The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-18

apathy during the struggle for National
existence, is a record of violence, cow
ardice and fraud. It's leaders and its
principles are unchanged, and deserve
alike the unqualified opposition of every
citizen who believes in the supremacy
of law and the perpetuity of free insti-
tutiOns.
Sd. The studied and persistent hostil- |
ity of the Democratic party to the pros
ecution of the war for the preservation |
of the Union. its constant and mallg-
nant efforts in the North TO perplex the
Government and dishearten the people, |
and its open and undisguised treason
in the South; its position of uncom-
promising opposition to every measure
originated for the safety of our Nation
| its nomination of candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President who propose,
/ if elected, to trample in the dust laws
duly enacted, to disperse State Govern
ments constitutionally established, and
undo the work of reconstruction with
violence and blood, impel all the friends
of the Republic with renewed energy,
to rally in ardent support of the Repub-
lican party, around which the hopes of
the Nation clustered in its darkest hours.
4. During the eight years of its pos
session of National power, the Republ-
can party has proven itself equal to the
! sacred trust which the Nation confided
to its charge, and achieved results which
have no parallel in the annals of the
political organizations of the world.
Its career has been one of bcneticence
to the poor, justice to the oppressed,
, and fidelity to those immutable princl-
pies without which a.Republic is impos-
q sible. BY the development of the Pa
cific Railroad system it has intellectually
augmented our resources and enlarged
the National domain; by the Home
Y stead cnactmentS it has increased the
!. wealth and population of the West; by
. the eight hour law it has proved its loyal
= ty to labor; by its assertion of the doc
i trine of expatriation it has evinced it:
: devotion to the rights of foreign born
n citizens; by the adoption of the l4tl
Constitutional Amendment it has ire
vocably secured the results of the war
elevated citizenship, established thu
National credit, emancipated and eli
&c franchised race, and dedicated con
st tinent to freedom. In the future, as il
4 the past, it will continue to advocate
those measures which will promot
! economy, National honesty, domesti
Ie concord, and friendly relations witt
t, foreign powers, to the end that we ma,
9. have n government of laws and not o
men.
;" 5. In the distribution of public land
= and Indian reserves we demand tn
"a 1ull pfOLeCt1On OF the rights OF settlers
). and the reservation Of the 18th AM
Both sections, to which the State is just
ly entitled for educational purposes
= Wholesale grants of territory to specu
n lators and foreign corporations are un
rs favorable to the interests of communit
If and inconsistent with the objects TO
. which the National domain should
III distributed. We especially condem
II, the policy of disposing of Indian reser
is vations to railroad or land monopolist:
II and insist that such lands be immedi
a ately opened to actual settlement, q
W not more than one dollar and twenty
u five cents per acre. We demand, i
of the name of our frontier settlers, tina
ly the uncivilized Indians be driven froI
II the State, and the civilized tribes b
~ speedily removed to the Indian coun
0' try.
eX 6. To our Member of Congress VIII
n. favored and labored for the arraigI
o. ment of Andrew johnson, for hig
- crimes and misdemeanors in Office, an
~ to our Senator who properly pronoun'
C. ed him guilty thereof by his recorde
vote, we extend the gratitude an
thanks of q grateful people.