The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-06-02
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

al. We congra tulate the country the assured
svinced BIZ the adoption in majority of the States
lately in rebellion of constitutions securing equal
civil and political rights to all; and we regard i As
the duty Of the Government TO sustain those instu-
tions and 10 prevent the people Of such States from
being RENTED 70 state of anarchy.
1s in the South Wss By
iussee. and must Be maintained; While the question
Of suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs to
the people Of those States.
IS, We denounce all forms of reputation ~ ma
tonsl crimes and tie national honor re 20 the
good faith, TO all creditors; at home and abraad, not
only according to the latter but the spirit of the laws
under wiiich il was contracted.
a. II IL due the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equalzed and reduced as rapidly as
our national faith will permit. NJ
for the preservation of the Union for all time TO come
should be extended fair period for redemption
and it the duty OF Congress to reduce the rate OF
&c. That the best policy to diminish our burden OF
debt is TO improve our credit that capitalists will
we now pay and must continue to pay so long as re-
pudiation, partial or total open OF covert Is threat
sned or suspected.
be administered with the strctest economy, and the
eorruptions which have been SO shamefully nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson, call loudly Tor
IS. we PROFOUNDLY deplore the untmely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
of Andrew Johnson to the presidency, who has acted
treacherpusy to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; has usurped high
legislative aud judicial functions; has refused to exc
cute the laws; has used his high office to induce 9TH
officers to ignore and violate the laws has en-
poyed hi. executive powers, to render insecure the
abused the Pard0aing powers; has denounced the
National Legislature unconstitutional has persis
tently and corruptly resisted BY every measure in
his power every proper attempt the reconstruction
of the States lately in rebellion; has perverted the
public patronage into engine of Wholesale corrup-
t. ~1aI
and mlsdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty
thereof by the voice Of thirty-fve Senators.
80. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Euro
pean Powers, that because q is q subject be
United States, as relic of the feudal time, not
thorised by the law of nations, and at with
national honor and independence, naturaized citizens
being entitled TO be protected in all their rights OF
- Though tnsy were "a ana
must be liable to arrest and Imprisonment by any
foreign power for acts done words spoken in this
duty Of the Government to interfere in his behalf.
40. Of all who faithful in the trials of the
late war, there were none entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who endur
ed the Hary1shps of campaign and cruise and iDper-
lied their lives in the service Of the country. The
ts
be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gall
liant dead the wards of the people, sacred legacy
bequeathed to the nations protecting care.
III. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added much 10 the wealth and development OF the
resources and increase OF power to tins naton the
asylum Of the oppressed Of all nations, should be os
tered and encouraged by liberal and inst policy.
all. This convention declares its sympathy with
all the oppressed people who struggling for their
rights"
"Resolred, That highly commend the spirit of
magnanimity and forgiveness with which men who
have served the rebellion but now frankly and hon
ssty cooperate with in restoring the peace OF the
country, and rsccnstructng the Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis of impartial justice and equal
rights received back into the communion of the
Icva onA fho of IL.
cations and restrictions imposed upon the late reb
els in the same the spirit of loyalty will
direct, may be consistent with the safety OF the
loyal people," lCries of Good good
''Resolred, That recognize the great principles
laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independ-
ment; and hail with gladness every effort toward
making theae principles living reality on every inch
Of American soil"