The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-15
Na.lonal RepuoIiean PIas1orm.

The National Union Republican party OF
e SLs9 IN St ave sy ar SScago an ihe
10Th day OF May, 1858, mako the following
declaration OF principles:
1. We congratulate the country on the as
sured success of the reconstruction policy OF
Congress as eYtnced by the adoption in q
CoSstitiitions securing equal civil and poIiii-
cal rights 10 all; and regard 1t as the duty OF
the Government TO sustain these ConStltu-
tons and prevent the people OF saen SLat g
military rule.
2. The guarantee by Congress Of equal suf-
| frage to all loyal men In the South was de-
mnnded by every consideration Of public
safety, OF gratitude and of Justice, and must
| frage In ali the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those States.
l-8.W denounce all forms of population
| as national crime, and national honor re-
| ness in the utmost good faith TO our credItorE
| the letter, but the spirit OF the laws under
| which IL was CONTRACTED.
| 4. 1t Is due to the labor of the nation that
| taxation should be eQualZed and reduced as
rapidly as national faith Will permit.
S. The national debt, contracted as IL has
ali time to come, should be extended over a
| fair period for redemption, and It is the duty
of Congress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon whenever It can honestly be done.
6. That the best policy to diminish our bur
den of debt is SO to improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to lend us money at low:
er rates OF interests tnan we now pay, and
must continue to pay, SO long as repudiationi
partial or total, open or covert, Is threatened
Z Ike Government of the United States
should be administe cred with the strtctest
economy. The coErupuons winch nave
been so shameIuLy nurSed ana Iostered py
Andrew Johnson, call loudly for radical re-
form.
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln. and
regret the accession OF Andrew johnson 70
the Presidency, who has acted treacheronsly
IN the people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged to support; has usurred high
legislative and judicial functions; has re-
office TO induce other oficers to violate the
laws: has employed his executive power 10
render insecure the lives, property, peace,
Iiberty and life of the citizen: has abused the
hardening power; has denounced the Nation
an. legislature as ACKNOWLEDGEMENT has persist
emily and habitually resisted by every means ans
recon strucdon OF the states lately In rebel
lion; has perverted the public patronage into
been Justly impesched for high crimes and
'fnisCl emeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes OF thirty-nVe
.. The doctrine of Great Britain and other
European Powers, that because man Is
sisted All every hazard by the United States
as a relic of the feudal times, not authorized
by the law of nations, and at war WIN our
rallied citizens are entitled to be protected In
ali their rights OF citizenship, as though they
States, native or naturalized, must be liable
to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign
Power for acts done or WORDS spoken IN inns
country: and If 80 arrested and imprisoned
1t is the duty OF the Government to interfere
In his behalf.
10. ORAL who were faithful In the trials of
the late war there were none entitled TO
more especial honor than the brave soldiers
and Reameu who endured the hardShpS OF
the camp and cruise, and tmper1led their
lives III 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
oueaihed to the United Stntes' protecting
Ii. Foreign emigration, which in the past
has added so much TO the wealth and In
creased the resout ceS OF this nation-the asy-
lnm of all natiOns-should be fosteTed by
liberal and Just policy.
l2. This convention declares its sympathy
with all oppressed people who are struggling
for their rights
ReSoFued That we recognizes the.great prin-
cipIes laid down in the Declaration of Ind
dependence Ps the true platform OF demo-
cratic government, and we hnn with glad
ness every effort toward making these prtn-
cIpIes a living reality on every inch OF Amer
can soil.
ReSolped, That we highly commend the
spirit of magnanimity and fOrbearanee with
which men who have served In the Rebellion
but who now frankly and honestly cooper
ate with US in restoring the peace OF the
country and reconSIucttng the eonLneru
State governments upon the basis OF Impair
t1al Justice and Equal Rights, are received
back into the communion OF tho loyal peo-
ple; and we favor the removal Of the dis
qualifications and restrictions imposed upon
spirit OF loyalty will direct, and as may be
! conSistentWtth the safety of the loyal people.