The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-05

Ihe National Republican party of the United |
States, assembled in National Convention in the city
of Chicago, on the 2lst day of May, 1885, make tho
following declaration of principles
l. We congratulate the country on tho assured
success of the reconstruction policy of Congress,
eylnced by the adoption, in the majority OF the
States 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 a state OF anarchy.
q The guaranty by Congress of equal suffrage to
all loyal men at the South was demanded by every
consideration Of public safety, OF gratitude ana OF
Justice and must be maintained; while the question
Of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those States.
r We deuounce 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 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 equalized, and reduced "a 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 fair period for redemption;
and IL is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate OF
interest thereon, whenever it can be honestly done.
8. 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 interest than
we now pay and must continue TO pay 80 long as re-
pudation partial total open or covert, Ia threat
ened or suspected - .
| administered with the strictest economy; and the
| corruptions which have been 80 shamefuly nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi-
8. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
| death of Abraham Lincoln and regret the accession
TO the Presidency of Andrew johnson, who has acted
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-
fused to execute the laws; who has used his high
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 mower: who has denounced the national legisa-
ture as unconstitutional who has persistently and
corruptly resisted by every means IN ms 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 impeacned ioi
| bi9h crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro
| nounced guilty thereof by the vote OF thirtyhy'
| Senators. n
/ ronean powers that because man is once subject
he ia ALWAYS 3d. must be resisted at every hazard by
tha United States as relic of feudal times not
thorized by the laws Q. nations ana win ou t
liens are entitled to protection in all their rights
citizenship, though they were natiye-born; ant
no citizen of the United States, native or natural
ized must be liable to arrest and imprisonment b,
auy foreign power for acts done or words spoken
this country and, if so arrested and imprisoned,
the duty of the Government to interfere IN MS DC
half.
| 10 of all who were faithful in the trials of tn
| late war there were none entitled to more especia
honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who en-
dured the hardships of campaign and cruise and i'm
| perled their lives in the service OF the country
the bounties and pensions provided by the laws 10
: these brave defenders of the nation are obligation
never to be forgotten the widows and orphans o
the gallant dead the wards of the peopie-a 90
= cred legacy bequeathed to the nations protectin
u care. -, =,
IL. Foreign immigration which in the past he
s added so much to the wealth, developement and 7
sources and increase of power to this republic tn
asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should :
ostered and encouraged by liberal and just pole
r. This convention declares itself in sympath
with all oppressed peoples struggling for their right
N 49, That we highly commend the spirit OF ma
- nanimity and forbearance with which men VINO nay
it served in the rebellion, but who now frankly al
honestly cooperate with US in restoring the pea
of tho country and reconstructing the sout
. | err State governments upon the basis OF lmparti
Justice and equal rights, received back into
r. communion of the loyal people; and we favor u
removal of the disqualiicatons and restrictions IL
10 posed upon the late rebels in the same measure
the spirit of dsloyalty will die out and as may be 60
Is sistent with the safety of the loyal people.
~ IA That we recognize the great principles la
~ down in the immortal Declaration OF Independent
q. as the true foundation of democratic government
and we hail with gladness every effort toward ma
OF ing these principles living reality on every inch
- American soil