The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-09
The Republican Platform.

! BE- The National republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the
city of Chicago, on the Goth day of May, 1868,
make the following declaration of principles =
FfrSt-We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the reconstruction policy of
Congress as evinced by the adoption in the ma
orty OF the State lately in rebellion of consttu-
tions securing equal civil and political rights to
all and it is the duty of the government to sus-
tain those institutions and to prevent the people
of those States from being remitted to state of
anarchy. (Cheers.)
SecOnd-The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men at the South was de-
manded by every consideration of public safety,
of gratitude and or justice, and must be main
tanned while the question OF suffrage in all the
loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States. (Cheers.
1Hird-We denounce all forms of reputation
as 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 ac-
cording 10 the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted. (Applause.)
Fo'uth-It is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalized and reduced
as rapidly as the national faith will permit.
Fftfh-The national debt contracted, as it has
been, for the preservation OF the Union for all
time to come, should be extended over fair pc
riod for redemption; and it is the duty of Con-
greSs to reduce the rate of interest thereon when
ever it can be honestly done.
Sirth-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 interest than we now pay and must con-
tinue to pay long as reputation, partial or to-
tal open or covert, is threatened or suspected
Seuenh-'rhe government OF the United States
should be administered with the strictest econo
my, and the corruptlons which have been so
shamefully nurscd and fostered by Andrew john
call loudly for radical reform.
Ejghtt-We proessedly deplore the untimely
and tragic death OF Abraham Lincoln and regret
the accession of Andrew johnson to the Presi
dency, who has acted treaCherouslyt 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; vino has used his high Office to
ignore and violate the laws, who has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the
property, the peace, liberty and life OF the cltl-
zen; who has abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Legislature as un-
constitutional; who has persistently and cor
ruptlY resisted by every measure IN his power
every proper attempt at the reconstruction of the
States lately in rebellion; who has perverted the
corruption, and who has been justly lmpeached
for high crimes and misdemeanorS and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty
five Senators.
Ninth The doctrine of Great Britain and 9th
er European powers, that because man Is once
a subject he is always SO, must be resisted at
every hazard by the United States, as a relic of
the feudal times, not authorized by the law of
independence. Naturalized citizens entitled
to be protected in all their rights of citizenship
though they were native born, and no cltizeI
of the United Saates, native or naturalizcd must
be liable to arrest and Imprisonment by any tor
eign 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
Tenth-Of all who were faithful in the trials of
the late war there were none entitled to more es-
pecal honor than the brave soldiers and seamen
who endured the hardships of campaign and
cruise and mperilled their lives in the service OF
their country; the bounties and pensions proTi-
ded 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 bequeathcd
to the nations protecting care.
E7eve,stt-Forcign emigration, which in the past
has added so much to the wealth, development
and resources and increase of power to this ma
ton, the asylum of the oppressed OF all nations,
should be fostercd and encouraged by liberal
and just policy .-
Iioeifth-This Convention declares itself in
sympathy with all the oppressed people which
arc struggling for their rights.