New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-02

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The Resolutions Of the Republican State
Conventlon.

The Resolutions Of the Republican State
Convention.
An error having occurred in the publica-
ton of the resolutions of the Republican
State Convention in the REPUBLICAN, OF
Thursday morning, they are reproduced be-
low as they were adopted by the conven-
ton.
In the original draft of the committees
work q resolution was prepared leaving the
delegates free and untrammeled in the
choice of candidate for President in the
national convention. This appearing to be un-
necessary, it was subsequently stricken out
by the committee. Meantime the whole set
of resolutions had been put in type, and in
making up the report of the convention the
rejected resolution was inadvertently re-
tanned
This is matter of no very great moment,
however, since in the absence of any in
tructious there was no necessity Of telling
the delegates that they were not instructed.
As reported to the convention by the COM
m1LIcG. duU uu6ulAOuoAy oOVpIOuf tAO &CoV-
lutions read IS follows:
WHEREAS, The Republicans of the United
States have within the first century of ma
tional existence, established against foreign
opposition and domestic dissent, the grand
and comprehensive principle that the sov,
ereignty of the nation is derived from, and
abides in, the whole equal people of the
nation, and that the only earthly limit upon
that sovereignty consists in that which the
people of the nation impose upon themselves
through the grants and reservations OF q IA
tionsl constitution, paramount to all other
law and interpreted only in accordance
with it's own provisions by the legislature OF
Judiciary of the nation.
Resolred, That the Republicans of Louisi
ana tender the Republicans of the nation
their sincere gratitude for the institution
and maintenance of this principle, as we'll
as for the momentous measures enacted un-
der its authority, and hereby pledge their
earnest aid and cooperation in perpetuating
these principles.
Resolred, That in pledging themselves to
the support and service of the common
cause, the Republicans of Louisiana would
respectfully submit some measures Of ma
tional policy essential in their opinion to the
practical and equal application of the ma
tiOnal principle en0unced:
Presidency whose personal character will
afford q guarantee of an honest, able
economical and effective administration OF
the national government upon Republican
principles. -,
2. A system of federal finance which will
insure the collection of the revenues, pun
ish all official orr other frauds upon the
treasury, and bring about . steady. speedy
and permanent return to the payment Of
specie into and out of the treasury in al
federal transactions
3. A system of revenue, taxation and a.
sessment which, whil6 it shall provide
ample means to meet the public expendi
lures and obligations, shall also assume the
protection of certain national interests
against the destructive competition of fO--
eign productions, especially insisting that
the capital and labor employed in the
production of the national staples Of sugar
and rice should be included among any
articles entitled to such protection.
4. The just appOrtionment of federal ap.
propriations for national works of internal
improvement. Taking into account the
immense advances received by our more for
tunste sister States during the period wher
Democratic domination denied to the
Southern States their just share of thu
common fund, such measure of elualiza
ton would Justify national aid to Q South
ern Pacific railroad and branches, tG
the protection by levees of the capital anG
labor employed in the culture OF cotton
sugar and rice and to the effectu al naviga
ton of the Mississippi river, its principa
tributaries snd its outlet.
Resolrcd, That the assassination Of many
hundreds of prominent Union men in the
South on account of their political princi
pies, the massacre of thousands of inotfen
a. on1npo6 oiti1ono fho rolaOQftnn
nearly all the Southern States to the con
troll Of the Iisloyal elements whose Treason
brought about the war, and the elec
ton of national Congress largely com
posed of ex leaders of the Confederate army
Indicate grave national dangers which
demand the enactment of such additions :
laws and the enforcement of such policy
"a shall secure to every citizen of thu
United States, in fact as we'll as in name
the inalienable rights of life, liberty ant
the pursuit of happiness, irrespective O
his political We've, and irrespective o
race, color or previous condition OF servl
tude. L
Resolred, That to President Grant are dus
the earnest thanks and hearty indorsemen
of the Republicans of Louisiana for :he
fidelity with which he has maintained IL
peace the great principles which the armies
of the Union under his command enforced
by war. ....
Resolrea. That by his courageous and un
flinching adherence to Republican princi
Piles, and the consistency with which he ha
at all times advocated the enforcement o
law, the suppression of disorders and th'
strict maintenance of all the rights ant
privileges conferred by the thirteenth
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to th'
constitution, the Hon. o. p. Morton, of In
cx,I oI <r
warm gratitude of the Republicans of al
the Southern States, and especially 0
Louisiana.