Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-06-26
THE REPUBLICAN, NATIONAL
PLATFORM


PLATFORM
we congratulate the country on the as
sured success Of the reconstruction policy of
Congress % evidenced by the adoption in q
majority Of the States lately in rebellion of
constitutions securing equal, civil and polite
81 rights to all, and regard it as the duty of
the Government to sustain these constitutions,
and prevent the people Of such States from
being RENTED to state of anarchy or mill.
tary rule.
2 The guarantee by Congress of equal suf,
frage to all loyal men in the South was de.
nsnded by every considera,irn of public
safety, OF gratitude and Of justice, aud must
be maintained, while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs to the
people Vt those States.
We denounce all forms Of reputation as
national crime; and the national honor re-
quires the paymeat of The public indebtedness
in the utmost good faith to our creditors at
home and abroad, not only according to the
letter but the spirit Of the laws under which
it was contracted.
1t 10 due to the labor of the nation 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 of the Union for oil
time to come, should be extended over a fair
period for redemption, and it is the duty Of
Congress to reduce the rate Of interest thereon
whenever 1t can honestly be done.
The best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to improve our credit that capitalists
Will seek to lend us money ut lower rates Of
interest than we now pay, and must continue
10 pay SO long as reputation, partial or total
open or covert, is threatened or suspected.
The Government Of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy and the corruptions which have been
50 shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson, call loudly for radical reform.
We profoundly deplore the untimely and
tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret
the accession Of Andrew Johnson to the Pres
idency, who has acted treacherously to the
people who elected him and the cause he was
pledged 10 support; has refused 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
properly, peace, liberty and life of the citizen
-has abused the pardoning power; has de-
nounced the National Legislature MS uncou-
stitutional has persistently and habitual!y
resisted by every means in his power, every
proper attempt at the reconstruction of the
States lately in rebellion; has perverted the
public patronage into an engine Of wholesale
corruption, and has been justly impeached for
high crimes and nisdemeanor, and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the votes Of S5
Senators.
Q. The doctrine Of Great Britain and other
European Powers that because man is once
; subject he is always 90, must be resisted At
every hazard by the United States as . relic
pf the feudal times Not authorized by the
laws Of nations, and at war with our national
honor and Independence. Naturalized citizens
are entitled ~ be protected in ell their rights
OF citizenship as though they were native
born; no citizen Of the United States, native
or naturalized, must be liable for arrest or i'm
prisoned by any foreign power for acts done
or words spoken in the count try, ami if arres.
ted and imprisoned, it is the duty Of the Gov
ernment to interfere in his behalf
10 OF oil who we're faithful in the trials of
the late war there ore none entitled to more
especial honor than the brave soldiers and
seamen who endured the hardships of the camp
and the cruise, and imperiled their lives in
the service of the country. The bounties and
pensions appropriated by law to these brave
defenders Of the Uuion are obligations never
to be forgotten. The widows and orphans of
the gallant dead are the wards of the people,
sacred legacy bequeathed to the projecting
care Of the United States.
II Foreign emigration, which in the past
has added 50 much to the wealth and increas,
cd the resources of this nation n, the asylum of
al nations, should 10 fostsred by liberal
and just policy.
II This Convention declares it's sympathy
With oil oppressed people who are struggling
for their rights.
The following supplementary resolutions
we're adopted as part Of the platform.
Resstred, That we recognize the great prin.
cipies laid down in the Declaration OF inde-
pendence as the true foundation Of Democratic
Government, and we hail with gladness every
effort toward making these principles living
reality on every inch Of American soil.
Resotued, That We highly commend the spirit
OF magnanimity and forgiveness with which
men who have served the rebellion, and who
are nov frankly and honestly cooperating
With ps in restoring the peace of the country,
and in reconstructing the Southern State Cows
srnWents upon the basis of impartial justice
and equal rights, are received back into the
communion Of the loyal people, and that we
are in favor of the removal Of the disouaiif-
estions and restrictions imposed upon the late
rebels in the same measure as the spirit of
disloyaity dies out, and a. may be consistent
with the safety Of the loyal people.