The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-22
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
A Fuller Account of the Platform Of
the Convention.

The platform adopted sets out with the
history of the party and statement Of
its duty to protect the rights of all the
people. The enforcement of the con-
stitutional amendments, 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 the duties to which the Repub-
lican party are sacredly pledged.
The power to provide for the enforce
ment of the principles embodied in the
recent constitutional amendments is
vested by those amendments in the Con-
gress of United States, and we declare it
to be the solemn obligation of the legisla-
tive and executive departments of the
government to put into immediate and
vigorous exercise all their constitutional
power for removing any just causes of
discomfort on the part Of any class, and
securing to every American citizen COM
plete liberty and exact equality in the
exercise of all civil, political and public
rights. To this end we imperatively de-
mand Congress and Chief Executive
whose courage and fidelity to these duties
shall not falter until the results are placed
beyond dispute or recall.
In the very first act of Congress signed
by President Grant the National Govern.
ment assumed to remove any doubts of
its purpose to discharge all just obliga-
tions to the public creditors, and solemn
ly pledged its faith to make provision, at
the earliest practicable period, for the re-
demption of the United States notes in
coin. Commercial prosperity, public
merit and national credit demand that
the promise be fulfilled by continuous
and steady progress to specie payments.
The fifth plank alludes to civil service
reform, and the sixth refers to schools
and embodies Blaine's proposed amend
ment to the constitution.
Eighth. The revenue necessary for cur
rent expenditures and the obligations of
the public debt must be largely derived
from duties on importations, which, so far
as possible should be adjusted to promote
the interest of American labor and ad-
vance the prosperity of the whole coun-
try.
The ninth plank opposes further grants
of lands to corporations and monopolies,
and the tenth calls for the modification
of treaties, for the protection of adopted
citizens, and legislation to protect emf
grants.
Eleventh. 1t is the immediate duty of
Congress to fully investigate the effect of
the emigration and importation Of Mon
golians on the moral and material inter-
ests of the country.
Twelfth. The party recognizes with ap-
proval the advance in securing the rights
of women by State legislation.
Thirteenth. The plank claims sovereign
power over the Territories to exclude
polygamy; and the fourteenth declares
that the pledges to the soldiers and sail
ors must be fully fulfilled.
Fifteenth. We sincerely deprecate all
sectional feeling and tendencies. We
therefore note with deep solicitude that
the Democratic party counts as its chief
hope of success upon the electoral vote
of united South secured through the
effotts of those who were recently ar
raigned against the nation, and we invoke
the attention of the country to the grave
truth that q success thus achieved would
reopen sectional strife and imperil ma
tional honor and human rights.
The sixteenth plank charges the DEM
ocratic party with being the same in char
acter and spirit as when it sympathized
with treason; and, alluding to the course
of the lower House, warns the country
against party alike unworthy and inca
pable.
Seventeenth. The national admins
tration merits commentator for its hon
orable work in the management of do
mestic and foreign affairs, and President
Grant deserves the continued and hearty
gratitude of the American people for his
patriotism and his immense services in
war and peace