The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-30
National Republican Platform.

The National Union Republican party OF
the United states assembled in National
10Th day of May, 1868. make the following
declaration OF principles:
]. We congratulate the country on the as
sured success of the reconstruction policy OF
Congress as eVinced by the adoption In a
Constitutions securing equal civil and pOliti-
cal rights 10 all, and regard 1t as the duty of
the Government to sustain these ConstItu-
tons aud prevent the people OF such states
nom being RENTED to a state OF anarchy or
| military rule.
2 The guarantee by Congress OF equal suf-
| frage to all loyal men in the South was de-
MAJ ded by every consideration of public
safety, OF gratitude and Of justice, and must
be maintained, while the question OF suf-
| frage in all the loyal States properly belongs
TO the people of those States.
8. We denouncs all forms of reputation
as a national crime, and national honor re-
QuireS the payment of the public indebted
ness in the utmost good faith TO our creditors
| the letter but the spirit OF the laws under
| which IL was contracted.
4. 1t IS due 10 the labor of the nation that
| taxation should be equaliZed and reduced as
rapidly as national tHtth VIII permit.
5. The national debt, contracted as II has
| all time to come, should be extended over
fair period for redemption, and it is the duty
| Of Congress to reduce the rate OF interest
thereon whenever it can honestly be done.
| 6. That The best policy to diminish our bur-
| capitalists viii geek to lend us money at low
er rates OF interests IMAM we now pay, and
must continue TO pay, SO long as reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened
T.Ihe Government of the United States
| should be administered with the stFictest
| been SO shamefully nuTsed and fOStered by
Andrew Johnson, call loudly for radical Ie-
5. We profoundly deplore the untimely
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession OF Andrew johnson TO
| The Presidency, who has acted treacherousiy
| TO the people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged TO support; has usurred high
| fused TO execute the laws; has used his high
| office TO induce other officers to violate the
laws; has employed his executive power to
I liberty and life Of the citizen: has abused the
| parcionfnR power: has ienouri ceCi the Nations
] alLegislature R5unConE tituLionRI; has persist
ep1ly and ha6itually resisted by every means
in his power, every proper attempt al the
lion; has perverted the public patronage into
an engine of wholesale corruption, and has
been Justly impeRched for high crimes and
mlsdemeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes Of thirty-rve
| Senators
European. Powers, that because man Is
once a subject he is always 50, must be re-
sisted at every hazard by the United States
as a relic of the feudal times, not authorized
| by the law Of nations, and at war with our
natio1, honoG anu yam n
all their rights Of citizenship, as though they
were native born. no citizen OF the United
| States, native or nRturaliEed, must be liable
| to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign
PoWerIo acts done or words spoken In this
country; and II so arrested and Imprisoned,
1t is the duty Of the Government 10 Interfere
in his BEHALF
the late war there were none entitled to
more especial honor than the brave soldiers
and seamen who endured the hardShips OF
the camp and cruise, and tnpertled their
| lives in the service of the country. The
| bountieS and pensions appropriated by law
| for these brave defenders of the Union are
OBLIGATIONS never. TO be forgotten. The
widows and orphans OF the gallant dead are
the wards OF the people-a sacred legacy be-
queathed 10 the United States protecting
care. 5er -agE
H. Foreign emigration, which in the past
has added 50 much 10 the wealth and In.
creased The resources OF this natton-thea sy-
lum OF all nadonS-should be 1osteIed by
liberal and just policy.
with all oppressed people who are struggling
for their TIghts.
Resolved, That we recognize theRreat prin.
ciples laid down in the Declaration OF Ind
dependence PS the true platform of demo-
! cratic government, and we hail with glad
ciples living reality on every inch OF Amer
can soil.
| Reolped, That we highly commend the
spirit OF naSnantmlty and forbearanee with
Whlch men who have served in the Rebellion
but who now frankly and honestly cooper
| ate with us In restoring the peace of the
country ana reconstrucing the Southern
State governments q pom the basis OF Impair
TAI Jusuce ana Equal Rights, are received
back into the communion OF the loyal peo-
| qualifications and restrictions imposed upon
i The Late Rebels In The same measure as their
Il spirit Of loyalty will direct, and as may be
leonsistentWtth the safety Of the loyal people.