The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-14

of Chicago on the 2lst day OF May, 1866, make the
following declaration Of principles:
/. We congratulate the country on the assured
success OF the reconstruction policy OF Congress,
evinced by tue adoption, in the majority of the
States lately ia rebellion, OF constitutions securing
equal civil and political rights to ALI and it is the
duty of the Government to sustain those institutions
aud TO prevent the people of such States from being
RENTED TO a state of anarchy.
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, aud must be maintained; while the question
of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those States.
8. We denounce all forms of reputation es ma
tionh crime; and the national honor requires the
payment of the 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
ton should be eaualzed, and red1ced rapidly as
ths national faitn will permit.
s. The national debt, contracted as 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 reduce the rate of
interest thereon whenever II can be honestly done.
g. That the best policy to diminish burden of
debt Is improve our credit that capitalists will
seek loan money at lower rates of interest than
we now pay and must continue 10 pay 30 long as
pudaton, partial total, open covert is threat
ened or suspected.
7. Tho Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptons which have been SO shamef1lly nursed
and fjstered by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi
cal reform.
8. We profoundly deplorp the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
the Presidency OF Andrew Johnson, who has acted
treacherously the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; who has usurped
high legislative and judicial functons; who has ie-
fused to execute the lava who has used his iigh
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 legisla
ture unconstitutional who has persistently and
corruptly reslsted by every means in his power,
every proper attempt ct the reconstruction of the
States lately in rebellion; who has perverted the
public patronage into an engine of Wholesale
ruption; and who has been justly impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty five
9. The doctrine of Great Britain aud other Eu.
ropean powers, that because man is once subject
he is so must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States, relic of feudal times, not
thofized by the laws of Lations and at war with
national honor and independence. Naturalized cit
liens are entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship as though they wore Dativeborn; ana
no citizen OF the United States, native or natural.
zed must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by
any foreign power for acts done or words spoken in
this country and ii arrested and Imprisoned it
Is the duty the Government to interfere in his be-
half.
late war there we're entitled to more especial
honor than the brave soldiers aud seamen who en-
dured the hardshps Of campaign and cruise, and inn
peried their lives in the service OF the country
the bounties aud pensions provided by the laws for
these brave defenders OF the nation are obligations
never to be forgotten the widows aud orphans of
the gallant dead the wards of the peope-a sa-
cred legacy bequea,hed 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
asylum of the oppressed OF all nations should DO
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 m e.
nanimity and forbearance with which men who have
served ia the rebellion, but who now frankly and
honestly cooperate with us in restoring the pence
Of the 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 pe,pe and we favor the
removal of the disquaifcAtlons and restrictions i'm
posed upon the late rebels In the same measure as
the spirit of dsloyaty will die out and as may 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,
| as the true foundation OF democratic government
and wo hail with gadness every effort toward max.
Ing these principles living reality on every inch Of
American sou.