Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-05-24

board. Price of board to laboring men
per week.
A Miserable Compound ofFraud
and Folly.
The platform adopted by the Chicago
Convention on Thursday. is a miserable
of fraud and folly, prepared
with special view Of evading every ma
terial issue, and yet sought to be clothed
in such language as to deceive, while it is
hoped thereby to catch men of all shades
of opinion on every question. The first
declaration is in these words;
lst. That the history of the nation during the
last four years has fully established the propiiety
and necessity of the organization and the perpetu-
alton of the Republican party and that the causes
whcd called it into existence are permanent in
their nature, and now, more than ever before, de-
inand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.
Mr.. Giddings, of Ohio, moved to
amend this vague and indefinite declara
ton, by adding thereto the following:
That we solemnly re assert the self evident
truths that all men are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights, among which are,
those oflife, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
to secure the enjoyment Of these rights,
Mr.. Carter, of Ohio, said the PROPOSE
ton of NJ. Giddings was all gas; Mr..
Thayer, Of Oregon, said the amendment
embodied great truths. but many great
truths were left out of the Declaration of
Independence; that he believed in the ten
commandments, but did not desire that
they be put in the platform, and Mr.. Gid
dings' amendment was lost by large
majority! Thust he Conv ention repudi-
ated by direct vote the chief plank in
the Philadelphia platform of 1856, and
yet the politicians and press of the party
will no doubt argue to the people, that
the substance of the amendment may be
found in some of the vague and indefinite
resolutions Of which the platform is COM
posed.
The twelfth plank, which is designed
as the tariff part of the platform, is liable
to any and every construction. 1t may
he claimed as much for free trade as for
projections as much for agriculture as for
manufactures; aud as decidedly favorable
to commerce as against both the former.
Here it is:
l2h. That, while providing revenue for the
support of the General Government by duties up
on imports, sound policy requires such an adjust
ment Of these imports as to encourage the devel-
apment of the industrial interests of the whole
country and we commend that policy of national
exchanges which secures to the working men lib
eral wages, to agriculture remunerating prices, to
mechanics and manufacturers AN adequate reward
for their skill labor and enterprise and to the ma
ton, commercial prosperity and independence.
The fourteenth resolution, which is
designed to propit:ate that portion of the
German vote which now acts with the
Republicans, is in theso words:
18th. That the National Republican party is
opposed to any change in our naturalization laws,
or any State legislation by which the rights of
citizenship hitherto accorded to immigrants from
foreign lands shall be abridged or impaired, and
are in favor of giving full and efficient protec-
ton to the rights ofal classes of citizens whether
native or naturazed, both at home ond abroad,
Mr.. Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, moved
to strike out of the above the words "or
any State legislation, believing that they
nigh: be construed as an attack on State
rights, and rebuke to Massachusetts, for
her laws discriminating against natural
lied citizens, by requiring two years
residence in the State before they should
exercise the right of voting. He was re-
minded that there was no such intention
and that the case of Massachusetts hat
been provided for in the fourth resolution
in the following language:
4th. That the maintenance invoate of thu
rights of the States, and especially of the right o
each State to order and control its own domestic
institutions, according to its own judgment, is es
sental to that balance of power ON which the per
fection and endurance of our political fabric de
pends.
10 this Mr.. Wilmot said, he Nigh
have misunderstood the fourteenth reso
luton. "EIe thought the resolution de
MED the right ofany State to change thei
laws relative to the votes of naturalizeC
citizens. 1t had been explained that the
resolution did not deny the right of {
State to pass such laws" and he with
drew his amendment. Thus the German
Republican can take the fourteenth reso
luton and urge that it protects the foreign
born citizen from such prescription a
that now existing in Massachusetts, ant
the Know Nothings can take the fourtl
resolution and prove that it sustains sucl
proscriptive legislation as each State ma,
choose to adopt against naturalized citi
zens!
We might pursue the comparison ant
show that in every one of the resolution
adopted there is settled purpose to com
nit fraud upon the voters of the coun
try by the managers of the Chicago Con
vention.
There is studied effort running through
the whole of the Platform to impress tn
belief that the Republican party is no
sectional, but national, whereas Mr.
James, an intelligent delegate from tn
State of New York, declared in his plac
in the Convention, on Thursday, "tha
only teventeen out of the thirty tn re
States were represented" 1t was foil,
to call the self constituted delegates from
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, &c, rep
resentatives of those States, since it
known that there is no Republican part
in them, and hence no constituents 10
these men to represent.
Take the platform of principles, or n
principles, or all principles, just as me
may choose to designate it, and its equs
for attempt at evasion, misrepresentation
and fraud, is not to be found in any othe
production that ever emenated from an
former Convention Of any party in thi