The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-28
Tha Sem Grlsans Gresteul.
The Radical platform.

The following Is complete copy Of the plat.
form adopted by the radical convention at
Chicago:
The National Republican Party OF the United
States, assembled in national convention in the
city Of Chicago, on the 10th day of May, 1865,
make the following declaration Of principles:
1. We congratulate the country on the assured
success OF the reconstruction Of Congress. as
evinced by the adoption in majority Of the States
lately in rebellion Of their own Constitutions. and
securing equal civil and political rights to all aud
we regard It as the duty of government to sustain
those Institutions and to prevent the people Of
such States from being RENTED TO state OF
anarchy. go . r..-. ......-.
to all loyal men in the South, was demanded BY
every consideration OF public safety, of gratitude
and justice, and must be maintained, while the
question Of suffrage in the loyal States properly
belongs 10 the people Of those States.
3. We denounce all forms of reputation as
national crime, and national honIr requires the
payment Of public Indebtedness 10 the utmost
good faith TO all conditions at home and abroad
not only according to the letter. but the spirit Of
the laws under which 1t was contracted.
A. II il due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be eoualized aud reduced as rapidly
as the national faith will permit.
5. The rational debt, contracted as IL has been,
for the preservation Of the Union, for all time TO
come, should be extended over fair period for
redemption, and IL is the duty of Congress to re-
honestly be done.
6. That the best policy to diminish our burden
of debt is TO improve credit that capitalists
viii seek TO loan Us money at lower rates OF in
pay as long as reputation, partial or local, open
or covert, is threatened or suspected.
Z. The government Of the United States should
be administered with the strctest economy, aud
the corruptions which have been so shsmefully
nuTsed aud fostered by Andrew Johnson call
s. We profoundly deplore the untimely and
tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the
accession Of Andrew Johnson to the presidency,
who has acted trescherously TO the people who
elected him and the cause he was pledged to sup
port; usurped high legislative and judicial func-
tons 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 lite of the citizens has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the national
legislature as unconstitutional; has persistently
refused, by every measure In his power, every
proper attempt at the reconsruction Of the states
lately In rebellion; has perverted the public
patronage into an engine of wholesale corrup-
ton, and has been justly impeached for high
crimes and misdemesnors, and properly guilty
thereof by the votes Of thirty Ave senators.
8. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Eu.
ropean powers that because a man is once a sub
ject be IL always So must be resisted at every ha.
time not authorized By the law OF nations, and at
war with our national honor and independence.
Naturalized citizens ought to be protected in all
their rights Of citizenship, as though they we're
natural born, and no citizen of the United States,
native naturslized, must be liable to and
imprisonment by any foreign power for acts done
words spoken In this country, aud II so arrested
and imprisoned, ii is the duty Of the government
to interfere In his behalf
10. OF all who were faithful 10 the trials Of the
late civil war there were none entitled to more
especial honor than the brave soldiers and seamen
who endured the hardships Of campaign and
cruise and imperiled their lives in the services Of
the country. The bountissand pensions provided
by law for those brave defenders of the natsn
are obligations never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the
wards Of the nation-a sacred legacy bequesthed
to the nations protecting care.
IL. Foreign emigration, which, in the past, has
added so much to the wealth, development of re-
sources and increase Of power TO this nation, the
asylum Of the oppressed of all natious. shsnld be
fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just
policy.
IL. This convention declares Its sympathy with
all oppressed people who are struggling for their
rights.