Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-10-30
The National Republican
Platform.

The National Union Republican party OF the
United States, assembled IN National Convention
in the city Of Chicago On the a0fh day Of May.
1855 make the following declaration Of principles
L. We Congratulate the country on the assured
success of the restoration policy of Congress. NJ
evidenced by the adoption in majority of the
States lately in rebellion Of constitutions securing
eaual civil and political rights to all and regard il
as the duty OF the government 10 sustain these
constitutions and prevent the people If such
States nom being RENTED to state of anarchy
or military rule
IL The guaranty By Congress Of equal suffrage
to all hoy al men Of the South was demanded by
every consideration of public safety, of gratitude
and of justice. aud must be maintained while the
question or snrae in al the loyal States properly
belongs to the people OF those States. We
highly commei4d the spirit of magnanimity and
forgiveness with which the men who have served
the rebellion and who are frankly aud hon
estly cooperating with In restoring the peace
of the country, and In reconstrucing the Southern
State Governments upon the basis of impartial
Justice and equal rights. are received hack into
the communion Of the loyal people and We are in
favor of the removal of the disqualifcations and
restrictions imposed upon the late rebels in the
same meapUrc a the spirit OF disloyalty dies out
ana A. may be consistent with the safe y of the
loyal people.
III. We denounce all forms of liquidation az a
national crime; and national honor requires the
payment of the public Indebtedness in the utmost
good Faith TO all creditors. at home and abroad.
not only according to the letter. but the spits OF
the laws under which II was contracted
". 1t il due to the labor of tts nation that fax
alton should be equalized ana reduced AZ rapidly
~ national faith will permit.
Y. The national debt. contracted AZ II has been
for the prosecution Of the Union for all time to
come, shot ys extended over fair period for
redemption, and il the duty of Congress to reduce
the rate of interest thereon, whenever it can hon
estly be done.
VI. That the best policy to diminish our burden
of debt Is to improve our credit that capitalists
viii seek TO lend us money at lower rates of in
terest than we now pay, and must continue to paw
so long ne reputation, partial or total, open or
covert, Il threatened or suspected.
VII. The Government of the United States
should be administered with the strictest econ
omy. The corruptions which have been SO shame
falls ncrsed and fostered by Andrew johnson call
loudly for radical reform.
VIII We profoundly depiore the untimeIy and
tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln. and regret the
accession OF Andrew johnson to the Presidency,
who has acted treaeherously to the people who
elected him and the cause he was pledged to sUp-
port; has usurped high legislative and judicial
functions has refused TO execute the laws has
used his high office to induce other officers to vio-
late the laws; has employed his executive power
TO render insecure the lives, property peace. lib
rfty aud life Of the citizen has abused the mar
donng power; has denounced the National Legis-
lature az unconstitutional; has persistently and
habitualy resisted, by every means in his mower
every proper attempt AT the reconstruction of the
States lately IN rebellion; has perverted the pub
lie patronage into an engine of vholesala cor
ruption, and has been Justly impea he'd for bi~b
crimes ana mlsdemeanors. and pronounced guilty
thereof by the votes of forty-fye Senators
IN. Tue uoClfine Oh Treat Britain and ottH,r
European powers, that because a mar was once n
subject he y always So must he resisted NJ every
hazard by the United States relic of the Enndal
tines, not authorized by the law of nations and
at war with our national honor and independenre
Natumlized citizens are entitled to be nrofectad
In all their rights of citizenship. as tbough tbry
We're native born. No citizen of the United states
native or natura!ized must be liable Ia arrest or
imprisonment by any foreign power for acis
done or words spoken in this Country. and n 60
arrested and imprisoned. II Is the dufy of The CO..
eminent to interfere in mis- behalf - ~ WV
\. Ofall who we.s faithful in the trials of tho
late war. there were none entitled to MOI. o.
pecial honor than the brave soldiers ana se,n,an.
who endured the hardships of the csmp and crnise
ID tmper lied their lives in the service of their
conntr he bounties and pensions unprecedented
by law Ioi tiese brave defenders of the Union are
obligations never to be forgotten The widows
and orphans OF the gallant dead are the wards ~
the people.-a sacred legacy beuueathed 10 the
knited states protecting care ~
III Foreign emigration which i'm the mas, has
afdea 20 much to the wealth and Increased the
resources OF TINS nation-the asylum of an ma.
Icy. anu just Poi-
XII. This convection declares It's sympatbv IN
rights. 7e's 'oi 'heif
Nil. we recognize the great princi,les laid
Gown IN the Declaration of Independence as the
true plattcrm az Democratic Government and we
naii WIN gladness every effort toward maxine
these prihciPies living reality on every inch Of