The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-09
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATF0Rm.
The National Republican party of the United
States assembled in National Convention in the city
Of Chicago on the 21st day of May, 1866, make tho
following declaration of principles

L.
success OF the reconstruction policy OF Congress- as
eyinced by the adoption, in the majority OF the
States lately in rebellion, OF constitutions securing
equal civil and political rights to ALI and 1t is the
duty of the to sustain those institutions
and to prevent the people Of such States from being
RENTED to a state OF anarchy.
2 The guaranty by Congress OF equal Suffrage 10
all loyal men at the South was demanded by every
consideration of public safety, OF gratitude ana OF
instice and 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 as ma
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.
II is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equaized 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,
ehoud be extended fair period for redemption;
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate OF
interest thereon whenever it be honestly done.
| g. THAT the best policy to diminish our burden OF
debt Is to improve our credit that capitalists VIII
seek to loan us money at lower rates OF .an
pudiaton partial or total open or covert Is threat
| The (,oyernment of the United States should be
| administered with the strictest economy; and the
| corruptions which have been 80 shamefully nursed
and f1stered by Andrew johnson call loudly Tor rad
| cal reform.
| & We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession
TO the Presidency of Andrew Johnson who has acted
reacherousy to the people who elected MIN ana the
| cause he was pledged to support; who has usurped
high legislative aud judicial functions; who has re-
fused to execute the laws; who has used ms Llsh
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 ieglsla
| ture as unconstitutional who has persistenty and
oorruptly resisted, by every means in his power
every proper attempt OF the reconstruction 81 tne
| | g.. - Is, raha w nerVaEtaQ
public patronage into an engine of Wholesale cor
} ruption; and who has been justly impeached fol
high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro
nounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty fiv
Senators.
a The doctrine of Great Britain and other Eu
ropean powers, that because man is once su9jeo
he is always So must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States, relic of feudel times, not au
thorzed by the laws of nations and at war with on
national honor and independence. Natnralized CIT
liens are entitled to protection in all their rights
citizenship, as though they were native-born; an
no citizen of the United States, native or natural
: lied must be liable to arrest and imprisonment p
y any foreign power for acts done words spoken i
a this country; and if SO arrested and imprisoned
is the duty OF the Government to interfere In his b
j. half a., a,
late war there we're none entitled to more especii
= honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who ell
dured the hardshps of campaign and cruise, and In
nerjIIed their lives in the service of the country
the boanties and pensions provided py the laws Il
these brave defenders of the nation are obligation
|
the gallant dead are the wards Of the people--a 81
cred legacy bequealhed to the nations protectir
care. -, :. a.,
-, | added 40 much to the wealth, development, and
" sources, and increase Of power TO TINS repnohe u
ASYLUM of the oppressed of AL nations, shontd
fostered and encouraged by liberal and Just pole
49, This convention declares itself In sympatl
at with all oppressed peoples struggling Tor tner
r Is. That we highly commend the spirit OF me
., nanimity and forbearance with which men VINO ma
~ served in the rebellion, but who now frankly Al
iu honestly cooperate with in restoring the pea
u Of tho country and reconstruetng the eout
iustice and equal rights are received back into I
communion Of the loyal people, and rn we iaxor
removal of the dsqualifcations ana restrletons
nosed upon the late rebels in the same measure
the spirit of disoyalty will die out ana as may De CO
,in sistent with the safety of the loyal people. :,
IA That we recognize the great principles Il
oh down in the immortal Declaration OF independent
as the true foundation of democratic goyernmeI
and we hail with gladness every effort toward ma
ing these principles living reality on every anen
American soil.