PARTY PLATFORMS. EaAlmon, and Philadelphia Platforms It is s itiSt now the ono of •the leaders of the revolutionary Radical move ment to claim : the ,authority of the Union Party for their principles and measures.. Every one who hesitates to follow in their footsteps is denoun ced as a renegade and traitor to the Union Party. The hypocrisy and un principled recklesSness of this pretext are apparent. None of the Radical leaders enlisted in this crusade ever were leaders of the Union Party, and the doctrines they now put forward as Union doctrines find no support in any of the authorizes declarations of prin ciple put forth by the Convention of the Union Party. Ilia Baltimore platform is the latest author itative declaration of the principles held and the policy espoused by the Union Party which carried the country through the war. It was adopted by the unanimous vote of the dele sates from every loyal State and Territory 1564, while the war against the rebellion wasstill raging, andwas the basis upon which President Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were nominated and elected, It was accepted by both these great mon, as the platform on which their administration would be based in case of their election, and was regarded throughout the Union,• by men of all parties, as the true basis and platform of the Union party. And we nnwassert, and challenge con tradiction, that there is not a single principle touch*/ national affairs asserted in if, which is not rcallionedby the Ph iladelphia platform; nor is there a single principle contained in the latter which is not embraced o• implied iii the former. The Philadelphia platform is identical, in every principle and position, with the Balti more platform; and in proof of this position we reprint the provisions of the two, side by side: TIIE CONSTITUTION AND TILE UNION The Baltimore zlatform, '64. Philadelphia Declaration Tho war Jumt cloned Lae ;nab/tab:al thc authority of Ithe Cnnstitutimk with all ilia powers which it con(•.ra awl all the restrictiowi which it imposes wan the tleaccal 'Government unabridged end analterol, awl it has preser ved (ho Lido" wish the equal ights, dignity and authori ty of the Stab., perfectly ua imp:tired. Resolved That it is the highest duty of every Amer ican citizen, to maintain against ail their enemies`, the inlfgrity of the Union a n d the paramount ant/writ,/ of Constitution and lams of the United .Slides; and that ,l smite all di ff erences of political opinionove pledge ourselves 119 Union men, animated by a common sen timent, and aiming at a common object, to do evory thing in oar power to aid! the Government in quilling, by force of arms, the rebel lion now raging against its authority, and to britming to the punishment doe to their crimes the relicts and Ind- 1 tors arrayed against it. Resoltyd, Thatlte approve the determination of the Government of the United States not to compromise with rebels, or to offer airy terms of peace except such as May be based upon an tan- 1 conditional surrcnder of their hostility and a return to their just allegiance to the Constitu tion anti lazes of tht CT tined States; and that me call up on the G..verantent to nests lain this position, and to prosecute the war. with the utmost possible vigor to the complete suppression of the • rebellion, in foil reliance upon the self-sacrificing, the heroic valor, and the undy ing devotion of the Ameri can people to their country and its free institutions. Representation in the Con !gross of the United States and in the Electoral Col lege, is a right recognized by the Constitution us obi ding in every State, ar.d as a duty impo,ed upon its pro , pie, fundamental' in its on 'titre and e,sential to the ex ercise of oar republican in stitutions: and neither Con ,: gross nor the General Gov t has any authority or power to deny this right to any State or withhold its enjoyment under the Censti 'alien from the people there of. Tie Constitution of the United States, and the lowa mule in pursuance thereof, are "the supreme Miss al the land, anything it the Con stitution or laws notwith standing." "All the powers not conferred by the Consti tution upon the General Go vernment nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States or the people thereof:" and among the rights thus reserved to the States is the right to pre scribe qualifications fur the elective franchise therein, with which right Congress cannot interPfre. No State or Convention of States has the right to withdraw fretu (the Union, or to es:chute, through their action in Con• gress or otherwise, any State or States from the Union.— The Union of these States is perptual, and the authority of its Gove.rnment is supreme within the limitations and re, strietions of the Constitution. The Philadelphia Declaration is thus seen to be the re-affirmation and adoption, by all the Slates, including those lately in rebellion, of the principles which in 1864 were declared by the loyal States to be essential, and which they wore resolved to attain by prosecution of the war. In 1804 the Union party declared that the war should be waged until the su preme authority of the Constitution was re establiShed, until the integrity of the Union was restored, and all its States and all its people accepted that result. In the Philadel phia Declaration the South joins the North in declaring that the authority of the Consti tution hasbeen restored and is again supreme; that the Union is perfect and perpetual—no Stato or States having any right to secede.