The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-26
Important Testimony from Mr.. Ray

mOnds
7 Mr.. Raymond, it is well known, was
leading member of the first Philadelphia
Convention, and the author of the address.
He says, in the following article, copied
from his paper, the New York Times, that
that Convention endorsed the proposed con-
stitutional amendment.
What will the Sentinel say to thisa
PARTY PLATFORMS AND PRINCIPLES.
The Albany Ecening Journal manufactures
good many reasons for attaching special
importance to what we said few days
since upon possible collision OF authority
between two rival bodies, each claiming to
be the House of Representatives, and it as
cribes to the Times special authority to speak
for the President in regard to the action he
would take in that contingency. We have
no such authority, and, in the article refer
red to, expressly stated that we Judged OF
his probable action only from his published
opinions on the subject. In no other way
have we ever had the slightest reason to an
ticipate or presume what it would be.
But the Journal is guilty of some fragrant
Misrepresentation. 1t says:
The Times was asked by Pittsburgh
contemporary whether it regarded the present
Congress as Constitutional body2 To this
question the Times evasively replies that
there is possibly no reason for regarding the
present Congress otherwise than as lcgiti-
mate and Constitutional body because the
President has communicated with it, and
approved of acts that were passed by it.
I'VE gave no such reason. We said we
regarded this Congress as Constitutional
body, because it embraced a majority OF all
the members required by law: and we added
that the President also regarded it as Con-
stitutional else he would not have signed
the bills it passed.
"We suggested, as means of at once do
ing justice and of averting the threatened
danger, the admission of loyal members from
loyal States to their seats in Congress. This
the Journal styles surrendering the cital
point at issue How long is it since the
Albany sJonrnal regarded the exclusion of
loyal men from Congress as a g vital issue"
in its party platforms On the 4th of Au-
gust, in discussing the probable action of
the Philadelphia National Convention, the
Eoening Journal said:
If the wish is to compact the real Union
Party, platform will be adopted to accom-
PVooeVse
upon such platform. We could draw one,
and use no single sentence that has not been
spoken by the President himself If we
should make any modification whatever in
his declared principles, it would only be to
render them less Radical; for we never IA
vored either general hanging or indiscrimi-
nate confiscation.
Our platform would be:
Al e. L.. L.
teed by faithful execution and submission
to the Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau
Laws.
2. ADOPTION OF THE PROPOSED
AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION.
g. The immediate admission to their seats
in Congress Of all loyal men ,cho can take the
test oath and
4. The recognition of the right of every
State to regulate the question of suffrage in
its own way.
If the Philadelphia Pilgrims will give us
some such platform as this great many will
60 to Philadelphia-nex time. Such
platform, with Conservative and Execu-
tive Endorsement, could carry rrerything be-
fore tit aoil aoaether 1t las such Endorsement
or not
"The Philadelphia Convention did give
the country just such platform as the
,0nrnal itself recommended and the main
plank in it was the very one on which the
Journal then laid great stress, but which it
now repudiates, namely, the admission to
their seats in Congress of all loyal men from
loyal States.
The Journal is in the habit of talking
good deal about consistency"