The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-22
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

he National Republican party of the United
of Chicago, on the 2lst day of May 1886, make the
following declaration of principles:
/. We congratulate the country on the assured
OF the reconstruction policy of Congress- as
evlnced by the adoption, in the majority of the
States lately in rebellion of constitutions securing
equal civil and political rights to ALI and it is the
duty of the Government to sustain those institutions
and to prevent the people of such States from being
RENTED to a state of anarchy. 80 @ is--hsH
z. 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 q ma
tional 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.
H. 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. 'lltt
s. The national debt, contracted as 1t has been for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come
should be extended fair period for redemption
and 1t is TIE duty of Congress to reduce the rate
interest thereon whenever it be honestly done.
9. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt il to improve our credit that capitalists will
seek loan money at lower rates of interest than
we now pay, and must continue to pay long re-
pudaton, partial or total open or covert is threat
ened or suspected.
T. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptions which have been 30 shamefully nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson call loudly for rad-
cal reform.
g. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
to the Presidency of Andrew Johnson who has acted
trsacherousy 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 legsla-
turs as unconstitutional; who has persistenty and
corrupty 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 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
Senators.
9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Eu.
ropean powers, that because man Is subject
be is ways must be resisted at every hazard 10y
the United States, relic of feuda times not
thoized by the laws OF Dations, and atwar with
national honor and independence. Naturalized cit
liens entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship as though they were natiye-born; and
citizen of the United States, native or 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 his be-
half. lstl
10. OF all who were faithful In the trials of the
late war, there entitled to especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen 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 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
cred legacy bequea,hed to the nations protecting
| care.
II. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added much to the wealth, Development, and
sources and increase of power to this republic the
asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be
fostered and encouraged by liberal and just policy
IL This convention declares itself In sympathy
with all oppressed peoples struggling for their rights
| Is. That we highly commend the spirit of msg-
| nanmity and iorbearance 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 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 dqualificatons and restrictions inn
posed upon the late rebels in the same measure as
the spirit of disoyaty will die out aud as be con-
| sistent with the safety Of the loyal people.
Ia That We recognize the great principles laid
| down in the immortal Declaration of Independence,
| ss the true foundation OF democratic government
and we hail with gladness every effort toward max
ing these principles living reality on every inch Of
American soil.