The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-22
How the Republican Conventtol
Sustained the President.

The Press is incensed that telegram
should have been sent to the New York
papers, that the Republican Convention
voted down resolution approving Presi-
dent JoHNsoN's military and civil course"
That resolution of this character was vo-
ted down, is not denied, and the excuse is
offered that one of q similar import had
been unanimously adopted as part of the
regular platform. Bow the resolution in
the platform referred only to the admins
tration of the government t'dxrimg the
past foe gears, and gave no pledge of
future support in restoring the Union. The
following is the resolution in the plat
form
Resolusa, That the administration Of the gen.
eral government, DURING THE PAST FIVE
YEARS, in the hands of the late lamented
President, Abraham Lincoln, and in the hands
of the present executive, Andrew johnson, in
all their efforts to preserve the Union and the
liberties Of the country, meets with our hearty
approval and concurrence.
This resolution is subteefuge and q
cheat, and was intended to be such. The
Convention might with as much propriety
have endorsed the administration of GEORGE
WAsH1NaToN. Not the remotest hint is
given of future support. The resolution
that was voted down by the Convention,
is as follows:
Resolved, That we recognize 10 the civil and
military acts of Andrew johnson as they stand
out before the world during the darkest period
of the nations trial, the fearless patriot the
able statesman, the honest man and that we
pledge to his seise and patriotic measures for the
restoration of the Union our cordial support.
This resolution means something. 1t
pledges the party to the support of mea-
sures now in process Of execution, and
commits it against any factious opposition
hereafter. The truth is, the Radicals in
the Convention did not mean to express
approval of President JoHNsoNis measures
Of reconstruction, and the Press acknowl-
edges "they would have preferred other
methods" They knew it would not an
swer to express open disapproval of his
course, and so they pretend to support
him but at the same time, they wish to
throw all the obstacles they can in the way
OF his policy, and prevent, if possible, its
success in the adjustments of affairs in
The Southern States This, they imagine,
will eventually enable them to secure the
adoption of their schemes of granting to
The negro equal political rights, privileges
and advantages with the whites, including
voting and ofice-holding the refusal of a
republican form of government to the
Southern States, and denial OF admission
OF their Senators and Representatives in
Cong ress, except upon the condition of
their abolishing all race distinctions, and
ratitying the proposed constitutional
amendment-the Acknowledgement of the
Southern whites, confscation of all their
property and the imposition of the whole
national debt upon them-the mainten-
snce OF a large standing army, and the
indefinite rule of martial law, accompanied
by arbitrary arrests, banishments, impris-
onments and executions. These results
they hope to accomplish through radical
Congress, and in defiance of the we'll
known sentiments of President JOHNSON.