The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-06-05

good faith, with economy, and witt
the view of giving peace, quiet ant
protection everywhere.
In times like the present it is i'm
possible, or at least eminently i'm
proper, to lay down q policy to b.
adhered to, right or wrong, through
an administration of four years. NeI
political issues not foreseen are con
stantly arising The views of the
public on old ones are constanti'
changing Ind purely administra
tive officer should be left free to exc
cute the will of the people. ] hav'
always respected thatiwill and alway
shall.
Peace and universal prosperity, IT
sequence, with economy OF admins
tration, will tighten the burden Q
taxation, while it constantly reduce
the Dational debt. Let us have peace
with gyeRt respect,
voar obedieat servant,
U. S. GIANT.
The following is the reply !" opsah
er Colfax to the committee announ.
ing his nomination by the Chicag
Convention
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 80, '6s.
To Hon. j. Il. Hasoley, President Q
the National Union Republican Con
ve,ation.
DEAR SIR: The platform adopt
ed by the patriotic Convention owe
which you presided, and the resolu
tions which so happily supplement il
so entirely agree with my views a
to q just national policy. that m.
thanks are due to the delegates a
much for this clear and suspicious
declaration of principles, as for tn
nomination with which / have beel
honored, and which gratefully &C
cept.
When a great rebellion which i'm
perilled the national existence was q
last overthrown, the duty, of all 9th
ers, devolving on those intrusted will
the responsibilities of legislation ev
identity was to require that tn,
revolted States should be readmittet
into participation in the Government
against which they erred only OIL
such q basis as TO increase and for
tifyrpot to weaken or endsnger th'
strength and power of the nation
Certainly no one ought to have claim
ed that they should be re-admitted
under such rule that their Oganiza
ton as States could ever again be
used at the opening Of d war to defy
the national authority or to destroy
national unity. This principle has
been the pole star of those who have
infiexibly insisted on the Congress
ional policy your convention SO cor
daily indorsed. Baflled by Exocu
tive oppOsitions and by persistent
refusals to accept any plan of recon
struction proposed by Congress, jus
tice and public safety, at isst com
bined to teach us that only by enlarge
ment of suffrage in those States could
the desired end be attained, and thai
it was even more safe to give th'
ballot to those who loved the UniOr
than to those who had sought inef
fectuslly to destroy it. The assured
success of this legislation is being
written on the adamant of history
and will be our triumphant vindica
ton.
More clearly. too, than ever be
fore does the nation now recogniz,
that the greatest glory of a republic
is that it throws the shield of 1t,
protection over the humblest and
weakest of its people, and vIndicates
the rights of the poor and the pow
erless as faithfully as those OF thu
mighty and the powerful.
Irejoiee, too, in this connection, tt
find in your platform the frank and
fearless avOwal that naturali1ed citi
zens must be protected abroad at eve
ry hazard as though they were native
born. Our whole people are for
eigners or descendants of foreigners.
Our fathers established by arms theil
right to be called g nation. 1t re-
mains for us to re affirm the right
and welcome TO our shores al
who desire. by oaths of allegi.
ance, to become American citizens
Perpetual allegiance as claimed
abroad is only another name fOl
perpetual bondage, and would make
all slaves to the soil where first
they saw the light. 0urnafionai CEN
etries prove how faithfully these
csths of fidelity TO the adopted land
have been sealed in the life blood OF
thousands upon thousands. Should
we not then be faitiless TO tile dead
if we did not protect their living
brethren in full enjoyment Of that
nationality for which, side by side
with the native born, our soldiers oi
foreign birth laid down their lives ?
1t was fitting, too, that the repre-
sentatiyes of a party which had prov
ed so true to nationsl duty in time OF
war, should speak so clearly in time
of peace of the Maintenance uutar-
nished of the national honor and ma
tional credit and good faith az re-
CARDS its debt, the cost of our nation
al existence.
| do Lot need to extend this reply
by further eoMHept on platform
which has ELECTED such hearty ap-
proval throughout the land; the
debt of gratitude it acknowledges
to the brave men who saved the
Union from destruction the frank
of amnesty, based on re-
pentance and loyalty; the demand for
the most rigid economy and honesty
in the government; the sympathy of
The party of liberty with all through.
put the world who long for the liber-
ty we here enjoy, and the reeogni-
ion of the sublime principles of the
Declaration of Independence gre
worthy of the organization on whose
banners they are to be written in the
coming contest. Its past record can
lot be blotted oct or forgotten. III
here had been no Republican party,
lavery would today cast its baleful
hadow over the Republic. If there
lad been no Republican party, free
'ress and free speech would be as
Unknown, from the Potomac to the