The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-23
'NatIonaI RepnbIIean PlntroIrIIn..

The National Union Republ,can Marty q,
the United States assembled ia National
10Th day OF May, 1858, make Inc SoiIowin4
declaration OF principles: 4s'-s 49,
i: We congratulate the country ON the as
Congress as evineed by the adoptfSn IN n n
majority Of the States lately in rebeiIioI1 ~
Consultations securing equal civil and roIifS-
cal rights 10 an; and regard It as the SiI5S,- ~
the Government to sustain these ConsfttS-
lions and prevent the people of such sstafSs
rom being rem1tted 70 state Of anarchy Or
2. me GUARANTEES by Congress of equal suf.
manded by every consideration OF public
safety, of gratitude and Of justice, and must
% mnlntalneat while the question of SUI.
| to the people OF those States.
3. We danounCe all forms OF repudfatfou
as national crime, and national honor ne
quires the payment Of the public indebted
ness In the utmost good faifh TO our creditors
at home and abroad, not only according to
which It was contracted.
4. 1t Is due to the labor of the nation that
taxation should be equ1ll1ed and reduced as
B. The national debt, contracted as Il has
been for the preservation OF the Union for
al time % come, should be extended over a
A1r period for redemption, and II is the duty
OF Congress to reduce the nate of Interest
S91at me Z can honesty 6e done.
den ot debt "a so to improve our credit that
capitalists VIII seek 10 lend us money at low
/
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 strfcteSt
economy. me coruptions which have
been 90 sh1mefully nprsed and fostered by
form. --sS : 80
s. We profoundly deplore the untimeIy
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 usnrred high
legislative and judicial functions; has re-
otiice TO induce other oficers TO violate the
laws; has employed his executive power to
render insecure The lives, property, peace,
liberty and LIE of the citizen: has abused the
pardoning power, has denounced the Nations
alLegtslRIure as unconk titulional; has persist
entity and habituAlly resisted by every means
reconstruction OF the states lately In rebel
lioni has perverted the public patronage Into
an engine OF Wholesale corTupGon, and has
been Justly inpeaehed for high crimes and
mtsdemeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes OF thirty-fye
.. The doctrine of Great Britain and other
once q spbjec he Is always 50, must Be re-
sisted at every hazard by the United States
as relic of the eudal times not authorized
by the Law Of nations, and at war with our
national honor and Independence. Natu-
ralized citizens are entitled to be protected in
were native born. No citizen of the United
States, native or naturaIized, must be liable
to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign
Power Tor aotsdOne or words spoken In this
country; and II so arrested and imprisoned,
It is the duty of the Government TO interfere
In his behalf.
10. OF all who were faithful In the trials of
the late war there were none entitled 70
more especial honor than the brave soldiers
and seamen who endured the hardshipS OF
the camp and cruise, and tmpertled 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 to the United States protecting
care. -,s',,------. -, ? =
has added SO much to the wealth and In
lum- of all natiOnS-Rhould be foSteTed by q
liberal and just policy. --
IL. This Convention declares its sympathy
with all oppressed people who are struggling
for their rights. sEEl
Resolved; mat we recognIze thegreat prin-
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
ReSoIreI, That we highly commend the
spirit OF maSnanimlty andforbearance 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
tial Justice and Equal Rights, are received
back into the communion OF the loyal peO-
pie; 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 Us may be
conststsntWlth the safety OF the loyal people.