The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-17

| diminished to future generations; that
the order established and the credit
acquired should never be impaired /;
that the pensions promised should he
paid that the debt so much reduced
should be extlnguisbed by the full pay
ment OF every dollar thereof; that the
reviviDg Industries should be further
promoted, and that the commerce al-
ready so great should be steadily en-
| Outraged.
2. The constitution of the UoIted
States is a supreme law, and not a
mere contract. One of the Confeder-
| are states is made a sovereign nation.
| Some powers are denied 10 the nst.or,
while others are denied to the ststes,
bat the boundaries between the pow
ers delegated snd those reserved is to
be determined by the national, and not
! by the state tribunals.
8. The work of popular education Is
one left to the csre of the several
states, bat IL Is the duty of the nasionqb
government to aid that work to the ez-
tent of Its constitutional ability. The
intelligence of the nation is but the
aggregate Of the intelligence of the
several states, and that the destiny of
the nation must be guided not by the
genius of anY one state, bur by the
average genius of all.
4. The constitution wisely fOrbids
Congress to make any law respecting
an establishment of religion, but it is
idle 70 hope that the nation can be pro
tected against the influence of sncts-
risnlsm while each state is exposed 20
its domination. We therefore recon-
mend that the constitution be so
amended as to lay the same prohibition
upon the Legislature of each state, ana
to forbid the appropriation of public
funds to the support OF sectsrisn
schools.
D. We resffirm the belief avoved in
1876 that the duties levied for the
purpose of revenue should so dlscrimi-
nate as to favor American labor; tbs;
no further grants of the public domain
should be made TO any railway or other
corporation that slavery having per-
ished in the states, its twin barbsri''
polygsmy, must die in the territories
that everywhere the protection accorded
to q citizen of American birth must be
secured to citizens by American adnp-
ton. That We deem it the duty of
Congress TO develop and improve our
water courses and harbors, but INSIST
that further subsidies to private per-
sons or corporations must cease; thai
the obligations of the republic to the.
men who preserved It's integrity in the
hour of battle are undIminished by the
lapse of fifteen years since their final
victory. To do them honor is and SHAY
forever be the gresteful privilege and
sacred duty of the American people.
6. Since the authority to regulate i'm
migratlon and intercourse between the
United States and foreign nations rests
with the Congress of the United States,
and that the treaty making power, tht
Republican party, regarding the unre-
stricted immigration of Chinese as q
matter OF grave concernment, under
the exercise of both these powers
would limit and restrict thst inning a.
ton by the enactment of such Just,
human, reasonable laws and treaties a.
will produce that result.
z. That the purity and PATRIOTISM
which characterized the earlier career
OF Rutherford B. Hayes in peace and ]
war, and which guided thoughts of our
immediate predecessors to him for
presidential candidate, have continued
t. inspire him in HIS career as chief ex-
ecutlve; and that history will accord
to his administration the hopors
which are due to an efficient, just and
courteous discharge of the public bust
ness, and will honor his vetoes inter-
posed between the people and attempt
ed partisan laws.
8. We charge upon the Democratic |
party the habiJual sacrifice of patriot
ism and justice to q supreme and in a
table lust for Office end patronage !; |
that to obtain pofession of the nation
al and state governments and the co8-
troll of place and position, they have |
obstructed all efforts to promote the
purity and to conserve the freedom of |
suffrage, and have devised fraudulet |
ballots, and invented fraudulent GER
tlficates of returns; have labored to |
unsest lawfully elected members OF
Congress to secure at all hazards the |
vote of majority of state in the house |
Of representatives; have endeavored to |
occupy by force and fraud the places
of trust given to others by the people |
of Maine, rescued by the coursge IL
action of Names patriotic sons; have,
by methods vicious in principle and |
tyrsnnicsl in practice, attached partl
san Legislation to appropriation bills
upon whose passage the very move
ment of the government depended
have crushed the rights of the inG;-
vidusl; have advocated the principles
aud sought the favor of the rebellion
against the nation, and have endesv-
ored to obliterate the sacred memories
of the war, and to overcome It's ines
timably valuable results of nationality, |
personal freedom, and individual
equality.
8. The equal, and steady, and COM
plete enforcement of the lave, and the
protection of ell cur citizens in the en-
joyment of all privileges and immunity |
guaranteed by the constitution, are the
first duties uf the nation.
10. The dangers of ''solid south"
can only be sverted by faithful per-