The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-27
our Plottorm for the Campaign.

Republican Convention furnish declaration
of the principles of the party which will meet
the most hearty approval of all its members.
They are carefully worded, and prepared with
that consistent devotion to principle which
has always marked the policy of the Repub-
lican party. When contrasted with the senti-
ments declared by our opponents, no one can
fail to see the difference between the shifting,
time-serving tone of the one and the high,
manly opinions of the other. So far as we
are concerned, there is no shifting of the re-
sponsibility, no craven sacrifice OF right to
policy. The issues are clearly defined; there
can be no error in the reading of them, and
no one can be deceived into supporting our
candidate by the plea of ambiguity of Ian
guage. Let us look at them in detail.
First That in the name Of the nation, saved
from treason, we demand security against its
repetition by exacting from the vanquished
such guarantees as will make treason 50 odious
as to be forever impossible"
Here, in few words is contained the whole
cause why the Republican party is deter
mined not to readmit the South to power
without guarantees. 1t is not that we desire
personal position; it is not that we wish that
the political machinery of the country should
continue to be worked by our friends; but it
is in order that "treason may be made so
odious as to render it forever impossible"
1t is for prevention, not punishment, that we
are determined to adhere to our conditions
submitted, if the next century opens before
they are accepted.
SECOND. That, as In the past we cordially
justified the administration of Abraham Lin
coin in all necessary acts for the suppressing
of rebellion, we record 1t as our Judgment that
the administration of Andrew Johnson has
been chiefly faithless because it has failed
to try to gather up and fix in the organic
and statute law the great principles whicn the
war has settled, and without whose adoption
b. as the rule Of action peace is but delusion
and snare"
We find no bitter invective, no vulgar
TRADE against the President, but calm reason
why we deem that the Administration of
Mr.. Johnson 'has been chiefly faithless" We
are heartily glad that the Convention did
not proceed to mention details. The instances
are well known. 1t is needful that a iudg-
ment be given from the aggregate of the
decisions of the Administration; and that udg-
ment is adverse because, through shortsighted-
ness and treachery, it has failed to embody in
law what has been settled by facts-to make
a statute out of the issue decided at Gettys-
burg, Petersburg, and Antietam.
The third resolution reads
"That in the completion OF the task of recon
Structon so firm as to be perpetual, 1t is indis-
pensable that traitors beaten in The field shall
not find sanctuary in the COURTS"
While the fourth expresses the opinion
"That this Convention speaking for the Re
publicans of Pennsylvania, unreservediy
dorse the reconstruction measures of the Thirty
ninth and Fortieth Congresses as based upon
sound principles essentially just and WISE aud
nrOmiRlnO
restoration of the Rebel States to their snare in
the government of the Union; that we de-
nounce and condemn the efforts OF President
johnson, through his plant Attorney General
and majority OF his Cabinet, To evade these
laws by interfering to obstruct and prevent their
enforcement in the spirit in which they were
enacted, and that we call upon Congress, soon
o meet, promptly and decisively to dispose of
his new nulllncat1on."
In this fourth resolution is found the gist of
the principles of the party. Congress is
endorsed, and all who seek to evade it by
legal quibbles and technicalities are derelict in
their duty as public officers, and deserve the
condemnation of all right-thinking citizens.
If the present agitation throughout the
country can be stopped, it should be done so by
the assent of the whole country to the provi-
sions of the Military Reconstruction bill. That
law is backed by the great masses of the
behooves all true men who desire tranquility
for themselves, henceforth to support that
party which labors for the most speedy settle
ment of the question, by explicitly declaring
That as soon as the law is carried into effect,
and not till then, the ''restoration of the Rebel
States" will be secured.
The fifth resolution expresses that heartfelt
endorsement of Generals Sicl1les and Sheridan
which is entertained by all the loyal masses,
and entertains the hope that General Grant
will justify his past record by giving his assent
70 the actions of his subordinates. The sixth
~ nSemns the release of Jefferson Davis, and
The Wholesale pardoning system of the Ad-
ministtation. The seventh impresses on the
people the necessity of having a majority of
tne Supreme Court of the State with politi-
cal opinions adverse to those of the States
Rights Democracy and the semi-Southern ten
denotes of the Democratic candidate. The
ninth favors a free Railroad law. The tenth
endorses Governor Geary. The eleventh at
tacks Secretary McCulloch for not promptly
paying the bounties as provided for by Con-
gress; and the twelfth en- dorses Judge H. w.
Williams as a suitable candidate for the high
post for which he has been nominated The
eighth resolution appears in both Platforms
g.. 'eThat protection being cardinal feature of
o. the Republican creed, we trust that such leRiR-
IT lation will be secured at the earliest period az
u will afford adequate protection TO American
10 Industry"
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