The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-07-13

,ional amendment, the schools are placed
beyond all danger of sectarian control
or interference. The Republican party
is pledged to SECURE such an amend
ment.
The resolution of the convention on
the subject of the permanent pacification
of the country, and its complete pro-
lection of all its citizens in the free en-
joyment of all their constitutional
rights, is timely and of great impor-
lance.
The Southern States attract the at
tention and command the sympathy OF
the whole Union in their progressive
recovery from the effect OF the war.
Their first necessity is an intelligent and
honest administration of the govern
ment, which protects all classes of clti-
zens in all their political ond private
rights What the South most needs is
peace, and peace depends on the su-
premacv of the law. There can be no
enduring peace if the constitutional
rights of any portion of the people are
habitually disregarded. A division OF
political parties resting merely upon
distinctions of race or upon sectional
lines is always unfortunate and may be
disastrous. The welfare of the South,
alike with that of every other country,
depends upon the attractions 1t can offer
to labor, to immigration and TO capital ;
/ but laborers will not 60, and capital will
not be vcntured, where the constitution
and the laws are set at defiance, and dis
traction, apprehension and alarm take
the place of peace loving and law abiding
social life. All parts of tho constitution
are sacred, and must be sacredly OBJ
served-the parts that are new no less
than the parts that are old. The moral
and material prosperity of the Southern
states can be most effectually advanced
by q hearty and generous recognition OF
the rights of all by all, recognition
without reserve or exception. With
such recognition fully recorded, it will
be practicable to promote by the infu-
ence of all legitimate agencies Of the
general government, the efforts of the
people of those States to obtain for
themselvers the blessings of honest and
capable local governments. If elected /
shall consider it not only my duty, but
it will be my ardent desire, TO labor for
the attainment of this end. Let me as
sure my countrymen of the Southern
States that, if shall be charged with
the duty of organizing an administra-
ton, it will be the one which will re-
gard and cherish their truest interests,
the interests of the white and of the
coored people, both and equally, and
which will put forth its best efforts in
behalf of civil policy which will wipe
out forever the distinction between
North and South in our country, with o
civil service organized upon q system
which will secure purity, experience,
efficiency and economy, strict regard
for the public welfare solely in appoint
mcnts, and the speedy, thorough and
unsparing prosecution and punishment
of all public officers who bctray their
official trust. With sound currency,
with education unscctarian and free to
all, with simplicity and frugality in pub
lie and private affairs, and with such q
fraternal spirit of harmony pcrvading
the people of all sections and classes,
we may reasonably hope that the second
century OF our existence as nation
will, by the blessing of God, be preem
inent as an era of good feeling, and q
period OF progress, prosperity and hap
piness. Yours respectfully, your fellow
citizen, Il. B. HAYES.