The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-05-31
JUSTICE AND cLEMENcY.

i The hearty manliness CT the Nationa
Union Republican Platform is a 6ttini
addendum to the Declaration of Inds
pendence upder which grew up the gov
eminent which Unionism spent its bloot
and treasure to sustain and perpetuate
The party which has for its mission tn,
rebuilding of those parts of the Repub
lie which were shattered and torn BY
the tempest Of civil war, could not pos
sibly be better placed before the country
than as standing With frmness upon the
frst plank in the platform, by the terms
of which the wise and liberal policy OF
Congressional reconstruction is uph cid
aud its objects reiterated. So far as the
PRONUNCIATION of the party's creed upon
the great issue which agitates the Nation
is concerned, it gets comprehensive and
ample expression in that first clause /;
and if nothing else had been expressed
by the Convention regarding the politi-
cal questions of the day, nothing more
would have been requisite to state our
case to the world save that admirable
supplement offered to the Platform itself,
by General Carl Shurz, welcoming back
into the brotherhood of States, and into
a full share of the blessings of our gov
eminent those linen who have served
the rebellion and who are now frankly
and honestly cooperating with the
United States in restoring the peace Of
the country aud in the reconstruction of
the Southern States on q basis of i'm
partial suffrage and equal rights"
All that is intermediate in the ar
of the Platform is secon-
Diary to, and merely an elaboration
Of, the governing idea If obedience
to tho behests of Loyalty which
is the prevailing sentiment. "For the
best good of the country" is the sen,i-
ment thus enunciated and the honest
payment of the National Debt; the re-
duction of taxation; regard for econ
omy in the administration Of public
affairs q faithful adhesion to the va
idity and consequence of our naturali-
sation laws; and q declaration in &C
of the obligations in.
;urred by the country toward the
'oldiers aud sailors who !" preserved US
/ nation" all these, admirable, con-
'istent and proper as they are, are but
eference, in detail, to the means where
~ that noblest of ends is to be attained.
f this Republic was worth the saving
md is SO regarded by the majority of
IS citizens, We need entertain no fears
# the result of the election in Novem.
'er next because it is not possibility
bat the Democratic party can devise a
tructure for its nominees to stand upon
hat shall oppose itself to the Platform
ust framed at Chicago without thereby
enying the righ;fulness and business of
be war and, by consequence assuming
, hat Pendleton deduces from that posi-
ion, namely, the reputation of all OBJ
gations incurred Observation-Disclosures
0 guarantee the rights of loyalty in
be South, obligations to stand between
ur soldiers and their families and 4,
rant, as we'll as the prime obligation !
D preserve the National honor by sus- I
aiming the National credit. Not doubt.
,g that loyalty AID honest patriotism
re largely in the ascendant in the Re-
ublic, we caunot doubt that this peo-
lie will show themselves willing and b
ager to stand shoulder to shoulder :
18th Grant and Colfax upon the broad a
.rong platform whose first and last !
tanks are justice and generous Glenn c
ncy.
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