North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-05-27

in the Senate is charged with bribery? 1t
seems that corruption floats alone in the
late united Republican party.
Republican Convention.
This business came off in Chicago on the
Goth and 2lst. Very great harmony pre-
vailed in the nomination Of Gen. Grant,
several delegates proposing to occlamate
him, even before the convention was in
working order. The Opera House was
filled, and SO were the streets and side
walks for many rods round the building,
during the session. Ex-Governor Hawley
Of Connecticut, was the Chairman, and u
good one too, but he had terrible time to
keep the mixed up classes of politicians, in
any kind Of order. After Grant, came the
Vice Presidential question. On the 9Th
ballot, Schuyler Colfax, Of Indiana, re-
ceiyed 2l7 to 206 for Wade, and state after
state changed votes till Colfax was almost
unanimously nominated. Wade's vote for
simse!f in the impeachment case, did not
help him much, nor should it. Such in
lslicacy would disgrace a candidate for
Justice of the Peace. Fenton and Wilson,
who ran pretty well, turned their forces
against Wade in the end, and upset him.
Mr.. Colfax is much the stronger on the
ticket. We have known him long. Grant
IS dummy in the hands of the Wash
burnes. We will have more to say here
after about the men, the platform and
their defeat. No man can receive the pop
ular vote who ever squints at the exemp.
ton Of wealth from its fair share of re-
possibility he who tries it, will find a
very large error of judgment. We give
The platform below. 1t is piece of
furniture in politics, nearer like nothing
han any we ever read Our space forbids
q dissection Of it this week. Let the read
OF look it over, and tell the meaning of
any resolution in it, which is not suscept-
iblc Of two differences. To make only two
points just now; while they denounce
Reputation" they suggest that Congress
may lower the rate Of interest on bonds,
and while preserving "faith' with bond
holders, they demand the "equaiization"
IF taxes. But just read the machine
through and admire its double tongue.
The Tribune says the "sevcn traitors are
not turned out by the eighth resolution,
the Journal says they are. We agree with
The Journal. Read and judge:
l. We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the reconstruction poll
~ of Congress as evidenced by the adopt.
ton in majority Of the States lately in
rebellion of Constitutions securing equal,
civil and political ri hts to all, and regard
it as the duty of the Government to sustain
these Constitutions and prevent the people
IF such States from being RENTED to a
state of anarchy or military rule.
2 The guarantees by Congress Of equal
suffrage to all loyal men in the South was
demanded by every consideration of public
safety, of gratitude and of jusaic, and must
lie maintained, while the question Of suf-
trage in all the loyal States properly be-
longs to the people of those States.
3. We denounce all forms of Reputation
as national crime and national honor
requires the payment Of the public indebt-
edness in the utmost good faith to our Gre
iitors at home and abroad, not only accord
ing to the letter, but the spirit, of the laws
under which it was contracted.
4. 1t is due to the labor Of the nation
that taxation should be equalized and re-
duced as rapidly as national faith will
permit.
5. The national debt, contracted as it
has been for the preservation Of the Union
for all time to come, should lie extended
over fair period for redemption, and it is
the duty Of Congress to reduce the rate Of
interest thereon whenever it can honestly
he done.
6. That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is SO to improve our credit
that capitalists will seek to find us money
at lower rates Of interest than we now
pay, and must continue to pay. so long as
xepudiation, partial OF total, open or covert,
is threatened or suspected.
I. The government Of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy. The corruptions which have
been 70 shamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew johnson, call loudly for radical
reform.
&. We profoundly deplore the untimely
and tragic death Of Abraham Lincoln,
and regret the accession Of Andrew John
son to the Presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected
him and the cause he was pledged to sup
port; has usurped high legislative and ju-
iicinl functions; has refused to execute the
laws; hac used his high Office to induce
other officers to violate the laws; has en-
ployed his executive power to render IN
secure the lives, property, peace, liberty
and life Of the citizens; has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the Ma
tional Legislature as unconstitutional; has
persistently and habitually resisted, by
every means in his power, every proper
attempt at the reconstruction of the States
lately in rebellion; has perverted the pub
&c patronage into an engine Of wholesale
corruption, and has been justly impeached
for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
properly pronounced guilty thereof by the
votes Of thirty-fve Senators
9. The doctrine Of Great Britain and
other European Powers, that because q
man is once . subject he is always so, must
he resisted at every hazsard by the United
States . relic Of tho feudal times, not
authorised BY the law Of nations, and at
war with our national honor and independ.
sucs. Nstnralised citizens are entitled
to b projected in al their rights Of citizen
ship, q though they were native born. No
aitisen Of the United States native or nat
uralissd, must be liable to arrest or i'm.
prisonment BY any foreign power for acts
done or words spoken in this country and
ifso arrested and imprisoned, i. is the du-