Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-05-29
Platform Adopted by the National
Republican Convention at Chi
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'sThe National Republican party OF
/ the United States. assembled in the Ma
tionaI Convention in the City Of Chica-
go, on the 10Th day of Nay, 1868, makes
the following declaration of PRINCIPLES:
81. We congratulate the country on
the assured success OF the recOnBtruC-
ton policy Of Congress, as evinUed by
the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of constitutions Sc
curiag equal civil and political rights
to all; and we regard it as the duty Of
the Government to sustain those insti-
tutiOns, and to prevent the people of
such States from being remitted to a
state of anarchy.
%. The guarantee by Congress- of
equal suffEage TO all loyal men in the
SOulh was demanded by every cOnsid-
eraCion of public safety, OF gratitude,
and Of justice, and must be maintained;
while the question of suffrage in ali the
loyal states properly belongs TO the peO-
pie Of those States.
1's we denounce all forms of repndf-
alton as national crimes, and the ma
tionaI 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 let
ter, but the spirit Of the laws under
which it is cOntracted.
-, It is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalized and
reducsd as rapidly as our national
faith win permit.
IS. The nationsI debt, contracted, as
it has been. for the preservation Of the
Union for ali the time TO co ne, should
be extended over q fair period for re-
dempti0B; and ii is the duty of Con-
gress to reduce the rate OF interest
thereon, whenever it can honestly be
done.
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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 continue to pay
SO long as repudiatiOn, partial OF total,
open or covert is threatened or suspect
ed.
81. The Government of the United
States should be administered with the
sJricUest economy, and the corruptiOns I
which have been so shamefully nursed !
and fostered by Andrew Johnson, call /
loudly for radical reform.
So. We profoundly deplOre the un- |
timely and tragic death of Abraham |
Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew johnson to the Presidency, /
who has acted treacherously to the peO- /
pie who elected him and the cause he |
was pledged to support has usurped hi Lh |
legislative ana judicial fd notions has
refused to execute the laws has used !
his high Office to induce other officers
10 ignore and violate the laws; has en-
Dloyed his executive powers to render |
insecure the property, peace, liberty |
and life Of the citizens; has abused the |
oardouing power; has denounced the |
National Legislature as uncOnstitutiOn- |
al has persitentlY and cOrruptly re- /
sisted. by every measure in his power, 4
every proper attempt at reconstruction |
" the States lately in rebslliOn; has |
perverted the public patronage into an 1
nrnfHr
has been justly impeached tor high /
crimes and misdemeanOrss and proper /
y pronounced guilty thereof by the |
votes of thirty i've Senators.
''9. The doctrine of Great Britain 4
and other European Powers, that be- /
,ause a man is once subject he is al
RaYs SO, must be resisted at every haz- /
ard by the United States, as g relic of i
he faudal time, not authorized by law
lf nations, and sc war with our nation
u honor and Independence, naturalized
,Itizeus being entitled to be protected /
a all their rights Of citizenship, as
,hough they were natural born and no
,iti2an of the United States, natural or
must be liable to arrest and /
Imprisonment by any foreign Power
or acts done or words spoken an this 1
and iF SO arrested aud i'm pris-
lued, &c IS the duty of the Government !
% interfere IN bis BEHALF
''lO. OF all who were faithful in the 1
irials of the late war, there were mono |
entitled to more especial honor than ]
he brave soldiers and seamen who en- |
1ured the hardships Of campaign and /
'ruise, and inlperiIed their lives in the |
Iervtce Of the country. 1he bouuttBs e
IND pensions provided by law for those I
lnslVe defenders of the nation are OBJ I
igatiCus never 20 be forgotten. The 4
Widows and orphans of the gallant /
lead are the wards Of the people sa- L
"a
care,
ell. Foreign inning ration, which, in
he past, has added 50 much TO the
wealth and development Of the re-
ources and increase of power to this
lation, the asylum of the oppressed Of
n nations, should be fostered and en-
outraged by liberal and just policy.
tsI2. This convention declares its sym
,athY with all the oppressed people who
ire struggling for their rights"
's13. That we highly commend the
pirit of maguanimity aud forgiveness
With which the men who have served
he rsbellion but now frankly and HON
silly cooperate with MS in restoring
he. peace of the country, and the re-
of the Southern State Cow
rnnaents upon the basis Of impartial
astics and equal rights, be receiVed
lack into the communion of the loyal
leople; and we favor the removal Of
be disquallh cations and restriction tm-
osed upon the late rsbels in the same
MEASURE as the spirit of dislOyalty viii
.irect, and may be consistent with the
afety of the loyal people.
"a. That we recognize the great prin-
ipIes laid down in the immortal dec
aration of Independence as true foun-
atiOn of democratio government, and
Te bail with gladness every effort to-
yard making these PRINCIPLES a living
aalft7v On every inch of A Tnericau soil -