The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-24
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

The National Republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the city
OF Chicago, on the 2st day of May, 1885, make the
following declaration of principles:
l, We congratulate the country the assured
success OF the reconstruction policy OF Congress-
evinced by the adoption, in the majority of the
equal civil and political rights to all; and 1t is the
duty of the Government to sustain those institutions
and to prevent the people of such States from being
RENTED to state of anarchy.
z The guaranty by Congress OF equal suffrage to
all loyal men OF the Houth 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 ma
tional crimes and the national honor 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 eaualized, and reduced as rapidly as
the national faith will permit
g. The national debt, contracted as it has been for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come,
should be extended over fair period for redempton
and it is the duty of Congress- to reduce the rate of
interest thereon whenever 1t can be honestly done.
g. That the best policy TO diminish our burden of
debt Is to improve credit that capitalists will
seek to loan money at lower rates of interest than
we now pay, and must continue to pay 30 long
puiaton, partial or total, open or covert threat
v The Government Of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptons which have been so shamefully nursed
and f1stered by Andrew johnson call loudly for rad-
cal reform. -
death Of Abraham Lincoln and regret the accession
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 re-
g., ha latug xub iUb
Office to induce other officers to ignore and violate
the laws; who has employed his executive powers
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
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 an engine of Wholesale cor
ruption and who has been justly impeached for
high crimes aud misdenleapors, and properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty five
Senators.
Q. The doctrine Of Great Britain and other Eu.
ropean powers, that because man Is a subject
he always must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States relic Of feudsl times not atl-
thorized by the laws of Iations, and atwar with
national honor and Independence. Naturalized cit
izeus are entitled protection in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they natiye-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 or words spoken in
this country and If arrested and imprisoned, 1t
is tho duty OF tho Government interfere In his be-
half.
To- 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 On
dured the hardships Of campaign and cruise, and Inn
perilled their lives In the service of the country
| the bouuties and pensions provided by the laws fol-
these brave defenders of the nation obligations
never to be forgotten the widows and orphans OF
the gallant dead the wards of the people--a sa
| cred legacy bequeahed to the nations protecting
| care.
| IL. Foreign immigration, which In the past has
| added much to the wealth, devoopement, aud re-
SOURCES and increase Of power to this republic the
| asyum Of the oppressed of all nations, should be
fostered and encouraged by liberal aud just policy
~ This convention declares itself In sympathy
with all oppressed peoples struggling for their rights
| 10. That we highly commend the spirit of mss
naninity 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 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 the dsqualiicstons and restrictions i'm
posed upon the late rebels In the measure as
the spirit OF disoyaty viii die out and may be con
zistent 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 we hail with gladness every effort toward max
ing these principles living reality on sEsry Inch o.
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