The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-09-08
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

II. We congratulate the country on the assured
Of the reconstruction policy of Congress,
lately in rebellion, of constitutions securing equal
civil apd political rights to ALL and regard it as
the duty Of the Government TO sustain those nstitu-
tons, and prevent the people of such States from
being remitted to = state OF anarchy.
az. The. guarantee by Congress OF equal suffrage
to all loyal men in the South 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 belongs to
"3. We denounce all forms of reputation ma
tonal crimes, ard the national honor requires the
good faith TO all creditors; At home and abraad not
only according TO the latter but the spirit of the laws
under which Il was contracted.
-. 1t Ia due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equazed and reduced rapidly as
national faith will permit.
80. The national debt, contracted it has been
for the preservation of the Union for all time to come
should be extended over fair period for redemption;
and il is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon, whenever it can honestly be DONE
"6. That the best policy to. diminish burden of
debt is to improve our credit that capitalists will
seek to loan money at lower rates of interest than
pay and must continue to pay so long as re-
pudaton partial or total, open or covert, Is threat
a. The Government Of the United States should
be administered with the strctest economy, and the
corruptions which hare been so shameiully nursed
and fostered by Andrew Johnson, call loudly for
"s. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
Of Andrew johnson to the presidency who has acted
cause he WAS pledged to support; has usurped high
legislative aud judicial functons has refused
cute the laws; has used his high office to induce 9TH
er officers 70 ignore and violate the laws; has
poyed his executive powers to render insecure the
property peace, liberty and life of the citizens has
abused the pardoning powers; has denounced the
National Legislature UNCONSTITUTIONAL has perss-
tenty and corrupty resisted by every measure in
Of e Se
public patronage into engine of wholesale corrup
ton, and has been justly mpeached for high crimes
thereof BY the voice Of thirty five Senators.
So The doetris.c Of Great Britain and other Euro
pean Powers, that because man is once subject he
is always So be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, relic of the eudal time, not
shorized by the law of nations, and at war with
national honor and independence, naturazed citizens
being entitled to be projected in all their rights of
citizenship, though they were natural born and no
citizen of che 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 is the
"io. or All who were faithful in the trials of the
late war, there none entitled to more especial
honor than The brave soldiers and who endur
ed the hardships of campaign and cruise, and mper
lied their lives in the service of the country. The
bonnties and pensions provided by law for those
brave soldiers Of the nation, obligations never to
be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gal
LIANT dead the wards Of the people, sacred legacy
bequeathed to the nations protecting care f4r
al. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added 80 much 70 the wealth and development of the
and increase of power to this nation the
asylum Of the oppressed of all nations, should be fos
tered and encouraged by liberal and inst policy.
az. This convention declares its sympathy with
all the oppre ssed people Who struggling for their
rights"
''ResoyVed, That we highly commend the spirit of
magnanimty and forgiveness with which men who
have served The rebellion, but frankly and bon
esty 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 removal of the disqua
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," ~ nr s4ss
'ResoEred, That we recognize the great principles
laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independ-
euce a. the true foundation of democratic govern
making these principles living reality on every inch
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