The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-07-31
PLATFORM OF THE UNION REPUBLICAN PAR.
TY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

PLATFORM OF THE UNION REPUBLICAN PAR
TY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 81.
The following is the platform adopted BY the
Convention assembled in Columbia last week, to
which reference ismade nsanoth Her column s.:
Fl. That.in order:tos make the laborsof oil our
loyal fellow citizens more eectua for carrying out
the provisions of Congress, for the restorationof
Law and order in our State well as for the peace
and prosperity of our entire country We, the peo-
pie Of South Carolina, do form ourselves into o
political organization to be known as the Union
Republican party of South Carolina.
2 That as republican institutions cannot bepre-
served, unless intelligence be generally difused
among all classes, we will favor q uniform system
of free schools and colleges, which shall be open
| to all.
g. That we will favor liberal system of public
Improvements, such as railroads, canals and other
works, and also such system Of awarding con-
tracts for the same will give al our fellow.citi
zens an equal and fair chance to share in them.
f. That as large land monopoIss tend only to
make erich richer and the poor poorer, and are
ruinous to the agricultural, commercial and social
interests of the State the Legislature should offer
every practicable inducement for the division and
sale of unoccupied lands among the poorer classes
and as an encouragement to immigrants to settle
| in our State.
g. That the interests of the State demand re-
vision Of the entire code of laws and the re-organ
ization of the courts.
g. That it is just and proper that taxes should
be ad ualorm, and proportional to the property of
the citizens
7. That the ballot being the surest safeguard of
the rightsof the citizen all executive and legsla-
tive officers of the State should be elected by the
people; therefore,
Resolued, That, in our opinion, purely rcpub-
lican government is maintained only by making
our rulers responsible directly to the people by
frequent elections-not by the Legislature, butby
the people themselves therefore;
Resolped, That the delegates We shall send to
the Constitutional Convention about 10 be called
By the Commanding General, be instructed to so
frame our new Constitution, that the Governor and
Council, Senator'S and Representatives of the State
Legislature, and oil subordinate officers, except
those Of the Judiciary Department, be chosen by
the people, to hold their respective Offices, not for
two years, but for one year. And that, in the
election of President and Vice-President of the
United States, chosen every four years, the cleo
tors, as they now in every other State in the
Union, shall be chosen by the people directly, and
not by the members of the Legislature.
! s. That the poor and destitute, those aged and
infrm people, houseless and homeless, and past
labor, who have none to care for them, should be
provided for at the expense of the State and that,
in the reconstruction of our Government, We will
see to it that they notneglected and forgotten.
0. That the unhappy policy pursued by Andrew
Johnson is, in its effects upon the loyal people Of
the South, unjust, oppressive and intolerabe; and
accordingly, however ardently we desire to see
our State once more restored to its proper posi-
] tion in the Union, we would dcplore restoration
on any other conditions than those prescribed by
the fortieth Congress, to which we give our cor
dial and entire sanction, believing the principles
enunciatcd by the Republican party, through that
Congress, to be just and wise.
10. That the adverse discrimination towards the
agricultural laborers of the Southern States, as
manifested by tho enormous tax on cotton, is un-
just and oppressive, and should be abrogated at
the earliest practicable moment.
IL. That We sincerely exult in the fact that, as
q nation, we are now absolutely nation of free
men, and that, from the st. Lawrence tothe Rio
Grande, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the
sun no longer shines upon the brow of q slave.
12. That q wise care for the public safety some
times renders it necessary that those who have
sought rcsolutely to overthrow Government
should not hastily DO restored to the privileges Of
which they have deprived themselves by their
crime of trcason-certainly not until they have
shown evidence Of sincere repentance, and dis.
position as encrgctically Ito SUPP OFT as they have
in times past sought TO destroy the Union; and
that We consider willingness on the part of these
men to elevate to power The men who preserved
unswerving adherence to tho Government during
the war, asthe best test Of sincerity in professions
| for the future. y
13. That VIC will not support any candidate for
Office who will not openly endorse the principles
adopted by the Union Republican party; and that
VIC pledge ourselves to stand by the regular NOM
ination of the party, without any reservation
whatever.
DIFFICULTY AT MARION COURT HOUSE.
The Marion Star contains the following account
of conflict between the civil authorities and the
military stationed at that post:
There occurred at this place on Saturday last q
most unfortunate and mischievous collision Of the
military authority with the regular administration
of justice. A freedman, named Ben. Finklea, had
been arrested and imprisoned, under due process of