Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-11-02
THE PLATFORAI
AasRtoa ~ sac National Republican
Ganwehstan ne Cincinnati, Jane H5s

Ntla Altlltl WAS 20 De pQfEeA OA human Sksl-
SefN and when the strength of the Gov
ernnlent Of the people, by the people, for
tile people, was to be demonstrated,
the Republican party came into power
Ks deeds have passed into history, and we /
l0OR back TO them with pride. Incited by 1
ttteir memories and high aims for the |
good of our country and mankind, and i
looking to the future with unfaltering 1
courage, hope and purpose, we, the rep /
resentatives of the party in National Con- |
senti0n assembled, make the following |
declaration Of principles:
l.. The United States Of America is a |
Nation, not 4 league bV 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, |
arid the common welfare promoted.
2. The Republican party has preserved
those Governments to the one hundreth
anniversary of the nations birth, and
they are now embOdiments of the
great truths spoken at its cradle: ttthat
all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inallenable rights, among which are life,
llberty and the pursuit of happiness that
Tor the attainment of these ends Govern
ments have been instituted among men,
ieriVlng their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed Until these truths
are cheerfully Obeyed, or if needed to be,
publican party is unfinished.
:. The permanent pacificatiOn of the
Jiithern section of the Union, and the
complete protection of all its citizens in
ihe free enjoyment of all their rights, are
iuties to which the Republican party
"tands sacredly pledged. The power to
provide for the enforcement of the princi-
Dles embodied in recent Constitutional
amendments is vested by those amend
ments in the Congress of the United States,
and we declare it to be the solemn obliga-
lion of the Legislative and Executive De- 1
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-
~ in the exercise OfaH civil, political and
public rights. 10 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
pHte or recall.
4. 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
10 the public creditors, and sOlemnly
pledged its faith to make provisions at the
earliest practicable period, for redemp-
zion of the United States notes in cOin.-
and national credit demand that this
promise be fulfilled by continuous and
steady progress to specie payments.
). Under the Constitution the Prcsi-
dent and heads of Departments are to
make nominations for Office, the Senate is
10 advise and consent to appointments, and
thS House of Representatives is to accuse
and prosecute faithless officers. The best
Interests of the public service demand
that these distinctions be respected; that
Senators aud Representatives who may
be judges and accusers should not dictate
appointments to office. The inVariable
rule for appointments should have ref
erence to the honesty, fidelity and eapaci
~ of the appOintccs, giving to the party
in power those places where harmony and
VigOr of administration require its policy
10 be represented, but permitting all 9TH
frs to be filled by persons selected with
sole reference to the efficiency of the pub
lie service, and the right of all citizens to
share in the honor of rendering faithful
service to their country.
q. We rejoice in the quickemcd con-
science of the people concerning political
affairs, and will hold all public officers to
rigid responsibility, and engage that
the prosecution and punishment of all
who betray official trusts shall be speedy,
thorough and unsparing.
q. 5CrDfTe=s<54rzs4 9tste44A OF the
eral States Is the buiwark Ofthc American
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
amy schools or institutions under secta-
rian control.
8. The revenue necessary for current
expenditures and the obligations of the
public debt, must be largely derived from
slnties upon impOrtatiOns, which, so far as
possible, should be adjusted to promote
the interest of American labor, and adj
vance the prosperity of the whole country.
0. We reaffirm our opposition-tO further
grants of the public lands to corporations
and mOnopOlies, and demand that the
National domain be devoted to free homes
for the people.
10. It is the imperative duty of the Gov
ernulent so to modify existing treaties
with European Governments that the
same protection shall be afforded to the
adopted American citizen that is given to
the native born, and that all necessary
laws should be passed to protect emigrants
in the absence of power in the States for
that purpose.
IL. 1t is the immediate duty of Con-
gress to fully investigate the effect of the
immigration and importation of Mongol-
ians upon the moral and material interest
of the coudtry.
II. The Republican party recognizes
with approval the substantial advance re-
Gently made toward the establishment of
equal rights for women by the many inn
pOrtant amendments effected by Republi-
can Legislature, in laws which concern
the personal and property relations of
wives, mothers and widows, and by the
appointment and election of women to the
superintendenee of education, charities
and other public trusts. The honest de-
mands of this class of citizens for addi-
tiOnal rights and privileges and immuni-
sies should be treated with respectful
consideration.
l3. The Constitution confers upon Con-
gress sovereign powers over the Territor-
ies of the United States for their govern
lnent, 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 VIC
demand such legislation as shall secure
this end, and the supremacy of American
institutions i'm all the Territories.
IA. The pledges which the nation has
given to our soldiers and sailors must be
fulfilled. The grateful people will always
hold those who periled their lives for the
country s preservation in the kindest re-
membramce.
is. We sincerely deprccatc all sectional
feeling and tendencies. We ethereforc note
with deep sOlieitude that the Democratic
party counts as its chief hope of success
apOn the electoral vote of the united
South, secured through the efforts of those
who were recently arrayed against the
nation, and we invoke the earnest atten-
tion of the country to- the grave truth
that success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife and imperil National honor
and human rights.
l6. We charge the Democratic party as
being the same ia character and spirit as
when it sympathized with treason, with
making its control of the House of Rep
resentatives the triumph and the oppor-
GaBity of the nations recent foes: with
reaSseRkin0 and aDDIaudinO in the Nation
al CapitOf the sentiments of unrenented
..r;tI cIs,,o.