The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-26
Alb IIoste Doceri.

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Alb Hoste Doceri.
On this principle. we append the
platform of the radical party:
Ths Hon. Richard W. Thompson,
of Indiana, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions, advanced to
the platform and reported as follows:
The National Republican party of
the United States, assembled in Ma
tlonal Convention, in the CITY of
Chicago, on the Goth day of Nav.
1868, make the following declaration
of principles:
1. We congratulate the country on
the assured success of the reconstruc-
ton policy of Congress, as evincod
by the adoption. in the majority of
the States lately in rebellion, of Con-
stltutions securing equal civil and
political rights to all; and it is the
duty of the Government to sustain
those Constitutions, and to prevent
the people of such States from being
remitted to state of anarchy.
2. The guarantee by Congress of
equal suffrage to all loyal men at the
South was demanded by every con-
sideration of public safety, of. graft
tude, and OF justice, and must be
maintained, while the question of
suffrage in all the loyal States proper
ly belongs to the people of those
States.
3. We denounce all forms of repu-
diation as a national crime, and the
national honor requires the payment
of the public indebtedness in the ut
most good faith to all creditors at
home and abroad, not only accord
ing to the letter, but the spirit, of
the laws under which it was con-
tracted.
4. 1t is due to the labor of the ma
ton that taxation should be euualized
and reduced as rapidly as the national
faith will permit.
5. 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 duty of
Congress to reduce the rate of inte-
rest thereon whenever it can be
honestly done.
g.. That the best policy to diminish
our burden of debt is to so improve
our credit that capitalists will seek to
loan us money at lower rates of in
terest than we now pay, and must
continue to pay, so long as repudia-
tion, partial or total, open or covert,
is threatened or suspected.
z. The Government of the United
States should be administered with
the strictest economy, and the cor
ruptions which have been SO shame
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson call loudly for radical re-
form.
8. We professedly deplore the un-
timely and tragic death of Abraham
Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johuson to the Presidency,
who has acted treacherously to the
people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged to support-who has
usurped high legislative and judicial
functions-who has refused to exc
cute the laws-who has used his high
office to induce other officers to ignore
and violate the laws-who has enl-
ployed his executive powers to render
insecure the property, the peace,
liberty and life of the citizen-who
has abused the pardoning power
who has denounced the National
Legislature as unconstitutional-per-
sistently and corruptly resisted, by
every measure in his power. every
proper attempt Mt the reconstruction
of the States lately in nrebellion-who
has perverted the public patronage
into al engine of wholesale corrup-
tion-and who has been Justly i'm
peached for high crimes and misde-
meanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the vote of thirty
five Senators.
9. The doctrine of Great Britain
and o5her European Powers, that be-
cause man is once subject, he is
always so, must be resisted at every
hazard by the United Stntea, 90 .
relic of the feudal times. not author
lied by the law of notions and at war
with our national honor and indepen-
dence. Naturalized citizens are emit
tied to beprotected in all their rights
of citizenship as though they were
native born, and no citizen of the
United States, native or naturalized,
must be liable to arrest or imprison-
ment by any foreign power, for acts
done or words spoken in this country;