Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-09-15
Union Republican State Platform,
June %, 1869.

l. ResoLUed, That, as citizens of the
nation, representing the Republican
sentiment of an honOred common
wealth, we regard with sincere salts
faction the fidelity evinced by Gen.
Grant to the Republican party, and
his policy both foreign and domestic,
and of his national administration,
and pledge our cordial support to the
measures inaugurated to insure concil-
iation, economy and justice at home,
and command consideration and re-
spect abroad.
.. ResoIUed, That we hail with the
profoundest satisfaction the patriotic
and constitutional declaration of Pres
ident Grant, in his Inaugural Address,
that while he will on all subjects have
a policy to recommend to Congress, he
will have none to enforce against the
will of the peOple-a sentiment which
assures the country of an executive
administration founded on the models
of the administrations of Washington
and Madison, and that will insure to
Congress the unrestricted exercise of
its constitutional functions, and to the
people their rightful control of the
Government.
8. Resolred, That the abolishment
of slavery was a natural and necessary
consequence of the war of the rebel
lion, and that the reconstruction
measures of Congress were measures
well adapted to effect the reeOnstruc-
ton of the Southern States and secure
the blessings of liberty and a free gov
ernment. and as a completion of those
measures, and firmly believing in its
essential Justice, we are in favor of the
adoption of the 18th amendment to
the Constitution.
4. ResolUed, That the late Demo
cratic General Assembly in its leck-
less expenditure of public money its
utter neglect of the business interests
of the State by falling to enact the
wise and much needed financial meas
ures providing for the assessment and
eouaiiZation of taxation prepared by
| the commission appointed by the pre-
ceding General Assembly; its hostili-
ty to our benevOlentand literary insti-
| tutions; its failure to carry out the re-
heated pledges of the Democratic par
| ty to secure economy in the State; its
extraordinary length of session in
| time of peace, resulting in an expense
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| its members alone, to more than
double that of the previous General
/ Assembly; its malignant attempts to
| disfranchise disabled soldiers and 9TH
er citizens of the State; its attempt to
take from the General Government
the right to pursue, arrest and punish
those who violate the laws made in
pursuance of the Constitution of the
| United States, and the vicious acts in
tended to destroy the power of the ma
ton to preserve and protect the liber-
ty and safety of its citizens, has shown
the Democratic party unworthy of the
! trust, confidence and support of an
honest and patriotic people.
). ResOlUed, That the Republican
party of Ohio is in favor of a speedy
establishment of a Soldiers Orphans
Home in Ohio, not only as an act OF
Justice to the many poor and helpless
orphans of deceased soldiers, but as a
recognition of the patriotic services of
their fathers in the late war, and for
the purpose of redeeming the pledges
made by all loyal people to protect the
families of those who fought and fell
in the cause of human liberty and
right.