Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-06
NASHVILLE.
A Breeze Caused by the
Grant Resolutions.
Platform Adopted The Same Old
Text.

a. m. The following resolution,
offered by Hon. A. A. Freeman, pro-
voked breezy" discussion:
Believing that Gen. Grant is the
first choice of an overwhelming ma
jority of the republicans of Tennessee
for president therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
this convention that the delegation
selected to represent the state in the
Chicago convention, should be com
posed of persons who sympathize with
this sentiment, and who will, without
instructions, cast the vote of the state
for Gen. Grant"
Finally the resolution, with all the
other resolutions, were referred to the
committee on resolutions, without
reading Or debate.
The committee on resolutions then
submitted the following platform
which was adopted unanimously;
Resolved, That we hereby re-affirm
our devotion to the national republi>
can party, and to its principles as
heretofore declared, believing those
principles to be founded in political
wisdom, and essential to the prosper
ity and equality of every citizen, and
to the union of the states under the
constitution.
Resolved, That the bonds of Ten
nessee, heretofore deliberately recog-
nized by both the democratic and
republican parties as legally issued and
valid; and that it is an indebtedness
binding in law and in morals on the
property and conscience Of the people
OF the state, and that any attempt to
impare the obligations of that indebt-
edness, or to readjust or scale or in
any other manner to change the letter
and spirit of the contract without the
voluntary consent of the bondholders
previously fairly and understandingly
obtained is downright reputation and
an act Of high handed dishonesty.
Resolved, That any voluntary pro-
position from our creditors to take
less than the face value of their bonds
in consequence of losses incurred by
our citizens during the war of the
rebellion should be thankfully and
unhesitatingly accepted and the new
contract faithfully and promptly com
piled with, and we denounce the
refusal Of the democratic party to ac-
cept the go and 6 proposition as a
refusal of a liberal and voluntary re
duction, and we recognize in said
refusal overwhelming evidence that
a large majority Of the democrstic
party intends to repudiate the bonded
debt of the state and thereby to sub
ject our state to the approbrium of all
people who regard the contracts of a
state with her creditors as Of sacred
inviolability.
Resolved, That reasons prompting
the democratic party of Tennessee.
and other states Of the south, to repu
date the debts of their respective
states, will, when logically carried
out, prompt them also to repudiate
the entire war debts of the United
States; aud we hereby declare our
solemn Judgment to be that, as soon
as the repudiating element of the
democratic party has wiped out the
debts Of their respective states, they
will declare in favor of repudiating
the debt incurred by the nation in
preserving the union.
Resolved, That we renew our dec
larations in favor of free common
schools for the education of all child
ren-of the state, we beliving school
houses cheaper than court houses,
and that intelligence is the mother of
morality and liberty.
Resolved, That we recognize the
right of the laboring men and
women Of Tennessee as deserving
of our most tender parental
solicitude, and we denounce all legis-
lation that discriminates against the
poor and in favor of the rich, believ-
ing that the poor man is the creator
of our wealth, and that there can be
no public or private prosperity except
it be based on perfect harmony be-
tween labor and capital
Resolved, That We are opposed to
bringing convict labor in unnecessary
competition with free labor, and to
prevent this we favor the employment
of penitentiary convicts below a Ger
tain grade on public works and in i'm
proving public roads in the state.
Resolved, That we are in favor Of
law aud order, and opposed to mob
violence; that we demand the impair
tial enforcement of the law every
where and at all times; that we de-
nounce social ostracism because of
opinion as standing reproach
to the republican government, as cal
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