The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-08-11
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

81. We congratulate the country on the assured
success of the reconstruction policy OF Congress,
eynced by the adoption in majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of stitutons securing equal
civil and political rights to all; and we regard 1T as
the duty of the Government to sustain those insttn
tons and to prevent the people OF such states from
being RENTED to a state of anarchy.
"2, The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage
to all loyal men in the South demanded by every
con sideraton of public safety of gratitude and of
justice and must be maintained; while the question
of suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs TO
the people of those States.
49, We denounce all forms of repudiation as ma
tionai crimes, apd the national honor requires the
payment of the public Indebtedness, in the utmost
rood faith to all creditors at home and abraad, not
only according the latter but the spirit of the laws
under which it contracted.
81 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equalixed and reduced rapidly as
our national faith will permit.
as. The national debt contracted as it has been
for the preservation of the Union for all time to
should be extended over fair period for redemption
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon, whenever it can honestly be DONE
SO. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve credit that capitalists WIKI
seek to loan money at lower rates OF interest than
we pay and must continue to pay so long as re-
pudaton, partial total, open covert, is threat
~. The Government of the United States should
be administered with the strictest economy, and the
corruptions which have been shamefuliy nursed
and fostered by Andrew Johnson, call loudly for
Radical reform.
49, We profoundly deplore the untim-ly and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
of Andrew Johnson to the presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; has usurped high
legislative aud judicial functions; has refused to
cute the laws has used his high Office to induce 9TH
err officers to ignore and violate the laws has
ployed his executive powers to render insecure the
property, peace liberty and life OF the citizens has
abused the pardoning powers; has denounced the
National Legislature unconstitutional; has persiS-
rently and corruptly resisted by every measure IN
his power every proper attempt at the
of the States lately in rebellion; has perverted the
N lie nat wholesale
ton, and has been justly impeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty
thereof by the voice of thirty-fve Senators.
"9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Euro
pean Powers, that because a man is subject he
is always So must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, relic of the ieudal time, not au-
thorzed by the law of nations, and at war with our
national honor and independence naturazed citizens
being entitled to be protected IN all their rights OF
citizenship, though they natural born ard no
citizen of the United States, natural or naturaIzed
must be liable to arrest and Imprisonment by any
foreign power for acts done words spoken IN this
country: and if arrested and imprisoned, it is the
duty OF the Government to interfere in his behalf.
ssl0. OF all who faithful in the trials of the
late war, there entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who endur
ed the hardshps of campaign and cruise, and imper
lied their lives in the service OF the country. The
bonnties and pensions provided by law tor those
brave soldiers of the nation, obligations never to
be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gal
beoueathed to the na,ion's protecting care
al. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added so much to the wealth and development of the
resources and increase of power to this nation, the
asylum of the oppressed of all tons should be fos
tered and encouraged by a liberal and Just policy.
"12. This convention declares its sympathy will
all the oppressed people no struggling tor thel
rights"
7'Resolued, That we highly commend the spirit o
magnanmity and forgiveness with which men wht
have served the rebellion, but frankly and hon
estly cooperate with in restoring the peace of h
country and reconstructing the Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis of impartial justice and equa
rights, received back into the communion of thu
loyal people, and favor the removal of the dsqual
ificatons and restrictions imposed upon the late reb
els in the the spirit of loyalty vii
direct, may be consistent with the safety OF tn
loyal people,"
"Resolred, That recognize the great principle
laid down in the immortal Declaration of 1ndepend
ence as the true foundation of democratic govern
meut and we hail with gladness every effort towar
making these principles living reality on every inc
of American soil"