New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-02

down blameless men and helpless women
families perish by violence; no one is
| punished, and the officials VINO connive
at murder are reelected and rewarded for
being accomplices in shedding innocent
blood. The tragic death of one maiden
reused pagan Rome to vengeance, but
Americans are very patient when the
blood of the Chisholms and others sickens
humanity, and justice lays no hand on
ouch frightful butchery. The officials of
the United States are shot down and i'm
prisoned for performing their duty, and
the whole power of the nation is openly
defed. In the Gulf States majorities are
| powerless and PROSTATE, their committees
extinct, and they trampled under foot by
the men they faced in battle. As in slave
days, the colored people are counted to
swell the number Of Southern Representa-
tives in Congress, but for any other pur-
pose they hardly appear now in the politi-
cal account Turn from this picture to
| the three free amendments of the Consti-
tuition. There they stand, and they de-
clare that such wrongs shall never be-
Yet this is the great Republic-the men
thus degraded and despoiled are its citi-
zens-they stood by it and fought for it,
and are prosecuted for its sake-and this
Is the last quarter of the nineteenth
century
The Plain Duty of Republicans.
The mission of the Republican party is
not ended. 1t has done much. 1t has
put down vast rebellion, freed four
million slaves, made o free Constitution,
united the fragments of shattered empire,
managed war and finances to the amaze.
ment of mankind it has carried railways
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sea, it has made harDors, built break
waters and lighthouses, and established
life-saving stations on perilous coasts; it
has stretched out network of signal
Service to give warning Of storms on land
and on sea; 1t has cheapened foreign and
dome site postage, founded postal money
order system, put post Offices on wheels,
and doubled the cheapness and swi1tness
of transmitting intelligence; it has secured
to every man who will have it home.
stead of one hundred and sixty acres of
fertile land; it has stood for free speech,
free labor, and free men always; it has
upheld the public credit, and its aims
have been those of humanity and right
Like every human agency, it has, no
doubt, fallen into error; but its record is
filed with great and useful achievements.
main for the future, but work and duty
which summon us all to concord, harmony,
and earnestness, Putting away side issues
and all chickering's and strife, the plain
duty of every sincere Republican is to
stand for the Republic. There are matters
about which Republicans differ-differ
widely and earnestly. These differences
do not concern the issues which deserve
attention now. 1t is not the right of any
man nor group of men to divert the Re-
publicans of New York from the questions
which urge themselves upon US, Let all
men, Of whatever party, gee the dangers
around and before us, and make common,
whole-hearted cause to avert them. Let
our motto be: "In essentials, unity in noL-
essentials, liberty; in all things charity"
The Platform.
At the close Of his speech a recess was
taken, after which the convention reas-
sembled, when the following platform
was reported and unanimously adopted:
/. The faith Of the payment of the
public debt and the redemption of public
promises, according to the spirit and
letter of the law, aud our we'll being re-
quires that the nations honor shall be
kept as inviolate as the nations life.
2. Under the management of succeed
ing Republican administrations, the coun-
try has advanced to the point of specie
resumption, and the highest interests of
business, no less than the plighted faith
of the republic, demand that there shall
be NO steps backward and no postpone
ment With this steady progress we have
the suspicious signs Of reviVing trade and
| industry, and congratulate the people
upon this practical evidence that if the
good work shall be completed the de-
preston which grew out of the financial
disorders, forced upon US by the war of
the rebellion, will give place to returning
confidence and permanent prosperity,
which can rest alone on the fixed none
tary standard of the commercial world, on
| solid values and full security and certain
ty for the future.
8. Standing unalterably for the consti-
tutional principles of hard money, we
insist that the greenback, Instead Vi Ueing
dishonored and deprecated, shall be
made as good as honest coin; that the
labor dollar shall mean real dollar; that
the fluctuations and uncertainties which
rob toll and paralyze trade shall cease;
that our currency shall be made the best
currency by making all parts of it, wheth-
! er paper or coin, equivalent, convertible,
secure and steady, and all public servants,
whether executive officers, Senators or
Representatives, whose acts and votes
conduee to the high object desesve our
appreciation. ......,
1. The Electoral Commission was a
wise and honorable mode of settling a
dangerous dispute; all parties were bound
to abide its decision, and any attempt to
undo or impair the conclusion it estab-
lished is unpatriotic and revolutionary.
5. While sincerely seeking fraternal
relations in all just efforts and aspirations,
we summon the people to renewed vigil
lence and unfinehing warfare against the
vast horde vi claims and raids ON the
| Treasury which count for sue cess on
Democrat rule under the mastery of a
a solid South, and which would fall with
special hardships on New York, as the
chief taxpaying State in the United
| States.
6 We demand free and unintimidated
elections in the South as in the North,
and the full recognition and observance
of all the rights and the liberty of all
| citizens as ordained by the amended con-
stitution, and until they shall be secured
the work of the Republican party to pro-
tect human rights will be unfinished.
| z, We renew our declaration for the
elevation of the public service on the basis
of secure tenue during the faithful per>
formanee OF official duties, for fixed