National Union Convention
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The National Union Convention (also known as the Loyalist Convention , the Southern Loyalist Convention , or the National Loyalists' Loyal Union Convention ) held on August 14 , 15 , and 16 , 1866 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . The convention was called in advance of the mid-year elections of 1866 in an attempt to bridge the increasingly acrimonious gap between the Radical Republicans and the Reconstruction policies of U.S. President Andrew Johnson . The goal of creating a new political party was not realized.
About 7,000 prominent politicians and activists attended. At the opening of the convention, men from Massachuetts and South Carolina paraded arm in arm to symbolize national reconciliation and social equity.
In the end, the convention was not successful in unifying the country behind Johnson, and Johnson then launched a speaking tour (known as the Swing Round the Circle ) hoping to regain public and political support. On this speaking tour, Johnson at times attacked his Republican opponents with crude and abusive language and on several occasions appeared to have had too much to drink. Ultimately, the tour was a disaster for Johnson, emboldening the Congress to override him and to impeach him in 1868.
Notable attendees include
John Minor Botts , U.S. Representative from Virginia
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland , U.S. Representative from Ohio
Edgar Cowan , U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
Darius Crouch , U.S. Army General
William Earl Dodge , U.S. Representative from New York
James Rood Doolittle , U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
Frederick Douglass , abolitionist
William McKee Dunn , U.S. Representative from Indiana
James Edward English , U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Connecticut
Horace Greeley , publisher and U.S. Representative from New York
William S. Groesbeck , state legislator from Ohio
Andrew Jackson Hamilton , U.S. Representative from Texas
James K. Holland , state legislator from Texas
Reverdy Johnson , U.S. Senator from Maryland
James Harlan , U.S. Senator from Iowa
Jacob Merritt Howard , U.S. Senator from Michigan
Henry Jarvis Raymond , U.S. Representative from New York
William Lawrence , U.S. Representative from Ohio
John Wesley Longyear , U.S. Representative from Michigan
Samuel S. Marshall , U.S. Representative from Illinois
Horace Maynard , U.S. Representative from Tennessee
Richard Oglesby , Governor of Illinois
James Lawrence Orr , Governor of South Carolina
George Hunt Pendleton , U.S. Senator from Ohio
Cyrus L. Pershing , jurist and later Governor of Pennsylvania
Robert Cumming Schenck , U.S. Representative from Ohio
Byron Gray Stout , U.S. Representative from Michigan
Theodore Tilton
Benjamin Franklin Wade , U.S. Representative from Ohio
William Barrett Washburn , U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Peter Godwin Van Winkle , U.S. Senator from West Virginia
Fernando Wood , copperhead Mayor of New York City
Clement Vallandigham , copperhead from Ohio
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