Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-07-23
National Republican Plat
form.

/. We congratulate tue country on the
assured success of the reconstruction pol
icy of Congress, cvinced by the Adoption
in the majority of the States lately in re-
bellion, of constitutions securing equal civil
and political rights to all, and it is the du-
ty of the government to sustain those insti-
tutions, and to prevent the people of such
States from being rcmittcd to state Of an
archy.
III. The guaranty by Congress Of equal
suffrage TO all loyal men at the South was
demanded by every consideration of pub
lie safety, and of justice, and must be
maintained; while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs to
the people Of those States.
iii. We dcnouncc all forms of rcpudi-
alton as a national crime; and the national
honor requires the payment of the public
indebtedness in the utte'most good faith
to all creditors at home or abroad, not only
according to the letter but the spirit of the
laws under which it was contracted
". II is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation shonld be equalized and re-
duccd as rapidly as the national faith will
permit.
V. The national debt, contracted, rs 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 be
honestly done.
vi. That the best policy to diminish
our burden of debt is 10 SD improve our
credit that capitalists will seek to loan us
money at lower rates of interest than we
now pay, and must continue to pay so long
as reputation, partial or total, open or
covert, is threatened or suspected.
VII. The government of the United
States should be administered with the
strictcst economy; and the corruptions
which have been so shamefully nurscd and
fostcrcd by Andrew Johnson call loudly
for radical reform.
VIII. We profoundly deplorc the un-
timely and tragic death of Abraham Lin
coin, and regret the accession to the Pres
idency OF Andrew Johnson, who has acted
treachcrously TO the people who effected
him, and 10 the cause he was pledged to
support; who has usurpcd high lcgsla-
tive and judicial functions; who has used
Office TO induce other officers to ignore and
violate the laws; who has employed his
executive powers to render insecure the
property, the peace, liberty anG life of the
citizen; who has abused the pardoning
power; who has denounced the national
Legislature as unconstitutional; who has
pcrsistently and corrup,ly resisted, By ev
cry means in his power, every proper at
tempt at the reconstruction OF the States
lately in rebellion; who has perverted the
public patronage into an engine of whole
sale corruption; ard who has been justly
impeachcd for high crimes and misdcmean-
ors, and properly pronounced guilty by
the vote of thirty-five Senator's.
IX. The doctrine of Great Britain and
other European powers that, because, a
man is once subject he is always SO;
must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, as relic of fcudal times.
not authorized by the lays of nations, and
at war with our national honor and inde-
p,ndencc. Naturalizcd citizens are ent-