The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-07-28

the second time, and the delegates and
audience repeated their cheers.
E.-ntI. The revenue necessary for
current expenditures and the obliga-
tious Gf The public debt must be large
Is derived from duties on iInporta-
tons. which. 50 far as possible, should
be adjusted 10 promote the interest OF
American labor and advance the pros
perity OF the whole country. Cheers.
Ninth. We reaffrm our opposition
70 further grants OF the public lands to
corporations and monopolies, and de
naud That the national domain be de-
voted 10 free homes for the people.
Tenth. 1t i the imperative duty of
the government so TO modify existing
treaties with European governments
that the same protection shall be
afforded 10 the adopted American
citizen that l. given To the native
born, and that all necessary laws should
Ice passed 20 protect immigrants in the
absence OF power in the State for that
purpose.
Eleventh. Il is the immediate duty
Of Congress 70 fully investigate the et-
fects OF TlIe Immigration and iInporta-
ton OF MOngoiian upon the moral and
material interests of the country. Ap-
plause.
Twelfth. The republican party rec
ognizes with approval the substantial
advance recently made toward the es-
tablishment Of equal rights for women,
by the many important amendments
effected by Republican Legislatures in
the laws which concern the personal
and prop-rty relations of the wives,
mothers and widows, and by the ap-
poin;ment and election of women to
the Iperintendence of education,
charities and other public trusts. The
honest demands Of this class of citizens
for additional rights and privileges and
imnunities should be treated with re-
spectful consideration. Applause.
Thirteenth. The Constitution con-
fers upon Congress sovereign power
over the Territories of the United
States for their government, and in
the exercise of this power it is the right
and the duty OF Congress to prohibit
and extirpate in the Territories that
relic of b1rbarisIn, polygamy, and we
demand such legislation as shall secure
this end and the supremacy of Ameri-
can institutions in all the Territories.
Applause.
Fourteenth The pledges which the
nation has given to our soldiers and
sailors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those who per-
lied their lives for the country's preser-
walton in the kindest remembrance.
Fifteenth. We sincerely deprecate
all sectional feeling and tendencies.
We therefore note, with deep solitude,
that the Democratic party counts, as
its chief hope of success, upon the cleo
toral vote of a united South, secured
through the efforts of those who were
recently arrayed against the nation,
and we invoke the earnest attention of
the country TO the grave truth that
success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife and imperil national
honor and human rights.
Sixteenth We charge the Demo
cratic party as being the same in char
acter and spirit rs when it sympathized
with treason; with making its control
Of the House of Representatives the
triumph and the opportunity of the
nations recent foes; with reasserting
and applanding in the National Capt.
tol the sentiments of unrepented re-
beliion; with sending Union soldiers to
the rear and promoting Confederate
soldiers to the front; with deliberately
proposing to repudiate the plighted
faith of the government; with being
equally false and imbecile upon the
overshadowing financial question; with
thwarting the ends of justice by its
partisan miSiuanagement and obStruo-
tion of investigation; with providing
itself, through the period of its ascend
ancy in the lower House of Congress,
utterly incompetent to administer the
government. We warn the country
against trusting Il party thus alike
unworthy, recTeant and incapable.
Cheers.
Sexenteentll. The National Admin
istration merits commendation for its
honorable work in the management Of
domestic and foreign affairs, and Pres
ident Grant deserves the continued and
hearty gratitude of the American peo-
pie for his patriotism, and his immense
services in war and in peace. Cheers.
That we present as our candidate for
President and Vice President of the
United States, two distinguished states
men of eminent ability and character,
and conspicuously fitted for those two
high Offices. We confidently appeal
to the American people to entrust the
administration of their public affairs
to Rutherford b. Hayes and William
A WhepIpr