Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-06-11
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The Radical Platform.

The following is complete copy
Of the platform adopted by the radi
cal convention at Chicago:
The National Republican Party OF
the U aited States. asssembled 10 ma
tiouaI convention in the city of Chi.
cago, on the 2Orh of May, 1868,
make the following declaration Of
principles:
l. We congratulate the country on
the assured success OF tue rec0nstruc-
lion Of Congress, as eviucad by tie
adoption In majority OF the States
lately 10 rebellion of their own Con-
stitutions, aud securing equal civil
and political rights to all and we re-
gard it as the duty Of government
TO sustain those institutions and to
prevent the people of such States
from being ieuitted to state OF an-
archy.
2. The guarantee by Cong ess Of
equal suffrage to all loyal men in the
South, was demanded W every con-
1derstion Of public safety, Of graft
tude and justice. and must be main
tanned, whi'e the question OF suffrage
in the loyal States properly belongs to
she people Of those Safes.
8. We denounce all forms of repu-
diation as national crime, and va
sional honor requires the payment of
public indebtedness 10 the utmost
good faith to all conditions at home
and abroad, not only according to the
letter, but the spirit Of the laws under
which it was contracted.
4. 1t is due to the labor of the pa
ton that taxation should be equalized
and reduced as rapidly as the national
faith will permit.
S. The national debt, contracted as
it has been, for the preservation OF
the Union, for all time to come,
should be extended over fair period
for redemption, and it is the uuty OF
Congress to reduce the rate of inter
est thereon whenever it can honestly
be done.
g. That the best policy 20 diminish
our burden Of debt is SO TO improve
our credit that capitalists will seek to
ban- US money at lower rates of inter.
est than We now pay, and must con-
tlnus to pay as long as reputation.
partial or iocal open or covert, is
threatened or suspected.
Z. The government Of the United
States should be administered with
the strictest economy, and the cor.
ruptipDs which have been so shane
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson cali loudly for radical reform.
8 We profoundly d"piore The no.
timely and tragic death Of Abraham
Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Audrew johnson to the presidency,
who has acted treacherou-ly 10 the
people who elected hun aud the cause
he was pledged to support usufped
high legislative and judicial func
tions; has refused to execute the
laws; has used his high otti.e TO in
duoe other officers to ignore and VIC
late the laws has employed his exec.
utive powers to render insecure the
property, peace, liberty and life the
citizens; has abused the pardoning
power; has denounced the national
legislature as unconstitutional ); has
persist.ntIy refused, by every measure |
in his power, every proper attempt at
tbs reconstruction OF the States lately |
in rebellion has perverted tbs pub
lie patronage into an engine of whole.
sale corruption, and has been justly
impeached for high crimes and mis
demeanors. and found lrperly guilty
! 'ereof BY the votes VI thirty i've
senator's.
9. TIE doctrine Of Great Br.t,in
and other European Payers that be.
cause man IS once surj' ct he is
slways 30, must he resisted at every
hazard by the United S ares, as
relic OF feudal time not authorized
BY the law Of natlous, aud at war
With our national honor aud indeoen
dence. Naturalized citizens ought to
b. protected in all their rights of CHI
senship, rs though they we're natural
born, AID no citizen of the United
States, native or naturalized, must be
liable to arrest and Imprisonment by
my foreign power for acts done or
words spoken in this country, and if
% arrested and imprisoned, it is the
iuty of the government to interfere
q his behalf
10. OF all who were faithful ID the
rials of the late civil war there were
,oue entitled to more especial honor
han the brave soldiers aud seamen
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