Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-07-29

solitary school house Is full OF sug-
gestion. We compelled these peo-
pie to remain in the Union, and
now duty and interest demand
that we leave no just means un-
tried to make them good, loyal
citizens. How to diminish the
friction, how to stimulate the ele-
walton of this portion of III c0un-
try are problemsaddreesing them
selves to our best and wisest states
manship. The foundation for
these efforts must be laid in salts
flying the Southern people that
they are to have equal exact JUS
tice accorded 10 them. Give them,
to the fullest extent, every bless
ing which tho government con-
fers upon the most favored-give
them no just cause for complaint,
and then hold them, by every ne
cessary means, to an exact, rigid
observance of ali their duties and
obligations under the consti tuition
and its amendments to secure to
all within their borders manhood
and citizenship, with everything
thereto belonging
The just obligations to public
creditors, created when the gov
eminent was in the throes of
threated dissolution, and as an in
dispensable condition of its saliva
tion-guaranteed by the lives and
blood of thousands of its brave de-
f~enders-are to be kept with religi-
Gus faith, as are all the pledges
subsidiary thereto and confirma-
tory thereof.
In my Judgment the pledge of
Congress of January IA, 1875, for
the redemption of the notes of the
United States in coin is the plight
ed faith of the nation, and national
honor, simple honesty and justice
to the people, permanent welfare
and prosperity are dependent up
on true money as the basis oftheir
pecuniary transactions, all de-
mand scrupulous observance of
this pledge, and it is the duty of
Congress to supplement it with
such legislation as shall be neces-
sary for its strict fulfilment.
In our system of government in
telligence must give safety and
value to the ballot. Hence the
common schools if the land
should be preserved in all
their vigor, while, in accor-
dance with the spirit of the con-
stitution, they and all their endow-
ments should be secured by every
form possible and proper guaran-
tee against every form 0 fsectarian
influence or control.
There should be the strictest
economy in the expenditures of
the government consistent with
it's effective administration, and
all unnecessary offices should be
abolished. Offices should be con-
ferred only upon the basis of high
character and particular fitness'
and should be administered only
as public trusts and not for private
advantage.
The foregoing are chief among
the cardinal principles of the re-
publican party, and to carry them
into full, practical effect is the
work it now has in hand. To the
completion of it's great mission
we address ourselves in hope and
confidence, cheered and stimulated
by the recollection of its past
achievements; remembering that
under God, it is to that parry we
are indebted in this centennial
year of our existence for a pre-
served, unbroken Union: for the
fact that there is no master or
slave throughout our broad DO
mains, and that emancipated mil
lions look upon the ensign OF the
republic as the symbol Of the full
filled declaration that all men are
created free and equal, and the
guarantee of their own equality,
nnder the law, with the most
highly favored citizens of the
land.
To the intelligence and con-
science of all who desire good gov
eminent, good will, good money
and universal prosperity, the re-
publican party, not unmindful of
the imperfection and shortcom-
ings of human organizations, yet
with the honest purpose Of its
masses promptly to retrieve all err
rors and to summarily punish all
offenders against the laws of the
country, confidently submits its
claim for the continued support
of the American people.
Respectfully,
VIM. A. WHEELER.
The ST. Louis Republican So y:
We have tried almost every plan