The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1868-10-03
National Republican Platform.
ADOPTED AT CHICAGO, MAY 2lsr, 1858

ADOPIED AL CHfCAGO, NAY ZtSI, lCOC.
1st. We congratulate the country on
the assured success of the reconstruction
Policy of Congress as evidenced by the
adoption in majority of the States lately
in rebellion of Constitutions securing
equal, civil and political rights to all, and
we regard it as the duty of the govern
ment to sustain these Constitutions, and
prevent the people of such States from
being remitted to state of anarchy or
military rule.
I'd. The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men in the South,
was demanded by every consideration of
public safety. gratitude and justice and
must be maintained: while the question
of suffrage in all loyal States properly be-
longs TO those States.
Sd. We denounce all forms Of repudi-
alton as national crime, and honor re-
quires the payment of the pulic indebt-
edness in the utmost good faith to our
creditors at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but spirit of the
| laws under which it was contracted.
ath 1t is due to the labor of the ma
tion that taxation should be equalized
and reduced as the national faith will
| permit.
| 5th. The national debt contracted as il
has, been for the preservation Of the
Union for all time to come, should be ex-
| tended over fair period, and it is our
duty to reduce the rate of interest there
on whenever it can be honestly done.
9th. That the best policy to diminish
our burden of debt is to SO improve our
credit4hat capitalists will seek to lend
money at lower rates of interest than we
now pay and must continue to pay SO long
trepudiatlon, partial or total, open or
covert, is threatened or suspected.
7th. The Government of the United
States should be administered with the
strictest economy. The corIuptions
which have been so shamefully nursed
and fpstered by Andrew johnson, call
loudly for reform.
8th. We profoundly deplore' the uD-
timely and tragic death of AbraK Kam-L Lin
coin, and regret the succession of Andrew
johnson to the Presidential Chair, who
has acted treacherously 20 the people who
elected him and the cause he was pledg-
ed to support who has usurped high leg
| islative and judicial functions, has refus-
| ed to execute the laws, has used his high
Office to induce other officers to violate
the laws, has employed his Executive
power to render insecure the lives, props
erty, peace and liberty of citizens, has
Lob ha hac
ed the National Legislature as unconsfi-
tutional, has persistently and habitually
resisted by every means in his power,
every attempt a, reconstruction of the
States lately in rebellion, has perverted
public patronage into an engine for
wholesale corruption, has justly been i'm
peached for high crimes and misdcmean-
ors, and has been pronounced guilty
thereof by the votes of a5 Senators.
| 9th The doctrine of Great Britain
and other powers that, when man is
once a subject he is always so. must
be resisted at every hazare. by the United
States as relic OF fcudal times not au-
thorized by the law Of nations and at war
with our national honor and Independence.
Naturalized citizens are entitled to be pro-
tected in all ther rights of citizenship as
ze. Of the United States or naturallzed
must be liable to arrest or Imprisonment
by any foreign power for acts done or
words spoken in this country, and if SO ar
rested and imprisoned, it is the duty of
the Government to interfere in his behalf.
10th OF all who where faithful in
the trials of the war, there were none
more faithful for special honor than the
brave soldiers and seamen who endured
hardships of camp and cruize and imper-
lied their lives in the service of their
country. The bonnties and pensions ap-
propriated by law for these brave defen-
ders OF the Union, are obligations never
to be forgotten. The widows of the gal
lant dead are wards of the people, a sa-
crcd legacy bequeathed to the United
States for protecting care.
11th. Foreign immigration in the
past has added SO much to the wealth
and increased resources of this nation,
the asylum of all nations, that it should
be fostered by liberal and just policy.
18th. The Convention declares its
sympathy with all oppressed people who
are struggling for their rights.
The following additional resolutions
were offered by Mr.. Thompson, and
adopted:
! Resozued. That the adjournment of
this Convention shall not work dissolu-
tion of the same, but it shall remain as
organized. subject to be called together
at any time place that the Republican
Executive Cmmittee shall designate.