The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-13
National Republican Platform

The National Union Republican party OF
the United states assembled in NattonaI
Convention in the City OF Chicago on the
10th day OF May, 1858, 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 q
majority OF the States lately in rebellion OF
Constitutions securing equal civil and pollt1-
cal rights TO all, and regard 1t as the duty OF
the Government to sustain these Constltu-
lions and prevent the people of such States
nom being RENTED to state OF anarchy or
2. The guarantee by Congress OF equal suf-
frase to all loyal men in the South was de-
mauded by every consideration of public
safety, of gratitude and Of Justice, and must
be maintained, while the question of SUI.
frage in all the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those states.
5. We denounce all forms Of population
as national crime, and national honor re-
0uires; 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 1t was contracted. .,.,-.
4. 1t is due TO the labor OF the nation that
taxation should be equaliZed and reduced as
rapidly as national faith will permit.
.. The national uebt, contracted as it has
been for the preservation OF the Union for
all time TO come, should be extended over a
fair period for redemption, and 1t is the duly
of Congress to reduce the rate OF interest
thereon whenever 1t can honestly be done.
8. That The best policy to diminish our bur
den of debt is so 10 improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to lend us money at low;
err rates of interests tnan we now pay. md
must continue TO pay, SO long as reputation.
partial or total, open or covert, Is threatened
I. 9hs Government OF the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy. The corruptions which have
been so shamefulIy nursed and fOstered by
Andrew Johnson, call loudly for radical le-
form.
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln. and
regret the accession OF Andrew johnson to
the Presidency, who has scted treacherousiy
to The people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged to support; has uSurped n1gn
legislative and judicial functions; has re-
fused to execute the laws; has used his high
office to Induce other officers to violate the
laws; has employed his executive power 10
render insecure the lives, property, peace,
liberty AID life of the citizen: has abused the
pardOninS power; has denounced the Natton-
alLeg slature as uncOns tttutlonaI; mas persist
eEtly ami haoituRlly resisted by every means
in his mower, every proper attemp pit al the
reconstruction OF the states lately in rebel
lion: has perverted the public patronage Into
an engine of wholesale corruption, and has
been Justly i'm coached for high crimes aud
misdemtAnors, anu properly pronounSed
guilty thereof by the votes OF ihlrty-nTe
.. me doctrine of Great Britain and other
European Powers, that because man is
once a subject he is always 50, must be re-
sisted at every hazard by the United Sta Is
as q relic of the feUdal times, not authorized
by the law of nations, ana Mt war with our
national honor and independence. katu-
rnIized citizens are entitled TO be protected in
ali their rights of citizenship, as though they
were native born. No citizen of the United
states. native or naturalized, must be liable
to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign
Power Tor acts done or words spoken In this
country; and # so arrested and imprisoned
IL is the duty OF the Government 10 interfere
lO. OfaII who were faithful in the trials of
the late war there were none entitled to
more especial honor than the brave soldiers
aud seaInen who endured the hardShlES OF
the camp and cruise, and imperiled their
lives in the service OF the country. The
bouutteS 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.
has added so much 10 the wealth and In
lum OF all nationS-should be 1osteTed by
liberal and just policy.
l2. This convention declares Its sympathy
with all oppressed people who are struggling
for their rights.
cIples laid down in the Declaration OF Ind
dependence Ps the true platform OF demo-
cratic government, and we hail with glad
ness every effort toward making these prin-
ciples a living reality on every inch OF Amer
can soil.
Resolved, That we highly commend the
spirit OF magnanlmity and forbearance with
which men who have served In the rebellion
but who now frankly and honestly cooper
country and reconstructing the southern
State governments upon the basis OF Impair
tial Justice and Equal Rights, are received
back into the communion OF the loyal peo-
Pile; and we favor the removal Of the dis
qualifications and restrictions imposed upon
the late Rebels in the same measure as their
spirit of loyalty will direct, and as may be
consistent with the safety of the loyal people.