The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-07-14
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

u 81. We congratulate the country on the assured
of the reconstruction policy of Congress,
lately in rebellion, of situations securing equal
civil and political rights to all; and we regard it
the duty of the Government to sustain those instu
tons and to prevent the people of such States from
being RENTED to state of anarchy. 3As
80. The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage
to all loyal men in the South demanded by every
consideration 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.
"3. y e denouDce all forms of reputation ma
tiona crimes, ard 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 or the laws
under which IL was contracted. &fsB
"a. IL is due TO the labor of the nation that taxa
;ion should be .alized and reduced rapidly as
rat;s -.ai iaith win permit. 1
20. The national debt. contracted it has been
for the preservation Of The mon for all time to come
should be extended fair period for redemption,
and it is the duty OF Congress to reduce the rate Of
interest thereon, whenever it honestly be done.
"6. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
seek to loan us money at of interest than
pay and must continue to pay SO long as re-
pudaton, partial total, open or covert is threat
az The Government of the United States should
be administered with the strictest economy, and the
corruptions which have been so shaReiuly nursed
and fostered by Andrew Johnson, call loudly Tor
Radical reform. e 9AN
49, We profoundly depore the untm-ly and tragic
Abraham 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
officers TO ignore and violate the laws; has en-
poyed 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 eorruptly resisted by every measure in
his power, every proper attempt at the reconstruction
Of the States lately in rebellion; has perverted the
public patronage into engine of wholesale corrup-
lion, and has been justly impeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty
thereof by the voice Of thirty-fve Senators.
SO. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Euro
pean Powers, that because man is once subject he
always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, relic of the feudal time, not au-
thorized by the law Of nations. and at war with our
national honor and Independence, naturaized citizens
being entitled to be protected in all their rights of
citizenship though they were natural born, and no
citizen of the United States, natural or naturalized
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.
40. OF all who were faithful in the trials of the
late war, there were entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen no endur
ed the hardships of campaign and cruise, and imPer-
lied their lives in the service OF the country. The
bounties and pensions provided by law for those
brave defenders of the nation obligations never TO
be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gal
liant dead are the wards of the people, sacred legacy
bequeathed TO the nations 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 nations. should be fos
tered and encourag ed by liberal and inst policy.
"12. This convention declares its sympathy with
all the oppressed people who are struggling for their
rights" f1a aH. 5Hl o
."Resolred, That we highly commend the spirit Of
magnanimity and forgiveness with which men who
have served the rebellion, but now frankly and bon
estly cooperate with in restoring the peace of the
country, and demonstrating the Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis of impartial Justice and equal
rights received back into the communion of the
loval people, and favor the removal of the disqual
fcations and trictions imposed upon the late reb
els in the same the spirit of loyalty will
direct, as may be consistent with the safety OF the
loyal people," {Cries of Good good 1f eds
~ "Resolued, That recognize the great principles
laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independ-
ence as the true foundation of democratic govern
nent and hail with gadness every effort toward
making these principles living reality on every inch
of American soil"