The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-10
national Republican Platform

The National Union Republican party of
Convention in the City OF Chicago on the
10Th day OF May, 1858, mako The following
declaration OF principles:
/. We congratulate the country on the as
sured success of the reconstruction policy OF
G1 a1sFTy Of tSe States lately in Tebeiion Of
Constitutions securing equal civil and politi-
cal rights 10 ALL and regard It as tue duty of
the Government TO sustain these Constitu-
tons and prevent the people of such States
nom being RENTED to 4 state OF anarchy or
?. The guarantee by Congress OF equal suf-
Erage to all loyal men In The South was de-
manded by every consideration OF public
be maintained, while the question of sui.
frage in all the loyal States properly belongs
TO the people of those States.
3. We denounce all forms of population
as a national crime, and national honor re-
quires the payment Of the public indebted
ness in the utmost good faith 10 our credltols
at homo and abroad, not only according to
the letter, but the spirit OF the laws under
which it was contracted.
i. 1t Is due TO the labor of the nation that
taxation Enould be eQualiZed and reduced as
rapidly as national faith Will permit.
S. The national debt, contracted as It has
been for the preservation of the Onion for
all time to come, should be extended over
fair period for redemption, and 1t is the duty
of Congress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon whenever 1t can honestly be done.
8. That the best policy to diminish orr bur-
den OF debt Is so TO improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to lend us money at low
err rates of interests tnan we now pay, and
must continue TO pay, SO long as repudiat
partial OF total' open OF covert Is threatened
I. The Government oil the United States
should be administ cred with the stricteSt
economy. The corrupuons which have
been so Shamefully uurBed and fostered by
Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical re-
s. We profoundly deplo1e the untimeIy
and tragic death or Abraham Lincoln. and
regret the accession Of Andrew johnson to
the Presidency, who has acted treaeherously
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
ONCE to induce other officers to violate the
laws; has employed his executive power to
render insecure the lives property, peace,
liberty and life of the citizen: has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the Nation
alLegislature ns unconstitutio nal; has persist
emily and habituRlly 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 impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes of thirty-hve
Senators. 115El
o. The doctrine of Great Britain and other
European Powers, that because man is
once subiec he is always 50, must be re-
sisted at every hazard BY the United States
by the law Of nations, and at war with our
national honor and independence. Natu-
rallied. citizens are entitled TO be protected in
were native born 10 citizen of the United
States, native or naturaltzedt must be Liable
to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign
Power ior aetsdone or words spoken In this
country: and II so arrested and imprisoned,
1t Is the duty Of the Government 70 interfere
10. or ali who were faithful in the trials of
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 impeHled their
lives IN tho service OF the country. The
for these brave defenders OF the Union are
obIiRat1ons never 70 be forgotten. The
widows and orphans OF the gallant dead are
aueafhed 10 the United States protecting
Ii. Foreign emigration, which in the past
has added so much TO the wealth and in.
lum of all nattons-should be 1oStered by a
liberal and Just policy.
Il. This convention declares It's sympathy
with all oPpressed people who are struggling
Resolved; That we recognise thsgreat pFfn-
clples laid down In the DeelArati6n Of Ind
dependence - the true platform OF demo-
cratic government, and We hail with glad
ness eyeIy eftoIt toward making these pE1n-
ctples living reality on every inch OF Amer
ReSoEUed, That We highly commend the
spirit Of maEnanimity and forbeaEanee with
but WhonoW frankly and honesty co-oper-
ate with Us in restoring the peace Of the
country and reconshucting the southern
State governments upon the basis OF Impair
uAl Justice and Equal Rights, are .FecetYed
back into the communion of the loyal peo-
pie; and We favor the removal Of me dis
qualifications and restrictions imposed upon
the hate Rebels In the same u1eaalLp8 ~ their
NH the aafety5 of the loyal people.