The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-15

ished.
Third. The permanent paciflcation
of the Southern section of the Union,
and the complete protection of its citi.
zens in the free enjoyment OF all their
rights, are duties to which the Repub.
lican party stands sacredly pledged
Applause. The power to provide for
the enforcement OF the principles EN-.
bodied in the recent Constitutional
amendments is vested by those amend
ments in the Congress Of the United
States, and we declare it to be the sol.
emn obligation of the legislative and
executive departments of the govern.
eminent to put into immediate and
vigorous exercise all their Constitu-
tional powers for removing any just
causes of discomfort on the part OF any
class, and for securing to oeveryAmerican
citizen complete librty and exact equal
ity in the exercise of all civil, political
and public rights Applause. To this
end we imperatiyely demand aCongress
and Chief Executive whose courage
and fidelity to these duties shall not
falter until these results are placed be
yond dispute and recall. Applaus.
Fourth. In the first act of Congress
signed by President Grant, the national
government assumed to remove any
doubts of its purpose to disparage all
just obligation TO public creditors and
solemnly pledged its faith to make
provision at the earliest practicable pc
riod Ior the redemption of United
States notes in coin. Cheers. Com
mercial prosperity, public morals and
national credit demand that this prom
ise be fulfilled by continuous and
steady progress to specie payments
Loud and long continued applause and
cheers.
Fifth. Under the Constitution the
President and heads of departments
are to make nominations for Office
The Senate is to advise and consent to
appointments, and the House of Rep
resentatives is to accuse and prosecute
! faithless officers. The best interests of
the public service demand that these
distinctions be respected; that Sena-
tors and Representatives who may be
judges and accusrrs should not dictate
appointments to Office. The invaria-
BILE rule for appointments should have
reference to the honesty. fidelity and
capacity of the appointees, giving to
the party in power those places where
harmony and vigor of administration
require its policy to be represented,
but permitting all others to be filled
by persons selected with sole reference
to the efficiency of the public service
and the right of all citizens to share in
the honor of rendering faithful service
to their country.
Sixth. We rejoice in the quickened
conscience of the people concerning
political affairs, and will hold all pub
lie officers to a rigid responsibility, and
engage that the prosecution and pun
ishment of all who betray official trusts
shall be speedy, thorough and unspar-
ing Cheers.
Seventh. The public school system
of the several States is the bulwark of
the American Republic, and with q
view to its security and permanence
we recommended an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
forbidding the application of any pub
lie funds or property for the benefit of
any schools or institutions under sec
tartan control.
lGreat cheering, continued for sever
al minutes. In response to repeated
calls. General Hawley read the plank
the second time, and the delegates and
audience repeated their cheers.
Eighth. The revenue necessary for
current expenditures and the obliga-
tions of the public debt must be large
ly derived from duties on importa-
tions, which, so far as possible, should
be adjusted to promote the interest of
American labor and advance the pros
perity of the whole country. Cheers.
Ninth. We reafirm our opposition
to further grants of the public lands to
corporations and monopolies, and de-
mand that the national domain be de-
voted to free homes for the people.
Tenth. 1t is the imperative duty of
the government 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 immigrants in the
absence of power in the State for that
purpose.
Eleventh. 1t is the immediate duty
of Congress to fully investigate the et-
fects of the immigration and importa-
ton of Mongolian upon the moral and
material interests of the country. Ap-
plause.
Twelfth. The republican party rec
ognizes with approval the substantial
advance recently made toward the es-
tablishment of equal rights for women,
by the many important amendments |
effected by Republican Legislatures in
the laws which concern the personal |
and prop1rty relations of the wives,
mothers and widows. and by the ap-
pointment and election of women to |
the superintendence of education,
charities and other public trusts. The |
honest demands of this class of citizens
for additional rights and privileges and
imlnunities should be treated with re-
spectful consideration. Applause.
Thirteenth The Constitution con-
fers upon Congress sovereign power
over the Territories of the United
States for their government, and in
the exercise of this power it is the right
and the duty of Congress to prohibit
and extirpate in the Territories that
relic of barbarism, polygamy, and we
demand such legislation as shall secure
this end and the supremacy of Ameri-
can institutions in all the Territories.
Applause.
Fourteenth. The pledges which the
nation has given to our soldiers and
sailors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those who per
lied their lives for the country's preser
vation in the kiDdest remembrance.
Fifteenth. We sincerely deprecate
all sectional feeling and tendencies.
We therefore note, with deep solitude,
that the Democratic party counts, as
its chief hope of success, upon the cleo
toral vote of a united South, secured
through the efforts of those who we're
arrayed against the nation,
and We invoke the earnest attention Of
the country to the grave truth that a
success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife and imperil national
honor and human rights.
Sixteenth. We charge the Demo
cratic party as being tho same in char
acter and spirit as when 1t sympathized
win treason; with making its control
ot the House of Representatives the
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