The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-24
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

The National Republican party of the United
States assembled National Convention in the city
OF Chicago, on the 2lst day of May 1886, make the
following declaration of principles:
l. We congratulate the country on the assured
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 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 o state OF anarchy.
2. The guaranty by Congress of equal suffrage to
all loyal men ut the South was demanded by every
consideration of public safety Of gratitude, and of
justice, and must be main taned; while the question
Of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those States.
8. We denouncs all forms of reputation as a
tional 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.
f. 1t lie due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be eaualzed and reduced as rapidly
the national faith will permit.
g. The national debt, ntfacted as 1t has been for
the preservation of tho Union for all time to come,
should be extended over fair period for redemption;
and it ID the duty of Congress to reduce the of
interest thereon, whenever 1t be honestly DONE
8. That the best policy to diminish burden of
debt is to improve credit that capitalist will
seek to loan money at lower rates of interest than
we pay and must continue 10 pay SO long as re-
pudaton, partial or total open covert is threat
7. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy; and the
corruptions which have been SO shsmefully uursed
and stored by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi
cal reform.
8. We profoundly deplore the untimsly and tragic
death Of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
to this Presidsn y of Andrew Johnson who has acted
treachsrousy to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; who has usurpod
high legislative and judicial functions; who has
fused to execute the laws who has used his high
IN ind nj AID oil
the laws; who has employed his executive powers
to render insecure the property the peace, liberty
and life of the citizsn who has abused the pardon
ing power; who has denounced the national lsgi5la-
ture as unconstitutional; who has persistently aud
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 misdemeaDors 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 q subject
he always SO must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States, a relic of feudal times,
thorized by the laws OF rations and with
national honor and independence. Naturalized cit
liens are entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they were native born; and
no citizen of the United States, native natural
lied, must be liable to arrest aud imprisonment by
any foreign power for acts done or words spoken in
this country and II SO arrested and imprisoned it
ia the duty of the Government to interfere in his be-
half.
TO- or all who faithful In the trials of the
late war, there were none entitled to especial
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who en-
dured the hardships Of campaign and cruise and i'm
periled their lives in the service of the country
the bounties and pensions provided 10y the laws for
these brave defenders of the nation obligations
never to be forgotten the widows and orphans of
the gallant dead the wards Of the peope-a sa-
cred legacy bsqueathed to the nations protecting
care.
IL. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added much to the wealth. devslopement and re-
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 ghts
Is. That we highly commend the spirit of mag
nanimity and forbearance with which men who have
| served In the rebellion, bu' who now frankly and
honestly cooperate with us in restoring the peace
| of tho country and reconstructing the South
State governments upon the basis of impartial
justice and equal rights are received back into the
| communion OF the loyal people, and we favor the
removal of the disqua and restrictions i'm
posed upon the late rebels in the same measure as
the spirit of dsloyalty will die out, and may be
sistent with the safety of the loyal people.
IA. That 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 every inch Of
American soil.