The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-27
National RepubIlcnn Platform

The National Union Republican party of
the United states assembled In National
Convention in the City of Chicago ON the
10Th day of May, 1858, make the following
declaration OF principles:
l. We congratulate the country on the as
sured success OF the reconstruction policy OF
Congress as evineed by the adoption In a
majority Of the States lately in rebellion of
Constitutions securing equal civil and pOlti-
cal rights 10 all; and regard II as the duty of
the Government to sustain these Constltu-
lions and prevent the people of such States
nom being remitted to a state OF anarchy or
2. The guarantee by Congress OF equal suf-
frage to all loyal men In the South was de-
manded by every consideration OF public
safety, OF gratitude and Of justice, and must
Sraee IN All Inc ioyaI Ststes propeI " beIonss
TO the people of those States.
3. We denounce 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 ereditoIE
at home and abroad. not only according to
which 1t was contracted.
I. 1t is due TO the labor OF the nation that
taxation 6hould.be eQualiZed and reduced as
rapidly as national faith will permit.
5, The national debt, contracted as IL has
been for the preservation OF the Union for
all time TO come, should be extended over
fair period for redemption, and II Is the duty
of Congress to reduce the rate OF interest
thereon whenever II can honestly be done.
8. That the best policy to diminish our bur-
den of debt Is so to improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to lend MS money ut low
er rates of interests than We now pay, and
must continue TO pay, so long as reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, Is threatened
I. The Government of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
been so EhamefulIy nursed and fostered by
Andrew johnson, call loudly for radical re-
form.
and tragic death or Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession OF Andrew johnson to
the Presidency, who has acted trelcherously
he was pledged to support; has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; has re-
once 10 induce other onicers to Violate tie
laws; has employed his executive power to
render insecure the lives, property, peace,
liberty and life of the citizen. has abused the
pardoninR power; has denounced the Nation
aILeglslature as unconstitutional; has persist
emily and habitually resisted by every means
reconstruction OF the states lately In rebel
lion; has perverted the public patronage into
an engine of wholesale corruption, and has
been Justly Impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanoTs, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes of thirty-five
3. The doctrine of Great Britain and other
European Powers. that because man is
sisted at every hazard by the United States
as relic of the feudRl times, not authorized
by the law Of nations, and at war with onr
rallied citizens are entitled 10 be protected in
ali their rights OF citizenship, as though they
States, native or naturalized, must be liable
70 arrest or Imprisonment by any foreign
Power Tor acts done or words spoken in this
country and II so arrested and Imprisoned,
It Is the duty OF the Government 70 interfere
in his behalf
10. ofaiI 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 hardshtps of
the camp and cruise, and 1mper1led their
lives In the service or the country. The
bounties and pensions appropriated by law
for these brave defenders of the Union are
ohlfeatfons never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans OF the gallant dead are
queathed 70 the United States protecting
care.
II. Foreign emigration, which In the past
has added so much 10 the wealth and In
lum of all naton-ahOuld be foStafed BY q
liberal and Just policy.
IL. This convention declares its sympathy
with all oppressed people who are struggling
for their EightE.
ReSoIped' That We recognize tha'great priu.
ciples laid down In the Declaration Of Ind
dependence IS the trua platform of demo-
cratic government, and we hail with glad
ness every effoEt toward making thess pEin-
eples living reality ON every inch OF Amer
ReoEped, That We highly command the
spirit OF magnRnImlty andf0rbearanee with
which men who have served In the Rebellion
but who now frankly and honestly cooper
country and demonstrating the Southern
State governments upon the basis Of Impair
ttal Justice and Equal Rights, are received
backiuto the com ION of the iOyHI Tec-
Qualifications and restrictions imposed upon
the late Rebels In The same measure Is their
spirit OF loyalty VIII direct, and a. may be
consistent with the safety Of the loyal people.