The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
The Chase Platform.

Mr.. PoMERoY, of Kansas, the author of
the celebrated circular in favor of Mr..
CHASE, made speech in tie Senate on
the 10 h inst which may be taken as Mr.
CHAsE's presidential platform. The most
noticeable features of this platform are
in relation to the rights of free speech,
free press, habeas corpus, and the reasser-
ton of the Monroe doctrine The plat
form is as follows:
1st The immediate suppression of the re-
belliOn by using, and controlling. if need be-
for the time being, all the civil and all the mil
ltary power Of this nation. without premature
offers OF pardon by proclamation of amnesty
to traitors, but reservng to triumphant peO-
pie the right to determine to what extent mer-
cy shall be tempered with justice.
I'd. Such amendments to the Constitution as
shall prohibit slavery wherever the flag of the
Union floats, with suitable encouragement to
general system of education, in order that
suffrage shall be intelligent as well as free.
thus furnishing additional guarantees for the
perpetuity of our liberties
Sd. The maintenance of the Monroe doc
trine, by which the deposition that afiicts the
old world shall be denied any additional foot
hold in the new, thus guarding our country
against the encroachments of tyranny, and ded
icating this American contest to the develop
ment of popular institutions.
4th The organization of signal economy
in the administration of public affairs. in order
both to relieve the burdens of the people and
to insure the financial credit of the nation.
9th The cOnfiScatiOn of the property of
leading rebels. and Inauguration of republican
governments in all the districts in rebellion,
whenever the loyal inhabitants shall volun-
tarilv acquesce in and adopt the same
ThtAr ion fo &c,
tional currency. made staple and sure by
pledge OF the wealth and resources ofthc whole
country, thus protecting the people from the
evils of an issue of unguarded paper currency,
and supplying them with safe and convenient
medium of commercial exchange in national
currency of uniform value i'm all parts of the
country. and convertible into gold without loss.
9TH. Such subOrdinatiOn of the several States
with the general government as shall secure
homogeneous and undisputed nationality while
not destroying the rights reserved to the
States, so that allegiance to the national gov
eminent shall always be regarded as the high
est fealty, and the title of American citizen the
prOudest that can be borne; believing him to
be an American who has an american heart ir
his bosom no matter what has been the acct
dent of his birth or education for he is as like
ly to be as truly an American citizen who be-
comes one 1ro'u choice as he who is compelled
to be one from necessity.
9Th. A generous adherence to the usage of
the government for thirty years past in the
one-term policy, as applied to the office of the
presidency, believing that the policy of a sec
ond and third is fruitful of temptations and
tends to impair the purity and patriotism ofhis
administration, and to surround him with in
fuences fatal to the use of a free and unbiased
executive patronage, and highly dangerous to
the popular liberty which he has chosen to
pro. ect.
9th. Thorough protection to individual
rights, including those of the writ OF habeas
corpus, and the liberty of speech and publica-
ton, while at the same time there are su!taoie
safeguards against a REASONABLE, SUBSIDIZED
and corrupted press
10th. The support of liberal and protective
system Of foreign emigration, which snail at
test our sympathies with the struggling people
of Europe, while it rcplenishes the wastes OF
the present destructive war, stimulate our In
jured commerce and supply the demand Tor 10.
Dor, and develop those immense resources OF
our country on which we must SO greatly rely
for the speedy extDguishment CT the national
debt. -,
nth. The extention of suitable aid for the
Construction of railway across the continent,
for the better union of the Atlantic and Pa
cfic States. and their easier defence against
possible foreign enemies, as well as to hasten
the development of the rich mining regions of
the continent, which we have reason to believe
are destined to control the commercial values
IF the world.