The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-23
The Wigwam Convention fading Of
SIT the Platform.
WrGwAM, Aug. I6- IL a. m.

the Platform
wIGwAM, Aug. I6- IL a. m.
Senator Doolittle called the Conven
ton to order at 10 o'clock precisely, I
when the Wigwam was densely crowd !
ed The exercises commenced with /
a prayer by the Rev. VIM. Reed Cry /
den.
A dispatch read, announcing Demo /
cratic victory in Colorado, was received !
with great applause.
On motion Of Mr.. Crowell, resolu-
ton was passed for the appointment OF q
National Executive Committee of two
persons from each State.
On motion of Hon Beverly Johnson.
a Finance Committe was constituted in
the same manner.
On motion of Senator Cowan, a rvso-
luton of thanks to Mayor McMicheal was
passed for his successful efforts to pre-
serve order in the city during the slttings
of the Convention.
Senator Cowan, chairman of the COM
mittee, then presented a report con
tanning platform for the new party,
and an address to the people of the
United States, with other resolutions.
The reading was in progress at eleven
o clock.
WIGwAM, 10TH p m
Senator Cowan proceeded to read the
following declaration of principles:
The National Union Convention, now
assembled in the city of Philadelphia
composed Of delegates from every State
and Territory in the Union, admonished
by the solemn lessons which for the last
FIVE years it has pleased the Supreme
Ruler Of the Universe to give the Amer
lean people, profoundly grateful for the
return Of peace, DESTROYS as are large
majority Of their fellow countrymen, in
all sincerity, to forget and forgive the
past, revering the Constitution as it
comes to us from our ancestors, regarding
the Union, in its restoration, as more sa-
cred than ever, looking with anxiety into
the future as of instant importance, here
by issues and proclaims the following de-
claration Of principles and purposes, on
which they have with perfect unanimity
agreed:
LIST. We hail, with gratitude to AL
mighty God, the end of war, and the re-
turn of peace to our afflicted and beloved
land.
ID. The war just closed has main
tai tsa Of
with all the powers which it confers
and all the restrictions which it imposes
upon the General Government unabrid-
ged and unaltered, and it has preserved
the Uuion with the equal rights; dignity
and authority of the States perfect and
unimpaired
3D. Representation in the Congress
of the United States, and in the Electoral
College, is a right recognized in the Con
situations as abiding in every State, and
as duty imposed upon its people fund
amental in its nature, and essential to
the existence of our republican in
stitution, and neither Congress nor the
General Government has any power
or authority to deny this right to any
State, or to withhold its enjoyment, un
der the Constitution, from the people
thereof '
4th We call upon the people of the
United States to elect to Congress as
members thereof none but men who adj
NIT this fundamental right of represen-
tation, and who will recomme end to seats
therein loyal representatives from every
State in allegiance to the United States,
subject only to the constitutional right
| of each House to Judge of the election
returns and qualifications of its own
members.
/ 9TH. The Constitution of the United
States and laws made in pursuance there
of ere the supreme law Of the land. any
thing in the Constitution or laws of any
State to the contrary notwithstanding
All powers not conferred by the Consti-
tuition upon the General Government nor
prohibited by it to States, are reserved
| to the several States or to the people
thereof and among the rights thus re-
served 70 the StaleS Is the Tlgut 10 pre-
scribe the qualifications for the elective
+. franchise therein, which right Congress
cannot interfere with No State or CON
bination of States has the right to with
draw the Union, Or to exclude
through their action in Congress, OF
otherwise, any ,others-State or States
from the Union The Union of these
States is perpetual and cannot be dissol
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9th. Such amendments to the Con
stiution of the United States may b,
made by the people thereof, as they may
deem expedient to- only the mode poin
ted out by its provision; and in pro,
posing such amendments, whether by