The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-05-27
The Republican Platform.

A National Republican platform has been
unanimously agreed upon. The harmony
which prevailed at its adoption has dashed
the hopes of those who had counted high
upon repetition at Chicago of the scenes at
the Democratic Convention at Charleston in
1860. If anything further than the nomina-
ton ofGrant and Colfax had been necessary
to insure success, this assurance has been
given in the Platform.
The first section congratulates the coun-
try on the assured success of the recOnstruc-
ton policy of Congress; the second, guaran-
tees equal suffrage to the loyal men of the
South; the third, denounces reputation as
a national crime; the fourth equalizes taxa
ton the fifth, extends the payment of the
debt and reduces the interest as far as prac-
ticable; the sixth, proposes the improve
ment of our credit as the best means of Dor
rowing money at low rates; the seventh,
calls for radical reform of extravagant ex-
penditures; the eighth, deplores the death of
President Lincoln; the ninth, asserts the
rights of naturalized citizens; the tenth,
declares the widows and orphans of the SOL
diers to be the nations wards; the eleventh
encourages emigration; and the twelfth,
declares that the Convention sympathises
with the oppressed throughout the world
who are struggling for their rights The
following is the platform in full:
The National republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the
city of Chicago, on the Goth day of May, 1868,
make the following declaration of principles: =
Fira-We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the reconstruction policy of
Congress as evnced by the adoption in the ma
jority of the State lately in rebellion of constitu
tons securing equal civil and political rights to
all; and it is the duty OF the government TO sus-
tain those institutions and to prevent the people
of those States from being remitted to a state of
anarchy. (Cheers.)
Second-The guarantee by Congress Of equal
suffrage to all loyal Men at the South was de.
manded by every consideration of public safety,
Of gratitude aud OF justice, and must be main.
tanned while the question OF suffrage in all the
loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States. (Cheers.)
TAird-We denounce all forms OF reputation
as national crime-(prolonged cheers )-and
public Indebtedness in the utmost good faith to
all creditors at home and abroad not only ac-
cording to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted. (Applause.)
Foaath-It is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalzed and reduced
as rapidly as the national faith will permit.
Fth-The national debt contracted, as it has
been, for the preservation OF the Union for all
time to come, should be extended over fair Pc
Rod for redemption; and it is the duty of Con-
gress to reduce the rate of interest thereon when
ever it can be honestly DONE
Sirth-That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is 10 so Improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower
rates of interest than we now pay and must con-
tinue to pay SO long as reputation, partial or to-
tai, open or covert, is threatened or suspected.
Secenth-The government of the United States
should be administered with the strictcst ccono
my, and the corruptions which have been SO
shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew John
son call loudly for radical reform.
Eighh-Wc proiessedly deplore the untimely
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln and regret
the accession of Andrew johnson to the Presi-
dency who has acted trcaCherously to the people
who elected him and the caust he was pledged
to support; who has usurped high legislative
and judicial functions who has refused to exc
cute the laws; who has used his high office to
ignore and violate the laws, who has employed
his executive powers to. render insecure the
property, the peace, liberty and life of the cti-
zen; who has abused the pardoning power who
has denounced the National Legislature as un-
constitutional; who has persistently and cor
ruptly resisted by every measure in his power
every proper attempt at the reconstruction of the
States lately in rebellion; who has perverted the
public patronage into an engine of wholesale
corruption, and who has been justly impcached
for high crimes and misdemeanOrs and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the vote cf thirty
five Senators.
Ninth The doctrine of Great Britain and 9TH
err European powers that because man is once
a subject he is always So must he resisted at
every hazard by the United States, as a relic of
the feudal times, not authorized by the law of
nations and at war with our national honor and
independence. Naturalizcd citizens arc entitled
to be protected in all their rights of citizenship
as though they were native born, and no citizeI
of the United States, native or naturalizcd, must
be liable to arrest and imprisonment by any tor
cign power, for acts dGnc or words spoken in
this country; and if so arrested and imprisoned
it's the duty of the government to interfere in
his behalf
Tentt-Of all who were faithful in the trials of
The late war there were none entitled to more es-
pecial honor than the brave soldiers and seamcn
who endured the hardships of campaign and
cruise and imperilled their lives in the service of
iher country; the bOunties and pensions prOvi-
ded by the laws for these brave defenders of the