The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-02
THE PLATFORM.


The National Union Republican party o!
he Tinted states assembled In National
Convention In the City of Chicago on the
90th day OF May, 1858, mako the following
declaration OF principles:
4 We CONGRATULATE the country on the as.
sured success OF the reconstruction policy oi
Congress as evinced by the adoption In a
Consultations securing equnl civil and politi.
cal rights 10 all; and regard 1t as the duty ol
the Government to sustain these Constitu-
lions and prevent the people OF such States
nom being remitted to a state OF anarchy OF
military rule.
2 The guarantee by Congress OF equal suf-
frage to all loyal men In The South was de.
manded by every consideration OF public
safety, OF gratitude and Of Justice, and must
s ne m ~, IN the ioyai States propei iy belonps
10 the people OF those States.
q We denounce all forms OF reputation
9airfs as mTieI the paymcnt OF the public indebed-
ness in the utmost good faith TO our credltols
at homo and abroad. not only according 10
the letter, but the spirit OF the laws under
which IL was contracted.
4. II Is due TO the labor of the nation that
taxation should be equaliZed and reduced as
rapidly as national faith Will permit.
s, The national debt, contracted as II has
been for the preservation OF the Union 1oI
all time TO como, should be extended over 9
Of Congress to reduce the rate OF interest
thereon whenever 1t can honestly be done.
5on of dehf IA "a to Improve our credit that
espItaIists win seek to lend us money at low:
ar mates of interests tnan we now pay, and
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened
I. I Tke Government OF the United States
should be administered with tIe strictest
been so Ehamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew johnson, callloudly for radical re-
5. we profoundly deplore the untmely
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession OF Andrew Johnson to
the Presidency, who has scted treacherously
to the people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged to support; has usurred nigh
Legislative and judicial functions; has re-
fused TO execute the laws; has used his high
office to induce other officers to violate the
laws; has employed his executive power tc
render Insecure the lives, property, peacs
liberty and life of the citizen: has abused the
hardening power; has denounced the Nation
dlI legislature as a5unconsttuuonalih has persist
emily and habltually 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, ana ! hai tei
misdemeanors, and properly pronouneed
guilty thereof by the votes OF thrty-hvt
y The doctrine of Great Britain and othel
European Powers, that because man Il
once a subject he is always SO, must be re-
sisted at every hazard by the United States
rs a relic OF the feudal times, not authorized
by the law OF nations, and at war with oul
national honor and independence, Natu'
rallied citizens are entitled TO be protected In
ali their rights OF citizenship, as though they
were native born. No citizen OF the Onlted
States, native or naturallZed, must De Iaole
to arrest or Imprisonment by any 1orelgn
Power for acts done or words spoken In lhlt
county; and II SO arrested and Imprisoned
It is the duty Of the Government to interfere
in his behalf. l-'aH
10. or all who were faithful in the trials o.
the late war there were none enuued tC
more especial honor than the brave soldier:
and seamen who endured the hardshlPs o
the camp and cruise, and imperiled thell
lives in tho service OF the country. Iht
bounties and pensions appropriated by law
for these bravo 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 10 the United States protecunt
II. Foreign emigration, which In the pas
has added so much 10 the wealth and In
creased the resources OF this nation the asy
lum of all nations-should be fosteIed by {
liberal and just policy. ,.,,-
l9, This convention declares It's sympathy
with ali oppressed people who are struggling
ResoIred, Thatwe recognize theIgreat prin'
cIples laid down in the Declaration OF IND
dependence Ps the true platform OF demo
cratic government, and we hall with glad
ness every effort toward making these prin'
ciples living reality on every inch OF Amer
ResoIued, That we highly commend the
Spirit of mnRnaDimity and forbearance with
which men who haveeeryed in the RaDelllon
but who now frankly and honestly cooper,
ate with Us In restoring, the peace OF the
country and reconstTucting 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 theil
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