Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-04
The Platform.

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states with freedom instead of slavery as lts
cornerstone. It transformed four million
human beings from the likeness of things
to the rank Of citizens. It relieved con-
kress from the infamous work of hunting
fugitive aves and charged it to see that
| slavery does not exist 1t has raised the
value of our paper currency from thirty
eight per cent. to the par of gold. It has
restored upon solid basis the payment in
coin Of all the national obligations and has
given US q currency absolutely good and
| equal in every part of our extended country.
| 1t has ed the credit of our nation from
the point where per cent. bonds sold at 90
to that where per cent. bonds are eagerly
! sought at premium. nder Its admins
| tration railways have increased from thir y
| one thousand miles in 1860 10 m )re than
| eighty thousand in 1879. Our foreign trade
| has increased from $1,000 eco to 81, 50},-
| 100, 00J in the same time, and our exports,
which were SO, COCOON less than our i'm
ports in 1850. were $z64. .O0O 600 more than
loans, it has, since the war closed, betrayed
the expenses of the government, besides
paying the accruing interest on the public
| debt and disbursed annually more than
| $50, ,OO0Cl0 for soldiers pensions. It has
| paid 1888, ,O00, 600 of the public debt, and,
| by refunding the balance at lower rates,
| has reduced the annual interest charge
l
| All the industries of the country have re-
vived. Labor is in demand. Wages have
increased, and throughout the entire coun-
try there is eYiIence Of a coming prosperity
| greater than We have ever enjoyed. Upon
this record the republican party asks for
the continued confidence and support of
the people, and this convention submits for
the principles and purposes which will
continue to guide and inspire its efforts:
We affirm that the work of tho last
! twenty-one years has been such as to COM
mend itself to the favor of the nation, and
that the fruits of the costly victories which
we have achieved through immense diff
cultles should be preserved; that the peace
regained should be cherished; that the dis
severed Union, now happily restored,
should be perpetrated, and that the liber-
ties secured to this generation should be
transmitted undiminished to future gene
rations; that the order established and
credit acquired should never be impaired;
that the pensions promised should be paid;
that the debt so much reduced should be
extinguished by the full p 'yment of every
dollar thereof; that the reviving industries
should be further promoted, and that the
commerce, already so great, should ba
steadily encouraged,
2 The constitution of the United States
is supreme law and not mere contract.
| Out of confederate states it made sOv-
erefgn nation. Some powers are denied to
tho nation, while others are denied to She
states; but the boundary between the
powers delegated and those reserved is to
be determined by the national and not the
state tribunals.
8. The work of popular education is one
left to the care of the several stat 8, but it
is the duty of the national government TO
aid that work to the extent of its constitu-
tionsl ability. The intelligence of the ma
ton IL but the aggregate intelligence in the
several states, and the destiny of the nation
must be guided, not by the genius of any
one tate, but by the average genius of all.
, T. The constitution wisely forbids con-
gress to mat any law respecting Hi estab-
iisnment of religion, but it is idle to hope
that q nation can be protected AGAINST the
, | influence of sectarianism while each state
is exposed to its denomination. We,
herelore, recommend that tho conSt tuition
tion on the legislature of each state, and to
forbid the appropriation of public funds to
the support of eectaria1 schools.
b. We reaffirm the belief avowed in 1876,
that the duties levied for the purpose OF
revenue should so discriminate as 70 favor
: American labor; that no further grant oil
the public domain should be made TO any
railway or other corporation; that slavery.
having perished in the states, its twin
barbarity, polygamy, must die ia the terri
tories, that everywhe the protection &C.
corded to q citizen of American birth must
=, be secured to citizens by American sdop-
tion; that VIC esteem it the duty of congress
to develop and improve our water course
and hart bors, but insist that further subsi-
dies to private persons or corpor4tiobs
must cease; that the obligations of the re-
60 pu blic to the men who preserved its integ-
rity in the day of battle are und minisbed
by the lapse of fifteen years since their final
victory Their perpetual honor is and
shall forever be, the grateful privilege and
sacred duty Of the American people.
6. Since the authority to regulate lmmi-
grafton md intercourse between the
J United States and foreign nations rests
with the congress Of the United S ates and
its tresty-msking powers, the republican
party, regsr ing the unrestricted immigra-
tion of Chinese as an evil of great magnl-
| tude, invoke the exercise OF that power tC
restrsin and limit that immigration by the
enactment of such just. humane and rea-
= sonsble provisions as will produce that re-
, suit
7. That the purity and patriotism which
| characterizes the ear Ter career OF hutner
3 ford b. hayes, in peace and war, and
which guided the thoughts Of our lmme
> diste predecessors to him for presloen'
3 tial candidate, have continued to inspire
=. him in his career as chief executive, anC
tha history will accord his administration
a the honors which are due to an efficient
;. just and courteous discharge of the public
business, and will honor his Interpretation
Se.weea isw~ arate enough to battle their
g III the fame of the guns. The
the zap from the ground almost as they
a justsressed on the foe, aud shrieks and
!. for and shouts blend into one awful
" sessady cry. Twenty men out on the
q mer are down, and the firing is inter-
obst, The foe accepts it as a sign of
ahdng and come rushing on. They
o frsu ten feet away when the guns give
II ffas1nrgu to uIIseHt InWIulIy olecteu ueGiI
bers of congress. to secure at all hazsrd
+ the vote of o msj ority of the states in tn
o house of representatives; have endeavoret
to occupy by force and fraud the PLACES o
!. { ust given to others by the people of Maine
10 which were rescued by the courage il
action of Maine's patriotic sons; have .,
Is methods, vicious in principle and tyranni
Cal in practice; attached partisan leglsla
a ton to appropriation bills upon whose pas
y sage the very movement of the govern
ment depends; have crushed the rights Q
D. individuals; have advocated the principle
and sought the favor Of rebellion againi