The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-08-27
National RepubIlean platform.

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The National Republican party Of the
United States, assembled in National Con-
ventiOn, in the city of Chicago, on the goth
day of May, 1868, make the following de-
claratiOn Of principles:
1. We congratulate the country on the
assured success ofthe reconstruction policy
of Congress, as evinced by the adoption, in
majority of the States lately in rebellion,
of constitutions securing equal civil and
political rights tO all, and regard it as the
duty of the Government to sustain those
constitutions, and to prevent the people Of
such States from being remitted to q state
Of anarchy.
2. The guarantee by Congress fequal
suffrage to all loyal men in the South, was
demanded by every consideration Ofpublic
safety, of gratitude and ofjustice, and must
be maintained, while the question Of
suffrage in the loyal States properly be-
longs to the people of those States.
3. We denOunce all forms of repudia-
ton as a national crime, 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
according to the letter, but the spirit Of the
laws, under which it was contracted.
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that taxation should be equalized and
reduced as rapidly as the national faith
will permit.
5. The national debt, contracted, as it.
has been, for the preservation Ofthe Union
for all time to come, should be extended
over a fair period for redemption, and it is
the duty of Congress to reduce the rate oil
interest thereon, whenever it can honestly
be done.
8. 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 ofinterest than we now pay,
and must continue to pay so long as re-
pudiation, partial or total, open or covert,
is threatened or suspected.
z. The Government of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy, and the corruptions which have
been so shamefully nursed and fOstered by
Andrew johnson call loudly for radical
reform.
8. We profoundly deplore the untimely
and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession of Andrew johnson to
the Presidency, who has acted so treacher-
Uusly to the people who elected him, and
the cause he was pledged to support; has
usurped high legislative and judicial
functions has refused to execute the laws;
has used his high Office to induce other
officers to ignore and violate the laws; has
employed his executive powers to render
insecure the property, peace, liberty and
life of the citizen has abused the pardon
ing power; has denounced the National
Legislature as unconstitutional; has per-
sistently and cOrruptly resisted, by every
measure in his power, every proper attempt
1nfo
rebellion ; has perverted the public patron
age into an engine of wholesale corruption,
and has been justly impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanOrs, and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
.thirty-five Senators,
8. The doctrine of Great Britain and
other European powers, that because a man
is once u subject he is always so, must be
resisted at every hazard by the United
States, as a relic of the feudal time not
authorized by the law of nations, and at
war with our national honor and indepen-
denee. NaturaIized citizens are entitled to
be protected in all their rights of citizen
ship, as though they were natural born,
and no citizen of the United States, natural
OF naturalized, must be liable to arrest and
imprisonment by any foreign power for
acts done, or words spoken, in this coun-
try, and if so arrested and imprisoned, it
is the duty of the Government to interfere
in his behalf.
10. Of all who were faithful in the trials
of the late war, there were none entitled to
more especial honor than the brave sol
diers and seamen who endured the hard
ships of the campaign, and cruise, and i'm
periled their lives in the service of the
country. The bOunties and pensions pro-
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the nation, are obligations never to be for
gotten. The widows and orphans of the
gallant dead are the wards Of the people, a
sacred legacy bequeathed to the nations
protecting care.
IL. Foreign emigration, which, in the
past, has added so much to the wealth, de-
veIOpment of resources, and increase of
power of this nation, the asylum of the OPP
pressed of all nations, should be fostered
and encouraged by liberal and just pol
icy.
II. This Convention declares its sympa-
thy with all the people who are struggling
for their rights.
ResoLUed, That we highly commend the
spirit of magnanimity and fOrbearance
with which men who have served in the |
rebellion, but who now frankly cooperate |
with us in restoring the peace of the cOun- |
try, and recOnstructfHg the Southern State !
upon the basis of Impartial
Justice and Equal Rights, are received
back into the communion of the loyal peO-
pie F.; and we favor the removal of the dis
and restrictions imposed up /
on the late rebels in the same measure as
their spirit of loyalty will direct, aud as
may be consistent with the safety Of the
loyal people.
ResoLUed, That we recognize the great
principles laid down in the immortal Dec
laratiOn of independents, as the true foun-
dation Of Democratic governments and we
hail with gladness every effort toward
making these principles living reality on
every inch of American soil.