Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-06-06
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The Chicago Platform.

The CnfCasO ff1tIOrm.
 The national Republican party of the United States, assembled in na- tional convention, in the city of Chi cago, on the 20th day of May, 1868, make the following declaration of principles: rsroa, i l. We congratulate the country on the assured success of the reconstruc- ton policy of Congress, as evinced by the adoption in a majority of the States lately in rebellion, of constitutions se- curing equal civil and political rights to all [applausel and regard it as tho duty of the government to sustain those institutions, and to prevent the people of such States from being re- mitted to state of anarchy.
 2. The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men at tho South was demanded by every consid- eration of public safety, gratitude, and of justice, and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States. Y 3. We denounce all forms of repudi- ation as nationAl crime; and 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 let ter, but the spirit of the laws under which it was contracted.
 4. It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as national faith will permit.
 5. 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 re- demption, and it is the duty of Con- gress to reduce the rate of interest thereon whenever it can honestly be done.
 1 6. That the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is to 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 or total, open or covert, is threatened or suspected,
 '. The government of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy; and the corrup- 1 tions which have been so shamefuIly nursed and fostered by Andrew John son call loudly for radical reform. 8. We profoundly deplorc 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 people who elected him and the cause he was pledged to support; has usurp- ed high legislative and judicial func- tions has refused to execute the laws: has used his high office to induceothcr officers to ignore and violate the laws; has employed his executive powers to render insecure the property, peace, liberty, and life of the citizen; has abused the pardoning power; has de- nounced the national legislature as un- constitutional has consistently and corruptly resisted, by every means in his power, every proper attempt at re- construction of the .Stntes lately in re- bellion has perverted the public pat ronage into an engine of wholesale corruption and has been justly im- peached for high crimes and misde- meanors, and properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of 8 Sen- ators. ..rtH Errs
 9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European power, that because man is once q subject he is always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the United States as relic of the fendal times, not authorized by the law of na- tions. and at war with our national honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are entitled to be protected in all their rights of citizenship, as though they were native born; and no citizen of the United States, native or natur- alized, must be liable to arrest and im- prisonment by any foreign power, for acts done or words spoken in this country and, if so arrested and im- prisoned, it is the duty of the govern ment to interfere in his behalf.
 10. 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 scamen who en- dured the hardships of campaign and cruise, and imperiled their lives in the service of the country. The bounties and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders of the nation are olli- gations never to be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of the people--a sacred legacy bequeathed to the na- tion's protecting care.
 Il. Foreign emigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation,--the asylum of the oppressed of all nations--should be fostered and encouraged by iber- al and just policy.
 F. This convention declares its sympathy with all the oppressed peo- pie who are struggling for their rights.
 
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