The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-06-18

The National Union Republican
Party Of the United States, AZ
scublcd in National Convention
IN the City Of Chicago, on he 20h
day Of Nay, 1868, make The fol-
lowing Declaration Of PrincipleG
]. We congratulate the country
on the assured success Of the Re.
construction policy Of Congress, as
eyinced by the adoption, in the ma
jority of the States lately in rebel
lion Of the Constitutions securing
Equal Civil and Political Rights to
all, and it is the duty Of the Gov
ernment TO sustain those instruc-
tons and TO prevent the people
Of such States from being remitted
to State Of anarchy.
ii. The guarantyby Congress Of
Equal Suffrage to all loyal men at
the South was demanded by every
consideration Of public safety, Of
gratitude and Of justice, and must
be maintained; while the question
Of suffrage in all the loyal States
properly belongs to the people Of
those States.
III. We denounce all forms Of
repudiation as n National crime;
and National honor requires the
payment Of the public indebtedness
in the utmost good faith to all cred
itols, at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the
spirit of the law under which ii was
contracted.
Nv. Itis due to the Labor Of
the Nation that taxation should be
equalized and reduced as rapidly as
National faith will permit,
V. The National debt, contract
ed as it has been for the prcscrva-
ton of the Union for all time to
come, should be extended over a
fair period for redemption; and II is
the duty Of Congress to reduce the
rate Of interest thereon whenever
it can be honestly done.
VI. That the best policy to di-
minish our burden Of debt is to so
improve our credit that capitalists
win seek to lend us money nt low
or rates Of interest than we now
pay, and must continue to pay so
long as reputation partial or to-
tai, open or covert, is threatened
or suspected.
VII. That Government Of the
United States should bo admins
tered with the strictest economy;
aud the corruptions which have
been SO shamefully nursed and fos-
tered by Andrew Johnson call
loudly for radical reform.
VIII. We profoundly doploro
the untimely and tragic death Of
Abraham Lincoln, and regret tho
accession to tho Presidency Of An
drew johnson, who has acted tpeach-
erously to the people who eloc ted
him and the cause he was pledged
to support; who has usurped high
Legislative and judicial functions;
who has used his high Office to in.
duce other officers to ignore and
violate the laws; who has employed
his executive powers to render in
secure the property, peace, liberty
and life Of the citizens; who has
abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Leg
islature as unconstitutional; who
has persistently and corruptly re-
sisted, by every means in his power,
every proper attempt at the recon-
struction of the States lately in re-
bcllion; who has perverted the pub
lie patronage into an engine of
Wholesale corruption; and who has
been justly impeaohod for high
crimes and misdemeanors, and
properly pronounced guilty thereof
by the vote of thirty-fve Senators.
TX. The doctrine Of Great
Britain and other European powers
that because man is once a sub
ioct he is always so, must be re-
sisted at all hazards by the United
States as relic Of feudal times not
authorized by the laws of nations,
and ut war with our national honor
and independence. Naturalized
citizens are entitled to protection
in all their rights Of citizenship as
though they were native,born; and
no citizen Of the United States, ma.
tive or naturaliEed, must be liable
to arrest and Imprisonment by any
foreign power for act done or word,
spoken in this country; and if SC
arrested and imprisoned, il is the
duty ofthe Government to inter
fero in his behalf.
X. OF all who were faithful il
the trials Of tho late war there wer,
none entitled to more especial hon
ors than the brave soldiers and so
men, who endured the hardship
of camp and cruise, aud emperillc,
their lives in tho service Of thei
country. Tho bountieS and pen
; sions provided by the laws for thes
brave defenders Of the nation ar
an obligation never to be forgotten
: the widows and orphans Of the gal
c liant dead are the wards Of the peo
plea sacred legacy bequeashed t
the nations protecting care.
NJ. Foreign immigration, whicl
in tho mast has addal 90 r,,,.,k 4.