The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-20

The National Republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the city
of Chicago, the 2lst day of May, 1860, make the
following declaration of principles.
l. We congratulate the country on the assured
SUCCESS of the reconstruction policy of Congress-
evnced by the adoption, in the majority of the
States lately Ia rebellion OF constitutions securing
equal civil and political rights to all; and it is the
duty of the Government sustain those institutions
and to prevent the people of such States from being
RENTED to state of anarchy.
2. The guaranty by Congress of equal suffrage to
all loyal men at the South was demanded by every
consideration of public safety, of 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.
g. We denounce all forms of reputation as a ma
tionsl crime; and the national honor requires the
payment of tho public Indebtedness in the utter
most 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
tion should be equallzed, and reduced rapidly as
the national faith will permit. "a : Is
s. The national debt, contracted as 1t has been for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come
and it stLe duty Of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon whenever it can be honestly DONE
Q. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt Is to SO improve credit that capitalists will
seek loan money at lower rates of interest than
pay, and must continue to pay SO long as re-
pudiation partial total, open covert, is threat
en0d or suspected. a..
4. The Government of the United States should be-
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptions which have been shsmefuliy nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi
cal reform.
g. We profoundly deplors the untimey and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
the Presidency of Andrew johnson, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; who has usurped
high legislative and judicial functions; who has
fused to execute the laws who has used his high
oaC. fxl offfr IN Ir~l
the laws; who has employed his executive powers
to render insecure the property, the peace liberty
and life of the ctizsn who has abused the pardon
ing power; who has denounced the national legsla-
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 impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty.five
O. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Eu.
ropean powers, that because man is once subject
he ia always So must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States, relic of feudal times, an
thorized by the laws OF nations, and atwar with
national honor and independence. Naturaized cit.
liens entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they were native-born; and
citizen of the United States, native natural
zed must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by
any 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 hts be-
half
TO- OF all who were faithful In the trials of the
late war, there none entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who en-
dured the hardshps Of campaign and cruise and i'm
periiled their lives in the service of the country
the bountes and pensions provided by the laws for
these brave defenders of the nation obligations
never to be forgotten the widows and orphans of
the gallant dead are the wards Of the people-a
cred legacy bsqueaihed to the nations protecting
care.
IL. Foreign immigration which in the past has
added 80 much to the wealth. development, and re-
sources and increase of power to this republic the
asylum OF the oppressed of all nations, should be
ostered and encouraged by liberal and just policy.
IL This convention declares itself in sympathy
with all oppressed peopesstruggng for their rights.
ID. That we highly commend the spirit of mag
nanimity aud forbearance with which men who have
served in the rebellion, but who now frankly and
of tho country and reconstructing the SOUTH
ern 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 tina dsquaiihcstons and restrictions i'm
posed upon the late rebels in the measure
the spirit of disoyaity viii die out and may be
sistent with the safety Of the loyal people,
ID. That we recognize the great principles laid
down In the immortal Declaration of Inde pendelice
as the true foundation Of dei0ocratio government
aud hail with gadness every effort toward max.
ing these principles living rssity on every inch Of
American son. ~ !