The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-18
national RepublIcan Platform.

The National Union Republican party of
the United states assembled in National
Convention in the City OF Chicago on the
Goth day of May, 1855, make the following
declaration OF principles:
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Congress as evineed by the adoption in a
majority OF the States lately in rebellion OF
Constitutions securing equal civil and politi-
cal rights TO all; and regard It as the duty OF
the Government to sustain these ConBtitu-
tons and prevent the people of such States
nom pelnS reml1ed 10 II state OF anarchy or
military rule. AZ ---E-
2 The guarantee by Congress OF e0ual suf-
frage 70 all loyal men In the South was de-
manded by every consideration OF public
safety, OF gratitude and OF Justice ana must
be maintained while the question OF suf.
| 10 the people of those States,
8. We denounce all forms OF reputation
| as national crime, and national honor re-
ness in the utmost good faith 10 our creditors
at home and abroad, not only according TO
the letter, but the spirit OF the laws under
which It 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.
o. The national debt, contracted as IL has
been Tor The preservation of the Onion for
all time to come, should be extended over q
| fair period Tor redemption, and Il Is the duty
OF Congress to reduce the rate of interest
| thereon whenever it can honestly be done.
o. Ihat the best policy to diminish our bur
den OF debt is so to Inn prove our credit that
capitalists will seek to lend us money al low
er rates OF interests than We now pay, and
must continue 10 pay, so long as reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened
or suspected.
{. The Government OF the United States
should DO administered with the strictest
economy. The corruptions which have
been so shamefulIy nursed and fostered by
form.
S. We profoundly deplore the unumely
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln. and
regret the accession of Andrew johnson to
the Presidency, who has acted treacherouSIy
10 the people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged 70 support has usurned high
legislative and judicial functions; has re-
fused to execute the laws; has used hts high
ONCE to induce other Officers to violate the
laws; has employed his executive power TO
render insecure the lives, property, peace,
liberty and life OF the citizen: has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the Nation
alLegisIature asunconstltutionRlih Inns persist
emily and haoltually resisted by every means
in his power, every proper attempt 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 impeached for high crimes and
miSSlemeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes OF thirty-nTe
Senators
European Powers, that because a man is
once a subject he is always so, must be re-
as ar relic OF The feudal times not authorized
by the law OF nations, and ut war with our
national honor and Independence. Natu-
ralizsd citizens are entitled 10 be protected in
all 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 jfso arrested and imprisoned,
1t is the duty Of the Government TO interfere
10, ora who were faithful in the trials of
the late war there were none entitled 10
more especial honor than the brave soldiers
and seamen who endured the hardsMps OF
the camp and cruise, and tmpertled their
lives in the service OF the country. The
bOnnties and pensions nPPToPriated by law
obligations never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans OF the gallant dead are
the wards OF the people-a sacred legacy be-
queRthed TO the United States protecting
care.
III. Foreign emigration, which In the past
Inns aIided SO much TO the wealth and in.
creased tile resources OF this natiOn-the Rsy-
lunl of all natlons-ahOuld be iOSteTed by
Il. This convention declares its sympathy
with all oppressed people who are struggling
for their rights.
Resolved, That we recognizes tLegreat prin-
cIples laid down in the Declaration OF Ind
dependence Ss the true platform OF demo-
cratic government, and we hail with glad
ness every effort toward making these prin-
ciples u living reality on every inch OF Amer
can SOIL.
ReSoIUed, That we highly commend the
spirit OF magnanimity and 1orbearnnee with
which men who haveEeryed in the Rebellion
but who now frankly and honestly cooper
ate with us in restoring the peace OF The
country and demonstrating tine Southern
State governments upon the basis OF Impair
tinl Justice and Equal Rights, are rece1Ved
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 measnre as their
spirit OF loyalty will direct, and as may be
consistent with the safety of the loyal people.