The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-08-04
COUNTY TICKET.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

81. We congra tulate the country on the assured
of the reconstruction policy OF Congress, as
cvnced by the adop ton in majority OF the States
lately in rebellion, of stitutons securing equal
civil and political rights to all; and we regard it as
the duty Of the Government to sustain those instu-
tons and to prevent the people OF such States from
being RENTED to state of anarchy. q as
"2. The guarantee by Congress OF equa! suffrage
to all low men in the South demanded by every
consideration of public safety of gratitude and of
Justice, and must be maintained; while the question
suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs to
49, We denounce all forms of reputation as ma
tonaI crimes, and the national honor requires the
payment of the public Indebtedness, in the utmost
GOOD faith to all creditors; at home and abraad not
only according the latter but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
a. 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equazed and reduced rapidly as
our national faith will permit. ey6H
as. The national debt, contracted it has been
for the preservation of the Union for all time to come
should be extended fair period for redemption;
and is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon whenever ii can honestly be done.
"6. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt to improve credit that capitalists will
seek to loan money at lower rates of interest than
we pay and must continue to pay so long as re-
pudiation, partial or total open or covert Is threat
ened or suspected. 80. t.-fat
81 The Government of the United States should
be administered with the strictest economy, and the
corruptions which have been SO shameiuly nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson, call loudly for
Radical reform. ~ r3v reas} .es-sf fest -tr.-
49, We profoundly deplore the uutimely and trag
death of Abraham lincoln, and regret the accession
of Andrew johnson to the presidency, who acted
treacherously to the people who elected hmm and the
cause he pledged to support; has usurped high
legislative aud judicial functons has refused to
cute the laws; has used his high oiceto induce 9TH
er officers to ignore and violate the laws has
poyed his executive powers to render insecure the
property, peace, liberty and lite of the citizens has
abused the pardoning powers; has denounced the
National Legislature as Unconstitutional has perss-
tentiy and corrupty resisted by every. measure in
his power every proper attempt at the reconstruction
of the States lately in rebellion; has perverted the
sr,tr hpIa oIn
tion and has been justly mpeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty
thereof BY the voice Of thrty, nv Senator'S;
pean Powers, that because man isonce subject he
is always So must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States as a relic of the feudal time, not
thorized by the law of nations and at war with our
national honor and independence, naturazed citizens
being entitled to be protected in all their rights OF
citizenship, though they we're natural born, and no
citizen of the United States, natural naturalzed
must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by any
foreign power for acts done or words spoken in this
country; and if arrested and imprisoned, it is the
duty OF the Government to interfere IN his behalf.
s'l0. OF all who were faithful in the trials of the
late war; there were none entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and hO endure
ed the hardshps of campaign and cruise, and mper-
lied their lives in the service of the country The
brave soldiers Of the nation, obligations to
be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gall
liant dead the wards of the people, sacred legacy
bequeathed to the nalion's protecting care
all. Foreign immigration, W hich in the past has
added so much to the wealth and development of the
resources and increase of power to this nation, the
asylum of the oppressed of al! nations should be fos
tered and encouraged by liberal and inst policy.
"12. This contention declares its sympathy with
all the oppressed people who are struggling for their
rights" = 1it@ ss4 "a ua
"Resosped, That we highly commend the spirit OF
magnanimty and forgiveness with which men who
have served the rebellion, but frankly and hon
esy cooperate with toring the peace of the
country and reconstructing the Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis Of and eqla
rights, received back into the communion of the
loyal people, and favor the removal Of the disqna
ifcatons and restrictions imposed upon the late reb
els in the same measure the spirit Of loyalty vii
direct, may be consistent with the safety OF thu
loyal people," al flssgi ~. H. 3..,z.
"Resolred, That we recognize the great principles
laid down in the immortal Declaration, of Independ
ence the true foundation of democratic govern
ment; and we hail with gladness every effort towart
making these principles living reality on every incl
of American SOIL"