The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-05
national RepublIcan PIatrOriTn.


The National Union Republican marty of
the United states assembled In National
Convention in the City OF Chicago on the
10Th day OF Nay lSSS, make the following
/. We congratulate the country ON the as
sured success of the reconstruction policy OF
majority OF the States lately In TebeiIion OF
Constitutions securing equal civil and polffi-
cal rights 10 ALI and regard 1t as the duty. of
the Government to sustain these ConBt1su-
tons and prevent the people Of such States
nom being remitted &c q state Of anarchy or
2. The guarantee by Congress of equal suf-
frage to all loyal men In The South was de-
manded by every consideration of public
be maintained, while the question Of suf.
frage in all the loyal States properly belongs
TO the people of those States.
s. We denounce all forms OF population
as national crime, and national honor re-
quires the payment OF the public indebted
ness in the utmost good faith TO our creditoIE
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 equRnZed and reduced as
rapidly as national faith viii permit.
s. The national debt, contracted as it has
been for the preservation OF the Union FOR
all time 10 come, should be extended over
fair period for redemption. and II e the duty
thereon whenever 1t can honestly be done.
8. That the best policy to diminish our bur
capitalists viii seek to lend us money at low
er rates OF Interests tnan we now pay, and
must continue 10 pay, 50 long ssrepudlation,
partial or total open or covert, Is threatened
I. 1he Government of the United States
economy. The corruptions which have
been so Ehamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew johnson, call loudly for radical re-
s. We profoundly deplore the untimely
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln, and
regret tine accession OF Andrew johnson 10
the Presidency, who has acted treacherously
70 the people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged TO support; has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; has re-
fused TO execute the laws; has used his 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
alLegislature as unconEttuuonRl;h has persist
emily and habituAlly resisted by every means
in his power, every proper attempt Al the
lion; has perverted the public patronage Into
an engine Of wholesale corruption, and has
been justly tmpeached for high crimes and
guilty thereof by the votes OF thlrty-nve
European Powers, that because a man is
once subject he Is always 50, must be re-
sisted at every hazard by the United States
by the law OF nations, and at war with our
national honor and Independence. Hatu-
rallied citizens are entitled 10 be protected In
ali their rights OF citizenship, as though they
were nntive born. No citizen OF the United
States, native or nRturnliZed, must be liable
to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign
Power Tor acts done or words spoken in this
country; and II so arrested and Imprisoned,
1t Is the duty of the Government to Interfere
IN his behalf.
10. OfalI who were faithful In the trials of
the late war there were none entitled to
and seamen who endured the hardships of
the camp and cruise, and 1mpnrted their
lives in the service OF the coechtry. Tine
bountieS and pensions appropriated by law
obligations never 70 be forgotten. The
widows and orphans OF the gallant dead are
the wards of the peOple-a sacred legacy be-
quealhed To the United States protecting
care.
IL. Foreign emigration, which In the past
has added so much 10 the wealth and in.
creased the resources OF this nation the asy-
lum of all nRtions-should be fostered by a
liberal and just policy.
l2. This convention declares It's sympathy
with all oppressed people who are struggling
for their rights.
Resolved, That we recoRniZe theigreat prin-
dependence IS the true platform OF demo-
cratic government, and we hail with glad.
ness every effort toward making these pLin-
ciPles q living reality on every inch OF Amer
can soil.
Resolved, That we highly commend the
spirit OF magnanlmity and forbearance with
which men who have served in the Rebellion
but who now frankly and honestly cooper
country and recOnsuuCting the Southern
State governments upon the basis OF Impair
ual Justice and Equal Rights, are received
back into the communion of the loyal peO-
qualifications and restrictions imposed upon
the late Rebels in the same measure as their
spirit of loyalty will direct, and as may be
consistently with the safety OF the loyal people.