Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-09-03
PLATFORM
sAs National pu5au Party. AaQed Chicago, Nay a 1858

The following platform, reported by
the Committee on Resolutions, was
unanimously adopted by the National
Republican Convention in session at
Chicagoi
The National Republican party OF
the United States, assembled in Nat
ional Convention in the city of Chicago
on the Goth day of May, 1868, make
the following declaration of princi-
pies:
First. We congratulate the country
on the assured success of the recon
struction projects of Congress, as evinc-
ed by the adoption, in a majority OF
the States lately in rebellion, of con-
stitutions securing equal civil and
political rights to all, and regard 1T as
the duty OF the government to sustain
these institutions and to prevent the
people of such States from being re-
mitted to state of anarchy.
Second. The guarantee of Congress
of equal suffrage to all loyal men OF
the South was demanded by every
consideration of fpublic safety, of graf
itude, and Of justice, and must be
maintained, while the question OF
suffrage in all the loyal States proper
ly belongs to the people of those States.
Third. We denounce all forms of
repudiation as a national crime, and
honor requires the paymentOf the ma
tinOal Indebtedness in the utmost good
faith te all creditors, at home and
abroad, not only accordihgto to the letter
but the spirit of the laws under which
it was contracted.
Fourth. 1t is due to the labor Of the
nation that taxation should be equal
lied 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 extended over a fair period for re-
demption, and it is the duty of Con,
gress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon whenever it can possible be
done.
Sixth. That the best policy to dim
inish our burden of debt is to so inn
prove Ourcredit that capitalists will
seek to loan us money at lower rates of
interest than we now pay, and must
continue to pay so longs as reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threat
ened or suspected.
Seventh. The government of the
United States should be administered
with the strictest economy, and the
corruptions which have been so shame
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
Johnson call loudly for radical re-
form.
Eighth. We profoundly deplore
the untimely and tragic death of
Abraham Lincoln, and regret the ac-
cession of Andrew Johnson to the
Presidency, who has acted treaeher-
Ously to the people who elected him
and the cause he was pledged to sup
port has usurped legislative and judi
icial functions has refused to execute
the laws; has used his high Office to
induce other officers to ignore and viO-
late the laws; has employed his ex-
ecutive power to render insecure the
prosperity, peace, liberty, and life of
the citizens has abused the pardon
ing power has denounced the Nation
al Legislature as unconstitutional +;
has persistently and corruptly resisted,
by every means in his power, every
proper attempt at the reconstruction
of the States lately in rebellion has
perverted the public patronage into
an engine Ofwholesale corruption, and
has been justly impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanOrs, and prop
erly pronounced guilty by the votes
of thirty-five Senators.
Ninth. The doctrine of Great Brit
ain and other European powers, that
because a man is once a subject he is
always so, must be resisted at every
hazard by the United States as relic
of the fedual times, not authorized by
the law of nations and at war with our
national honor and independence.
NaturaliZed citizens are entitled to be
protected in all their rights of citizen
ship as though they were native born,
and no citizen of the United States,
native or naturalized, must be liable
to arrest and imprisonment by any
foreign power for acts done or words
spoken in this country. And ifso ar
rested and imprisoned, it is the duty of
the Government to interfere in his
behalf.
Tenth. Of all who were faithful in
the trials of the late war there are none
entitled to more especial honor than
the brave soldiers and seamen who
endured the hardships of campaign
and cruise, and imperiled their lives in
the service of their country. The
bounties and pensions provided by
law for these brave defenders of the
nation are obligations never to be for
gotten. The widows and orphans of
the gallant dead are the wards of the
people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to
the nations protecting care.
Eleventh. Foreign emigration.
which in the past has added so much
to the wealth and development of the
resources and the increase of power of
this nation, ''the asylum of the op-
pressed ofaH nations, D should be fost-
cred and encouraged by a liberal and
just policy.
Twelfth. This convention declares
its sympathy with all the oppressed
people who are struggling for their
rights.
ON motion of Gen. Carl Schurz, the
following additional resolutions we
unanimously adopted as part of the
platform:
ResoEUed, That we highly commend
the spirit of magnanimity and fOrbear-
ance with which the men who have
served in therebelliOn, butnOw frankly
and honestly cooperate with US in
restoring the peace of the country and
reconstructingthe Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis of impartial
Justice and equal rights, are received
hack into the communion of the loyal
peopIe: and we favor the removal of
the disoualifications and restrictions
imposed upon the late rebels in the
same measure as their spirit of loyalty
viii direct, as may be consistent with