The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-23
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

The National Republican party of the Unite
States, assembled in National Convention in the cit
of Chicago, on the 2lst day of May, 1866 make tn
following declaration of principles
1. We congratulate the country on the assure,
success of the reconstruction policy of Congress-
evinced by tho adoption, in the majority of th
States lately in rebellion of constitutions securin,
equal civil and political rights to all; and it is TIL
duty of the Government to sustain those institution
and to prevent the people Of such States from bein.
| RENTED to q state of anarchy.
| 2. The guaranty by Congress Of equal suffrage t.
| all loyal men at the South was demanded by every
consideration of public safety, of gratitude, and o.
Justice and must be maintained while the question
of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs
| to the people of those States. ri
g. We denounce all forms of repudation as ma.
tional crime and the national honor REQUIRES the
payment Of the public Indebtedness in the utter
most good faith to all creditors at home and abroad
not only according to letter. but the spirit Of the
laws under which it was contracted.
4. 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxa.
tion should be equalized, and reduced ID rapidly
the national faith will permit.
8. The national debt contracted as it has been for
the preservation of the Union for all time te come
should be extended fair period for redemption:
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate
interest thereon, whenever 1t can be honestly DONE
9. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt Is to so improve credit that capitalists will
seek to loan us money at lower rates interest than
we now pay and must continue to pay so long as re-
fe~ti, P"A " e0."is WV VI cVFcfb, IL threat
ened or suspected. - W 3gssff fi+f3
z. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptions which have been SO shamefuliy nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi
cal reform. i+ fftill4-4H fat i'a. iaI
8. We profoundly deplore the untimey and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
to the Presidency of Andrew Johnson who has acted
trescherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; who has usurped
high legislative and judicial functions; who has re.
fused to execute the laws; who has used his high
Office to induce other officers to ignore and violate
the laws; who has employed his executive powers
to render insecure the property, the peace liberty
and life of the citizen; who has abused the pardon
ing power; who has denounced the national legisla-
ture as unconstitutional; who has persistently and
corruptly resisted, by every means in his power
every proper attempt at the reconstruction of the
States lately In rebellion; who has perverted the
public patronage into an engine of wholesale cor
ruption; and who, has been Justly impeacbed for
high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro.
Senators.
9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other En-.
ropean powers, that because man is subject
he always must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States, relic of feudsl times not atI-
thorzed by the laws of nations, and atwar with our
national honor and independence. NaturaIized eli.
zens are entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they were native born and
no citizen of the United States native or natural.
lied, must be liable to arrest aud imprisonment by
any foreign power for acts done words spoken in
tHlb country anu, III SO arrested and imprisoned. ii
- tho duty of the Government to interfere in his be-
half | " =
10. OF all who were faithful in the trials of the
late war, there were entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who en-
dured the hardships Of campaign and cruise and i'm
porilled their lives in the service of the country
the bounties and pensions provided by the laws for
these brave defenders of the nation are obligations
never to be forgotten; the widows and orphans OF
the gallant dead the wards Of the people-a ga
cred legacy bequeathed to the nations protecting
care. s4
IL. Foreign immigration, which in The past has
added SO much to the wealth, developement and res
sources, and increase of power to this republic the
asylum of the oppressed of all nations should be
fostered and encouraged by liberal and lust policy
H. This convention declares itself In SYMPATHY
with all oppressed peoples struggling for their rights
IL. That we highly commend the spirit of mag
nanimity and forbearance with which men who have
served in the rebellion, but who now frankly and
honestly cooperate with in restoring the peace
OF tho country and reconstructing the South
era State governments upon the basis of impartial
Justice and equal rights received back into the
communion OF the loyal people; and we favor the
removal of the dsquaiicatons and restrictions i'm,
posed upon the late rebels in the same measure as
the spirit OF disloyalty will die out aud as may be cor
sistent with the safety Of the loyal people,
. L. That we recognize the great principles laid
down In the Immortal Declaration of Independence
ls tho true foundation of democratic government
and we hail with gadness every effort toward maxi
lpg these principles living reality every inch Of
American soil,