The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-15
Union Republican Platform.

"a Ihet following is the platform adopt-
ed Dy the Republican Convention, at
Chicago, on1Thursday the 2lst day of
May, tlSbS. Illa4 s#F Fn.liafF aHf-rs
The National Republican party of
the u nlted States, assembled in Ma
tional Oonventionin the city of Chi
cago, on the Goth day of Nav. 1868.
make the following declaration of
principles: G ra SD etf Er affs
4. We congratulate the country on
the assured success ofthe reconstfuc-
ton policy Of Congress as evinced by
the adoption, 10 o majority of the
States lately In rebellion, of Consti-
tutlons securing equal civil and polit-
lcal rights to all; and we regard IL
as the duty of the Government to sus-
tain those institutions, and to pre
vent the people of such States from
being remitted to a state of anarchy.
z. The guarantee by Congress of
equal isufrage to all loyal men in the
South was demanded by every con-
sideration of public safety. of graft
tude, and must be maintained: while
the question of suffrage in all the
loyal, States properly belongs TO the
people of those States. rlr
l.
diation as national crimes, and the
national honor requires the payn. ent
OF the public indebtedness, in the
utmost good faith, to all creditors. at
home and abroad, not only according
to the letter but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
q. Lit is due to the labor of the na-
ton that taxation should be equalized
and reduced as rapidly as our nation
al faith will permit.
B. 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
redemption; and it is the duty of
Congress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon, whenever it can honestly be
done.sss sa .Htrrg. ro
6. That the best policy to diminish
our burden of debt is to so improve
our credit that capitalists will seek TO
loan us money at lower rates of intcr-
st1than VIC now pay, and must con-
tlnue to pay, so long as Reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, is
threatened or suspected. h
Z z. The Government of the United
States should be administered with
the strictest economy, and corrup-
tons which have bcen so shame
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson, call loudly for radical re-
form. itt ~ sn1
8. We profoundly deplore the un-
timely and tragic death of Abraham
Lincoln, and Tegret the accession of
Andrew johnson to the Presidency,
who has acted treacherously to the
neople who elected him and the cause
he was pledged to support, has usurp-
ed high legislative aud judicial func-
tions; has refused to execute the
laws; has used his high Office to in
duce other officers to ignore and vio-
late the laws; has employed his ex-
ecutIve powers TO render insecure the
peace, liberty and life of
the citizens; has abused the pardon
ing power; has denounced the Ma
tlonal Legislature as unconstitutional;
has persistently and corruptlf resist
ed, by every measure in his power,
every proper attempt at the recon-
struction Of the States lately IN re-
bellion; has perverted the public pat
ronage into an engine of wholesale
corruption, and has been justly I'M
peached for high crimes and mlsde-
meanors, and properly pronounced /
guilty thereof by the votes OF thirty
i've Senators.
8. The doctrine of Great Britain
and other European Powers, that be-
cause man is once subject he is
always SO, must be resisted at every
hazard by the United States, as a
relic of the feudal time, not author
Zed by the law of nations, and at
war with our national honor and in
dependence, naturalized citizens be- {
ng entitled to be protected in all ]
heir rights of citizenship, as though
hey were natural born; and no citi-
zen of the United States, natural or
must be liable to arrest
md imprisonment by any foreign C
power, for acts done or words spoken
"a this country; and ifso arrested ana
imprisoned, it is the duty of the Gov
srnment to interfere in his DenaH'
10. of all who were faithful IN the 4
,rials of the late war, there were nohe %
entitled to more especlal honor 1han
he brave soldiers and seamen who
,ndured the hardships of campaign
nd oruise. and Imperlled their lives
y n, the service of their country. The
counties and pensions provided by