Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-09-08
NUMBER 35.
The Philadelphia Platform.

The Gold Hill Ners, which up to that date
had been a supporter of 'my policy" in
its issue of the ed ult. makes the following
comments on the Presidents Philadelphia plat
form
This document has come in full by telegraph
1t was not correctly or fairly epitomized in the
telegraphic index of its contents 1t is paper
that is false in its premises and its logic through
out We are astonished that such a = Declara-
ton should be written by men of the reputa-
ton and character possessed by its supposed au-
thors All through there is pretense of enter
tanning one object, when the conclusion clearly
manifests another an entirely different as the
real aim Of the authors 1t makes direct at
tack upon Congress, upon the members consti-
tuting the majority, indiscrimnately it reads it
out of constitutional existence virtually stigma
tzes its acts invalid and this is indited by
persons who have been advocating and voting
| for and against bills, and drawing their regular
per diem and mileage in this same usurping'
National legislative body The ''platforp de-
nies the right of Congress to inquire into the
:. capacity to elect he'd or lacked by the several
Congressional Districts OF the lately rebellious
States expressly calls the passage of the Con-
stitutional Amendment .usurpation prates
mournfully of the dislranchisement of the
lately rebelious States; and, in effect, contends
that the moment Lee and Johnston surrendered,
the people living in the lately rebclous States
had the right to send Representatives to Con-
! gress who mast be admitted without challenge
on the ground of loyalty in the past With the
most despicable mcanness, it occasionally sets
up the claims of the {. Radicals as though they
were the opinions of the Union majority in Con-
gress, and proceeds TO argue against them as
| . Congress-" We are glad to note-for 1t de-
monstrates the spirit in which the entire paper
was written-that the platform builders at Phil
adelphia indirectly attack the amendment ltseli.
The most surprising fact in connection with
this Convention now appears to US to be, that
Vallandigham, Pendlcton Co. were not admit
| ted to seats We feel confident that either OF the
/ Copperheads named could have drawn up an
abIer (as they certainly would have framed Il
more caudid) Declaration. There Is some dis
ruise in the document-here and there para
graph or sentence that would read patriotically
if it stood alonc-but the main and undeniable
focus of all is: the grand result Of this war is
(or should bel the returning Of Representatives,,
to both Houses Of Congress. from the States re-
Gently all ed under a so-called Southern Con-
federacy, without exactng any conditions of
loyalty.
We imagined that the Philadelphia conclave
would assemble and pass a series of resolutions,
or otherwise frame platform simply appealing
for admission Of Representatives il Congress on
the loyal test oath, and against exclusions by
States; but not presuming to question the valid
ity Of the acts of Congress far aud the consti-
| tutional right to submit the Amendment which
|
municaton from Secretary Seward, by him Of
fcaly submitted to the different communities,
prior to Congressional request for him to do
so. But the platform is nothing less than
regular secesh State Rights concern character
lied in its construction by audacous defiance
of the truth Of present history. While it has q
specious pretense to a desire for national har-
mony, it is pleading, from the opening para
graphs on. for ii system of reconstruction that
would renew all the ancient strength of the
. chivalry." and afford them full opportunity to
punish the loval North for preserving this Gov
ernmeut This platform d5es the admis-
sion of red-handcd rebels into Congress. While
it imputes "Radical' sentiments to the Con-
gressonal majority, as before rcmasked it does
not stop with denouncing the "Radical plans7
it condemns the conservative and ruling portion
Of the majority in Congress.
The Philadelphia Convention is not the q fail
uren we anticipated it would be; it success
for the Union party; for can, after full
and sincere consideration stand upon its plat
form and claim, with any show OF reason, and in
the light of our civil war experience, that he is
in favor of the perpetuity of our institutions of
Republican freedom. If the Philadelphia Plat
form is sound doctrine, then the = issue of the
war was: to force traitors back into ruling
places in the chief councils of the Nation.
TIE NATIONAL DeBr-Secretary McCulloch
makes the following statement of the public
debt of the United States on the lst Of August,
1866 Debt bearing compound interest, per
cent bonds Sl98, 24l 100 per cent bonds of
/ 1861. Sle6, 6,Sl8 ,332 per cent. bonds of 1881,
S283 13f 100: , per cent. $40 bonds, S742 800
$50 total. 81 ,242, ,628. AL. Debt bearing cur
rencv interest on 6 per cent. bonds So .042, 900;
temporary loan Sis ,GG5 4G9; per cent. 3 years
compound interest notes, Sl36,Gi2,040: ) years
7-30 notes 81 ,989, $50; total, 81 l,o79.G68, SOB
National debt-presentcd for payment, 81 CO.
lG0 - debt bearing no interest, |. ;. notes,
$500 3Gl .T2s fractional currency, S2,664- l3o-
50 cold certificates Of deposits, SIC 403, 1896
total S443 046 %. Total debt, S21,!04
Ol6 sos 99 Amount in Treasury-coin, S6l,-
800 I2G 81; currency. &75,295,2oG "a totai
Sl37, ,3I7 ,332 e. Amount Of debt less caSh III
Treasury, s. ,633 099, PIG 30.
MAN UwnsR TuD BrD.-Most unmarried ladies
eniov a pleasant delusion They seem TO thihK
that men have a mania for getting 1naa' peusL
Accordingly very few OF them retire or tu9 ny
v.ithont first going through the ceremony oil look
oeI;ghtfuI are the illusions of hope which be-
emile rs for years. We have never known OF put
one instance where the search was rewarded with
49,. IN The discovery was announced by lit
~ roo,o of delight and the young lady
rratplated by hercompanion with the remark
1NWE5tI Maria am glad that you have found
him for to my certain knowledge you have been
looking for him for the last twenty years"
# is a little singular that men never look un-
der their beds-to see if there is woman there.
A GREAT WANT TO BE SUPP1IED-San Fran
cisco capitalists have organized company which
will Immediately erect another paper mill at San
tn Cruz. 1t will prove mine Of wealth to the
projectors, even if they sell paper at from 25 to
50 per cent. cheaper than we are now paying for
the Eastern manufactured article.
THAD. STEvE.s IS not the most Convenient kind
of friend. He recently charged Charles Sumner
with being consummate pedant. a vain and
weary philologist yandal in grammar, desc
orator of Lindley Murray, and pompous and
exaggerated egotist.'
WHEs man and woman are made one by a
| clergYman. tie question IS which is tie nnc .