The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-19
NntIonnl RepublIcan Platform.

The National Union Republican party Of
the United states assembled in National
Convention in the City of Chicago on the
2Olh day of May 1865 make the following
declaration of principles:
!. We congratulate the country on the as
Sured success of the reconstruction policy OF
Congress as evtnced by the adoption In q
majority of the States lately in rebellion Of
Constitutions securing equal civil and poltt-
cal rights 10 all; and regard 1t as the duty of
| the Government to sustain these CoDstltu-
| lions and prevent the people of such States
| from being RENTED to state OF anarchy or
.. The guarantee by Congress of equal suf-
handed by every consideration OF public
safety, OF gratitude and OF Justice, and must
be maintained, while the question of suf'
/ frage in all the loyal States proper ly belongs
to the people of those States.
3. We denounce all forms of reputation
as national crime, and national honor re-
Quires the payment of the public indebted
ness in the utmost good fnith to our creditOIE
at homo and abroad, not only according 10
the letter, but the spirit of the laws under
which IL was contracted.
| i. 1t is due 10 the labor of the nation that
taxation should be equaliZed and reduced as
rapidly as national faith Will permit.
5. The national debt, contracted as II has
been for the preservation OF the Union for
all time 70 come, should be extended over
fair period for redemption, and It is the duty
of Congress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon whenever 1t can honestly be done.
&. That the best policy to dImIntEh 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 Reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, Is threatened
I. The Government OF the United States
should be administered with the strictest
been so lshamefully nnrsed and fostered by
Andrew johnson, call loudly for radical Ie-
form.
S. We profoundly deplore the untImely
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln, and
regret tine accession of Andrew johnson to
The Presidency, who has acted treaeherousiy
l IN Nuhn alaNfof him and fha
| he was pledged 70 support; has usurred high
! legislative and JUDICIAL functions; has re
Onice to induce other officers TO violate the
laws; has employed his executive power TO
render insecure The ,s lives property, peace
pardoning power; has denounced the Nation
alIegislaLure as unconstitutional; has persist
| 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
ntSdemeanor6, and property pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes OF thtrty-nVe
9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other
| European Powers that because man Is
/ once subject he is always 50, must be re-
| sisted at every hazard by the United States
| as q relic of the teudal times, not authorized
| by the law OF nations, and at war with our
NATIONAL honor and independents. Natu-
| rallied citizens are entitled TO be protected in
| all their rights Of citizenship, as though they
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 II 50 arrested and Imprisoned,
1t is the duty ofthe Government 70 interfere
10. or all who were faithful In the trials of
the late war there were none entitled 10
more especial honor than the brave soldiers
| the camp and cruise, and tmpertled their
| lives IN the service Of tbs country. The
bountieS and pensions appropriated by law
| for these brave defenders OF tho Union are
| widows and orphans OF the gallant dead are
the wards of the people--a sacred legacy be
| queathed to the United States protecting
| care.
II. Foreign emigration, which In the past
has added so much TO the wealth and IN
| creased the resources Of this natton-the asy-
! Ium OF all natfOn-should be 1ostefeo py a
/ liberal and just policy.
Il. This convention declares us symp9lny
with ali oppressed people who are struggling
for their rights. .,-
| ResoEped That we recognize thegeat prtn-
| cipleS laid down in the DECLARATION OF Ind
dependence rs the true platform OF demo-
cratic government, and we nan win glao-
| eiples Living reality on every inch OF Amer
RssolUed, That we highly commend the
spirit OF ma2naninnity and foFbearanee with
but who now frankly and honestly cooper
ate with us In restoring the peace OF the
country and demonstrating tho Southern
STATE governments upon the basis Of Impair
back into the communion of the loyal peO-
pIeS and we favor the removal of the dis
| qualifications and restrictions imposed upon
the late Rebels In the same measure as their
consistent with the safety Of the loyal people.