The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-04-02

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N, country and Ia. N. m,mor,,. Of ,hO.. who
hsv. fallen in Its defence shall DO held in grateful
and everlasting reinsurance LOUD applause ana
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practical wisdom, the unssih,h patriotism and the
un'vervins fidelity to the consatutio. and the
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possibilities Of the Presidential Ofhcsi that We
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tiOn, and a. within III. prov.ion, Of III. constitu.
tiOn, the measures and acts Shics he has adopted
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Of emancipation. and m. ,mploym,p, as Union
soldiers Of mon hsrstOfors held in slavery Tsp
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,u,iou.i measure, essential 20 the salvation Of the
country with full and complete effect"
To give additional force to theirapproval
Of Mr.. LrSooLSs policy, the States OF Ten
nessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana, which had
commenced to reconstruct under his procla-
nation, which proclamation had brought
upon him the most virulent luminosity and
vituperation from the very men who are now
hurting their hatred at ANDREW JOHNSON
these States were admitted to the Parncipa-
tons Of the Convention, on equal terms; and
towards them were extended political and
national fellowship. To stamp with the ut
most ignominy OF defeat the radical cabai
which had been failing up and down the
land, the Convention placed side by side with
Mr.. LINCOLN, as his colleague and coadjutor'
the man who above oil Others was his ally
and agent in the work oil reconstruction.
We need not tell the story Of that excited
election, or its brilliant sequence The
country has heralded it amid general reJoic-
ing. The world has regarded it with awe
and wonder, and wherever civilization has a
foothold, its subjects have paid it the tribute
Of respect and admiration.
We say that every Union voter in 1864
gave his ballot in favor Of that platform and
the ideas it contained. We say that every
Union soldier whomarched to the 'front.' carried
its principles with him; and the swords which
were bravely drawn; the shots which fired
along the whole Union line we're given to
make those patriotic measures eternal. That
platform was sealed with the life blood Of
heroes, and canonized with the hosannas Of
Victory.
Had it been said during the canvass or the
military campaign Of 1864 that the success
Of these principles would not have been salts
factory, but that the hour Of restoration
would be postponed until universal suffrage
or universal degradation, or the indefinite
rule Of conquest, or a complex system Of
bureau government for the States in rebel
lion had been established, it would have
been Indignantly declared a farce and fc'
ton by every citizen who cast Union vote,
and every soldier who carried Union mus.
ket.
The armies Of the South capitulated. "They
Internationally surrendered their hostility
and returned to their first allegiance to the
constitution and laws Of the United States
They yielded not only their dream Of indie
pendence, their dogma Of State sovereignty
their prejudice against popular institutions
their reluctance to the majority rule, but with
it all they decrecd by State organic enact.
ment the everlasting extinction of the vast
iniquity OF human slavery. Every point was
gained Not principle OF the Union plat
form was lett without vlndication.
True then to his own convictions OF public
DOliCy untiinc hinPly steadfast to the platform