Wilmington journal., 1875-09-03
THE NATIONAL UNION PAkTV

| delegates met in Boston on Saturday,
begins its career by a series of safe
hits" at what everybody else is de-
| nouncing But we doubt very much
if q prodigious political editice is ev.'r
built up on a"platform of platitudes .
One of the early statements of the
principles of the new party, whose
probable candidates are said to be
! Banks, of Massachusetts,, and Lamar,
of Mississippi (and very able men these
are) was that ''ttle issues OF the war
are past and reconciliation is fact.
Let the currency alone, build up the
credit of the nation until its notes ar,
worth dollar for dollar, put honest
men in Office, saE the millions now
being stolen aud pay off the national
debt. These Ideas were somewhat
expanded in commonplace preamble
and ten comm Jnplace resolutions, at
the first meeting of the delegates OF
the party on Saturday. Take,
for example, the second resolution
"til''tI NlNN5itsitS Cif'b 'hS Nii'S iA'~D
fully come when the people should re
sumo their sway over the affairs OF the
nation aud organize anew, GbJurIbg
that which lis useless or dangerous in
the experience OF the past and adopt
ing such measures as are adapted to
the changed condition of the country.
We cannot imagine anybody seriously
| disputing the proposition thus laid
down, whatever party he may belong
to nor can we see the great necessity
for a new organization in order to
convince the people of what everybody
| admits. Again, the fourth resolution
| in this curious series declares that
| officers should be more careful of the
nations money than they are of their
| own, and all extravagant outlays and
| ornamental offices should be dlscon-
timed, while the previous resolution
had declared that dishonesty in pub
| lie office is a henious crime, which
| should be more severely punished by
law than our statutes at present pro-
vide" The positiYeness with which
! this proposition is announced, to n axe
up for the dodging of disputable ones,
reminds one of the candidate for the
Presidency, immortalized by HOSEA
BIGLow, who, after adopting an ''eclec
tic" policy aud stunning any decisive
position which anybody could possibly
disapprove. declared with a sudden
burst of energy that my love for the
North and South are equal. SO I'll just
answer plump aud frank, no matter
what may he the sequel--yes. sir. am
agin bank y
The sixth of the resolutions remarks,
with most indisputnblo truth, that
great combinations, monopolies and
trate capital and oppress the people,
should be under the strict supervision
of law. This proposition, as thus put,
is en irely safe and utterly unobjec
tionable, even to great combinations.
monopolies and corporations. as is also
the seventh, namely. that every effort
should be made to secure to the farm
| or and manufacturer the full reward
for their labor, and to make the trans
actions of trade convenient and secure.
The eighth resolution marks that
every promise of the nation should b.
sacred pledge for the fulfllment Of
which in the most comprehensive
spirit. consistent with honesty, every
citizen should feel himself personally
| bound. As if this last resolution were
not sufficiently indefinite, ninth is
added on the same general subject,
declaring that ga sudden imitation Of
the national currency in the interests
of spectators or a sudden contraction
for the same ends are alike disastrous. "
But who desires to have
either imitation or contraction i'll
the interests of speculators We all
denounce them both. The real aues-
ton is which the new party goes for,
initiation or contraction, when not in
the interests OF spectators The ex
PLANTATION seems to be that the new
| party is bound to have platform large
| enough for the most contradictory DO
litical schools to stlud upon, and india
rubber principles warranted to stretch
J either way to fit the requirements Of
the most ultra partisan on any subject
whatever. Of its founders it may be
said, i'll the words of the authority Just
quoted, There may be folks of great
er talents that can't sit stea dier on the
fence" 1t is not such parties that set
the political world afire, nor could Il
candidate, as HOSEA BIGLow intimates,
be considered anything more than an
office seeker at any price, who on all
public questions should try to show
himself to be fronting South by
! North.''
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