The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-06-10
The Radical Platform.

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adopted by the Radical convention at Chicago:
The National Republican Party of the United States
assembled in national convention in the city of Chi
cago, on the Goth day of May, 1868, make the follow
ing declaration Of principles:
l. We congratulate the country on the assured
Of the reconstruction acts OF Congress, as
evinced by the adoption in majority of the States
lately in rebellion Of their constitutions, and Sc
curing equal civil and political rights to all and We
regard it as the duty of Government to sustain those
institutions and to prevent the people of such States
from being REMIT ed to a state OF anarchy.
2. Tue guanantee by Congress Of equal suffrage tc
all loyal men in the South demanded by every
consideration of public safety of gratitude and justice
and must be maintained while the question of suffrage
in the loyal States properly belongs to the people Of
those States
8. We denounce all forms of reputation as ma
tonal crime and national honor requires the payment
of public Indebtedness in the utmost good faith to all
conditions at home and abroad not only according to
the letter. but the spirit of the laws under which
contracted
l. 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxation
should be equalised and reduced rapidly the
tonal faith will permit
s. The national debt, contracted it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come,
should extend fair period for redemption and
it is the duty of Congress reduce the rate of inter
est thereon whenever it can honestly be done.
G. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
seek to loan money at lower rates of interest than
we pay, and must continue to pay as long re-
pudation, partial local, open covert, is threat
ened Or suspected.
7. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy and the cor
ruptions which have been shamefully nursed and
tostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical
reform
s. We profoundly deplore the untimey 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
he was pledged to support usurped high egis-
latve and judicial functions; has refused to execute
the laws has used his high Office to induce other Off
to ignore and violate the laws has employed his
executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, liberty and life of the citizens has abused the
pardoning power has denounced the national legs-
lature unconstitutional; has persstently refused,
by every in his power, every proper attempt
at the reconstruction of the States lately in rebellion
has perverted the public patronage into engine of
wholesale corruption, and has been justly impeached
for high crimes and msdemeanors and properly guilty
thereof by the votes of thirty five Senators.
8. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Eropean
powers that because man is a subject he is al
ways So must be resisted at every hazard by the Uni
ted States relic Of feudal time not authorised by
the law of nations, and at with national honor
and independence Naturalised citizens ought to be
protected in all their rights of citizenship, as though
they natural born, and no citizen of the United
States native naturased must be liable to arrest
and Imprisonment by any foreign power for acts done
words spoken in this country and if arrested and
imprisoned it is the duty of the Government to inter-
fere in his behalf.
TO- Of all who faithful in the trials of the late
civil war there entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who en-
dured the hardships of campaign and cruise and i'm
periled their lives in the service Of the country The
bounes and pensions provided by law for those brave
defenders of the nation obligations be for
gotten The widows and orphans of the gallant dead
are the wards of the nation-a sacred legacy be-
queathed to the nations protecting care
IL. Foreign emigration, which, in the past, has adj
ded so much the wealth, development Of resources
and increase of power to this nation the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations should be fostered and en-
couraged by liberal and just policy.
IL. This convention declares its sympathy with all
oppressed people who are struggling for their rights
Gen. Steedman, so says the New Orleans Times,
publicly that he has offered the impeachment
managers dinner if they would examine him, and
declares his ability to prove that Pomeroys vote was
offered him for ten thousand dollars. Color is given
this grave charge by the persistent refusal Of the
managers to place him the stand. Instead there.
FORE Of locking up Wooey in order to discover some
fanced bribery why do they not avail themselves of
this already exposed. Buffers conduct in the
premises is explained by the same hypothesis as that
Of the small boy who while fishing persisted in throw
the greater portion of bis catch back into the river
and who, when demonstrated with for inconsistency
replied, ~ don't care, when I goes eating goes
or cats