, 1868-05-29
LATEST EAsTERN NEWS.
Dates to May 81.
IcOMFrLED FROM THE oREoosIAS.l

chicago May 20.-The National Repub-
lican Convention met at noon, in Crosby's
Opera House. Gov. Marcus L. Ward,
Chairman of the National Comm ittee, called
the convention to order. He alluded in q
brief speech to the circumstances under which
they were assembled and the work for the
convention to do.
Bishop Simpson, of the NJ E. Church,
opened the proceedings with prayer; where
upon, Gov. Ward nominated Gen. Carl
Schurz, of Missouri, temporary chairman,
which was carried unanimously amid voefer-
GUS cheering. Upon being conducted to the
chair, Gen. Schurz addressed the convention
expressing thanks for the high honor con-
ferred. He reviewed the hiitory of the re>
publican party briefly to the conclusion of
war which resulted in the extinction of
slavery. At the close of his speech, he ad,
Voeated the exercise of the right of con-
clliatory spirit toward all 1n this hour
he said, let not the passions be inAamed by
stlnglng disappointment, however keen, or
sense OF wrong carry US beyond the bounds
OF wisdom and self~respect. The things we
have to accomplish are so great that whats
ever the provocation may be, we can GER
tainly not afford to let personal excitement
seduce us into compromising our high dignity
Whoever may become our friend, whoever
may become our enemy, let US steadily
march on with unAinchiDg determination to
fulfill all the duties that rest upon US to
secure justice to the soldier who fought our
battles, justice to the Southern men who
fought for the Union cause, justice to the
| colored race, to whom we have promised true
and eternal freedom, and justice to the ma
tlonal creditor, who has staked his credit !;
let us faithfully strive to restore the honor Of
the Government, to crush corruption inside
OF the party Os we'll as outside of the party,
and to place honest, true and capable men
in public stations"
On motion of Gen. Van Zant, the report
of the Committee was so amended as to de-
clare the name of the republican party to be
National Union republican. In the Com
mittee and report it was simply the National
Union party. The report was adopted.
Mr.. Thompson, of Indians, Chairman of
the Committee, assembled the platform and
read the resolutions as follows:
THE PLATFORM
lst We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the reconstruction policy
Of Congress as evidenced by the adoption in
a majority of States lately in rebellion, of
Constitutions securing equal, civil and poll.
tical rights to all, and we regard it as the
duty of the government to sustain these
constitutions, and prevent the people of such
States from being remitted to state of
anarchy or military rule
2d. The guarantee by Congress eff equal
suffrage to all loyal men in the South, was
demanded by every consideration of public
safety, gratitude aud justice, aud must be
maintained; while the question of suffrage
In all loyal States properly belongs to the
| people of those States.
Sd. We denounce all forms of reputation
as national crime, and national honor re-
quires the payment of the public indebted
ness in the utmost good faith to our creditors
at home and abroad, not only according to
the letter, but spirit of the laws under which
it was contracted.
4th. 1t is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalizcd and re>
duced as rapidly as the national faith will
permit
5th. The national debt, contracted as it
has been for preservation of the Union for
all time to come, should be extended over
fair period, and it is our duty to reduce
the rate of interest thereon whenever it can
honestly be done.
9th. That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is so 10 improve our credit
that capitalists will seek to lend money at
lower rates of interest than we now pay and
must continue to pay so long as reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened
or suspected.
7th. The Government of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy. The corruptions which have been
so shameful!y nursed and fostered by An
drew johnson, call loudly for radical reform.
sth. We profoundly deplore the untime-
ly and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the succession of Andrew johnson to
the Presidential chair, who has acted treach-
erously to the people who elected him and
the cause he was pledged to support, who has
usurped high legislative and judicial functions,
has refused to execute the laws, has used
bis high Office to induce other officers TO
violate the laws, has employed his Executive
power to render insecure the lives, property,
peace and liberty of citizens, has abused the
pardoning power, has denounced the national
Legislature as unconstitutional, has persistent
tly and habitualIy resisted by every means
in his power, every attempt at the recon,
struction of the States lately in rebellion,
has prevented public patronage into an engine
for wholesale corruption, has justly been
impeached for high crimes and misdemean-
ors, and has been pronounced guilty thereof
by the votes of 35 Senators.
9th. The doctrine of Great Britian and
other European powers that, because a man
is once a subject he is always so, smust be
resisted at every hazard by the United
States as a relic of feudal times not author
lied by the law of nations and at war With
our national honor and independece. Ma
turalized citizens are entitled to be protected
in all their rights of citizenship as though
they were native born. No citizen of the
United States or naturalized must be liable
to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign