The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-07-17
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nv 1o form OF proceedings against co.opel
pers Of stores and other places of W.
business opened on sSandays4in. mite
.ention Of the Police Jnry's Sun chants
dinance, end for the commence 1o--ra.-
OF gold. 1t has restored upon q solid basis
J payment in coin Of the national obligations
| and has given us currency absolutely
good and legal, and equal il evey part Of
our country. It has lifted the credit of the
nation from the point where six per cent.
cent. bonds are eagerly sought at premi-
nm. Under its administration railways in
creased from 81, 900 miles ia 1860 to more
than 81 600 miles in 1879. Our foreign trade
has increased from 500, 600, 600 to $l,l5O,-
000, 600 in the same time, and our exports,
which were twenty millions less than our inn
ports in 1860, were $264, 600, 900 more than
loans, it has, since the war closed, betrayed
the ordinary expenses Of the government,
besides the accruing interest on the public
debt and disbursed annually more than
thirty millions for soldiers pensions 1t has
paid $888, 600, coo Of the public debt, and by
refuntling the balance at lower rates has
reduced the annual interest charge from
All the industries Of the country have re-
vived, labor is in demand, wages have in
creased, and throughout the entire country
there is evidence 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
their approval the following statements and
purposes, and which will continue to guide
and inspire it's efforts.
First. We affirm that the work Of the
last twenty-one years has been such as to
commend itself to the nation, and that the
fruits of the costly victories which we have
| achieved through immense difficulties
should be preserved. That the peace re-
gained should be cherished, that the dis
severed union, now happily restored,
should be perpetuated, and that the lber-
ties secured to this generation should be
transmitted, untliminished to future gener-
ations, that the order established aud the
credit required should never be impaired !;
that the pensions promised should be paid !;
that the debt, SO much reduced, should he
extinguished by the full payment of every
dollar thereof; that the reviying industries
should be further promoted, and that the
commerce, already SO great, should be
steadily encouraged.
2. The constitution Of the United States
is supreme law, and not mere contract.
Out OF Confederate States it made a SOW
erign nation. Some powers are denied to
the nation, while others are denied to States,
but the boundaries between the powers del
egated and those reserved, is to he deter
mined by the national and not by the State
tribunal.
3. The work of popular education is one
left to the care Of the several States, but it
is the duty Of the national government to
aid that work to the extent OF it's constitu-
tional ability. The intelligence of the ma
ton is but the aggregate Of the intelligence
in the several States and the destiny ii the
nation must not be guided by the genius of
any one State, but By the average genius
at all.
4. The constitution wisely forbids con-
gress to make any laws respecting an es-
Enlistment OF religion, but it is idle to
hope that the notion can be protected
against the influence Of sectarianisn, while
each State is exposed to its denomination,
We, therefore, recommend that the consti-
tuition be so amended as to lay some restric-
lions upon the legislature of each State, and
to forbid the appropriation of public funds
to the support Of sectarian schools
5. We reafiirm the belief avowed in 1876,
that the duties levied for the purpose of
revenue should SO discriminate as to favor
American labor that no further grants of
the public domain should be made to any
railway or other corporation; that slavery
having persisted in the States, its twin bar
barity, pO]ygamy, must die in the territories;
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a citizen of American birth must be secured
to citizens by American adoption; that we
deem it the duty Of Congressto develop and
improve our water courses and harbOrs but
insist that further subsidies to private per-
sons Or corporations must cease that the
obligations Of the republic to the men who
preserved it's integrity in the day Of battle
are undin'inished BY the lapscd Of fifteen
years since their final victory. To 90 them
honor is, and shall forever be, the grateful
privilege and sacred duty Of the American
people.
6. Since the authority to regulate inmi-
grafton and intercourse between the United
States and foreign nations rests with the
congress OF the United States, and tile trea-
ty-making powers, the Republican party re-
garding the unrestricted immigration Of
Chinese as a matter of grave concernment
under the exercise OF both these powers,
would limit and restrict that immigration
by the enactment Of such just, humane and
reasonable laws and treaties as will pro-
duce that result.
z. That the purity and patriotism which
characterized the earlier career of Ruther-
ford Is. Hayes in peace and war, and which
guided the thought Of our immediate pre-
decessOrs to him for q presidential candi-
date, have continued to inspire him in his
career as chief executive, aud that history
will accord to his administration the lonors
which are due to an efficient, Just and cour-
teons discharge Of the public business, and
will honor his vetees interposed between
the people and attempted partis"n laws.
.. we charge upon the Democratic party
the habitual sacrifice Of patriotism and JUS
tice to a supreme and Unsuitable lust for
office and patronage; that to obtain posses
sion OF the national and State governments.
and the control OF places and position. they
have obstrncted all efforts to promote the |
purity and to conserve tie freedom Of suf-
iragc, and have devised fraudulent ballots
and invented fraudulent certificates Of re- !
turns; have labOred to unseat lawfully
elected members Of Congress, to secure at
an hazards, the vote of u majority of the |
States in the House OF Representatives; have
endcavored to occupy by force and fraud
the places Of trust given to others by the |
people OF Maine, rescued by the courage in |
action OF Names patriotic sons; have by |
methods, vicious in principle and tyrannical |
III practice, attached partisan Legislation to |
appropriation bills upon whose passage the |
very movement OF the government de-
pended; have crushed the rights of tile in
divual, have advocated the principles and
sought the favor OF the rebellion against the
nation, and have endeavorcd to obliteratc
the sacred memories Of the war, and to
overcome the inestimably valuable results
OF nationality, personal freedom, and iudi-
vi'lual equality. The equal, and steady,
and complete enforcement Of the laws, and
the protection Of all our citizens in the en-
joynent Of all the privileges and immunity
guaranteed hy the constitution are the first
duties OF the nation. The dangers of a solid
South can only be averted by d faithful Der-
formanee Of every promise which the nation
has made to the citizens The execution of
the laws and the punishment Of all those
who violated them arc the only safe methods
by which an enduring peace can be secured