The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-11
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

The National Republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the city
Of Chicago on the 2lst day of May 1896, make the
following declaration of principles;
l. We congratulate the country on the assured
OF the reconstruction policy OF Congress. as
ey.uced by the adoption, in the majority of the
States lately ia rebellion of constitutions securing
equal civil and polit al rights 10 ALI and 1t 10 the
duty of the Government to sustain those institutions
and to prevt n the people of such states from being
remitted to y state OF anarchy.
z. he guaranty by Congress Of equal suffrage to
all loyal men at the South was demanded by every
consideration of public safety. of gratitude aud of
lust CO. and must be maintained; while the question
of ,utrage in all the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those States.
g. We aenounce all forms of reputation ma
tionl crime; and the national honor requires the
payment of the public Indebtedness in the utter
good faith to all creditors at home aud abroad
not only according to letter. but the spirit of the
laws under which it was contracted,
a. 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equazed, and reduced as rapidly as
the national faito will permit.
g. The national deb, contracted as it has been for
the prese vaton 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
interest thereon whenever it be honestly done.
@. That the best policy to diminish burden OF
debt is improve our credit that capitalists viii
seek loan money at lower rates of interest than
we pay, and must continue 10 pay 30 long re-
cned or suspected.
T. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; end the
corruptiops which have been shamefully nursed
and ster by Andrew johnson call Loudly for radi-
cal reform.
s. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret thu accession
to the Presiden y Andrew johnson, who has acted
treachsrousy to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support who has usurped
hig legislative and judicial functions; who has re.
ed to mt la lava has MA 18th
Office 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 l-gsIa-
ture as unconstitutiona; who has persstently and
corruptly resisted, by every means in his power,
every proper attempt at the eooLstruction of the
States lately in rebellion; who has perverted the
public patronage into an engiue of Wholesale cor
ruption; and who has been justly impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors, aud properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the vote OF thirty five
Senator'S
g. The doctrine of Great Britain aud other Eu.
ropean powers that because q man is once a subject
he is al must be resisted at every hazard 10y
the United States, as relic of feuda times not au-
thoized by the laws OF lations, and war with our
national honor and independence. Naturalized cit
zens entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they were Dative-born; and
no citizen of the United States native natural.
lied must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by
apy foreign power for acts done words spoken in
this country and if arrested and imprisoned, it
is the 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 bardsps of campaign and cruise, aud i'm
peried their lives in the service of the country
the bounties and pensions provided lay the laws for
these brave defenders of the nation Obligations
never to be forgotten the widows and orphans OF
the gallant dead the wards of the peoplea sa-
cred legacy bequea he'd to the nations protecting
care.
ii. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added much to the wealth, deveopenent, and re-
sources and increase of power to this republic the
asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be
fosered and encouraged by liberal and just policy
IL This convention declares itself in sympathy
with all oppressed peoples struggling for their rights
49, That we highly commend the spirit of M e.
nanimity and foebearance with which men who have
served in the rebellion, bu' who frankly and
honestly cooperate with in restoring the peace
of tho country and reconstructing the South
era State governments upon ths basis of impartial
justice and equal rights, received back into the
communion OF the loyal pc pie; and favor the
removal of the di,qua iic.tons aud restrictions im
posed upon the late rebels In the same measure a,
the spirit Of dsloyaty will dia out and as may he
sistent with the safety Of the loyal people
IA. That We recognize the great principles lait
down in the immortal Declaration of Independence
as tho true foundation OF democratic government
and We hail with gadness every effort toward max
ing those principles living reality every inch
American anil.