t between the President and Congress had developed
among the soldiery of the Union.

Officers of high rank in the volunteer service were not wanting.
Generals Butler and Banks of Massachusetts, Palmer and Farnsworth of
Illinois, Negley, Geary, Hartranft and Collis of Pennsylvania,
Cochrane, Barnum and Barlow of New York, Chamberlain from Maine,
Schenck and Cox from Ohio, Duncan and Harriman from New Hampshire,
Daniel McCauley of Indiana, and many of their fellow-officers, took
active and zealous part in the convention. Every loyal State except
possibly Oregon was represented. Far-off California and Nevada, then
without the facility of railway connection, sent delegates. The border
States of the South were present in full force, and Union men who had
borne their part in the civil contest came from every Confederate
State. General John A. Logan had been unanimously elected as permanent
president of the convention, but at the last moment he found himself
unable to attend and his place was filled, with equal unanimity of
selection, by General Jacob D. Cox of Ohio. General Cox, on taking the
chair, made an address of great firmness. It was even radical in its
positions and aggressive in its general tone.

He said it was "unpleasant to recognize the truth that it is in the
minds of some to exalt the Executive Department of the Government into
a despotic power and to abase the representative portion of our
Government into the mere tools of despotism. Learning that this is
the case, we now, as heretofore, know our duty, and knowing, dare
maintain it. The citizen soldiery of the United States recognize the
Congress of the United States as the representative government of the
people. We know and all traitors know that the will of the people has
been expressed in the complexion and character of the existing
Congress. . . . We have expressed our faith that the proposition which
has been made by Congress for the settlement of all difficulties in the
country [the Fourteenth Amendment] is not only a wise policy, but one
so truly magnanimous that the whole world stood in wonder that a people
could, under such circumstances, be so magnanimous to those whom they
had conquered. And when we say we are ready to stand by the decision
of Congress, we only say as soldiers that we follow the same flag and
the same principles which we have followed during the war."

The resolutions, read by General B. F. Butler, were explicit and
un