The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-27

The Republican Party adopted a
very singular and curiously written
. charter of faith at the Chicago Conveu
ton. We will take it up. plank by
pink, and examine it.
~ THE PLATFORM.
1. We congratulate the country on the as
eured success ofthe reconstruction policy OF
Congress, as evinced by the adoption in q
majority of the States lately in rebellion OF
Constitutions securing equal, civil and point
ical rights to all, and regard it as the duty
of the Government to sustain those 1nst1-
t~utions. and prevent the people of such
States from being RENTED to a state of an
sarchy. atCheers.l
The reconstruction policy of Con-
gress received its death blow, when
the Jacobins failed to convict Presi
9 dent johnson. The history of the
times shows that no southern State has
willingly adopted the Ccngressioua'
plan of reconstruction. By the fore
of bayonets, and by the expulsion
from the polls of every man who re
fused to submit to negro equality, .hs
radicals we're enabled to carry, by a
mere majority, a number of the south
ern States. ?
9. The guarantee by Congress of equal sur
frage to all loyal men of the South, was de-
manded by every consideration of safety. o.
: gratitude and justice, and must be maintain
ed, while the question of suffrage in all the
loyal States properly belongs to the people
of these States. aI
The utter hollowness of this resolu-
tion, is apparent on its face. The re
publican party always pretended that j.
was the intention of its leaders to hay.
auniformo system of government fo'
all the Srates.@When eYery4Dor.herr
State, in which negro suffrage wa pre-
scented as an. issue, within tie last tw,
years, rejected with indignation thu
proposition, the radical Jacobins IL
Congress saw the hand writing on tn,
wall; and now, they come out in con
yention and say that negro suffrogf
shall be confined alone to the south
We warn the people against this dia-
bolical proposition ; for if it is fixed
upon the south, ere long the yok'
) Will be placed upon the north.
8. We denonnce all forms of reputation
as a national crime prolonged cheers and
the National honor requires the payment Of
the public Indebtedness in the utmost good
faith to all creditors, at home and abroad
not only according to the letter. but of the
spirit of the laws under which 1t was con-
dracted. Applause.
This is entitled to a place in Bar
NUNS Museum. The first thing the
republican party did after the inaugu
ration of the Greenback system, WA
to authorize the reputation of ever,
obligation payable in gold, end there
by compelled the creditor to take LIE
gal Tenders OF. nothing Now thi.
patriotic party proposes that the ma
tional debt shall be Paid alone, il
gold ard silver. There is, on an az
erage, in the United States Treasury
about one hundred and ten millions o
currency, in gold aud silver. It
proposed to pay a national debt of owe
thee thousand millions of dollars wit
this Can it be done? We propcs
to compel the creditors of the govern
sment to take Greenbacks for thei
obligation just as farmers aud mechan
les have to do. Is this reputation
If so, we can't help it.
4. 1t is due to the labor of the nation thu
taxation should be equalized and reduced 6
rapidly as the national faith will permit.
80 %. The national debt, contracted, as it b.
been, for thepreservation Oft Union fe
=alI time to come, should be extended over
Fair period for redemption, and it is the dut
of congress to reduce the rate OF intere
thereon whenever it can honestly be done.
6aThat the best policy to diminish OF
burden iof debt is to so improve our cred
I that capitalists will seek to loan us money
lower rates Of interest than we now pay, al
must continue to pay, SO long as repudiatio
partial or total, open or covert, is threa
ened or suspected.
This is-the hugest joke of all. Tia
alton should be reduced as rapidly
the national faith will permit Tn
is. eve intend to place upon your bac
the rational debt forever, and 60
faith requires that you should pay t
bond holders their interest, if it tax
the pound Of flesh next to your hear
"The republican propose to extc
the national debt over such a period
q time, that by the time you pay in yc
taxes, to run the wheels of governme
and keep up a large standing arr
to compel the south to ~enfranchise Oh
negroes it will be impossible for y
to pay any Of the national debt a
: therefore, the bonded aristocracy v
be enabled to riot in luxury; while y
clothe your children in rags" This
. indeed, a splendid programme for t
taboriDg millions of this tax ridd
country.
z. The g~overrment of the United Sta
should be administered with the strict
economy, and the e~erruptions which ha
been so shamefully Hursed and fostered
Andrew Jehnsouf shoHld call loudly for RI
fcal reform .
"The government of; the Unit
States should be administered W