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Jas. B. Rodgers, Book and Job Printer, 52 and 54 North Sixth Street.

1864.

OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

PRESIDENT.

Rev. D. C. EDDY, D. D.

VICE PRESIDENT.

Hon. JAS. POLLOCK.

RECORDING SECRETARY.

Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

JOHN ALEXANDER, Esq. 1935 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

TREASURER.

SAMUEL AGNEW, Esq.
30 North 11th Street, Philadelphia.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

REV. J. EDWARDS, D. D.

1737 Filbert Street, Philadelphia.

REV. J. H. A. BOMBERGER,

W M. GETTY, ESQ.

THOMAS WATSON, Es Q.

C. HEISKELL, E s Q.

D. D.

FORM OF PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.

1. THIS association shall be called the "National Association for the Amendment of the Constitution.”

2. The object of this Association shall be to obtain such amendment of the Constitution of the United States as shall fully express the Christian national character according to the memorial adopted by this Convention.

3. The officers shall be President, Vice-President, Recording and Corresponding Secretaries, and Treasurer. These, with five other members, shall be the Executive Committee of the Association, any five of whom shall be a quorum-all to be elected at the annual meetings.

4. Persons may become members by assenting to the Constitution.

5. This association shall meet annually upon its own adjournment, and at the call of its officers.

FORM OF MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS,

PREPARED BY THE ASSOCIATION.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled:

We, citizens of the United States, respectfully ask your honorable bodies to adopt measures for amending the Constitution of the United States, so as to read in substance as follows:

We, the people of the United States, humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Ruler among the nations, and His revealed will as of supreme authority, in order to constitute a Christian government, and in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the inalienable rights and blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to ourselves, our posterity, and all the inhabitants of the land,-Do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.

And we further ask that such changes be introduced into the body of the Constitution, as may be necessary, to give effect to these amendments in the preamble.

ADDRESS

OF THE

COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

(PREPARED BY ORDER OF THE ASSOCIATION.)

To the Christian People of the United States:

FELLOW CITIZENS:-An accomplished American statesman has said that the Bible contains the only genuine moral constitution of society, and its principles are the only safe foundation of all civil and political establishments. General Jackson, on his death-bed, said, pointing to the Bible: "That Book sir, is the rock on which our Republic rests-the bulwark of our free institutions."

The terrible national calamities into which we have fallen, indicate that we do not, as a nation, possess those moral qualities which secure the permanence and welfare of the Commonwealth. There is no adequate solution of our perils and sufferings that does not refer them to a moral cause. There can be no adequate cure that does not include, as its chief element, moral reform.

While this reform must find its principal sphere in the hearts and homes of the people, and its chief agents, an open Bible and an earnest Church, it partly depends upon the people in their organic capacity, and upon the government, as the agent in all national acts. Many Christians are convinced

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