The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-08-19
The Republican Platform.

lie following platform, reported by tbs
Committee on Resolutions, was unanimously
adopted by tho National Republican Conven
ton in session at Chicago on the 2Ist inst:
The Rational Republican party Of the Uni
ted States, assembled 10 National Conventio or
in the city Of Chicago on the 2O.h day of May,
iSOs, make tho following declaration Of princi.
pies
Fi!st-We congratulate the country on the
assured success Of the reconstruction policy
Of Congress, as evincel by the adoption, In q
majority Of the States lately in rebellion, Of
Constitutions securing equal civil and political
rigL" to all, and regard 1t as the duty Of the
Government to sustain there Institutions, and
to prevent tho people of suoh States from be.
inF Iemittsd to state Of anarchy
HrCond-Tac guarantee OF Congress Of equal
suffrage - all loyal men at the South was
demanded by every consideration Of public
safety, Q! gratitude and Of justice, and must
lie maintained, while the question Of suffrage
In all the loyal States properly belongs to the
people Of those States.
TLird-We denounco oil forms Of repudia.
ton Gs national crime, At j the national honor
requires the payment Of the public Indebted.
ness in the utmost good faith to all creditors.
at home and abroad, not only according to
tho letter but tho spirit OF the laws under
which il was contracted
Fourih--lt 10 due to the labor Of the nation
that taxation should be equaliEej, and reduced
as rapidly rs the national faith will permit
JIilh-The national debt, contracted as Il
has Teen for the preservation Of the Union for
oil time 70 come, should be extended over a fair
period for redemption, and It Is the duty OF
Congress TO reduce the rate Of interest there
on Whenever II can possibly he douo.
sixth-That the best policy to dimiE.sh our
nj al Ia -
that capitalists will seek to lOGn US money at
lower rates Of interest than we row pay, md
must continue to pOy SO long as reputation,
partial or total, open Or covert, Is threatened
1r suspected
sevenlh--The Government Of the United
States should be administered with the strict.
est economy, aud the corruptions which have
peen 20 shaIneiuiIy nursGd and fostered by
AudroW johnson oallloudly for radical form
Eighth-We profoundly deplore the untimely
ana tragic death Of Abraham Lincoln, and re.
sret the accession Of Andrew Juhts0n 10 the
Presidency, who has acted treacheTuusly to the
people who elected him ard tho cause he
was pledged to support has usurPoj icgisa.
I've and Judicial functions; has refused to tX.
ecule the laws has used his high Office to in.
duce other officers to ignore and violate the
Il"si hRs employed his executive power to
render insecure the prosperity, peace, liberty
add lie Of the citizens; has abused the par.
doning power has denounced tho National
Legislature as unconstitutional; has persis.
lontly and eorruptly resisted, by every means
IN his power, every proper attempt ut the 70.
construction Of the States lately In reLelliop
has perverted the public patronage into an
engine OF Wholesale corruption, ana has been
justly iuPeached for high crimes and misdo.
heAhoTs' and properly pronounced guilty by
the votes OF thirty. Eve Senators
N'hth-The doctrine Of Grea. Britain and
other European powers, that because a man is
once SUBJECT no "a always so, must be resist
relic Of tho feudal times not authorized Inv
the law OF nations and At war with our nS.
tioual honor and independence. NatwaliaeJ
citizens are entitled TO be protected in ali tbeir
rights Of citizenship as though they were mn.
tivo.born, and no citizen of the United Stntss
native or naturalizsd, must be liable 20 ar.