New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-10
TERMS OF. RECONsTRUCTI0N


The Er,ring Post attempts 10 make its readers be-
lieve that we propose or advocate other exactions
of the ex.Rebel States than those prescribed
by Congress. 1t has no warrant for this
assumption. While il is fully understood that we
should from the FIRST have much preferred settle
ment of all our differences, by mutual consent, on the
simple basis of Universal Amnesty, with I'M
partial Suffrage it is equally we'll known
that we have at no time sought to
make our convictions the test Of party orthodoxy but
have been ready to assent any terms Of settlement
which majority of the Republicans in Congress should
agree TO- If those who are called the South" would
accept our platform, we should be inclined to press
its acceptance by others; but, while they reject IT,
we are nowise strenuous to its acceptance by
Republicans.
The late Republican Union State CONVENTION was
not even asked from any quarter to resolve tuat any
further conditions Of restoration than those prescribed
by Congress should be exacted Of the States lately in
revolt. These are its resolves touching the matter
I'm question:
Rsolr,d That the pending amendment to the Constitution
proposed by Congress which defines citizenship IN the United
States and the civil rights citizens which eqqazc national
among the several States which dsahos from
sentod in Ccngresshoe who having taken an oath to
port the Constitution Of the United States shall have engaged
Of the Public United States and nvaaes every
debt incurred by any attempt to overthrow the Union Is es
seniia engra upon the organic Law the legitimate results
OF the war commends itself by justice humanity and mod
GRAFTON TO patriotic heart and that when any Of the late
nturgent States shall adopt that amendment such STATE should
BY s loyal Rrs''Ha1e' permitted 10 resume "' Place
in CoEsys''.
Does The Post assent to this proposition or does
it mott If it does, what is it bushwhaeking about
fort This was unanimously adopted by the largest
and fullest delegated Convention ever assembled in
this State-a Convention whereof ex.Goy. Ring,
Speakers Tremain and Littlejohn, Congressman HUI
burd, Latin and Van Aernan, Judge James Senators
Law, Folger, Sessions Bell Goddard, Gen. c. IL.
Van Wyck, Waldo Hutchins, Martin l. Townsend,
&C., &C., were members. II is the authentic plat.
form of the Republican Union party Of our State on
the subject of Reconstruction. Will The Post say
frankly whether it is for or against this platform
The only other resolve Of that Convention which
seems likely to elicit special objection is the following:
Rssoe That inequality Of guarantee Of personal and
ea liberty Is % 10 zoe peace o Saco If me
adoption Of the Constitutional Amendment shall tend to That
equalization Of all political rights among citizens OF the Union
upon which the future peace prosperity and power oil
! tie United States may depend.
The Editor Of THB TRIBUNE would have chosen to
express his sentiments rather more explicitly fol-
| lows:
'e,olrtd That Thomas Jefferson in bis avermen that
The OundatOn OF kepuDHchn
right OF every person and property and in their
management; Let every man who either nights OF
paws exercise his Just and equal right in elecons pro
claimed vital fundamental truth which ought never to be
sight OF in revising and redabShng Institutions which
have disturbed disrupted by the storms Of revolutions
and look hopefully TO the full recognition and enforcement
Of principle guard and country against n
tire secessOns ATocrate rebeons and deolatng civil
/ wars"
Does The Post object to this proposition, whether
in the shape reported by Mr.. g. W. Curtis and pre-.
ferred by the Platform Committee, in that which
seemed to us more frank and cogenti viii it favor
us with square declaration
We can only comprehend The Post on the assump'
ton that it hates the Republican party and desires its
overthrow. Many do this; but none other aSsail it
30 unfairly does The Post Cannot that journal be
persuaded to forego its guerrilla tactics, with the use
Of poisoned arrows, and tell the public just where 1t
stands as between the two parties which now divide
State and between the platforms Of the rival
Philadelphia Conventions