Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.

W hen, IN the economy OF IrOVluences
this land was to be purged of human
slavery, and when the strength of the
Government of the people, by the peO-
pie, for the people, was to bedemonstra-
ted, the Republican Party came into
power. Its deeds have passed into lis
tory, and we look back to them with
pride melted by their memories and high
aims for the good of our country and
mankind and, looking to the future
with unfaltering courage, hope and pur-
pose, We, the representatives of the par
ty. in National Convention assembled,
make the following declaration of prin-
ciples: s-asss- ----
First-The United States of America
is nation, not league. By the CON-
bined workings of the National and State
Governments, under their respective
Constitutions, the rights of every citizen
are secured at home and protected abroad
and the common welfare promoted.
Second-The Republican Party has
preserved those Governments to the hun
dredth anniversary of the nations birth,
and they are now embodiments of the
great truths spoken at its cradle, that
all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness !;
that for the attainment of these ends
Governments have been instituted among
men deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed. Until those
truths are cheerfully obeyed, and, if
needed, vigorously enforced, the work of
the Republican Party is unfinished.
Third-The permanent pacifcation of
the Southern section of the Union, the
complete protection of all its citizens in
the free enjoyment of all their rights,
are duties to which the Republican par
ty is sacredly pledged. The power to
provide for the enforcement of the prin-
ciples embodied in the recent constitu-
tional amendments is vested by those
amendments in the Congress of the Uni
ted States, and we declare it to be the
solemn obligation of the legislative and
executive departments of the Govern.
) ment to put into immediate and vigOrOu;
exercise all their Constitutional power;
for removing any just causes of discon
tent on the part of any class, and secur
, ing to every American citizen complete
liberty and exact equality in the exer
else of all civil, political and publ,
= rights. To this end we imperatively de
mand Congress and chief executive
whose courage and fidelity to these du
ties shall not falter until these result
o are placed beyond dispute or recall.
e Fourth-In the first act of Congress
: signed by President Grant, the Nationa
Government assumed to remove an
doubts of its purpose to discharge al
$ just obligations to public creditors, an
solemnly pledged its faith to make pro
2 vision at the earliest practicable perio
i for the redemption of the United State
notes in coin. Commercial prosperity
n public needs, and national credit deman
u that this promise be fulfilled by a COL
: tinuOus and steady progress to speci
IS payment.
Fifth--Under the Constitution th
/ President and heads of departments al
n to make nominations for Office, the Ser
y ate is to advise and consent to appoin
= ments, and the House of Representative
9 is to accuse and prosecute faithless of
70 GERS. The best interests of the publ
Iy service demand that these distinction
Of be respected, that Senators and Repr
4 sentatives who may be judges and accu
'e ers should not dictate appointments
Office. The invariable rules for appoin
4 ments should have reference to the hol
II esty. fidelity and capacity of appointee
er giving to the party in power those plac'
70 where harmony and vigOr Of administr
tiOn require its policy to be represente
: but permitting all others to be filed
Nv persons selected with sole reference
It. efficiency of the public service and Il
he right of citizens to share in the honor
er rendering faithful service to their cou
try.
= Sixth-WeJejOice in the quicken,
ne conscience of the people concerning P
N litical affairs. We will hold all publ
nv officers to rigid responsibility, and e
We gage that the prosecution and punis
se nent of all who betray official trus
shall be speedy, thorough and unsparin
us Seventh-The public school system
- the several States is the bulwark of t
at American Republic, and with view
ito its security and permanence, we recOl
d. mend an amendment TO the CONSTITUTE
% ny of the United States forbidding the a
p plicatlOn of any public funds or props
= ty for the benefit of any school or ins
- tuition under seetarian control.
ith Eighth-Tbe revenue necessary
for current expenditures and the obligatiO
lth Of the public debt must be largely {
H. ~ rived from duties upon importation
All which 50 far as possible should be 50 ;
of justed as to promote the interests