The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-13

the resumption of specie payment;
but the longer the instability con-
nected with our present money system
is permitted to continue the greater
will be the injury inflicted upon our
economical interests and all classes of
society. If elected 1 shall approve
every appropriate measure TO accom-
plish the desired end and shall oppose
any step backward.
The resolution with respect TO the
public school system is one which
should receive the hearty support of
the American people. Agitation upon
this subject is to be apprehended un-
til by constitutional amendment the
schools are placed beyond all danger
of scctarian control or interference.
The Republican party is pledged to
secure such an amendment. The
resolution of the convention on the
subject of the permanent pacification
of the country and the complete pro-
lection of all IFS citizens in free enjoy
ment of all their constitutional rights,
is timely and of great Importance,
CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
The condition of the Southern
States attracts the attention and COM
mands the sympathy of the people of
the whole Union in their progressive
recovery from the effects of the war
Their first necessity is an intelligent
and honest administration of govern
ment, which will protect all classes of
citizens in all their political and pri-
vate rights. What the South most
needs is "peace" and peace depends
upon the supremacy of law. There
can be no enduring peace if the con-
stitutional rights of any portion of the
people are habitually disregarded. A
division of political parties resting
merely upon distinctions of race or
upon sectional lines is always unfor-
tunate, and may be disastrous. The
welfare of the South alike with that of
every other part of the country de-
pends upon the attractions it can offer
to labor, to immigration andto capital
but laborers will not go and capital
will not be ventured where the con-
stitution and the laws are set at def
ance and distraction, apprehension
and alarm take the place of peace-lov-
ing and law-abiding social life. All
p+s Of it,,ti Il
and must be sacredly observed the
parts that are new no less than the
parts that are old. The moral and
material prosperity of the Southern
States can he most cffGctually advan'
ced by hearty and generous recog-
milton of the rights Of all by all, re-
cognition without reserve or excep-
ton. With such recognition fully
accorded it will be practicable to pro-
mote by the influence of all legitimate
agencies of the general government
the effort of the people of those States
to obtain for themselves the blessings
of honest and capable local govern
not only my duty, but it will be my
ardent desire to labor for the attain
ment of this end.
Let me assure my countryment of
the Southern States that if shall be
charged with the duty of organizing
an administration, it will be one
which will regard and cherish their
truest interests the interests of the
white and Of the colored people both
and equally, and which will put forth
its best efforts in behalf of civil
policy which will wipe out forever the
distinction between North and South
in our common country. With q
civil service organized upon system
which will secure purity, experience,
efficiency and economy, Il strict re-
gard for the public welfare solely in
appointments, and the speedy,
thorough and unsparing prosecution
and punishmct Of all public officers
who betray official trust: with sound
currency, with education unsectarian
and free to all, with simplicity and
frugality in public and private affairs,
and with a fraternal spirit of harmony
pervading the people of all sections
and classes, we may reasonably hope
that the second century of our exist
ence as nation will, by the blessing
of God, be pre-eminent as an era OF
good feeling and period of progress,
prosperity and happiness. Very re-
spectifully your fellow-citizen.