The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-05-03
Platform of the National Union Club"

in Washington, of which Hon. A. w. Ran
dali, is President. The Washington CORES.
pendent Of the Chicago Journal says:
''This club is within the organization Of
| the Republican party, and should not be
COMPOUNDED with the National johnson
Club" which is copperhead affair. The
principles herein announced are those held
by the Presi dent, and it is thought by a
large mass CT thinking Republicans"
The foil owing is the Platform adopted by
this new Club:
l. ReSoJ0ed, That we are now, as hereto
FORE ardently attached to the Union of the
States under the Constitution of the United
States that we deny the right of any State
to secede, and hold that all attempts at Sc
cession are null and void that all the States
are now States of this Union, as before the
rebellion, and we deny the power of the
General Government, under the Constitu-
ton, to exclude State from the Union or
to govern it as Territory.
3. ReSoiUed, That our confidence in the
ability, integrity, patriotism and stateman.
ship of President Johnson is undiminished,
and we cordially approve the general policy
Of his Administration.
8. ReSOJUed, That we endorse the resolu-
ton of Congress of July, 1861. declaring
the object of the war on our part to be the
defense and maintenance of the supremacy
of the Constitution and the preservation
of the Union, with the dignity equality
and rights of the several States unimpaired.
4. Resolved, That, in the language of the
Chicago platform of 1860, and as quoted by
the late President Lincoln in his first inaug
ural address, FThe maintenance inviolate
of the rights of States, and especially of the
rights of each State to order and control it's
own domestic institutions according to it's
own judgment exclusively, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States, is es-
sential to that balance of power on which
tho perfection and endurance of our political
fabric depends"
5. RESOLVED, That under the Constitution
of the United States is reserved to the sever
al States the right to prescribe the qualifi
cations of electors therein; and that it
would be subversive of the principles of our
Government for Congress to force universal
suffrage upon any portion of the country in
opposition to the known wishes of the citi
zens thereof.
6. ResoLUed, FThat this Union must be
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that the war for its preservation having
been brought to triumphant close, and the
supremacy of the Constitution indicated
the rights of the States under the Constitu-
| ton are to be maintained inviolate, and that
loyal citizens within the States and districts
lately overrun by rebellion are entitled to all
the rights guaranteed to them by the Con,
stitution.
T. ReSoJ0ed, That all the States of the
Union are entitled by the Constitution of
the United States to representation in the
councils of the nation, and that all loyu.
members, duly elected and returned, hav-
ing the requisite qualifications as prescribed
by law, should be admitted to their seats
in Congress without unnecessary delay by
their respective houses, each house being
the Judge of the election returns and quail
| fications of its own members. 7'S''
s. ReS0Lged, That treason is crime
which should be punished, and that we are
opposed to compromising with traitors by
bartering universal amnesty for ''univer-
sal suffrage"
| g. ReS0tUed, That the payment Of the ma
tional debt is sacred obligation, never to
be repudiated and that no debt or obliga-
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of treason or rebellion, should ever be as
sumed or paid.
10. ResOIUed, That we cordially indorse
the restoration policy of President johnson
as wise, patriotic, constitutional, and in
harmony with the loyal sentiment and pur-
pose of the people in the suppression OF the
rebellion; with the platform upon which he
was elected with the declared policy of the
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gress, and the pledges given during the
| war.
! IL Resolved, That the nation owes last
| ing debt of gratitude to the soldiers and
sailors of the late war for the suppression
of the rebellion, and that the families of the
fallen heroes who died that the country
might live, are the wards of the people, and
should be cared for by the Government.