The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-06-17
CALIFORNIA CORRESPONDENCE.
ESPECIALLY TO THE HAWAIIAN GAZETTE
SAN Francisco, May IS, 1868.
The Platform.


vention, embrace the platform of the Repub
lican party for the coming campaign
FSrss-We congratulate the country on tn,
assured success OF the reconstruction polio,
of Congress, as evidenced by the adoption il
q majority of the States lately In rebellion o
Constitutions securing equal civil and politi
cal rights 10 all; and we regard it as the dut,
of the Government to sustain these COnstitu
lions and prevent the people of such State,
from being RENTED to a state of anarchy Of
military rule.
Second = The guarantee by Congress o.
equal suffrage to all loyal men in the Soutl
was demanded by every consideration of pub
lie safety, gratitude and justice, and must bt
maintained; while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs 10
the people OF those States.
TniJd-We deuounce all forms of repudia
ton as q national crime; and the national
honor requires the payment of the public in
debtedness in the utmost good faith to orr
creditors at home and abroad, not only ac-
cording 10 the letter, but the spirit OF the
laws under which it was contracted.
F0t,fH-It is due TO labor and the nation
that taxation should be equaliZed and re-
duced as rapidly as the national faith will
permit.
FftM-The national debt, contracted as it
has been for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, should be extended
over a fair period, land it is our duty TO y
reduce the rate of interest thereon whenever
il can honestly be done.
Sizth-That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is so to improve our credit
that capitalists will seek TO lend us money at
lower rates Of interest than We now pay, and
must continue TO pay so long as reputation
partial or total, open or covert-is threat
ened or suspected.
SeUenth-Tbe Government of the United
States should be administered with the strict
Get economy. The corruptions which have
been so shamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew johnson call loudly for radical re-
form.
Ejghth-We profoundly deplore the IN
timely and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln,
/ and regret the accession of Andrew johnson
to the Presidential chair, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him,
and the cause he was pledged to support:
who has usurped high legislative and Judicial
| functions; has refused to execute the laws;
has used his high office to induce other Off
GERS 10 violate the laws; has employed his
executive power TO render insecure the lives,
property, peace, and liberty of citizens; has
abused the pardOning power; has denounced
the National Legislature as unconstitutional;
has persistently and habitually resisted, by
every means in his power, every proper at
tempt at reconstruction of the States lately
in rebellion; has perverted the public patron
age into an engine for Wholesale corruption,
and has justly been impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanors, and has been pro-
nounced guilty thereof by the votes of 80
Senators.
Ninth-The doctrine of Great Britain and
other European powers, that because a man
is once a subject he is always so, must be re-
sisted at every hazard by the United States,
as a relic of feudal times, not authorized by
the law of nations, and at war with our ma
tional honor and independence. Naturalized
citizens are entitled to be protected in all
their rights of citizenship Us though they
were native-born. No citizen of the United
States, native OF naturalized, must be liable
to arrest or imprisonment by any foreign
power for acts done or words spoken in this
country; and if so arrested and imprisoned,
it is the duty of the Government to interfere
in his behalf
Tenht-Of all who were faithful in trials
of the late war; there were none more fitted
for especial honor than the brave soldiers and
seamen who endured the hardships of camp
and cruise, and imperiled their lives in de- /
Tense of the country. The bounties and pen
sioBs appropriated by law for these brave |
defenders of the Union, are obligations never
to be forgotten. The widows and orphans |
of the gallant dead are wards of the people, |
a sacred legacy bequeathed TO the United |
States protecting care.
EleCeRtt-Foreign immigration In the past |
has added so much to the wealth and in
creased resources of this nation-the asylum /
of all nations-that il should be fostered by |
a liberal and just policy.
Tigeltth-This Convention declares its SYM
pathy with all oppressed peoples who are
struggling for their rights.
Fenianism.
The numerous cowardly assassinations,
and attempted assassinations of British sub
jects by Irishmen, whether countenanced by
the Fenian Brotherhood as an organization
or not. are considered to have grown out of
that agitation, and brought the organization
greatly into contempt. cause that asks
for the murderers' sympathy, is integrally
flourish among a civilized, Christianized and
people.
1t is reported that the Brotherhood con-
template another raid upon Canada, and are
making preparations TO secure its success.
In the meantime, having received intima-
lions of such an intention, the Canadians
are making preparations to receive the Celtic
invaders, as Tom CoTwin said he would
have received the Americans in 1913, had he
been a Mexican, to-wit: with bloody
hands, to inhospitable graves"
Chase for President on the Democratic
Side.
When the incredulous darkey said "white
man berry onsartin," he uttered an aphorism
which, though not so elegant as Hamlet's
"A there are more things in Heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in thy phioso
Dhy" nor quite so classical as "truth is
than fiction" is equally to
he purpose, and far more puDgent as a ,
satire upon the instability of human charac-
er and the unreliability of human expecta-
ions. Five years ago-aye, ten months ago
salmon P. Chase was one Of the idols of ,
he Republican party; and now-would you
believe it? Could you ever have conceived :
If such a thing he is spoken of by the |
Democracy as their candidate for the Presi- I
lency! Not only spoken of but seriously !
bought of; and that, too, with his own full !
consent and apprObatiODl After this, who !
will dare 10 say that extremes do not meetl J
The rationale of the argument as it COM
hands itself to the party in accepting such )
leader, and of the leader in affiliating with '
uch a party, may be found in two consider
tions: First, the northern or copperhead
ranch of the party desires the spois of
lffice, and is determined to secure them by L
quaring its policy TO that end second q
,hase aspires to the Presidency, and is will 1
ng TO sacrifice principle, propriety, friends, e
had almost said honor-tO obtain il. His o
would disrupt and disintegrate /
he Democracy, at present considerably d. a
ided in opinion, and eyentuate in their q
facing two candidates in the field, the chi p
airy wing would never support him. Their r
uarrel with the Republicans is based on \
irect issue of political sentiment, and many a
f them would encounter defeat with more +.
led by such man as Vallan- v
igham, than triumph with Chase, who was il
My a short time ago regarded as a most s.
etermined rebelbater and higher-law abo- il
tionist'' "
Who Will be their Man! u
This is an important question as applied to :