The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-06-16
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

al. We congratulate the country ON the assured
success Of the reconstruction policy OF congress, as
evinced by the adoption, in majority OF the States
lately in rebellion, of constitutions securing equal
civil and political rights to all; and We regard 1t
tons and to prevent the people Of such States from
being RENTED to a state OF anarchy. ER
~ 80. The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage
or public safety, of gratitude and of
justice. and must be maintaned while the question
of suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs to
as. We denounce all forms Of population
tiona crimes, and the national honor requires the
payment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost
good faith to all creditors at home and abraad not
only according 10 the latter but the spirit of the laws
under which Is was contracted.
a.. 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equalized and reduced as rapidly
our national faith will permit. fo#
for the preservation of the Union for all time to
should be extended fair period for redemption;
and is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon, whenever it honestly be done
Sc. That the best policy to diminish our burden OF
debt is 70 improve our credit that capitalists will
seek to loan us money at 1ates ., .nan
pudaton, partial or total open or covert is threat
sned or suspected.
be administered with the strctest economy, and the
corruptions which have been shsmefully nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson, cali loudly for
49, We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
Andrew johnson
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; has usurped high
legislative aud judicial functons has refused to exc
cute the laws has used his high Office to induce 9TH
er officers 10 ignore and violate the laws; has en-
ployed his executive powers to render insecure the
property. peace liberty and life OF the citizens has
National Legislature as unconstitutional; has perss-
rently and corruptly resisted by every measure in
II the States lately in rebellion; has perverted the
public patronage into engine of wholesale corrup
ton, and has been justly impeached for high crimes
thereof by the voice Of thirty-fve Senators.
"9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Euro
pean Powers, that because man is once subject he
always So must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, relic Of the feudal time, not au-
thorized by the law of nations, and at war with our
national honor and independence, naturazed citizens
being entitled to be protected in all their rights OF
citizenship, though they were natural born, ard no
citizen of the United States, natural or naturazed,
must be liable TO arrest and imprisonment by any
foreign power for acts done words spoken In this
country; and If arrested and imprisoned It is the
duty OF the Government TO interfere IN n,s oehaa. -,
late war there were none entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who endur-
lied their lives in the service of the country The
bounties and pensions provided BY law Tor those
brave defenders Of the nation obligations never TO
be forgotten. The widow s and orphans OF the gal
liant dead the wards of the people, sacred legacy
bequeathed to the nations protecting care
added 40 much to the wealth and development of the
resources and increase of power to this nation, the
asylum of the oppressed of all nations should be fos
tered and ged by liberal and inst policy.
'l2 This convention declares its sympathy with
all oppressed people who struggling for their
rights"
"Re.olped, That we highly commend the spirit OF
mapnanimty and forgiveness with which men who
have served the rebellion, but frankly and hon
esy cooperate with in restoring the peace OF the
country and reconstructing the Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis of impartial justice and equal
rights received back into the communion of the
loyal people, and favor the removao OF the dsquai
ications and restrictions imposed upon the late reb
els in the same measure the spirit of loyalty will
direct, may be consistent with the safety OF the
loyal people," fCries Of Good good
i'Resolved, That recognize the great principles
laid down in the immortal Declaration of lndepend
euce as the true foundation of democratic govern
nent; and hail with gladness every effort TOWARD
making these principles living reatyon every incl
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