New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-01


lively demand Congress and chief exeou-
tive whose courage and fidelity to these du-
ties shall not falter until these results are
placed beyond dispute or recall.
Fourth-In the tirft act OF Congress
signed by President Grant, the national
government assumed to remove any doubt
Of it's purpose to discharge all Just obliga
tons to the public creditors, and solemnly
Piled ged its faith to make provision at the
earliest practicable period tor the redemp'
ton of the United States notes in coin. Com
mercial prosperity, public morals and the
national credit demand that this promise be
fulfilled by q continuous and steady pro-
gress to specie payment.
Fifth-Under the constitution, the Presi
dent and heads of departments are to make
nominations for Office, the Senate is to ad-
wise and consent to appointments, and the
House of Representatives is to accuse and
prosecute faithless officers. The best inter
ests of the public service demands 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 appoint
ments should have reference to the hon
esty. fidelity and capacity Of appointees,
giving to the party in power those places
where harmony and vigor OF adminlstra-
ton require its policy to be represented,
but permitting all Others to be filled by
persons selected with sole reference to the
eficit ncy of the public service and the right
of all citizens to share in the honor OF rem.
deripg faithful service to their country.
Sixth-We rejoice in the quickened con-
science of the people concerning political at
fairs We will hold all public officers to rigid
responsibility, and engage that the pro 'ecu-
ton and punishment Of all who betray
official trusts shall be speedy, thorough and
unsparing.
Seventh-Tbe public school system of the
several States is the bulwark OF the Ameri-
can republic, and with view to its security
and permanence, We recommend an amend.
ment to the constitution Of the United States,
forbidding the application of any public
funds or property for the benefit OF any
school or institution under sectarian control.
Eighth-The revenue necessary for cur
rent expenditures, and the obligations OF
the public debt must be largely derived
from duties upon importation, which, so
mote the interests of American labor, and ad-
vance the prosperity of the whole country.
Ninth-We reaffirm our opposition to
further grants Of the public lands to cor
porations and monopolies, and demand that
the national domain be devoted to free
homes for the people.
Tenth-It 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 citizens that is given to the native
born, and all necessary laws be passed to
protect emigrants, in the absence OF power
in the States tor that purpose
Eleventh-It is the immediate duty OF
Congress to fully investigate the effect OF
the Immigration and importation OF Mon
golians upon the moral and material inter
ests of the country.
Tweltth-The Republican party recog-
nizes with approva, the substantial ad-
vance recently made toward the establish
ment of equal rights for women, BY the
many important amendments effected by
Republican Legislatures in the laws which
concern the personal and property relations
of wives, mothers and widows, and by the
appointment 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.
privileges and immunities should be treated
with respectful consideration.
Thirteenth-The constitution cOnfers upon
Congress sovereign power over the Terri
tories Of the United States for their govern
ment. 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 will secure this
end, and the supremacy of American insti-
tutions in all the Territories.
Fourteenth-The pledges which the ma
ton has given to our soldiers and sailors
must be fulfilled. The grateful; people will
always hold those who periled their lives
for their country's preservation in the
kindest remembrance.
Fifteenth - We sincerely deprecate all
sectional feeling and tendencies. We there
fore 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 efforts
of those who we're recently arrayed against
the nation, and we invoke the earnest at
tention Of the country to the grave truth
that q success thus achieved would re-
open sectional strife and imperil national
honor and human rights.
Sixteenth-We charge the Democratic
party az being the same in character and
spirit as when it sympathized with treason;
with making its control OF tho House OF
Representatives the triumph and the Op-
portunity of the nations recent foes; with
reasserting and applauding in the national
Capitol the sentiments of unrepentant rebel
lion; with sending Union soldiers to the
rear and promoting Confederate soldiers to
the front; with deliberately proposing to
EepuulAto tuo puSHtcu 1dlIu VI LILO sOS
ment; with being equally false and imbecile
upon the overshado wing financial questions;
with thwarting the ends Of Justice by its
partisan mismanagement and obstruction
of investigation; with proving itself,
through the period of its ascendency in the
lower house of Congress utterly incOmpe-
tent to administer the government; and we
warn the country against trusting party
thus alike unworthy, reoreant and incapable:
Seventeenth-The national administration
merits commentator for it's honorable
work in the management of domestic and
foreign affairs, and President Grant de-
serves the continued hearty gratitude of the
American people for his patriotism and his
emipentseIvices in war and in peace.
Eighteenth-Wep present as our candidates
for President and Vice President of the
United States. two distinguished statesmen
of eminent ability and character, and con-
spicuously fitted for those high Offices, and
we confidently appeal to the American peo-
pie to intrust the administration of their
affairs to Rutherford B. Hayes and William
A. Wheeler.