— So far as this fundamental principle is con cerned, therefore, the principles of the two ve identical. Nest comes the subject of 12121102 Philaddrhia Deelaration,'66 Baltimore Platform, 1564. Resolved, That as Slavery' was the carrel, and now coll et Rates the strength of this rebellion, and on it must be always and everywhere hos tile to mho principles of re publican government, just ice and the national safe ty demand its utter and and complete extirpation front the sell of the Republic; and that, whilo Oro, uphold and maintain the acts and proclamations by -- which the I Government, in its own de-1 loose, has aimed a death- I blow at this gigantic evil, we are in favor furthermore e (such an amoniment to the Slavery is 1) , >!i571,1 end forceer prrdi ibilcd, mid there is neither desire nor purpose on the part of the Southern States that it should ever he re-established upon tiro 80(1 for within the jurisdiction of the United States; and . the enfranchised slaves in all the States . of the Union should receive, in common with all theft inhabitants, culla! protection in every right of person and property. .ioustitutiou, to bo !undo by the people in conformitylvith its provisions, as shalt ter minate and forerer prohibit the existence of Slavery loith in the limits or jurisdiction of Use Unita/ Shies. avery the two aro iden ,iladolphia Declaration -opts the complete ful e and promise made at rem the southern states g this acceptance. Upon the subject of's; ti cal—or rather the Ph acknowledges and acc Ehnen t of every pledge Baltimore—delegates tr uniting in and ratifyirn THE NATIO; NAL DEBT. Phi/Me/F .1,1866 VIII. MEMO • Pesolced, That the . al faith, plcdged for the pub lic. debt, eIECT DE KEPT IN VlO - and that for this pur pose we recoiniuond econo . and rigid responsibility in the public expenditures., and a vigorous and Just sys tem of taxation, and that it' is the duty of every loyal State to. sustain the credit! and promote the use of the - National Currency. While We rngard MS utter ly invalid, nod never to be assumed or mado of binding force, nn obligation incurred for undertaken in making war against the United States, we had the debt of the nation to be SACRED 000 OLMILE, and we proclaim our purpose in diticharging, this, as in per forming all .other national obligations,to main tain unimpaired and unim peaclud the honor and faith of Mc Republic. Here 'ap,:aln on the galled of the National Debt the Southern States join the loyal States in ratifying the,pledge made by the latter at Baltimore in 1554, that this debt should be sacred and inviolable, and they add, moreo ver, a pledge that the rebel debt shall never be assumed or made of binding force, The same identity is found betweon the two on the subject of L SOLDIERS. IMMEMM Philadclplcia Declaration. Ix. Baill,nare Platfona. Re.,?red, That the thanks of the American people are! due fa the suldters and rollors • of the Army and Nary, who Lave perille4 their lives in defence of their countryoknd in virtlicatiOn of the honor of its flag—that the nation owes to them 9,100 permanent re cognition of their patriot kin and their yak, sod pernoir !mit nod ittupio provi.ion for these of their survivor. who have recnive.l,lLablingl and horioroblo wound, the service of their country,' and that the linemen ice oil those who have fallen in it:: defence shall he halt in, grateful and erect ro-! thcatitritUrei It is the duty of the Na tional Government to recog nize the services of the Fed eral soldiers and sailors in the contest just closed by meeting promptly and fully all tholr'just and right rut claims for the Seretet, they rendered the nation, and by extending to those of them who have survived and to the widutrs and or phans of those who have fallen, the most generous and considerate care. The Southern delegates now join the States which were loyal through the war in declar ing it to be the duty of the Federal Govern ment to fulfill the pledges made in the Balti more platform of 1864, by recognizing and re warding the services of the soldiers, and rail prs who havo savell the nation. Ana so in regard to the 1 oai BIEBTEZEI MODEM T.«lli:~i•.t~~ 7'(,:lf..rm, lY•f.t. I'llacclelphfo, 1866 Ihsolre d. That we 44111(0,, 111.11 applaud the practical diilinadted thenneicllbili pa triottian. 111111 Ill! 11113WCI lug fidelity to the lion and the principles ail American Liberty with, which. Abraham Lincoln hail' di-charged, under eicinnin• stains, of unparvliiili catty, the peat lath-1:mil re,ponsitilli tic, of the Presi dential °lli,: licit! wr rap. prove and ildontie l by the tinicrecttcY, es . elitist to the preset . cationi the italic,. awl e. within the provddons of the einedi. Intl.. the Insures and acts which he hat adopted to delete! the nation wind.: its opt n 31111 8001 . 1 . t 1 . 00,; that tvn approve e,p cially the PrOCl/llllfttioll of finumcipn liun nod flea a as Linton soldient of 111 0 11 here tofore held in slavery; :and that we have 101 l confidence in hit deterininstion to car ry these and all other Cull ittai.mal measures, c7isott- , tial to the salvdtion of the country, into fall and 001110 plot°. effecL In Andrew .Tohs,,n. Fresh 'dent of the Unitrd `'tares, aho ITS Lin great tonic.: II:14 • 111.01,d tiLeaar , lBt its !VOiloll la tho Constitution, the lawn and interests of Ilk oonntry, unmoved by Fero, •ention and mule:served re. pnoult, linvinq: faith Ulla, Miill , :‘, in the peoplo and tbe principle, of tree llo vemnont, so recOgnizo ' Chief 3lagistrit'e worthy of ',the ot, nod equal to the igrost eri,l3 111101110111.!1 Lln list is ea t ; 0.1 we t,tukr to !him in tip dischargo of nd respoorAble c;iir oGnnld rc,peet, awl 1 :111, of our cordial and sin. cere support. „,. . There is thds an absolute identity of senti ment and principle between the