The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-07-16
Republican Platform.
Adopted at Chicago May a1, 1868.

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 remittcd to a State
of anarchy,
IL 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
Suffrage in all the loyal States properly be-
longs TO the people of those States.
Ill. We denounce all forms of Repudia-
tion 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 Natl,
that taxation should be equalized, and re-
duced as the natio: al faith will permit.
" The National Debt, contracted, as it
has been, for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, should be extended
over a far period for redemp. ion; and it is
.ho "ooJ VI
interest thereupon' whenever 1t can oe non
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 OF total, open or
covert, is threatened or suspected.
VI. me GoVefhmene OF tne y hlteo
oIaGes sioalu oe auniihis1eieu 1ii 1.sl Win Inc
strlc'est ecolony anu 'ne corrupl,ons %h.cl
nave oeen SO shaIieiully hur,eu ana 1os-
terea oy Ahure" ooniison call iouoly 1or
raq.cai M iorh. ;,
vi. we eProIounoiy oeplore the untlmeiy
and tragic death OF oraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession to the Presidency of
Andrew johnson, vine has acted treacher.
| ously to the people VINO elected him and
the cause ne was Pieaged TO support; who
mas usurPed nign iegisiaClve ana Judlcai
functions who has refused to execute the
laws; who has used the high office to in
duce other officers TO 1gnors. and violate the
| laws; who has employed his ex scutIve pow
ers to render insecure the property. the
peace, the liberty, ana lie OF the citizen;
VINO las aouseo Ine ParuonIng power; who
mas denounced 5ne atlonal Legislature as
unconstitutional; VINO has persistently md
coiruptly resisted by every means In his
power, every proper attempt, at the recon-
ssruetlon OF the States lately IN rebellion;
who has perverted the public patronage in
to an engine of wholesale corruption; an |
who hrs been justly impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanors, and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty-five Senators.
! TX. The doctrine of Great Britain and
other European powers that. because man
is once subject, h&.is ALWAYS SO. must be
resisted at every hazard by the IInitel
States, as relic of feudal times. not au-
thorized by the laws or nations, and at war
with our national honor and independence.
NaturalizeI citizens are entitled to protec-
ton in all their rights of citizenship, as
though they were native born; and no cit
izen of the United States, natiye or natural
lied, must be liable 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 dut, of
| K. 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
canpaien and cruise. and imneriIed their
lives in the service Of the country The boun-
/ ties and peusions provided hv 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-
uueathed to the nation q protecting care
Al Foreign immigration which in the
part has added much to the wealth. devel-