bureau bill f Laughter aud spplause. With on army which it placed at my discretioa, I could have remained at the capitol of the nation, . and with fifty or- iity millions of appro priations at my disposal with the machi nery to be worked vy my satraps and do peudants in every town and village, and thru. with the Civil,, Rights bill' following ss an auxiliary -laughter) Uf connection ernuieut, I could haw .proclaimed myself dictator. Bat, gentlemen, my pride and my ambition have been to occupy that po sition which retains aU power in the hands of the peonle. It is upon that I have al ways relied ; ir n upon mat i rely now ; and I repeat that neither the taunts tor jeers of Cos gress, nor of subsidised culmi nating press can drive me from my pur pose. "Ureal applause. j l acknowledge no superior except. mr UocL the author of my existence, and the people of the United States. Prolonged and enthusiastic cheer ing. For the one I try to obey a 1 his commands as beet I can, compatible with my poor buinauity ; for the other in a po litical and representative sense the high behests of the people have always been re spected and obey ed by me. Applause. Mr. Chairman, 1 nave said more than I had intended to say. For the kind allu sion to myself contained iu your address sod in the resolutions, adopted by the Con vention, let me remaik that in this crisis, and at tne present period ol my public life, I bold above all price, aud shall ever recur with fevliugs ol proiuud gratifica tion to the last resolution containing the endorsement of a .('ouvention emanating spontaneous from the git at raasS of the people.. I trust and hope that my future actions will be such that you and the Con vention you represeut may not regret the assurance of confidence you have expressed. Before separating my" friends, one and all, please accept . my sincere thanks for the kind manifestations of regard ard re spect you have exhibited ou this occasion. repeat that 1 shall always continue to be guided by a conscientious convictiou of duty, and that always gives one courage under the Constitution which I have made my guide. ' . ' ". ' " A ih onehfsfon of the -ftesrdem.Ti re marks three enthusiastic cheei s were given for Andrew Jokuapn, and three more for Gen. Grant. The President then took a nosition near the door, opening into the nail, with Gen. Grant by his side, where, as the gentle men of the committee and members of the Convention passed oat he grasped each one by the baud, and had a smile or a cheering word for all. After which, they passed on tojtake Geo. Grautjby the hand. US provisions. can we find a basis of permanent anion and peace. ' 3 . Fonrth, But it is alleged, in justifica tion of the internal distention and a gener al collision of sentiments and pretensions which may renew, in a still mora fearful shape, the civil war from which, we have just emerged.. 4 ,t We call upon yon to Interpose your pow er to prevent too recurrent ot. so transcen dent a calamity. ve cau upon you, in every congressional district of every Stat, to secure tue ciecuon ot memoers Cheers were given for President John- ion and Senator Doolittle, and then the members and spectators gradually dispers- en. Kirrrsro or sxxctmrx coxhittkx. At a meeting of the National Union Ex ecutive Committee a resolution was adopt ed earnestly recommending to the "friends of peace, anion, liberty and law in ach county of the States and territories to hold D S s meetings for the purpose of ratifying the action of the convention, and' provide who. I means to olace its Droceedinsrs in the hands whatever other difference may characterize of the citizens of the republic. their political action," will unite in reCosnii-l - 1 i sing the right of every State of the Union Speech by the President. to representation in Congress and who , WASHTSOTOir, Aug. 18. There was a will admit to seats in either branch' everv rreat crowd Dresent to-day to hear the loyal representative from every State in al- President in response taylteverdy John legiance to he Government who may be son, who presented the official proceedings found by each Hoasd, in the exercise of of the Convention. . the Dowcr.rnnfrjTcd.il Don It by thn ffr- ' lie sai(L rcfi.-m'na-.with fnnK' tutiou, to hav been, duly elected, returned I ns represented of South Carolina and and qualified for a seat therein. - - I Aiasacbusetts entering the- Convention to- When this shall . havo. been Jone. . the t tether, be ws overcome, "and could not ?Tmtw1iFh inwgniy i ue vuuiuutiu wm uvi iron cncf waa uomg as angBfc lie said our are a Second 1'roclamaUoii of Emaucip jmreetaWighei ilLitlMfailppajiiiyia., briTl WmMjeperfernied be people of Jhe sUnite4gS ate American Union-will havef again- become -the- fieldy-aad-iavo ww4aurels impr what it waa designed to be by those who able, but, turning to General Grant, be I anXra-nroelu imin? thna raat trnttia.vnn loriucu it overeigo uuuu, uuiwni oi t wuunoeo, out mere are greater and more J have laid down a Constitutional platform .am.. a ........ I. . a it.mr inA.m. .m I h n n . ..... . . r i rj -r-v ..... . istinct and independent sphere, exerci-1 have had their etv&rteration in th fiM w. sing powers defined and reserved by a com-1 sow need their efforts to perpetuate peace, mon constitution, and resting upon the as- Applause.! The Executive Dpnartment sent, the confidence and co-operation of all J had tried to pour oil-on the. wounds, and the States and all the people subject to its I restore the Usrion. but it had not ntinl . . . l. : . fr-i ..:.l ... mJ .1 a nr. t ... - utuviiij, luiuirvigoiiura muu mwin I .waxueu. e nave Seen. OC Mid, InOUO tiont Sir, as more important than those of any Convention that ever assembled in the United States. Ureat applause. I When I look with mv mind's eve uioa that col nation of citizens comintr tofft-ther volunta- ..and setting-m council witn ideas, wun principles and views commensurate with all the States, and coextensive with the whole people, and contrast It with the collection of persons who Are trying to destroy, the country,! regara it aa more important iban any Convention that has assembled : since 1787. Renewed applause. I think I may also say, that the declarations that were there made, ore equal to the Declara tion of Independence itself, and 1 bere to day, pronounce them a second Declaration of Independence. Cries of glorious and a most enthusiastic and prolonged ap plause.! ,:.;.,-':-.-?,...;.,"-";.." x oar address ana. declaration ore notn- UasTtuur -a rw-atBrmntTon of the Constitution of the United . States yes, I will go farther and say tliat the do- claratton you nave made, tbat tbe pnnct- stitution itself prescribes. The claim that I Godd i New Hamrjshire. Edmund Bnrke tb Mrreoaion of an insurrection against j and E, 8. Cutler t VennonV B. B. Baui- opoo.which aU ui.ma.ka common, eaaae and stand united together for, the restora tion of the States and the preservation of mo gyvcniiucut wiuwuk reiereuco to par ty. . , Thequestion only is the salvation, of to their conautntiooal relaUoDS. tne otatet I wDartment of the Oovpramnt 1 .n w M...u0s-. the General Government can enter in I to prevent the restoration of ncace anrl Kr. ikutm ther in th tTn;l iK. 7 vi we bDwg. n e nave seen bang ing opon the verge of the Government, as were, a body called, or which' assumed to b4heCourress wf the United ftt hUe in fact it is a Congress of only a part ration is the second Proclamation of Emao or the tates. We have seen this Con- cipation to the people of the United States, PCM OSSUma anil nrMint ti k fn ik I ,iA nflora rhmmt.. - J 1-. .u:.l. -4 4-njon when its every sten and act tended all Patriots- can staiid. tiliniS-i to perpetuate disahionr and make -a dis- Mr Chairman and gvutiemen, kt me, in rnption of the States inevitable, instead it this connection, ask what I have to gain promoting reconciliation and haxtoonylU more than tho advancement f tbo public LegkUtion has partaken of the ckaracterbf welfare 1 lorn as much opposed to the ponaUiea, retaliation and revenge. TbiJ bdulgence of egotism as any one, but hers a fraternal spirit, witn a common purpose and a common interest, upon whatever re form for the security of personal rights the enlargement of popular liberty and perfec tion of our republican institutions may de mand. ' . The committees appointed by tho chair were announced as. follows t WATioxaL nrios xxxcttivx oomtiTrxx, John T. Cowell, of New Jersey, Chair- . l w -mm a n n uiaa; ianrr, u unci jiann ana A. A. now require to be free t They have the shackle upon their limbs, and are bound as rigidly aa though they were ia fact in slavery. I repeat, then,, that your decla- Thi Fall Elections in Ohio. The best informed in political matters in Ohio observe the same sign that preceded the election in 1862, when the Republicans car ried five members to the. Democrats four teen. The quarrel, bet ween the President's friend and the. 'military leaders at that time created a feeling that entirrely de stroyed the Republican and the Republi can Congress. There is the same, general want of confidence in those who have been trying to regulate affairs. ' . . ' . . The Republicans will, we presume, car ry, the throe Congressional. Districts in the western" reserve. If they carry any Con gressmen outside of that ; territory it will be after the closest contest and by their good luck. ' " There is much ia the signs of the times to indicate a Waterloo defeat to the Radi cals, not only id Ohio, bat in all the Norths ern Slates The chances ore that very . few of the Jacobins will be returned to Congress. Cincinnati Enquiren 4 ; Thx Romas Loan. This loan, to relieve the monetary embarrassment of -.Pope f Pins, appears to be progressing very satiifaeterialy to all th parties concerned. ., At th New York office, application! and anbaoriDtioaa lot .... the bonds ar being reeeived from every part of theountry, from all classes of people and illustrates, the fore wf piety tra ta la a way not often Wituswed in Wall streeV Th Archbishops of-Baltimore, New York, Cineinnatti and New Orleans, and th bishops of SavannahHartford, Bo8tott,AIbny, Nat thesr ke aU Mbseribed. aad aotR-f - tit letters from les iinporiaBt peraooas-whuV calling for considerable aino mta, xpress aa qaal degreof faitb aad dvttk0: in the m veatment, not tmlr OS n pww doty bot e inu wiu prove sahi-aaa prubUbl F. Ukkey, ehaplain of 8u Agnes' Hospital, in IlalUinor. fur isaUno. writs "Tbs taklishmenf is poor; however, my loveaad veneration forth Holy Father enables m to send 1100 ia cold, which I send as a donation and .not as a loan." The. Bonds payable to ', bearer, are of 500 franca, or .on hundred dol- lara,( gold) each-bearing five per cent, inter est per annum, in g4d. the coupons payable semi-annually, on th first of April and th first of Octobwr, in Paris, or in New York, Philadelphia and Nw Orleans, at the current rat of zchaogs. Th isau being si 66 dol lars (gold) will 1 iv more than 7f per cent, intereat on th uvestmenL" KxsTCcrr ELxcTioJr-The majority for Duvall, Democrat, for Clerk of th Court of App-Is in' Kentucky, wOf not .quite reach 40,000. It has been' reduced considerably by tb returns from the moun tain counties, Tbo Democratic majority r. in tb old Ashland district is 7,632. - Thu" is used to be old banner whir district, in Henry Clay times,- ' . ? . : -
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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