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

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The National republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the
| city of Chicago, on the Goth day of May, 1865,
make the following declaration of principles -
| FGrt-We congratulate the country on the
! assured success of the reconstruction policy of
! Congress rs evinced by the adoption in the ma
Jorty OF the State lately in rebellion of cOnstiu
tOns 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 reuitted to state of
anarchy (Cheers.)
!ScOnd-The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men at the South was de-
| manded by every consideration of public safety,
of gratitude and OF justice, and must be main
| tanned while the question OF suffrage in all the
loyal States property belongs to the people of
those States. (Chcers.)
INird-We denounce all forms of reputation
national crimc-( prolonged 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
cOrting to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted. (Applausc)
Fourth-It is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should he cqualiZcd and reduced
as rapidly rs the national faith will permit.
FrfM-Thc national debt contracted, as it has
been, for the preservation OF the Union for all
time to come, should be extended over Il fair pc
riOd for redemption; and it is the duty Of Con-
gresS to reduce the rate of interest thereon when
ever it can be honestly done.
Sirih-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-
tnuc TO pay so long reputation, partial or to-
tai, open or covert, is threatened or suspected.
.St7enih-1he government OF the United States
should be administered with the strictcst rcono
my, and the corruptiOns which have been so
shamrfully nurscd and foStervd by Andrew John
call loudly for radical reform.
EigA5A-Wc proicsSedly dcplorc the untimcly
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln and regret
the accession of Andrew johnson to the Presi-
tlency, who has acted caCherously to the people
who elected him and the cause he was pledged
to support; vino las uSurrcd high Legislative
and judicial functions; who has refused to 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 lite OF the citl-
zen; who has abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Legislature as un-
constitutional; who has persistcntly and cor
ruptlv 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 an engine of wholesale
corruption and who has been justly impeached
for high crimes and misdemeanors and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty
five Senators.
er European powers, that because 4 man is once
Il subject he is always so, must be resisted at
every hazard by the United States, relic OF
the leudal times, not authorized by the law OF
rations and at war with national honor and
independence. NaturaliZed citizens are entitled
to be protected in all their rights of citizenship
as though they were native born, and no citiZcl-
OF the United Saates, native or natIralZcd, must
he liable to arrest and Imprisonment by any tor
ci~n power, for acts douc or words spoken IN
this country; and if so arrested and imprisoned
it is the duty of the government to Interfere i'll
his behalf
Tenth-Of all who were faithful iii the trials of
the late there were none Cntitl, TO more cs-
pccal honor than the brave soldiers and seamcn
who endured the hardships of campaign and
cruise and imperilled their lives in the service OF
their country; the bounties and pens Ons provi-
dcd by the laws for these brave defenders OF the
nation are obligations never to be forgotten; The
widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the
wards OF the people-a sacred legacy bequeathCd
to the nations protecting care.
DISQUALIFICATION emigration. which in the past
has added so much to the wealth, development
and resources and increase OF power to this ma
ton, the sylum of the oppressed OF all nations,
should bc iostered and encouraged by Il liberal
and Just policy
T|elfh-Ths Convention declares itself in
sympathy with all the oppressed people which
arc struggling for their rights.