The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-05-29
The Republican Platform.


The National Republican party Of the
United States assembled in National
Convention, in the city of Chicago, on
the goth day of May, 1868, make the fol-
lowing declaration of principles:
First-We congratulate the country
on the assured success of the recon-
struction policy of Congress, as is evino-
ed by the adoption, in the majority of
the states lately in rebellion, of consti-
tutions securing equal civil and political
rights to all, and regard it as the duty
of the Government to sustain those
institutions, and to prevent the power
of such states from being remitted to a
state of anarchy. Cheers.
Second-The guarantee by Congress
of equal suffrage to all loyal men Of the
South was demanded by every consid-
Grafton of public safety, of gratitude
and of Justice, and must be maintained
whole. The question of suffrage in all
the loyal States properly belongs to the
people of those States. Cheers.
Third-We denounce all forms of
Reputation as national crime. Pro-
longed cheers. Our national honor re-
quires the payment of the public in
debtedness in the utmost good faith to
all creditors, at home and abroad, not
only according to the letter but the
spirit of the law under which it was
contracted.
Fourth-It is due to the labor of the
nation that taxation should be equalized
and reduced as rapidly as the national
faith will permit.
Fifth-The national debt contracted
as it has been for the preservation of the
Union for all time to come, should be ex-
tended over fair period for redemp-
ton, and it is the duty of Congress to
reduce the rate OF interest thereon
whenever it can honestly be done.
Sixth-That the best policy to di-
minish our burden of debt is to so i'm
PROV our credit that capitalists will
seek to loan us money at lower rates of
interest than we now pay and must
continue to pay SO long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threat
ened or suspected.
Seventh-The Government Of the
Gaited States should be administered
with the strictest economy, and the
corrupticus which have been SO shame
fully nurseG, and fostered by Andrew
johnson call loudly for reform.
Eighth-We profoundly deplOre the
,untimely and tragic death of Abraham
Lincoln, and regret the accession OF
Andrew johnson to the Presidency,
who has acted treacherously to the
people who elected him and the cause
be was pledged to support; has usurped
high legislative and judicial functions
has refused to execute the laws; has
used his high office to induce other Off
GERS to ignore and violate the laws; has
employed his executive power and rem
dered insecure theproperty, peace, iber-
ty and life of citizens; has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the
national legislature as unconstitutional
has persistently and corruptly obstruct-
ed by every measure in his power, every
proper attempt at the reconstruction Of
the states lately il rebellion; has per
verted the public patronage into an en-
CINE of wholesale corruption; and has
been Justly impeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors and properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the vote Of
thirty-fve Senators.
Ninth-The doctrine of Great Britain
and other European powers that be-
cSuse a man is once subject he is al
wa VS. 80, must be resisted at every
haza. I'd by the United States, as relic
Of the feudal times not authorized by
the law of nations, and at war with our
national l,onor and independence. OuI
naturalized citizens are entitled to be
nrotected in all their rights of citizen
shin, as though they were native born
No citizen of the United States, native
ar naturalized, must be liable to arrest
and Imprisonment by any foreign power
for acts done or words spoken in this
country, and if 50 arrested and imprls