New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-05-23
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.


The Washington correspondents report that
Gen. GRANT seemed anxious, throughout Thurs
dav. until the telegraph had brought from
Chicago a synopsis of the Platform just
adopted by the National Convention, when he
declared himself perfectly satisfied
He well might. The Convention has done
all its work nobly, and no part of it better than
this. Here it is: -'..''~
The National Republican Party of the United
States, assembled in National Contention IN
The Cty of Chicago, on The 21st day of Nay,
1868, make The toIIOring Declaration Of Prin-
/. We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the Reconstruction policy
of Congress, as eyinced by the adoption,
in the majority of the States lately in
rebellion of Constitutions securing Equal
Civil and Political Rights to all, and it is the
duty of the Government to sustain those lnsti-
tutiOns and to prevent the people OF such
States from being RENTED 20 a state OF an
archy.
H. The guaranty by Congress of Equal Suf-
frage TO all loyal men ut the South was de-
manded by every consideration of public safety
of gratitude, and 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.
Ill We denOunce all forms of Reputation as
a national crime; and the national honor re-
qures the payment of the public Indebtedness
in the utteTmOst good faith TO all creditors at
home and abroad, not only according to the
letter but the spirit of the laws under which
it was contracted.
". 1t is due to the Labor Of the Nation that
taxation should be egualized, and reduced as
rapidly as the national faith will permit.
V. The National Debt, contracted, as IL mas
been for the preservation OF the Union Tor all
time to come, should be extended over ialr
period for redemption and 1t Is the duty OF
Congress to reduce the rate of interest thereon,
whenever it can be honestly done.
VI That the best policy to diminish our bur
den of debt is to so improve our credit that
CAPITALISTS will seek TO loan us money at lower
rates of interest than we now pay, and must
continue to pay SO long as Reputation, partial
or total, open or covert, Is threatened or sus-
pected.
should be administered with the strictest econ
omy and the cOrruptions which have been so
shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson call loudly for radical reform.
VIII. We profoundly deplore the untimely and
tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret
the accession to the Presidency OF Andrew
johnson, who has acted treacherousy to the
people who elected him and the cause he was
pledged to support; who has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; who has re-
fused 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 prop
erty, the peace, liberty and life, of the citizen
who has abused the paTdoning power; who
has denounced the National Legislature as un-
constitutional; who has persistently and cor
ruptly resisted, by every means IN his power,
every proper attempt at the reconstruction OF
the States lately in rebellion; who has per-
verted the public patronage into an engine of
wholesale corruption and who has been justly
impeaehed for high crimes and mlsdemeanors,
and properly pronounced guilty thereof by the
vote of thirty-five Senators.
h. nina Of
European powers that, because a man is once
a subject he is always so, must be resisted at
every hazard by the United States, as, relic
of feudal times, not authorized by the laws
of nations, and at war with our national honor
and independence Naturalized citizens are
entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they were native-b0rn
and no citizen of the United States, native. or
naturalized, must be liable to arrest and i'm
prisonment by any foreign power for acts done
or words spoken in this country; and. if so
arrested and imprisoned, it is the duty of the
Government to interfere in his behalf.
X OF all who were faithful in the trials OF
the late war, there were none entitled TO more
especial honor than the brave soldiers and
seamen who endured the hardships of cam
paign and cruise, and imperiled their lives III
the service of the country the bounties and
pensions provided by the laws for these
brave defenders of the nation, are obligations
never to be forgotten; the widows and orphans
of the gallant dead are the wards OF the
people-a sacred legacy bequeathed to the ma
TONS protecting care.
XII. Foreign immigration, which In the past has
added so much to the wealth, development and
resources and increase of power to this republic,
the asylum of the oppressed OF all nations,
should be fostered and encouraged by liberal
and just policy.
XII. This Convention declares itself in SYM
patty with all oppressed peoples struggling for
their rights, ...
Unanimously added, on motion Of Gen. Schurs'
Resolved, That we highly commend the spirit
of magnanimity and forbearance with which
men who have served in the Rebellion, but who
now frankly and honestly cooperate with us In
restoring the peace of the country and recon-
structing the Southern State governments upon
the basis of Impartial Justice and Equal Rights,
are received back into the communion of the
loyal people and We favor the removal of the
disqualifcations and restrictions imposed upon
the late Rebels in the same measure as their
spirit of loyalty will direct, and az may be Con-
sistent with the safety of the loyal people.
Resolved, That we recognize the great prin-
ciples laid down in the immortal Declaration of
Independence, as the true foundation of demo-
cratic government and we hail with gadDess
every effort toward making these principles q
living reality on every inch of American soil.
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