The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-22
unI0n RennhlIcan. PLATFORM.


The following is the platform adopt
ed by the Republican Convention, at
Chicago. on Thursday the 2lst day oi
May, 1868. .lft.#.
The National Republican party oi
the United States, assembled in Ma
tional Convention in the city of Chi
cago, on the 10th day of May, 1868
make the following declaration OF
principles:
/. We congratulate the country on
the assured success of the reconstrue-
ton policy of Congress as evinced by
the adoption, in a majority OF the
States lately in rebellion, of Consti-
tutions securing equal civil and polit.
ical rights to all and we regard il
as the duty of the Government to sus-
tain those institutions, and to pre-
vent the people of such States from
being RENTED to state of anarchy
2. The guarantee by Congress oi
equal suffrage to all loyal men in the
South was demanded by every con-
sideration of public safety. of grati-
tude, and must be maintained; while
the question of suffrage In all the
loyal States properly belongs to the
people of those States. 6E4
g. We denounce all forms of repu-
! diation 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 it was contracted.
f. It is due to the labor of the ma
ton that taxation should be equalized
and reduced as rapidly as our nation
al faith will permit.
5. The national debt, contracted,
as it has been, for the preservation of
the Union for all time to come, should
| be extended over a fair period for
redemption; and it is the duty of
Congress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon, whenever it can honestly be
done.@.::
g. 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 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.
z. The Government of the United
States should be administered with
the strictest economy, and corrup-
tions which have been so shame
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson, call loudly for radical re.
form. - u
s. We profoundly deplore the un-
timely and tragic death of Abraham
Lincoln, aud regret the accession oi
Andrew johnson to the Presidency,
Bh9 5gSlg has qcted tgeaehsr9Hsly% che rs % tq & the
he was pledged to support, has usurp
ed high legislative. and judicial func-
tions; has refused to execute the
laws; has used his high Office to In.
| duce other officers to ignore and vio-
late the laws has employed his ex-
ecutive powers to render insecure the
property, peace, liberty and life oi
the citizens; has abused the pardon
ing power; has denounced the Ma
tional Legislatureia as unconstitutional
has persistently and eorruptlg resist.
ed, by every measure IN his power
every proper attempt at the recon,
struction of the States lately in re.
| bellion; has perverted the public pat
ronage into an engine of wholesale
corruption, and has been justly i'm
peached for high crimes and misde
meanors,, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes OF thirty
five Senators.
9. The doctrine of Great Britain
and other European Powers. that be
cause man is once "a subject he il
always so, must be resisted at every
hazard by the United States, as 1
relic of the feudal time, not author
lied by the law of nations, and a
war with our national honor and in
dependence, naturalized citizens be
ing entitled to be protected in al
their rights of citizenship, as though
they were natural born; and no citi
zen of the United States, natural o.
naturalized, must be liable to arres
and Imprisonment. by any foreigi
power, for acts done or words spokei
i ia this country; and if so arrested ant
; imprisoned, it is the duty of the Gov
ernment to interfere in his behalf.
10. OF all who were faithful in tn
trials of the late war, there were non
entitled to more especial honor thai
the brave soldiers and seamen VIII
endured the hardships of campaigl
and cruise, and Imperiled their. live
in the service of their country. Tn
bounties and pensions provided b
law for those brave defenders Of tn
nation are obligations never to be for
gotten. The widows and orphans O
thesgallant dead are the wards of tn
people, sacred legacy -beqneathed
the nations protecting care.
aa IL. Foreign immigration, which, i
the past, has added so much to tn
wealth and development of the re
sources and increase Of power to -thi
, nation, the asylum of the oppresse
Of all NATIONS, should be fostered an
encouraged by a liberal and jus
!. policy.
XII L. This Convention declares iit
sympathy with all the oppressed peo
pie. who are struggling for thei
rights.