Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-06-29
THE PnArFoRM
Adopted BY the National Republican
Convention aG Cincinnati, june 15'

When. in the economy of Providence,
this land was to be purged of human sla-
very, and when the strength OF the Gov
eminent Of the people, by the people, 1or |
the people. was to be demonstrated, |
the Republican party came into power |
Its deeds have passed into history, and we
look back to them with pride. Incited by
their memories and high aims for the
good of our country and mankind, and
looking to the future with unfaltering
courage, hope and purpose, we, the rep
resentatives of the party in National Con-
ventiOn assembled, make the following /
declaration of principles: /
1. The United States of America -
Nation, not league, by the com eoIlD6Ie ~
workings of the National ana o.ate SON- S
ernments. Under their respective COh-
stitlItions the RIGHTS of every citizen are |
secured at home and protected abroad,
and the common welfare promoted.
,. The Republican party has preserved |
those Governments to the one hundreth |
fhaVr are now embOdiments Of the
GREAT truths spoken at its cradle: "that
an 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 Govern
ments have been instituted among men,
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sent of the governed" Until these truths
are cheerfully obeyed, or if needed to be,
vigorously enforced, the work of the Re-
publican party is unfinished.
3. The permanent pacification of the
Southern section of the Union, and the
complete protection of all its citizens in
the free enjoyment of all their rights, are
duties to which the Republican party
stands sacredly pledged. The power to
provide for the enforcement of the pFinci-
Piles embodied in recent Constitutional
amendments is vested by those amend-
ments in the Congress of the United States,
and we declare it to be the solemn Obliga-
ton of the Legislative and Executive De-
partments Of the Government to put into
immediate and vigorous exercise all their
Constitutional powers for removing any
just causes of discomfort on the part of any
class, and for securing to every American
citizen complete liberty and exact equali-
ty in the exercise of all civil, political and
public rights. To this end we impera-
lively demand a Congress and a
Chief Executive whose courage and
fidelity to these duties shall not falter
until these results are placed beyond dis
pute or recall.
4. In the first act Of Congress signed by
President Grant, the National Govern
ment assumed to remove any doubts of its
purpose to discharge all Just obligations
TO the public creditors, and solemnly
pledged its faith to make provisions at the
earliest practicable period, for redemp-
ton of the United States notes in coin.-
Commercial prosperity, public morals
and national credit demand that this
promise be fulfilled by continuous and
steady progress to specie payments.
8. Under the Constitution the Presi-
dent and heads of Departments are to
make nominations for office, the Senate is
to advise and consent to appointments, ,and
the House of Representatives is to accuse
and prosecute faithless officers. The best
interests of the public service demand
that these distinctions be respected; that
Senators and Representatives who may
be judges and accusers should not dictate
appointments to office. The invariable
rule for appointments should have ref
erence to the honesty, fidelity and capaci-
ty of the appOintees, giving to the party
In power those places where harmony and
-P7gof Of administration require its policy
to be represented, but permitting all 9TH
ers to be filled by persons selected with
sole reference to the efficiency of the pub
lie service, and the right of all citizens to
share in the honor of rendering faithful
service to their country.
6. We rejoice in the quickened con-
science of the people concerning political
affairs, and will hold all public officers to
a rigid responsibility, and engage that
the prosecution and punishment of all
who betray official trusts shall be speedy,
thorough and unsparing.
2. The public school system of the sew
eral States is the buIwark of the American
republic, and with a view to its security
and permanence we recommends an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States forbidding the application of any
public funds or property for the benefit of
any schools or institutions under secta-
rian control.
3, The revenue necessary for current
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public debt, must be largely derived from
duties upon importations, which, so far as
possible, should be adjusted to promote
the interest of American labor, and ad-
the prosperity of the whole country.
3. We reattirm our opposition to further
grants of the public lands to corporations
and monOpoies, and demand that the
National domain be devoted to free homes
for the people.
10. 1t is the imperative duty of the Gov
ernment so to modify existing treaties
with European Governments that the
same protection shall be afforded to the
adopted American citizen that is given to
the native born, and that all necessary
laws should be passed to protect emigrants
IA the absence of power in the States for
that purpose.
IL. 1t is the immediate duty of Con-
gress to fully investigate the effect of the
immigration and importation of MOngol-
ians upon the moral and material interest
Of the cOudtry.
~, The Republican party recognizes
with approval the substantial advance re-
Gently made toward the establishment of
equal rights for women by the many inn
portant amendments effected by ReDubIi-
can Legislature, in laws which concern
the personal and property relations of
wives, mothers and widows, and bv the
appointment and election of women to the
9uPerlntendence OF education, charities
and other public trusts. The honest de-
mands OF this class of citizens for addi-
t1onal rights and privileges and immuni-
ties should be treated with respectful
consideration.
10. The Constitution confers upon Con-
gress sovereign powers over the Territor-
les Of the United States for their govern
ment, and in the exercise of this mower If
is the right and the duty of Congress to
ProhlDlG and extirpate in the Territories
that relic of barbarism poly and we
demand such legislation as shall seeure
this end, and the supremacy of American
institutions in all the Territories.
IA. The pledges which the nation has
given to our soldiers and sailors must be
fulfilled. The grateful people will always
hold those who periled their lives for the
country's preservation in the kindest re-
membrance.
10. We sincerely deprecate all sectional
Iee1ng and tendencies. We therefore note
with deep solicitude that the Democratic
party counts as its chief hope of success
upon the electoral vote of the united
South, secured through the efforts of those
who were recently arrayed against the
nation, and we invoke the earnest atten-
ton of Ghe country to the grave truth
that success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife and imperil National honor
and human rights.
~. We charge the Democratic party as
Delng the same in character and spirit as
when 1t sympathized with treason, with
making its control of the House of Rep
resentatlyes the triumph and the oppor-
tunity OF the nations recent foes; with
reasserting and applauding in the Nation
aiS capitol the sentiments of unrepented