Baltimore Platform of the Union party in 1864 and that adopted at Philadelphia last week. We chal lenge any man to point out any deviation from the fanner on the part of the Philadelphia Convention, The Baltimore Platform de clared it to be the .ol t ject and purpose of the war to re-establish the integrity of the Union and the supreme authority of the Constituthfn; and in the Philadelphia Convention delegates from every State and Territory of the Union, Northern and Southern alike, unite in the de claration that this has been done, and they accept - all the legitimate results and conse quences thereof. What the Philadelphia Convention has se eomplished, therefore, has been to nationalize the principles mot purposes (117 be Union party as declared at Baltimore in ISO- 1. If others have added to those principles, they t i ara done so on their own responsibility. They cannot hold any Union man hound by their nets in so doing. The Union Party represen ted in the Baltimore Convention was repre sented in Philadelphia. with the additional advantage of finding their principles triumph ant, and accepted alike by the great mass of the patriotic Democrats in the North and the great body of the people in the Southern States. If they cannot, thus fortified by suc cess and the general acquiescence of the American people, maintain their principles and secure their recognition in the practical administration of affairs, we shall have reached a new era in American pJlitics.—.N. TlinCS. Our Candidate for Congress. HuNTINGDos, scut. 11, 1806 E. L. JOHNSTON Esq. DEAR SIR :—As a candidate for Con gress, do you endorse the sentiments uttered by the following resolutions unanimously adopted by the National Union Convention, held in Philadel phia August 14. Representation in the Congress of the United States and in the electoral college is a right recognized in the Constitution as abi ding in every State, and as a duty imposed upon the people, fundamental in its nature, and essential to the existence of our republi can institutions, and neither Congress nor the general government has any power or author ity to deny this right to any State, or to with hold its enjoyment under the Constitution from the people thereof. We call upon the people of the United States to elect to Congress, as members thereof, none but men who admit this funda mental right of representation, and \rho will receive to seats therein loyal representatives from every State in allegiance to the United States, subject only to the constitutional right of each house to judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own mem bers. An early reply will oblige, Yours 14m. LEWIS EnzNiiritnio, Sept. 15, 1866. .Wm. LE wrs, Es. (2., ---DEAR —Yo u r note is before me, and with it the res olutions it refers to. I recognize your right, whether as a voter in my dis trict, or a journalist, to ascertain the views of any candidate offered for your support; and fortunately for me, I air able, without any hesitation, to make you a frank and candid reply. I need not tell you that if elected and admitted to a seat in Congress, I should be required to take an oath to "support the Constitution attic. United States." In that instrument I find that, "the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State,"—and that "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among-the several States which may be included within this Union, accord ing to their respective numbers" believe with the late President Lincoln and his Cabinet—with the Congress which inaugurated the war to put down the rebellion and prevent secession ; with the statesmen in the comm. and the soldiers in the field ;—that no State can secede from the Union. All the acts of the Government, in all its de partments, were based upon the duty of preserving the "Union of the States." ' For this we labored—for this wo in curred our enormous debt—for this we gave the lives of our brethren. That the Union was preserved is not now a matter of argument—it is his tory. Every Southern State is now moving on peacefully under her own Constitution and laws; while the Judi cial Department takes cognizance of every Southern State in the adminis tration of civil and criminal jurispru dence, and the Executive Department collects its proportion of the taxes to pay the National debt, and "takes care that the laws be faithfully executed." If Mr. Stevens, who embodies the radical idea, were asked bow many States are in the Union,even ho would unwillingly give the same answer as the student in Geography, "thirty-six." Yet while any radical would make this answer; and while "our flag,"the proud emblem of our nationality, flings its thirty-six stars to the breeze, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to the gulf—while our gallant tars float the same "starry ensign," on every sea under the Heaven ;—these same radicals, by refusing them that which makes a State, and without which a State cannot exist, would reduce them to subjugated provinces. Believing, then, that every State in the South is untitled to two Senators in Congress, and as many members of the House of Representatives as the act of Congress provides, I can at once "subscribe to the sentiments" of the resolutions to which you refer. And while, under that other clause of the Constitution, which makes each House judge of the "qualifications of its own members," 1 would refuse a scat to any DISLOYAL member, and every member infusing to take Lilo test oath prescribed by Congress, I would make the dis qualification a personal ono, and not permit it to impair the rights of a Sov ereign State. 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