The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-21
rhe RepubIicans of south-Carolina.

The Republicans of South.Carolina.
The following principles have been laid
down by the Repub licans of South Carolina,
at Convention held on the 18th instant:
I. That, in order to make the labors of all
our loyal fellow citizens more effectual for
carrying out the provisions Of Congress, for
the restoration of law and order in our
State as well as for the peace and prosper
ity of our entire country, we, the people OF
South Carolina, do form ourselves into
political organization, to be known as the
Union Republican party of South Carolina.
III. That, as republican institutions cannot
be preserved unless intelligence be generally
diffused among all classes, we will favor a
uniform system of common schools and col
leges which shall be open to all, such system
to be supported by general tax upon all
kinds of property.
Ill That we will favor a liberal system of
public improvements, such as railroads,
canals, and other works and, also such
system of awarding contracts for the same,
as will give all our fellow-citizens an equal
and fair chance to share in them.
". That we will also insist upon such
mo LITIGATION of the laws of the State as will
do away with imprisonment for debt, except
for fraud, and imprisonment of witnesses,
except for willful absence, and, especially, to
abolish entirely and forever, the barbarous
custom of corporal punishment for crime, or
any other cause.
V. That as large land monopolies tend
only to make the rich richer, and the poor
poorer, and are ruinous to the agricultural,
commercial and social interests of the State
the Legislature should offer every practical
inducement for the division and sale of un-
occupied lands among the poorer classes,
and as an encouragement to immigrants to
settle in our State.
vi. That the law of ejectment and dis
traint should be so modified as to protect
equally the landlord and the tenant.
VII. That provision should be made for
the exemption of the "poor mans home
stead"
VIII. That the interests of the State de-
mand a revision of the entire code of laws
and the reorganization of the courts.
TX. That it is just and proper that all
taxes should be ad valorem and proportion
ed to the property of the citizens, and that
no capitation or poll tax should ever be le-
We'd in this State.
x. That the ballot being the surest safe
guard of the rights of the citizen, and Off
GERS OF the State should be elected by the
people
XI. That the poor and destitute, those
aged and inffrm people. houseless and home
less, and past labor, who have none to care
for them, should be provided for at the ex-
pense of the State; and that in the recon-
struetion of Our Government we will see
to it that they are not neglected and forgot
ten.
XII. That we give our cordial and entire
sanction to the action of Congress for the
restoration of the Union, and to the wise
and just principles of the Republican party !
XIII. That we will not support any can
didate for Office who will not openly indorse |
the principles adopted Ivy the Union Repub- |
lican party and that we pledge ourselves |
to stand by the regular nomination of the
party without any reservation whatever.
r. G. DELARGE, Chm'n.
E. W. NE. MACKEY,
R. II. CAIN.
Fl. J. MAXWELL,
W. J. WHIPPER,