The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-26
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

2he National Republican party of the United
of Chicago, on the 2lst day of May, 1885, make the
following declaration of principles:
l. We congratulate the country the assured
evInced 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 state of anarchy
2. 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 tho question
of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs
to the people of those States
3. We denouncs all forms of reputation as q ma
tionsl 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.
4. 1t Is due to the labor of the nation that taxa
tiou should be equalzed, and reduced rapidly as
the national faith will permit.
8. The national debt, contracted 1t has been for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come
should be extended fair period for redemption
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon whenever 1t be honestly done.
g. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to improve our credit that capitalists will
seek to loan money at lower rates of interest than
we now pay, and must continue to pay 30 long
pudiation, partial total open or covert is threat
ened or suspected.
T. The Government of tho United States should be
administered with the strictost economy; and the
corruptions which have been shamefuliy nursed
and flstered by Andrew johnson call loudly for radi
cal reform.
g. 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 power; who has denounced the national legisla-
ture unconstitutional; who has persistently 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 an engine of wholesale cor
rupton; and who has been Justly impeached for
high crimes and msdemeanors, and properly pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty five
Senators.
g. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Eu.
ropean powers, that because man is once subject
he is always So must be resisted at every hazard by
the United States as relic of feudal times, not
thorized by the laws OF nations, and at with
national honor and independence. Naturalized cit
liens entitled to protection in all their rights OF
citizenship, as though they were native born; and
no 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 arrested and imprisoned it
Ii the Cuty OF Tue TO interfere In bis be-
half
10. 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 en-
dured the hardships OF campaign and cruise and i'm
porilled their lives in the service of the country
the bounties and pensions provided by the laws for
these brave defenders of the nation obligations
never to be forgotten; the widows and orphans of
the gallant dead are the wards of the people-a
cred legacy bequeathed to the nations protecting
IL. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added 80 much to the wealth, development, and
sources and increase of power to this republic the
asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should BIO
fostered and encouraged by liberal and just policy.
II. This convention declares itself in sympathy
with all oppressed peoples struggling for their rights
10. That we highly commend the spirit of mag
nanmity and forbearance with which men who have
served in the rebellion, but who now frankly and
honestly cooperate with in restoring the peace
Of tho country and reconstructng the eouth-
ern State governments upon the basis of impartial
justice and equal rights received back into the
communion OF the loyal people; aud we favor the
removal of the dsquafcations aud restrictions i'm
posed upon the late rebels in the same measure as
the spirit of disoyalty will die out aud may be
sistent with the safety of the loyal people,
IA That VIC recognize the great principles laid
down in the immort, Declaration of Independence,
as the true foundation of democratic government
and hail with gladness every effort toward max.
ing these principles living reality every inch OF
American soil.