The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-09-03
Republican Platform.

Republican Platform.
Adopted at Chicago MAJ II, 1868,
l. We congratulate tie country on the
assured success of :sane Reconstruction pol
ICY OF congress, as evinced by the adop-
'";h ali 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
institutions, and to prevent the people of
such States from being remitted to State
of anarchy,
: II. The guaranty by Congress of equal
Suffrage to all loyal men at the South was
demanded by every consideration of public
safety, of gratitude, and of Justice, and
must be maintained; while the question of
Suffrage in all the loyal States properly be-
longs to the people Of those States.
Ill. We denounce all forms of Repudia-
ton a national crime; and the national
honor requires the payment of the public
Indebtedness in the uttermost 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 enacted.
". 1t is due to the labor of the Natl,
that taxation should be equalized, and re-
duced as the natioI al faith wilt permit.
The National Debt, contracted, as it
has been, for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, should be extended
over far period for redemption; and it is
the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interestthereupon, whenever it can be hon
estly done.
VI. 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
M To lonr
as reputation, partial or total, open or
covert, is threatened or suspected.
VII. The Government of the United
States should be administered with the
strictest economy; and the corruptions which
have been SO shamefully nursed and fos-
tered by Andrew johnson call loudly for
radical form.
VII. We profoundly deplore the untimely
and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession to the Presidency of
Andrew johnson, who has acted treacher-
ously 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 execute the
duce other officers to ignore and violate the
laws; who has employed his executive pow
ers to render insecure the property. the
peace, the liberty, and life of the citizen;
who has abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Legislature as
unconstitutional; who has persistently md
colruptly resisted, by every means in his
power, every proper attempt, at the recon
s.ruction of the States lately in rebellion;
who has'perverted the public patronage in
to an engine of wholesale corruption; an
who hrs been justly impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanors, and properly
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thirty-five Senators.
TX. The doctrine of Great Britain and
other European powers that, because man
is once subject, he is always Sc, must be
resisted at every hazard by the United
States, as relic of feudal times. not au-
thorized by the laws or nations, and at war
with our national honor and independence.
Naturalizel citizens are entitled to protec-
tion in all their rights of citizenship, as
though they were native born; aud no cit
izen of the United States, natiye or natural
lied, must be liza BILE to arrest and imprison-
ment 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.
K. OF all who were faithful in the trials
of the late wal there were none entitled to
more especial honor than the brave soldiers
and seamen who endured the hardships of
campaign and cruise, and imperiled their
lives in the service of the country; the boun-
ties and pensions provided by the laws for
these brave defenders of the nation are OBJ
legations never to be forgotten; the widows
and orphans of the gallant dead are the
wards Of the people, sacred legacy be-
queathed to the nations protecting care.
XI. Foreign immigration, which in the
part has added much to the wealth, devel-
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er to this Republic, the ASYLUM of the op-
pressed of all nations, should be fostered
and encouraged by liberal and just pol
icy.
XII. This Convention declares itself in
sympathy with all oppressed people strug-
Cling for their rights.
XIII. That we highly commend the spirit
of magnanim1ty and forbearance with which
the men who have served in the rebellion,
put now frankly and honestly cooperate
with us IN restoring the peace of the coun-
try and reconstructing the Southern State
Government upon the basis of impartial
justice and equal rights, are received back
into the communion of the loyal people;
cationsand restrictions imposed upon the
late rebels in the same measure as their
spirit of loyalty will direct, and as may be
consistent with the safety of the loyal
people. -..--
XIV. That we recognize the great prin-
ciple laid down with the immortal Decla-
ration of ofIndependence as the true founda-
tion of Democratic government, and we hail
with gladness every effort toward making
these principles living reality on every
inch of American soil.
The following are the financial planks of
am Sfota P1otfor,n.
Resolued, That the Republican party pledge
it self to the faithful paymen of the public
debt according to law, and we hereby ex-
press our conviction, that according to the
laws under which the $40 bonds were is
sued, said bonds should be paid in the cur
rency of the country, which may be legal
tender when the Government shall be pre-
pared to redeem suchbonds.
Resolued, That we heartily approved the
policy of Congress in stopping the contrac-
ion Of the currency; and believe that the
issue of currency should be commensurate
with the industrial and commercial inter
ests of the people;
ResoLped, That justice and sound policy
require that all property should bear its
equal share of the public burdens, and that
this principle ought to be applied to all
United States bonds hereafter issued, by
making them liable by express provisions
of law to taxation precisely as other proper