The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-07-28
COUNTY TICKET.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

a. We congratulate the country the assured
Of the reconstruction policy OF Congress, as
evnccd by the ADOPTION in a majority OF the States
lately in rebellion Of cor stitutions securing equal
civil and political rights to all; and regard it as
the duty of the Government To sustain those instu-
tons, and to prevent the people of such States from
being RENTED 10 state of anarchy.
80. The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage
10 all loyal men in the South demanded by every
consideration of public safety. of gratitude and of
justice, and must be maintaned while the question
of suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs to
the people Of those States
49, " denounce all forms of reputation as ma
tional crimes and the national honor requires the
payment of the public Indebtedness, in the utmost
good faith, to all creditors at home and abraad not
only according to the latter but the spirit of the laws
under which it contracted.
III 1t is due 10 the labor of the nation that ia xa-
ton should be equalzed and reduced rapidly as
our national faith will permit.
"5. The national debt contracted il has been
for the preservation of the Mon for all time
should be extended fair period for REDEEM on,
and is the duty OF Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon, whenever IL honestly be done.
50. That the best policy to diminish our burden Of
debt is TO improve credit that capitalists will
we pay and must continue to pay long
pudiatioD, partial total, covert, is threat
az The Government of the United States should
tc administered with the strictest economy, and ID
corruptions which have been so shameful, nn' sor
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'eaA OF Abraham Lincoln, and regret tho Il tragic
90 andrew johnson 10 the presidency who haeess,e.
H 70 the people who elected hirpa h;'
legislative aud udiea . has refused to exc
cute The law - las used his high Office TO induce 9TH
er officers TO ignore and violate the laws has en-
ployed his executive powers to render insecure the
property peace, liberty and lite the citizens has
abused the pardoning powers; has denounced the
National Legislature unconstitutional; has persis-
tentiy and eorrupty resisted by every measure in
his power, every proper az the
OF the States lately in rebellion has perverted the
public patronage into engine of Wholesale corrup-
ton' and has been justly mpeached for high crimes
Aud nisdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty
thereof by the voice of thirty five Senators.
80. lhe doctrine of Great Britain and other Euro
pean POWERS that because man is once subject he
- always must be resisted every hazard by the
United States. relic of the feudal time, not au-
thorixed by the law of nations and at war with our
national honor and independence natnraized citizens
being entitled to be- protected in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they natural born and no
citizen OF the United States natural naturalzed
must be liable TO arrest and Imprisonment by any
foreign power for done words spoken in this
country; and il so arrested and imprisoned. Il IS the
duty OF the Government TO interfere in his behalf
40. or all who were faithful in the trials of the
late war, there were none entitled especial
honor than the brave soldiers and who endur-
ed the hardships of campaign and cruise and imper
lied their lives in the service of the country The
bounties aud Pensions provided BY law for those |
brave defenders of the nation obligations
be forgotten. The widow and orphans of the gall
liant dead are the wards of the people, sacred legacy
bequesthed to the nations protecting care
al. Foreign immigration, which in the psst has T
added so much Ia the wealth and development of the
resources and Increase of power TO this nation, the
asylum OF the oppressed of az, nations should be
tered and encouraged by liberal and inst policy.
az. This convention declares its sympathy with
ali the oppressed people who strue Cling for their
rights"
"Rese!rsd, That we highly commend the spirit Of
magnaninity and forgiveness with which men who
have served the rebellion, but now frankly and hon
estv cooperate with in restoring the peace of the
country and reconstructing the Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis of impartial justice equal
rights are received back into the Communion of the
loyal people, and We favor the renovaof the dsqusl
ihcstions and restrictions imposed upon the late reb
els IN the same measure as the spirit Of loyalty will
direct, as may be consistent with the safety of the
loyal people," Cries of Good good Y
"Resoirsd. That We recognize the great principles
'ad down in the immortal Declaration of Iudepend-
snce as the true foundation of democratic govern
ment; and We hail with ga,luess every effort toward
making these principles living reality every inch
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