Wilmington journal., 1876-06-23
ions of the public debt must be large

tions of the public debt must be large
ly derined from duties upon importa-
tons. which, so far as possible, should
be adjusted to promote the interest of
American labor, and advance the pros
perity of the whole country.
Ninth. We reaffirm 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 dnty of
the government to SO modify existing
treaties with European governments
that the same protection shall be af-
fordei to adopted American citizens
that is given to native born, and all
necessary laws be passed to protect
emigrants in the absence of power in
the state for that purpose.
Eleventh. 1t is the Immediate duty
of Congress to fully investigate the eff
tect of the emigration and Importation
of MongOlians on the moral and ma
terlal interests of the country.
Twelfth. The Republican party re-
cognizes with approval the substantial
advance recently made toward the es
talishment 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, moth
ers and widows, and by the appoint
ment and election of women to the
superintendence of education, chari-
ties and other public trusts. The
honest demands of this class of citizens
for additional rights and privileges
and immunities should be treated with
respectful consideration.
Thirteenth. The constitution con-
fers upon congress sovereign power
over The territories of the United
States for their governments ,nnd in the
exercise of this power, it is the right
and 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 American
institutions in all the territories.
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 pre-.
servation in the kindest remembrance
Fifteenth. We sincerely deprecate
| all sectional feeling and tendencies
we therefore note with deep sol1citude
that the Democratic party counts as it,
| chief hope of success upon the electo
raj vote of united South, secured
| through The efforts of those who were
recently arrayed against the nation, ant
we invoke the earnest attention of th'
country to the grave truth that a sue
| cess thus achieved would reopen sec
tional strife and imperil the nationa
honor and human rights.
| Sixteenth. We charge the Demo
cratic party as being the sane in spiri
and character as when it sympathizet
with treason, and with making it's con
troll of the House of Representative
the triumph and opportunity of th,
nations recent foes; with reassertint
and applauding in the national capito
the sentiments of unrepented rebellion
with sending Union soldiers to tn
rear, and with deliberately proposing
to repudiate the pliglt t. d faith of th,
| government; with being equally falls
and imbecile upon the ovefshad win,
| financial question; with thwarting tn,
ends of Justice by itS partiZan misman
| agement and obstruction of investiga
tion; with proving itself through th,
| period of its ascendancy in the low i
House of Congress utterl ly incompet"n
TO administer the government w
warn the country against trusting
| party thus alike unworthy, recrean
and incapable,
Seventeenth. The national administra
ton merits cnmmendation for it's hon
orable work in the management of tht
! domestic and foreign affairs, art
| President Grant deserves the cODtinucI
and hearty gratitude of the American
people for his patriotism and his i'm
mense service Ill. War and in pence.