New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-26
The National Executive Committee.

The Chicago papers have very full reports
of the proceedings of the Republican
Rational Convention at Chicago. The linn
tied space ia our columns preeludes the
entire republication of the proceedings.
The time having arrived to receive the
reports of committees, that on resolutions
was called:
| The Platform.
Colonel Thompson, of Indiana chairman
of the committee, said
| The committee to whom the subject of
preparing resolutions for this Convention
was referred have instructed me to submit
to the Convention the following report:
The Union Republican party Of the United
States, assembled in National Convention
| in the city of Chicago on the twentieth of
May, 1868, make the following declaration
Of principles:
| /. We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the restoration policy of
| Congress as evinced by the adoption of all
| the measures of Congress for the reconstruc.
ton of the States lately in rebellion-the
Constitution securing equal civil and polit-
| ical rights of the people-and we regard it
as the duty OF the government to sustain
these States, and to prevent the return in
| them of anarchy and misrule.
ii. The guarantee by Congress Of equal
suffrage to all loyal men of the South was
demanded by the Considerations of the pub
lie safety, OF gratitude, and OF justice, and
must have meaning. Still, the subject Of
suffrage in all the loyal States properly be-
longs to the people of those States.
| III, We denounce all forms OF reputation
| as a national crime. The nation requires
the payment of the public indebtedness
with the utmost good faith to all the credit
ors, both at home and abroad, not only ac-
cording to the letter, but the spirit of the
laws under which it was contracted.
| ~. 1t is due to the labor Of the nation
that taxation should be reduced, as far as
the public interest will permit.
V. The national debt, contracted as it
has been for the national salvation, should
be extended over a fair period for redemp-
tion, and it is the duty of Congress to reduce
the rate of interest thereon, whenever II
can honestly be done.
VI. The best policy to diminish our bur.
den of debt is to improve her credit, so that
capitalists shall loan us money at lower
rates of interest than that now psid-a most
important beneft-to pay as fast as possible
consistent with our agreements-to warn
off all repudiation, threatened or suspected.
| VII. The government of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy; and the corruptions which have
been SO shamefully nursed and festered by
Andrew johnson call loudly for radical re-
form.
VIII. We profoundly deplore that the un.
timely aud tragic death of Abraham Lincoln
should require the accession of Andrew
Johnson to the Presidency; he has acted
treacherously to the people who have elected
him, and to the cause he was pledged ia
support; has usurped high legislative and
judicial functions; he has refused to execute
the laws, and has used his high office to
/ influence other officers to ignore and violate
the laws; has employed his executive power
to render insecure the proper peace liberty,
and life of all citizens: he has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the Ma
tional Legislature as unconstitutional; has
persistently and corruptly resisted by every
means in his power every attempt at the
restoration of the States lately in rebellion,
and has perverted the public patronage into
an engine of wholesale corruption, and has
been Justly impeached Of high crimes and
misdemeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty by the united votes of thirty-hve
Senators.
IX. The doctrines of Great Britain and
other European powers that because mas
is once a subject he Is always so must be
States as relic Of feudal times not author
lied by the laws OF nations, and at war will
our national honor and independence
Naturalized citizens are entitled to be pro
tected in all their rights of citizenship as
those who are native born; and no citizen
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must be liable to arrest or imprisonment by
any foreign power for acts done or words
spoken in this country, and If so arrested
and imprisoned it is the duty of the Gov
ernment to interfere in his behalf.
X. of all who were faithful in the trials
of the late war there were none entitled tC
more especial honor than the brave soldier;
and seamen who endured the hardships oi
| the campaign, and imperiled their lives in
the service of the country. The bounties
and pensions provided By law to these brave
defenders are obligations never to be for
gotten. The widows and orphans of the
gallant dead are the wards of the people
a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nations
} protecting care.
XII. As immigration has in the past added
to the wealth OF the country, the develop
ment of cur resources, and the increase o.
our power as a nation, the coming of the
oppressed of all nations should be fcs5enaG
and encouraged by an impartial and JUS
policy.
XII. This Convention tenders It's sympath,
to all the oppressed peoples which are strug
Cling for their rights.
The Platform Adopted.
The motion was then put, and the resolu
tions adopted almost unanimously, only
three or four voices voting in the negative
II Additional RESOLUTIONS.
Mt. Thompson reported an additional res
| OiuJlOn tlab an Appointment OF LnlS con
. vention shall not work a dissolution of the
same, but 1t shall remain as organized, sub
iect to be called together at any time an6
place that the National Republican EXecu
tive Committee shall designate. Adopted
At the call Of the Executive Committed
the resolution was adopted.
Mr.. ScAurz; | will now read what in
tended to ask the Convention to adopt as an
independent resolutien:
RESOLVED, That we highly commend the
spirit Of nlagnanimity aud forgiveness Will
which men who have served the rebellion
but now frankly and honestly cooperate
with us in restoring the peace of the coun,
try, and recOnstructing the Southern State
governments upon the basis of impartial
Justice and equal rights, are received back
into the communion Of the loyal people
and we favor the removal of the disqualifca
tions and restrictions imposed upon d Q late
rebels in the same measure as the spirit OF
dieloyalty will direct, and as may be con
sistent with the safety Of the loyal people,
(Qries of GOOD Good -
That is my irst amendment. It seems "a
me that the platform of the Republican
party ought TO contain az least recoRai
ton Of the great charter Of our rights and
hhertles-the Declaration of Independence
! would, therefore, move that the folio wing
resolution be added to those already re
| ported 1y th4 committee.
Reeolved, That We recognize the great
principles laid d0Wn ia the immortal Decls