Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-10-27
Platform of the National Union Con
vention.

now assembled in the city Of Philadel phia,
composed of delegates from every State
and Territory in the Union. admonishrd
by the solemn lessons which, for the last
five years, it has pleased the Supreme
Ruler of the Universe to give the Ameri-
can people; profoundly grea,ful for the
return of peace; desirous, as large
majority of their counirymen, in all sin
certify to forget and to forgive the past !;
reveriEg the Constitution as it comes TO
us from Our forefathers; regarding the
Union in its restoration rs more sacred
than ever; looking with anxiety into the
future as of instant importance-hrreby
issues and proclairns the following declara-
tion of principles and purposes, on which
they have with perfect unanimity agreed ::
l. We hail with gratitude to Almighty
God the end of the war and the return of
peace to our afflicted and beloved land.
2. The war Just closed has maintained
the authority Of the Const tuition, with all
the powers which it confers and all of the
restrictions which it imposes upon the
General Government unabridged and un-
altered; and it has preserved the Union,
with the equal rights, dignity, and au-
thority of the State perfect and unim-
paired.
8. Representation in the Congress of
the United States and in the Electoral
College is a right recognized in the Con-
stitution as abiding in every State and as
duty imposed upon its people fundamen-
tai in it's nature, and essential to the ex-
istence of our republican institutions /;
and neither Congress nor the General
Government has any power or authority to
deny this right to any State. or to with.
hold its enjoyment under the Constitution
from the people thereof.
4. We call upon the people of the
United States to elect to Congress, as
members thereof, none but men who ad-
nit this fundamental right of representa-
tion, and who will receive 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.
S. The Constitution Of the United
States and laws made in pursuance there
of are 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 Constitu.
tion upon the General Government nor
prohibited by it to States, are reserved TO
the States. or to the people thereof. and
among the rights thus reserved to the
States is the right to prescribe the quail
fcaiions for the elective franchise there
in. which right Congress can not int.r-
fere With.
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