The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-26
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

The National Republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the city
Of Chicago, on the 21st day of May, 1885, make the
following declaration of principles;
l. We congratulate the country on the assured
success of the reconstruction policy of Congress-
evinced by the adoption, in the majority of the
States lately in rebellion of constitutions securing
equal civil and political rights to ALL and it is the
duty of the Government to sustain those institutions
and 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 oil the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those States.
8. We denounce all forms of reputation as ma
tional crime; and the national homer 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.
A. 1t is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equalized, and reduced as rapidly as
the national faith will permit.
s. The national debt, contracted it has been for
the preservation of the Union for all time to eome
should be extended fair period for redemption
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate OF
interest thereon whenever it be honestly done.
g. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve credit that capitalists will
seek to money at lower rates of interest than
we now pay and must continue to pay so long as re-
7. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptions which have boon shamefuliy nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi-
cal REFORM
death of Abraham Lincoln and regret the accession
to the Presidency of Andrew johnson, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
he pledged to Mno hai
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 impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty-fve
Senators.
ropean powers, that because man is once subject
he is always must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States as relic OF feuda times not au-
thorized by the laws of nations and at war with
national honor and independence. Haturalized cit
liens entitled to protection in ell their rights Of
citizenship az though they were native-born; and
no citizen of the United States, native natural.
ized must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by
any foreign power for acts done words spoken in
this country; and If 80 arrested and imprisoned, ii
the OF tuc III H5 Do-
half
TO- or all who were faithful In the trials of the
late war there we're none entitled to especial
honor than the brave soldiers and Beamen who en-
dured the hardshps of campaign and cruise, and i'm
! perled their lives in the service of the country
the bounties and pensions provided by the laws fol
these brave defenders OF the nation are obligations
never to be forgotten the widows and orphans OF
the gallant dead the wards of the peopie-a sa-
cred legacy bequeathed to the nations protecting
care.
IL. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added SO much to the wealth, Development, and re-
sources and increase of power to this republic the
asyum of the oppressed Of all nations, should be
fostered and encouraged by liberal and just policy
| H. This convention declares itself in sympathy
with all oppressed peoples struggling for their rights
| Is. That we highly commend the spirit of meg
| nanmity and forbearance with which men who have
| served in the rebellion, but who now frankly and
honestly cooperate with us in restoring the peace
| of tho country and reconstructng the South
| err 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 dsqualihcatons and restrictions i'm
posed upon the late rebels in the measure a,
the spirit of disoyalty will die out and may be con
| sistent with the safety of the loyal people,
a. That we recognize the great principles laid
down in the immortal Declaration of Independence
| as the true foundation of democratic government
and we hail with gladness every effort toward max
log these principles living reality on every inoh
| American soil,