Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-10-19
THE PLATFORM
Adopted by the Naetonal Republican
Convention az Cincinnati, June rs.


very and when the strength of the Gov
ernment of the people, by the people, for
the people, was to be demonstrated, /
the Republican party came into power
rs deeds have passed into history, and we /
look back to them with pride. Incited by |
their memories and high aims for the |
good of our country and mankind, and |
looking to the future with unfaltering |
courage, hope and purpose, we, the rep
resentatives of the party in National Con- |
ventiOn assembled, make the following
declaration of principles:
!. The United States Of America is a
Nation, not a league, by the combined
workings of the National and State Gov
ernments. Under their respective Con-
stitutiOns the rights Of every citizen are
secured at home and protected abroad,
and the common welfare promoted.
2. The Republican party has preserved
those Governments to the one hundreth
aniversary of the nations birth, and
they are now embOdiments of the
great truths spoken at its cradle: "that
all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inRlienable rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness that
for the attainment of these ends Govern
ments have been instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed Until these truths
are cheerfully obeyed, or if needed to be,
vigorously enforced, the work of the Re
publican party is unfinished.
3. The permanent pacificatiOn of the
Outhern section of the Union, and the
complete protection of all its citizens in
she free enjoyment of all their rights, are
'iuties to which the Republican party
stands sacredly pledged. The power to
provide for the enforcement of the princi-
Piles embodied in recent Constitutional
amendments is vested by those amend
ments in the Congress of the United States,
nd e to- M uoIo 01aI
tion of the Legislative and Executive De-
partments of the Government to put into
immediate and vigorous exercise all their
Constitutional powers for removing any
just causes of discomfort on the part Of any
class, and for securing to every American
citizen complete liberty and exact equali-
ty in the exercise of all civil, political and
public rights. To this end we impera-
lively demand a Congress and a
Chief Executive whose courage and
fidelity to these duties shall not falter
until these results are placed beyond dis
pute or recall.
A. In the first act of Congress signed by
President Grant, the National Govern
ment assumed to remove any doubts of its
purpose to discharge all just obligations
to the public creditors, and sOlemnly
pledged its faith to make provisions at the
earliest practicable period, for redemp-
tiOn of the United States notes in cOin.-
Commercial prosperity, public morals
and national credit demand that this
promise be fulfilled by continuous and
steady progress to specie payments.
5. Under the Constitution the Presi-
dent and heads of Departments are to
make nominations for office, the Senate is
to advise and consent to appointments, and
the House of Representatives is to accuse
and prosecute faithless officers. The best
interests of the public service demand
that these distinctions be respected; thai
Senators and Representatives who may
be judges and accusers should not dictate
appointments to office. The invariablC
rule for appointments should have ref
erence to the honesty, fidelity and capaci
ty of the appointees, giving to the party
An power those places where harmony anC
VigOr of administration require its policy
to be represented, but permitting all 9th
ers to be filled by persons selected with
sole reference to the efficiency of the pub
lie service, and the right of all citizens t.
share in the honor of rendering faithful
service to their country.
6. We rejoice in the Quickened con
science of the people concerning pOlitica
affairs, and will hold all public officers tt
a rigid responsibility, and engage tina
the prosecution and punishment of al
who betray official trusts shall be speedy
thorough and unsparing.
z. The public school system of the sew
eral States is the bulwark of the American
republic, and with view to it's securit!
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 o.
any schools or Institutions under secta
fian control.
8. The revenue necessary for curren
expenditures and the obligations of tn
public debt, must be largely derived from
duties upon impOrtatiOns, which, so far a
possible, should be adjusted to prOmot
the interest of American labor, and ad
vance the prosperity of the whole country
o. We reaffirm our opposition to furthe
grants of the public lands to corporation
and mOnopOlies, and demand that tn
National domain be devoted to free home
for the people.
10: 1t is the imperative duty of the Gov
ernment so to modify existing treatie
with European Governments that tn
same protection shall be afforded to tn
adopted American citizen that is given t
the native born, and that all necessar
laws should be passed to protect emigrant
in the absence of power in the States fO
that purpose.
IL. 1t is the immediate duty of Cor
gress to fully investigate the effect of til
immigration and importation of MongO
ians upon the moral and material interei
of the coudtry.
II. The Republican party recognize
with approval the substantial advance +,
Gently made toward the establishment (
equal rights for women by the many in
pOrtant amendments effected by ReDubl
can Legislature, in laws which conceT
the personal and property relations
wives, mothers and widows, and by tn
appointment and election of women to tn
superintendent of education, charitiC
and other public trusts. The honest dt
mands of this class of citizens for add
tiOnal rights and privileges and immun
ties should be treated with respectfI
consideration.
l3. The Constitution confers upon Con
gress sovereign powers over the TerritO
les of the United States for their govern
ment, and in the exercise of this power
is the right and the duty of Congress
prohibit and extirpate in the Territorit
that relic of barbarism pOlygamy, and W
demand such legislation as shall secuI
this end, and the supremacy of America
institutions in all the Territories.
IA. The pledges which the nation h.
given to our soldiers and sailors must l
fulfilled. The grateful people will alway
hold those who periled their lives for Il
cOuntry's preservation in the kindest r
membrance.
Is. We sincerely deprecate all section
feeling and tendencies. We therefore no
with deep solicitude that the Democrat
party counts as its chief hope of succe
upon the electoral vote of the unit'
South, secured through the efforts of tho
who were recently arrayed against Il
nation, and we invoke the earnest atte
ton of the country to the grave tru
that success thus achieved would reop'
sectional strife and imperil National hon
and human rights.
10. We charge the Democratic party
being the same in character and spirit
when It sympathized with treason, wi
making its control of the House of Re
Fesentatives the triumph and the oppo
tunity of the nations recent foes; wi
reasserting and applauding in the Natio
al Capitol the sentiments of unrepent'