The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-23
TnIea.RennblIean Platform

The following IS the Platform
adopted by the Republican Conven-
ton at Chicago or Thursday. which
we failed to receive by telegraph:
The National Republican party OF the
United States. assembled in National con-
ventiQn in the city of Chicago on the Goth
day Of May, 1868, make the following de-
claratiOn of princirles;
l. We congratulate the country On the
assured success of the reconstruction poll
cy. OF Congress as evinced by the adoption,
in majority of the States lately in rebel
iiOD, of COustitub- ons securing equal civil
and political rights to all; and we regard
il as the duty OF the Government To sus
tain those institutions and TO prevent the
people of such States from being RENTED
to a state OF anarchy. LCheers.l
2. The guarantee ny Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men ia the South was
demanded by every consideration OF pub
tic safety, of gratitude, and Of Justice, and
must be main tanned; while the question
OF suffrage In all the loyal stat Is properly
belongs to the people OF those States.
8. we denounce all forms of population
as national crimes prolonged cheersl, and
the national honor requires the pay ment
of the public Indebtedness, in the utm Ost
good faith, to all creditors, a home and
abroad, not only according to the letter
but the spirit of the laws under which IL
was contracted. LApplauSe
4. It is due to the labor of the ration
that taxation should be eQualized ana re-
permit.
has been, for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, should be extended
over a fair period for redemption; and 1t
the duty of Congress to reduce the rate
of interest thereon, whenever 10 can hon
estly be done.
s. That the best policy 10 diminish our
burden of debt is to so improve our credit
hat ca pitalists Will seek 10 loan Us money
al lower rates Of interest than we now pay,
and must continue to pay. so long as repu-
diattOn, partial or total, open or covert IS
threatened or suspected.
Z. The Government of the United sta es
should be administers with the strlctest
economy, and the cOrrupJlons which nave
been so shamefuNy nurSed and fOstered Oy
Andrew Johnson, call loudly for Radical
reform.
S. We profoundly deplore the untimeiy
and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln,
and regret the accession Of Andrew johu-
son to the Presidency, who has acted
treaeherously 10 the people VINO erected
him and the cause be was pledged to sup
port; qas usurped high legislative and
Judicial functions; has refused TO ex-
ecute the laws; has used his high office
to induce other officers to ignore and
viola e the laws; has employed his
executive powers to render insecure
the property, peace, liberty and life Of
the citizens; has abused the pardOning
power; has denounced the National Legis-
IatHre as unconstitutional; has persistent
~ and corruply resisted, By every meas
the reconstruction OF the states lately IN
rebellion; has perverted the public patron
age into an engine of wholesale CORFU D
ton, and has been justly impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanOrs, and prop
erly pronounced guilty thereof by the
votes OF thirty five Senators.
8. The doctrine of Great Britain and
other European Powers, that because b
man is once a subject he is always so. must
be resisted at every hazard by the United
States, as a relic of the feudal time, not
authorized by the law Of nations, and at
war with our national honor and inde-
pendenCe, naturalized citizens being en-
titled 10 be protected in ali their rights of
citizenship, as though they were natural
born and no citizen of he United States,
natural or natural zed, must be liable to
arrest and Imprisonment by any foI eign
Power for acts done or words spoken in
this country; and If so arrested and inn
prisOned, 1t is the duty of the Government
10 interfere in his behalf.
10. Or all who were faithful in the trials
of the late war, there were none emit tied
diers and seamen who endured the hard
ships of campaign and cruise, and 1mper1l-
ed their lives in the service OF the country.
The bOuntieS and pensions provided by
are o Obligations never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans of the gallant dead
are the wards Of the people; a sacred legacy
beQueathed 10 the nations protecting care.
III. Foreign immi grafton. which, in the
past. has added so much to the wealth and
DEVELOPMENT of the resources and ncrease
of power to this nation, the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations, should be FOSTER
ed and encouraged BY liberal and just
10. This Convention declares It's sym
pathv with all the Oppress ed people who
are struggling for their rights.
Arrival OF Steamer.
New York. May 22.-The steamer
Europe, from Havre, has arrived.