The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-04
The Republican Platform.


The National republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention IN the
city of Chicago, the Goth day of May, 1868,
make the following declaration of principles =
Fira-We congratulate the country on the
assured success Of the reconstruction policy of
Congress as cvinced by the adoption in the ma
oritv OF the State lately in rebellion of cOnstitu-
tions securing equal civil and political rights to
an; and it is the duty OF the government to sus-
tain those institutions and to prevent the people
of those States from being remitted to a state of
anarchy. (Chcers.)
Seco.d--The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men at the South Was de-
mandcd by every consideration ot public safety,
OF gratitude and OF justice, and must be main
tanned while the question OF suffrage in all the
Ioyal States nroprrIy belongs to the pcoule of
those States. (Cheers.)
TAird-Wc denounce all forms of reputation
national crime-(prolunged cheers )-and
the national honor requires the payment of the
public Indebtedness in the utmost good faith to
all creditors at home and abroad, not cnly ac-
cording to the letter, but the spirit Of the laws
under which it Was contracted. (Appianse)
Fow4h-It is due TO the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalized and reduced
as rapidly as the national faith will permit.
FItth--Thc national debt contracted, as it has
been for the preservation ot the Union for all
time to come, should be extended over Il fair pc
riod for redemption; and it is the duty of Con-
greS$ to reduce the rate of interest thereon When
ever it can be honestly done.
.Sirah-That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is to SO improve our credit that
capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower
rates of interest than we now pay and must con-
tnue to pay so long as repudiailon, partial or to-
tai, open or covert, is threatened or suspected
.Seeeath--Ih government OF the United States
should be administered with the strictest econO
my, and the corruptions which have been so
shamclully nurscd and foStered by Andrew John
son call loudly for radical reform.
Ejghth-W professedly deplore the untimey
and trr ic death OF Abraham Lincoln and regret
the accession of Andrew johnson to the Presi-
dency, who has acted treaCherously to the people
who elected him and the cause he was pledged
to support; who has usurped high legislative
and judicial functions; who has refused TO exc
cute the laws; who has used his high office TO
ignore and violate the laws, who has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the
property, the peace, liberty and lite OF the citi-
zen; who has abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Legislature un-
constitutional; who has persistcntly and cor
attempt at tie R no 8%Sr
States lately in rebellion; who has perverted the
public patronage into an engine of wholesale
corruption, and who has been justly lmpcached
for high crimes and misdemeanors and properly
pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty
five Senators. ....
Ninth The doctrine of Great Britain and 9th
er European powers, that because a man is once
a subject he is always so, must be resisted at
every hazard by the United States, as Il relic OF
the feudal times, not authorized by the law of
ratious and at war with our national honor and
Independence. NaturalZed citizens are entitled
to be protected in all their rights OF citizenship
as though they were native born, and 10 cltiZeI
of the United Saatcs, native or naturalizrd, must
be liable to arrest and imprisonment by any for-
eien power, for acts done or words spoken in
this country; and if so arrested and imprisoned
it is the duty of the government to interfere i'll
his behalf. .'i
Tenth-Of all who were faithful in the trials of
the late war there were none entltl to more cs-
pccial honor than the brave soldiers aud Scancn
who endured the hardshps of campaign and
cruise and imperilled their lives in the >, rvlcc OF
their country; the bounties and pensions proyl-
dcd bv the laws for these brave defenders OF the
nation are obligations never to be forgotten; The
wi,!ows and orphans of the gallant dead are the
wards of the people-a sacred legacy bequeathed
to tile nations protecting care.
E7euesstJ.-Forcign emigration, which in the past
has added so much to the wealth, development
and resources and increase OF power to this ma
ton, the asylum of the oppressed OF all nations,
should be fostered and encouraged by 4 liberal
and just policy. .,e :.
sympathy with all the oppressed people winch
are struggling for their rights.