The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-06-21

justed to promote the interest Of
American labor and advance the pros
perity Of the whole country.
Ninth--Wo re-afEirm our opposition
to further grants of the public lands
to corporations or. monopolies, and de-
mand that the national domain be
devoted to free homes for the people.
Tenth-It is the imperative duty of
the Government so to modify existing
treaties with European governments
that the same protection shall be aaor-
ded to adopted American citizens that
is given to native born, aud that all
necessary laws DO eGacted to protect
emigrants in their rights of citizen
ship.
Eleventh 1t is tho immediate duty
of Congress to fully investigate the
effect of the emmigration and impor-
tation of Mougolians, upon the moral
and material interests of the country
Twelfth-The Republican party
recognize with approval the substan-
tial advance recently made towards
the establishment of equal righss for
women by the many important amend
ments effected by the Republican Leg
islatures ia the laws which concern the
personal aud property relations of
wives, mothers and widows, and by
the appointment aud election Of WON.
en- TO the superintendent ofeducation,
charities and other public trusts; the
honest demands of this class of citizens
for additional rights and privileges
and immunities should be treated with
respectful consideration. al Boo
a Thirteenth--The Constitution con-
fers upon Congress sovereign power
over the territories oflstheh United
States for their government, and in
the exercise of this power it is the
right and duty of Congress to prohibit
and extirpate in the Territories that
relic of barbarism, polygamy, and we
demand such legislation as shall SO.
cure this end and the supremacy of
American institutions in all the Terri
tories.
Fourteenth-The pledges which the
nation has given to our soldiers and
sailors must be fulfilled the grateful
people will always cherish those who
perilled their lives the country's
preservation in the kindest remem-
brance.
Fifteenth-We sincerely deprecate
all sectional feeling and tendencies; /;
we therefore note with great solicitude
that the Democratic party counts as
its chief hope of success upon the cleo.
torial vote of united South, secured
through the effort of those who were
recently arraved against the nation,
and we invoke the attention of the
country to the grave truth that sue
cess thus achieved would be to open
sectional strife and imperil national
honor and human rights; we charge
the Democratic party as being the
same in character and spirit as when
it sympathized with treason or with
making its control of the House of
Representatives the triumphant oppor.
tunity of the nations recent foes, with
re-assenting and applauding in the
National Capital the sentiments of
unrepented rebellion, with sending
Union soldiers to the rear and promo
ting Confederate soldiers to the front,
with deliberately proposing to repudi.
ate the plighted faith of the Govern.
ment, with being equally faithless and
imbecile upon the overshadowing
financial question, with thwarting the
ends of justice by its partisan misman.
agement and obstruction of inyesiiga-
ton, with proving itself through the
period of its aseendency in the lower
house of Congress utterly incompetent
to administer the government; We
warn the country against trusting a
party thus alike unworthy, recreant
and incapable.
xteenth-The National admins
tration merits commendation for its
honorable working and management
of domestic and foreign affairs, and
President Grant deserves the contin-
ued and hearty gratitude of the Amer.
ican people for his patriotism and his
immense service in war and in peace.