The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-08-25
COUNTY TICKET.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

al. We congra tulate the country on the assured
success Of the reconstruction policy of Congress,
evinced by the adoption in majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of constitutions securing equal
civil snd political rights to all; and we regard il as
the duty of the Government to sustain those instu
tons and to prevent the people of such States from
being RENTED to state of anarchy. g5a.
to all loyal men in the South demanded by every
consideration of public safety of gratitude and of
Justice. and must De maintained; while the question
of suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs to
the people of those States.
s3 We denounce all forms of reputation
tonal crimes. and the national honor requires the
payment Of the public Indebtedness, in the utmost
good faith, all creditors; at home and abraad, not
only according to the latter but the spirit of the laws
under which Il was contracted. sAs -tas -1a
a. 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as
our natioudl faith will permit. CHTas
as The national debt, contracted it has been
for preservation of the Union for all time to come
should be extended over fair period for
interest thereon, whenever it can honestly be DONE
Sc. That the best policy to diminish our burden Of
debt is to improve our credit that capitalists viii
seek to loan us money lower rates of interest than
we now pay and must continue to pay so long as re-
pudaton, partial or total open or covert is threat
s az. Tho Government of the United States should
be administered with the strctest economy, and the
corruptions which have been shamefully nursed
and fostered by Andrew Johnson, cab LOUDLY for
ss. We profoundly .deplors the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln and regret the accession
of Andrew johnson to the presidency who has acted
reacherously to the people who elected him and the
legislative aud judicial has refused to
cute the laws has used his high Office to induce 9TH
officers to ignore and violate the laws has en-
ployed bis executive powers to render insecure the
property, peace liberty and life OF the citizens has
abused the pardoning powers; has denounced the
National Legislature as nncensn.usona mas peas's,
his every proper attempt at the reconstruction
of the States lately in rebellion; has perverted the
public patronage into engine of wholesale corrup-
ton, and has been justly impeached for high crimes
and msdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty
thereof by the voice OF thirty1hve senators s.,
pean Powers, that because man is once SUBJECT ne
is always So must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States . relic of the feuda time, not au-
thorzed by the Of nations, and at war with our
national honor and independence naturazed citizens
being entitled to be protected in all Their rights OF
citizen of the 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 SO arrested and imprisoned it is the
duty Of the Government to interfere in his behalf
$40. Of all who were faithful N the srals Of .ne
honor than the soldiers and seamen who endur-
ed the hardshps of campaign and cruise, and imper-
bounties and pensions provided by law for those
brave soldiers Of the nation are obligations never TO
liant dead are the wards of the people, sacred legacy
beuueathed to the nations protecting care
alI. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added 50 much to the wealth and development OF the
resources 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.
"I2 This convention declares its sympathy with
all the oppre people who are struggling for their
rights" =.
aResolued, That we highly commend the spirit OF
magnanimty and forgiveness with which men who
have served the rebellion, but now frankly and hon
esty cooperate with us in restoring the peace OF tne
country and reconstructing the Southern State gov.
ernments upon the basis of impartial justice and equal
rights are received back into the communion of the
Ioyal people, and favor the removal of the dsqual-
ications and restrictions imposed upon the late reb
els in the same measure the spirit OF loyalty VIII
direct, may be consistent with the safety OF 'ne
ssRssolved, That we recognize the great principles
laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independ-
ence as the true foundation of democratic govern.
ment; and hail with gladness every effort toward
making these principles living reality on every inch
of American SOIL" @4 n = ts.