The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-06
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

1he National Republican party of the Unite,
States assembled in National Convention In the cit,
of Chicago, on the 2lst day of May 1866 make Ia.
following declaration of principles
l. We congratulate the country on the asspraf
success of the reconstruction policy Congress a.
| evinced by the adoption, in the majority of tbf
Satos 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 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 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.
| 3. We denounce all forms of reputation as a M.
tional crime; and the national honor requires the
| payment of the public Indebtedness in the utter
most good faith to all creditors home aud abroad
not only according to letter, but the spirit of the
| laws under which it contracted.
4. It is due to the labor Of the nation that taxa
| tion should be equazed, and reduced az rapidly as
| the national faith will permit.
g. The national debt contracted as il has been for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come
should be extended over fair period for redemption
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate OF
interest thereon, whenever it be honestly done
9. That the best policy TO diminish our burden of
debt to so improve our credit that capitalists will
seek to loan us money at lower rates of interest than
we now pay and must continue 10 pay 80 long az re-
quotation, partial or total open covert threat
ened or suspected.
7. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptons which have been so sliemeftiliy nursed
and fstered by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi
cal reform.
s. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham lincoln and regret the accession
to the Presidency of Andrew johnson, who has acted
teacherousy 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
m indUn cfb TO
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 Iegisla-
ture unconstitutional; who has persisteptly 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 engine of wholesale cor
rupton; and who has been justly impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by tho vote of thirty five
Senator'S,
o. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Eu
ropean powers, that because man is a subject
he is always must be resisted at every hazard ty
the United States, relic of feudsl times not au-
thofiZed by the laws OF ations and az war with our
national honor and Independence. Naturalized cit
lions entitled TO protection in all their rights Of
citizenship as though they were nativeborn; and
citizen of the United States, native or natural
lied, must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by
any foreign power for acts done words spoken in
this country; and If SO arrested and imprisoned it |
is the duty OF the Government to interfere in his be-
half.
TO- or 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 hardships Of campaign and cruise and i'm
perillcd 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 are the wards of the people-a sa
cred legacy bequeathed to the nations protecting |
care.
II. Foreign immigration, which in The past has