The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-20
The Republican Platform.

The National republican party of the y nited
States assembled in National Convention in the
city of Chicago, on the Goth day of May, 1865,
make the following declaration of principles -
FIrt-We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the reconstruction policy of
Congress evinced by the adoption in the ma
jority OF the State lately in rebellion of constitu
tions securing equal civil and political rights to
all; and it is the duty OF the government TO sus-
tain those institutions and to prevent the people
of those States from being remitteu to a state of
anarchy. (Cheers.)
Secoud-The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal mrn at the South was de-
manded by every consideration at public safety,
of gratitude and OF Justice, and must be main
tanned while the question OF suffrage in all the
loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States. (Cheers)
Tnird-We denounce all forms of reputation
as national crime-tprolonged cheers)-and
the national honor requires the payment OF the
public indebtedness in the utmost good faith to
all creditors at home and abroad, not only ac-
cording to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted. (Applause)
Foarth-It is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalized and reduced
as rapidly as the national faith will permit:
FTJUt-The national debt contracted, as it has
been, ior the preservation OF the Union for all
time to come, should be extended over a fair pc
riod for redemption; and it is the duty Con-
gress to reduce the rate of interest thereon when
ever it can be honestly done
Sirth-That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is to so improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower
rates of interest than we now pay and must con-
tinue to pay so long as reputation, partial or to-
tai, open or covert, is threatened or suspected.
.Seyenth-'The government OF the United States
should be administered with the strictest econo
my, and the corruptions which have been so
shamefully nurscd and fostered by Andrew John
son call loudly for radical reform.
EGgLU-Wc profoundly dcplore the untimely
and tragic death 4 Abrlham Lincoln and regret
the accession of Andrew johnson to the Prc<i-
n, NUlIn has 1ct I'D F4aC
who elected him and the cause he was pledged
to support; who has usurred high legislative
and judicial functions; who has refused 10 exc
cute the laws; who has used his high office to
ignore and violate the laws who has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the
property, the peace, liberty and life OF the citi-
zen; who has abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Legislature as un-
constitutional; who has persistcntly and cor
rlptly resisted by every measure in his power
every proper attempt at the reconstruction OF the
States lately in rebellion; who has perverted the
public patronage into engine of wholesale
corruptiou and who has been justly impeached
for high crimes and misdcMeanOrs and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the vote vt thirty
five Senators.
Nafh-The doctrine of Great Britain and 9th
er 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 a rene OF
the feudal times, not authorized by the law ot
nations and at war with our NATIONAL honor ana
Independence. Naturgllized citizens arc entitled
TO be protected in all their rights OF citizenship
as though
OF the United Saatcs, native or naturalzed, must
be liable to arrest and Imprisonment by any tor
cgn power for acts done or words spoken In
this country; and il so arrested ana lnprlsohed
it is the duty of the government to Interfere III
his behalf.
TeDth-Of all who were faithful in the trials OF
the late war there were none entitled to more es-
Decial honor than the brave soldiers and seamen
Vino endured the hardships of campaign and
cruise and imperilcd their lives in the service OF
their country; the bounties aud pensions provl-
ded bv the laws for these brave defenders OF the
nation are obligations never to be forgotten; the
wi lows and orphans of the gallant dead are e tne
wards of the people, sacred legacy oeque"'h'u
to the nation's protecting care
Ezeyenth-Foreign emigration, which in the past
has added so much to the wealth, development
tinn' the ASYLUM of the oppressed OF all nations,
should be fostered and encouraged by liberal
and just policy.
Tueytsh-This Convention declares iisel1 In
sympathy with all the oppressed people WHICH
are struVplinp for their rights.