The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12

where the protection accorded to
citizens of American birth must be
secured to citizens by American
adoption and that we esteem it the
duty of Congress to develop and i'm.
prove our water courses and harbors.
but insist that further subsidies to
private persons or corporations must
cease; that the obligations of the re-
public to the men who preserved its
integrity in the hour of battle are un-
diminished by the lapse of fifteen
years, since their final victory. To
do them justice is. and shall forever
be, the grateful privilege and sacred
duty of the American people.
6. Since the authority to regulate
immigration and intercourse between
the United States and foreign nations
rests with the Congress, or with the
United Slater and its treaty-making
power, the Republican party, regard
ing the unrestricted immigration of
the Chinese as an evil of great mag
nitude, invoke the exercise of the
powers to restrain and limit that i'm
migration by the enactment of such
Just, humane and reasonable provis-
ions as will produce that result.
Z. That the purity and patriotism
which characterize the earlier days of
Rutherford B. Hayes in peace and
war, and which guided the thoughts
of our immediate predecessors to him
for a Presidential candidate, have
continued to inspire him in his ca
reer as Chief Executive and that his
tory will accord to his administra-
ton the henors which are due to an
efficient, just and courteous diseharg-
ing of the public business, and will
honor his interpretations between the
people and proposed partisan laws.
s We charge upon the Democratic
party the habitual sacrifice of pat
riotism and justice. To supreme
and Unsuitable lust of office and pat
ronage, and to obtain possession of
the national and Stale governments,
and the control of place and position,
they have INSTRUCTED all efforts to
promote the purity and to conserve
the freedom ofsutfrage, and have de
vised fraudulent certifications and
returns have labored to unseat law
fully elected members of Congress to
| secure, at all hazards, the votes of a
majority of the States in the House
of Representatives; haYe endeavored
to occupy, by force and fraud, the
places of trust given to others by the
people of Maine, and secured by the
courage in action of Names patriot
&c sons have, by methods, vicious in
principle and tyrannical in practice,
attached partisan legislation to APP
preparation bills, upon whose pas
sage the very movements of govern
ments depended; have crushed the
rights of individuals have adv0ca-
ted the principles and sought the IA
yOr Of rebellion against the nation,
and have endeavored to obliterate
the sacred memories of the war and
and to overcome its inestimable val
liable results of nationality freedom
and individual equality.
The equal, steady and complete en-
forcement of laws, AMI the protection
of all our citizens in the enjoyment
of all privileges and immunities
guaranteed by the Constitution, are
the first duties of the nation. The
dangers of a solid South can only be
averted BY faithffgg pssFeg9E api1lf mas q
made to the citizens. The execution
of the laws and the punishment OF
all those who violate them, are the
only safe methods by which an en-
during peace can be secured and gen
uine prosperity established through
out the South. Whatever prom ises
the nation makes, the nation must
perform, and the nation cannot with
safety relegate this duty to the
States. The solid South must be di-
vided by the peaceful agencies of the
ballot, and all opinions must there
find free expression and to this end
the honest voters must be protected
against terrorism, violence or fraud,
and we affirm it to be the duty and
purpose of the Republican party to
use every legitimate means to res
tore all States of the Union to the
most perfect harmony that may be
practicable; and we submit to the
practical sensible people ofthe United
States to say whether it would not
be dangerous to the dearest interests
of our country at this time to sur
render the administration of the ma
tional government to the party which
seeks to overthrow the existing pol
icy under which we are SO prosper
Gus, and thus bring distrust and con
fusion where there is now order,
confidence and hope.