The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
NUMBER 81.

vent secession, and hence no consti-
tutional power to maintain their ex.
istence.
lila radical change fn the pres
ent admirable financial policy of the
government and the substitution of
untried financial experiments by un-
tried men.
IV.-The destruction of the Ma
tional banking system and the sub.
stitution of State banks, or of prom>
issory notes, issued under the as
Sumed authority of the General gov
ernment, whose volume and value
will depend upon the result of the
ayes and nays on vote in Congress.
V.-Placing the debt of the Nation
for payment in the hands.of men ALI
of whom vehemeEtly opposed the
resumption Of specie payments, and
large majority of whom have Ell
They lated tue l6bts b their own
States, or have favored the Pendi6.
ton plan of National repudiation.
VI.-Putting an end to the policy
of protection to American manuf;,c-
tories and American labor, and re.
ducing the Nation to state Of de.
pendence upon foreign countries for
the necessaries of life.
VII.-The continuance of intini-
dation, terrorism and acts of vfo-
lence toward the colored citizens of
the South, and the refusal of EN-.
ployment, under penalty of starva-
ton, to all who presume to vote with
the party that gave them their free
dom.
VII.-And therefore, the contins
ued Acknowledgement of the race i'm
defiance of the supreme law and au.
thority of the National Government.
IX.-Reversing the verdict of
Gettysburg and Appomattox, and
the verdictof the war reversing the
solemn judgment of the American
people, and making the "Lost
Cause" the victorious cause.
X.-The continuance of ballot-box
pollution in the use of tissue-ballots
and the false and fraudulent counting
of lawful votes actually deposited.
XI.-The elevation to the chief
places of power in the Union of all
in the South most serviceable and
most conspicuous in the war for the
Unions destruction.
XII.-The placing in the hands of
the late insurgents of the power to-
reorganize the Supreme Court of the
United States in the interest of State
Sovereignty and secession, and the
probable adoption by that Court of
the theory distinctly justifying Sc
cession in the Kentucky resolutions
of 1898, which assert that the State
is to be the judge "of the mode and
measure of redress" in all cases of
'infractions" of the compact" on
the part Of the National Govern
ment.
XII.-Making the indorsers of
these reasonable resolutions, which
were readopted in the National DEM
ocratic platform of 1856, the indor-
sers of notification in 1882 and the
promoters of and actors in secession
in 1861, the guardians of the Ma
ton. which their acts and teachings,
unchecked, would have three times
destroyed.
XlV.-The elevation to our most
exalted office, requiring the most va
ried knowledge and largest attain
ments, of military officer without
training or experience in civil affairs
who has no knowledge of the science
OF Government. of political history,
or uf constitutional law.
XV.-R ising to the dignity of
Vice President, and successor ap.
parent to the Chief Magistracy, de-
fender of the assassin Brooks, and a
supporter of slavery, who has since
exhibited his love of oppression by
grinding the poor and eiecting them
from their almost entirely paid for
homes.
XVI.-Finally, Democratic sue
cess means putting the Capital of the
Union and its Government in the
peaceable possession of those enemies
from whom they were kept, for four
years OF open war, only by the ex-
penditure of six billions of money,
and almost a million of lives.-N.
Y. Tribune.