The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-23
Union RepnbIIcan PIatrorm.

The following is the PLATFORM adout-
ed by the Republican Convention, at
Chicago, on Thursday the 2lst day OF
May, 1868. ...f ~ =.
The National Republican party of
the United States, assembled in Ma
tional Convention Ia the city of Chi
cago, on the Goth day of May, 1868,
make the following declaration of
principles:
/. We congratulate the country on
the assured success of the reconstruc-
ton policy of Congress as evinced by
the adoption, IN a majority of the
States lately in rebellion, of Consti-
tutlons securing equal civil an6 polit-
zeal rights to all; and we regard it
as the duty Of the Government to sus-
tain those institutions, and to pre-
vent tho people of such States from
being Femitted to a state nf anarchy
z. The, guarantee by Congress q
equal suffrage to all loyal men In the
South was demanded by every con-
sideration of public safety. of graft
tude, and must be maintained: while
the question of suffrage in all the
loyal States properly belongs to the
people of those States.
u w Y 0OnOuuCC ali IOEIuS Oh TCDu-
diatlen as national crimes, and the
national honor requires the payment
of the public indebtedness, in the
utmost good faith, to all creditors, at
home and abroad, not only according
to the letter but the spirit of the laws
under which iit was Contracted.
Z A. lt is due to the labor of the ma
ton that taxation should be cqualized
and reduced as rapidly as our nation
al faith will permit - l9a".9
= 8. The national debt, contracted.
as it has been, for the preservation of
the Union for all tirIe to come, should
be extended over fair period for
redemption; and it is the duty Of
Congress to.reduce the rate of Interest
thereon, whenever it can honestly be
done.S.si - hlf~4e
g. That the best policy to diminish
our burden of debtis to so improve
our credit that capitalists will seek TO
loan us money at lower rates of inter
est than we now pay, and must con-
tinue to pay, SO long as Reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, Is /
threatened or suspected.
20 z. The Government of the United |
States should be administered with |
the strictest economy, and corrup-
fions which have been so shame
fuIIy nursed and fostered by Andrew |
johnson, call lO6dly for radical re-
form.E d
s. We profoundly deplore the un-
timely and tragic death of Abraham |
1incoln, and regret the accession of !
Andrew johnson to the Presidency,
who hes acted tFeacherouslyl to tho |
people who elected him and the cause |
he was pledged to support, has usurp- |
ed high legislative and iudiciah hfunc- |
tious; has refused d to Vexecute the |
laws; has used his high Office to in
duce other officers to ignore and TiO-
late the lawsa has employed his ex-
eentlve powers to render insecure the
property, peace, liberty and lie OF
the citizens; has abused the pardon
ing power; has denounced the Ma
tlOnal Legislature as unconstitutional;
has persistently aud corruptlS resist
ed, by every measure in his power,
every proper attempt at the recon-
struction OF the States lately IN re-
belliont has perverted the public pat |
rona0e into an engine of Wholesale (
and has been justly I'M
neached for high crimes and misde- |
meanors, and properly pronounced |
guilty thereof by the votes of thirty |
Ave Senators.
q The doctrine Of Great Britain
and other European Powers, that be-
cause man is once subject he is
always so, must be resisted at every |
hazard by the United States, as a
relic of the teudal time, not author
lied by the Jaw of nations. and at
war with our national honor and in
naturalized citizens be-
ing entitled to be projected in all
their rights of citizenship, as though
they were natural born; and no cltl-
zen of the United States. natural or
naturalized, must be liable to arrest
aud imprisonn1ent by any foreign
power. for acts done or words spoken
In this country; and ifso arrested and
imprisoned, it is the duty Of the Gov
erb e.r rnent al, to interfere in his behalf.
10. OF all who were faithful in the |
trials of the late war, there were none
entitled to more especial honor than