Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-08-19
Wsekly Grinity 9uurnal.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Republican State
Convention at Sacramento,
June 2Sth, 1871.

bled, avow their determination to maintain and
perpetuate the principles of the National Repub-
licRn party. That recur with pride and sat-
isfactlon to the many practical and substantial
trumphs of those principles achieved during
the past ten years; in the coercion by force of
the rebeious States into obedience of the Fed
eral Constitution and laws; in maintaining
through long, severe and bloody struggle tue
authority of the General Government against
powerful armies in front, English and French
interference on the flank, and the Democratic
party in the rear in roofing out the Democrat
ic institution of slavery, and banishing it for
ever from the jurisdiction of the United States ;
in prohibiting any State from abridging the
privileges of any citizen of the Republic in
providing rrepealable guarantees for the pay
ment of the public debt incurred in suppressing
the late rebellion, and securing the people of all
the States against being taxed for the payment
of the debt OF the late rebel Confederacy in de-
claring the civil and political equality of every
citizen, and in establishing all these principles
in the Federal Constitution, by amendments
thereto, as the permanent law.
Second-That in Ulysses S. Grant we recog-
niGe large measure of the patriotism. ability
and honesty which distinguished the Presiden-
tial career of Abraham Lincoln, and we feel as
sured that the storm of falsehood and petty
slander directed against him by the malice of de-
feated enemies will prevail in deprecia-
ting his character in the minds of the people,
1lAD Hnen tue same means were employed by
the same agencies to destroy his great co-laborer
as d predecessor that his services both military
aud civil enttle him to the regard and conf
denee OF the whole American people, and give
assurance that the wisdom, perseverance and
capacity which commanded success at the head
of great armies, will in the civil affairs of the
Government accomplish results equally import
ant and valuable.
1Aird-That the present National Adminstra-
tiou, inaugurated amid political, civil and social
disorders incident to civil war, and confronted
by complication foreign and domestic, unpar-
aieled in their difficulty and extent, has thus far
achieved most gratifying success aud given
universal assurances of the stability and power
of popular government That by its judcous
conduct of our foreign relations, its firm and
impartial attitude toward the great powers of
Europe, recently involved in a desoating and
destructive war; its prompt and rigid enforce
ment of the laws of neutrality; its successful
solution of grave and threatening issues long
pending between our own country aud Great
Britain; its wise and economical management
ofthe national finances its correction of frauds
IN the revenue, and efficient collection of the
same its retrenchment of expense in all the
departments of Government its reduction of
the public debt by than two hundred mil
lions of dollars its diminution of taxation
eighty millions of dollars per annum, and its es-
tablshment of the public credit upon secure
basis, it commands universal respect at home
and abroad, and deserves the continued conf
dence and support of the American people.
Fourth-That the concentration of the landed
property Of the country in the possession and
ownership of few, to the exclusion of the many,
is in contrayenon of the theory of American
government, subversve to the rights, liberties
and happiness of the masses of the people, and |
if permitted would inevitably terminate in the
speedy establishment of aristocracy upon the /
ruins of our free institutions and we are in IA |
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the State as shall secure just and equal dstri- /
bntion of the public lands remaining to them /
respectively to actual settlers and proprietors in
small quantities, at the lowest reasonable prices /
and for homestead purposes only.
Fifth-That the safety ard perpetuity of Re- |
publican institutions depend mainly upon popu-
Jar education and intelligence. We therefore
approve and recommend common school sys-
TEN, that shall not only extend its benefits to all
but which shall be compulsory upon all-and
we are infexibly opposed 10 any application of
the public school moneys with any reference to
distinction in religious creeds.
Sixth-That religious liberty 10 its broadest
sense is fundamental principle of American
government; and Legislative enactments having
in view the establishment of creeds, the regula-
tion of modes of worship The enforcement of
religious observances of any kind are ncons stent
therewith, and invasi0ns of the right of the citizen
Seyenth-That the presence in our midst of
assimilation with our own race, ignorant of he
nature and forms of our Government, aud who
maalfest no disposition to acquire a knowledge
OF the same, or to conform to our habits, man
ners and customs, is a serious and continuing
injaTy to the best interests of the State that
their employment under the plea of cheap wages
is offensive to the exalted American idea of the
dignity of labor, detrimental TO the prosperity
and happiness of our own laborng classes, and
al evil that ought to be abated that while we
unsparingly reprobate and denounce all acts of
violence wheresoever and by wbomsoever com
mEtted upon them we are nhexibly opposed to
their admission to citizenship, and demand of
the Federal Government the adoption of such
treaty regulations and legislation as shall dis
courage their further imm gration TO our shores.
Eighth-Tbat the substituting of railroads. or
other private corporations by grants of public
lands, or by taxation Of private property, in any
form, is contrary to sound maxims of govern
meat, productive of gross corruption and abuse,
and plain invasion of the rights of the citizens.
And we hereby pledge the Republican party TO
an uncompromiSing opposition to any and all
legislation for such purpose; and whereas the
Supreme Court has decided that snch Legislation
is not in conflict with the Constitution, there
fore resolved That we are in favor of an amend
ment to that instrument prohibiting the enact
meat of any law granting such subsidies.
Aath-That we demand an immediate repeal
OF the act of the last Legislature commonly
known as the " five per cent subsidy law"
Tenth-That the seandaIous abuse of power
exhibited by Democratic Legislature in the
creation OF useless Offices, boards and commits
sions, and the exorbtant increase of fees and
salaries for partisan purposes its palpabe and
wanton violation Of plain provision Of the Con-
stitution by the eIfamous enactment commonly
known as the lottery hill : its measureless
sabserviency on a corrupt lobby, evinced by nu-
merous prohgate grants of subsidies to rail
way companies official sanction of most Of
these perncious measures, including the afore-
said Lottery bill, " by the present Democratic
State Executive, and in addition thereto, his Of
fetal approval Of series of legislative enact
ments, whereby railway corporations have been