The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-07-16
DemOcrtic Platform.

The following is the platform
adopted by the Democratic National
Convention at New y ork - sr. +:
The Democratic party, in Nation
al Convention assembled, reposing
its trust in the intelligence, patriot
ism and discriminating justice of the
people, standing upon the Constitu-
ton as the foundation and limita-
ton of the powers of the Govern
ment, and the guarantee of the lib
critics of the citizen, and recog1l:z-
Jag the questions of slavery and Sc
cession as having been settled for
all time to come by the war OF the
voluntary action of the Southern
States in Constitutional Conven-
ton assembled, and never to be re-
newed Or reagitated, do, with the
return of peace, demand:
/. Immediate restoration of all
the States to their rights in the
Union under the Constitution and of
Civil Government to the American
people. f e-.l....H .s7a't '5aa a.
2, Amnesty for all past political
ofenses, and the regulation of the
elective franchise in the States bv
their citizens. IS ..ssls s-a- go
3. Payment of the public debt of
the United States as rapidly as prac
ticable, all money drawn from the
people by taxation, except SO much
as is requisite for the necessities of
the Government economically ad-
ministered, being applied to such
payment and where the obligations
of the Government do not expressly
state upon their face, or where the
law under which they were issued
does not provide that they shall be
paid in coin, they ought in right and
in justice be paid in the lawful mon
ey of the United States. 2ses5 ag
4. Equal taxation of every species
of property, according to its real
value, including Government bonds
and other public securities.
5. One currency for the Govern
ment and the people, the laborert
and the office holder, the pensioner
and the soldier, the producer and
the bond-holder. e# E-9
6. Economy in the administra-
ton Of the Government; the reduc-
ton ofthe standing army and navy
the abolition Of the Freedmen's Blu
reau, and all instrumentalities de-
signed to secure negro supremacy
simplification of the system and dis
continuance of inquisitorial modes
OF assessing and collecting internal
revenue, so that the burden of taxa
ton may be equalized and lessoned;
the credit of the Government and
the currency made good; the repeal
of all enactments for enrolling the
State Militia into National forces in
time of peace, and tariff for reve-
nue. upon foreign imports, and such
equal taxation under the Internal
Revenue laws as will afford inciden-
tai protection to domestic manufac-
lures, and as well, without impair
ing the revenue, impose the least
burden upon and best promote and
encourage the great industrial in
terests of the country
z. Reform of abuses in the admin
istration, the expulsion of corrupt
men from office, the abro cation of
useless offices, the restoration of
rightful authority to and the indie
pendence of the Executive and Ju-
dictal Departments Of the Govern
ment The subordination of the
military to the civil power, to the
end that the usurpations of Con-
gress and the despotism Of the sword
may cease.
s. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native born citizens
at home and abroad the assertion
ofAmerican nationality. which shall
command the respect of foreign
powers and furnish an example and
encouragement to people struggling
for national integrity, constitutional
liberty and individual rights, and
the maintenance Of tae rights of
naturalized citizens against the alb
solute doctrine of immutable allie
glance and the claims of foreign
powers to punish them for alledged |
crime committed beyond their juris- |
diction. In demanding these meas
ures and reforms, we arrain the Rad |
ical party for it's disregard of right
and the unparalleled oppression and
tyranny which have marked its ca |
reer after the most solemn and unan-
imous pledge of both houses of Con
gress to prosecute the war exclu