The Daily Phoenix

The Grand Army of the Republic.
Under this caption, a number of the Union soldiers and sailors met at Indianapolis, on the 21st ult. The following resolutions were adopted:
1. That the Grand Army of the Republic is organized to maintain in civil life those great principles for which it stood in arms under the national flag; that it stands pledged to crush active treason, to advance and support active loyalty, to secure sound constitutional liberty to all men, and to vindicate everywhere and at all times the full and complete rights of every loyal American citizen against all combinations of force or fraud that may attempt to deny or deprive them of such rights.
2. That we pledge all the power and influence which, as individuals or as an association, we legitimately wield, in the most especial manner, to those gallant men who stood fast by the country in the hour of its need in the rebellious States, and who, through all manner of losses and injuries, persecutions by force and persecutions under color of law, maintained their integrity and vindicated their loyalty: and we solemnly declare that no power that we can use shall be neglected until they are thoroughly and completely protected in the active exercise of the American freeman through the entire country over which our flag floats.
3. That Congress, in justice and not in charity, should pass a law equalizing in a just manner the bounties of all Union soldiers and sailors.
4. That we now, as heretofore, pledge ourselves to use our best endeavors to procure appropriate State and national legislation for the education and maintenance of the orphans and widows of deceased comrades and our maimed brethren, and to enforce a speedy adjustment and payment of all lawful claims against the Government due soldiers and sailors and their heirs.
5. That in our opinion no man is worthy to be a free citizen of a free country who is not willing to bear arms in its defence, and we therefore suggest to Congress the passage of a law making it the inexorable duty of every citizen to defend his country in time of need, in person and not by substitute.
6. That as a matter of justice and right, and because the sacrifice made and dangers encountered by the Union soldiers and sailors who served in the late war for the preservation of the country can never fully be repaid, we respectfully ask that those in authority bestow upon needy and worthy soldiers and sailors such positions of honor and profit as they may be competent to fill; and while we seek nothing for ourselves, or those of our comrades who are able to maintain themselves, we do earnestly recommend this request to the consideration of all in authority, and we especially ask the attention of the President to his policy heretofore declared on this subject.