The Portland daily press., 1868-06-12

The National Republican Party Of the United
States, assembled in National Contention, in Mt
city Of Chicago. on The ticenteh day OF Iay, 1868
make the JtoIisaoing declaration Qfpr,acipleS:
First We congratulate tie country on the assur-
ed OF the reconstruction policy of Congress
as evinced by the adoption by minority OF the
States lately in rebellion, of constitutions securing
equal civil and political rights to all. 1t is the duy
OF the government TO sustain these institutions and
to prevent the people of such States from being
mitted to state OF anarchy.
Second-The guarantee by Congress of equal suff-
rage 10 all loyal men at the South demanded by
every consideration of public safety, of gratitude
and of justice, and must be maintained. The whole
question of suffrage in the loyal States properly be-
longs to the people of hose States.
1hird-We denounce all forms of repuda ion as
national crime. The national honor requires the
payment of the public Indebtedness in the utmost
good aith to all creditors at home and abroad not
only according to the letter. but the spirit OF the
law under which it was contracted.
Fourth-It is due to the labor of the nation that
taxation shall be equalized aud reduced as rapidly
as the national faith shall permit.
Fifth-The national debt, contracted as it has
been tor the preservation of the Union for all time
to come, should be extended over fair period for
redemption and it is the duty of Congress reduce
the OF interest thereon whenever it lie hon
estly dcne.
debt, is to so improve credit that capitalists will
seek loan money at lower rates interest than
we now pay, and must continue t pay long re-
pudiation partial or total open or covert, is threat
ened or suspected
Seventh-,rhe government of the United States
should be administered with the strictest economy,
and the corruptions which have been shamefuliy
nursed and fostered by Andrew johnson, call loudly
for radical reform,
Eighth-We profoundly deplore the untimely and
tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln, and regret the
cesson of Andrew johnson to the presidency; who
has acted treacherously to the people who elected
him and the cause he was pledged to support; who
has ururpei high legislative and judicial functions
who has refused to execute the laws; who has used
his high office to induce other officers to IGNORE and
violate the laws; who has employed his executive
powers to render insecure the property, the peace,
the liberty and the life of the citizen; who has
abused the pardoning power; who has denounced
the national legislature as unconstitutional; who
has persistently and corruptly resisted by every
measure i'll his power every proper attempt at the
reconstruction OF the States lately in rebellion who
has perverted the public patronage into engine of
wholesale corruption, ana who has justly been i'm
peached for high crimes and misdemeanors and prop
ly pronounced guilty thereof by a vote of So Sena-
tors.
Ninth-The doctrine of Great Britain and other
European powers, that because a man is once sub
ect he is always so must be resisted at every haz
ard by the United States as n relic of the feudal
times not authorized by the law of nations and at
war with our rational honor and independence
Naturalized citizens are entitled to be protected in
all their rights of citizenship though they were
native born; and no citizen of the United States
native naturalized, must be liable to arrest and
Imprisonment by any foreign power for acts done or
words spoken in this country and if they are ar
rested and imprisoned it is the duty OF the govern
ment to interfere in their behalf
Tenth-Of all who were faithful in the trials of
the late war there entitled to more special
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who en-
dured the hardships of campaign and cruise and i'm
perled their lives in the service of the country
The bounties and pensions provided by law for these
brave defenders obligations to be forgot
ten; the widows and orphans of the gallant dead
are the wards of the people-a sacred legacy be-
uueathed to the nations fostering care.
Eleventh--Foreign emigration, which in the past
mas added so much to the wealth, development and