The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-08-06
Republican Platform.
Adopted at Chicago May a1, 1865

| l. We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the Reconstruction pol
icy of Congress, as evinced by the adop-
ton, in the majority of the States lately in
rebellion, of Constitutions securing Equal
Civil and Political Rights to all; and it is
| the duty of the Government to sustain those
| institutions, and to prevent the people of
such States from being remitted to State
of anarchy,
| II The guaranty by Congress of equal
Suffrage to all loyal men at the South was
demanded by every consideration of public
safety, of gratitude, and of justice, and
must be maintained; while the question of
Suffrage in all the loyal States properly be-
longs to the people of those States.
Ill. We denounce all forms of Repudia
ton as national crime; and the national
honor requires the payment of the public
indebtedness in the uttermost good faith to
all creditors at home and abroad. not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the
laws under which it was enacted.
". 1t is due to the labor of the Matt, n
that taxation should be equalized, and re-
duced as the natio' al faith wilt permit.
V. The National Debt, contracted, as it
has been, for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, should be exter dsd
over fair period for redemption; and it Is
the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereupon, whenever it can be hon
estly done.
VI. 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 continu. to pay SO long
as Reputation, partial or total, open or
covert, is threatened or suspected.
VII. The Government of the United
States should be administered with the
strictest economy; and the corruptions which
have been so shamefully nursed and fos-
tered by Andrew johnson call loudly for
radical form.
VII. We profoundly deplore the untimely
and tragic death of A braham Lincoln, and
regret the accession to the Presidency of
Andrew johnson, who has acted treacher-
ously to the people who elected him and
the cause he was pledged to support; who
has usurped high legislative and judicial
functions who has refused to execute the
laws; who has used the high office to in
duce other officers TO ignor and violate the
laws; who has employed his ex cutive pow
ers to render insecure the property the
peace, the liberty, and life Of the citizen;
who has abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Legislature as
unconstitutional; who has persistently md
colruptly resisted, by every means in his
power, every proper attempt, at the recon-
s.ruction of the States lately in rebellion;
who has perverted the public patronage in
to an engine of wholesale corruption; an
who has been justly impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanors, and properly
pronounced gully thereof by the vote of
thirty five Senators.
t TX. sThe doctrine of Great Britain and
other European powers that, because man
is once subject, he is always SO, must be
resisted at every hazard by the United
States, as relic of feudal times. not au-
thorized by the laws or nations, and at war
with our national honor ana independence.
NaturalizeI citizens are entitled to protec-
tion in all their rights of citizenship, as
though they were native born; aud no cit
izen of the United States, natiye or natural
lied, must be liza BILE to arrest and imprison-
ment by any foreign power for acts done
or words spoken in this country; and. if SO
arrested and imprisoned, it is the duty of
the Government to interfere in his behalf.
x. Of all who were faithful in the trials
of the late wal, there were 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 the country the boun-
ties and pensions provided by the laws for
| these brave defenders of the nation are OBJ
legations never to be forgotten; the widows
and orphans of the gallant dead are the
wards of The people-a sacred Legacy be-
| queathed to the nation S protecting care.
XI Foreign Immigration, which in the
! part has added much to the wealth. devel-
opment, and resources and incres Sc of pow
er to this Republic, the asylum of the op-
pr ssed of all nations, should be fostered
| and encouraged 10y u liberal and just pol
| icy.
XII. This Convention declares itself in
sympathy with all oppressed people strug-
Cling for their rights.
| XIII. That We highly commend the spirit
of magnanimty and forbearance with which
| the men who have served in the rebellion,
| out now frankly and honestly cooperate
with us IN restoring the peace of the coun-
| try ard reconstfuctng the Southern State
/ Government upon the basis of impartial
Justice and equal rights, are received back
into the communion of the loyal people;
and we favor the removal of the disq qualiG-
eationsand trictions imposed upon the
late rebels in the same measure as their
spirit of loyalty will direct, and as may be
consistent with the safety of the loyal
people.
XIV. That we recognize the great prin
eiple laid down with the immortal Decla
ration of Independence as the true founda.
ton of Democratic government, and we hall
with gladness every effort toward making
these principles a living reality on every
| inch of American soil.
i The following are the financial planks O.
our State Platform:
Resoloed, Thatthe Republican party pledge
it self to the faithful payment Of the public
debt according to law, and we hereby ex
press our conviction, that according to thu
/ laws under which the $50 bonds were is
sued, said bonds legal tender When the
Government shall be prepared to redeem
such bonds.
Resolued, That we heartily approved th'
policy of Congress in stopping the contrac
ion Of the currency; and believe that tn
issue of currency should be commensurate
with the industrial and commercial inter
ests of the people;
Resoloed, That justice and sound polio.
require that all property should bear it
equal share of the public burdens, and tina
this principle ought to be applied to al
United States bonds hereafter issued, b,
making then, liable by express provision
of law to tax xation precisely as other proper
ty.