The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-03

The following is the platform adopt
ed by the Republican Convention, at
Chicago, on Thursday the 21st day of
May, 1868.
The National Republican party of
the United States, assembled in Ma
tiOnaI Convention in the city of Chi
cago, on the Goth day of May, 1868,
make the following declaration of
principles:
l. We congratulate the country on
the assured success of the reconstrue.
ton policy of, Congress as evinced by
the adoption, 10 a majority of the
States lately in rebellion, of Consti-
tutions securing equal civil aud polit-
ical rights to all and we regar it
as the duty Of the Government TO sus i
tain those institutions, aud TO pre-
vent the people of such States from
being remitted to a state of anarchy.
. 2. The guarantee by Congress of
equal suffrage to all loyal men iu 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. H1diss -.
3. We denounce all forms of repu.
diation as national orimec, 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 1T was contracted. q
4. 1t 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.
). The national debt, contracted,
as it has been, for the preservation of
the Union for all time 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. HID T99Wo
6. q hat 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,
partisl tof total, open or covert, is
threatened or suspected.
z The Government of the United
States should be administered with
the strictest economy, and0 corrup-
tioHs which have been so shame
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson, call loudly for radical re-
form. = Il 8 e
g. We ptofouudy deplore the un
timely aud tragic death of Abraham
Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew johnson to.the Presidency,
who has acted treacherously to the
people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged to support, has usuTpA
led high legislative and judicial iunc
tiDus; has refused to execute the
laws has used his high office to, in
duce other officers to ignore and VIC
late 4 the laws has employed aisaex-
eeutive powers to rebder insecure the
proberty, pkAde, liberty and life lof
the citizens; has abused the pardon
ing power has denounced the. Ma
tiOnal Legislature as unconstitutional;
has persistenay aud corruptlS resist
ed, by every measure ains his poweFs
every proper. attempt at the recon
struction of the States 7lateIyI In re-
/ bellion; has perverted the public pat
70 mage into an engine of Wholesale
f corruption, and has been justly i'm
peachedofor high crimes aud misGe-
ntduOISs duu properly PICuOuuC6G
/ guilty hereof By .the votes OF thirty
five Senators. s1szssssg
9. Tne doctrine of Great Britain
and other European Powers. that be-
cause a 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 the8la of nations. aud at
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dependence, naturalized citizens be-
ing entitled to be protected in all
their rights of citizenship, as though
they were natural born; and no citi-
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