The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-11


and Third districts of Kansas The report
favored their admission, and Mr.. Conger ex-
| planned the report.
The convention, by 476 yeas to 1874
nays, voted to admit the contesting delegates
from the Second and Third districts.
The next question was upon so much of the
majority report as relates TO West Virginia.
Mr.. Conger on behalf of the Credentials Com
mittee, reported that the contest there was in
the Third district. The committee recommend
ed that the sitting members be allowed to re-
| tain their seats.
| The claimants contested on the ground that
| they had been elected in district convention,
| but the committee found that this was not
| proven. Some Of the delegates met the even
ing after the State Convention. but the commit
| tee were Of the opinion that there was not a
majority Of the district at such meeting. This
was the only point before the convention.
delegate from Arkansas moved that 80
much of the report of the minority as relates to
the contest in West Virginia be substituted for
the majority report.
After considerable debate, the motion to
adopt the minority report was adopted by a
vote Of AIT yeas to $50 nays.
The case of Utah was next in order, and was
settled by the adoption of the minority report
seating the contestants by a vote Of 426 yeas
TO 312 nays.
The report of the Committee on Credentials
as amended, was then adopted as whole.
The report of the Committee on Rules was
then presented and adopted.
Gen. Garfield then moved that the Commit
tee on Resolutions be ordered to report. The
motion was carried unanimously, and Hon. Ed
wards Pierrpont of New York, presented the re-
port. The resolutions were as follows:
The Republican party, in National Convention
sembed at the end of twenty years since the Federal
Government first committed TO its charge sub
mts to the people of the United States this brief
port of its administration:
n ral NJ ieh nd rnlp1n ms rly
100000 of men to subvert the national authority it
reconstructed the Union Of States with freedom in
formed 4,000,000 human beings from the
likeness os things to the rank of
citizens it relieved Congress from the
infamous work of hunting fugitive slaves, and
charged it to see that slavery does not exist it has
raised the value Of our paper currency from 80 per
cent to the par of gold it has restored, upon solid
basis, payment in coin of all national obligations and
has given us currency absolutely good and equal in
every part of extended country 1t has lifted the
credit of the nation from the point where 6percent
bonds sold at sc, to that where 4per-cent bonds
eagerly sought at premium.
Under its administration railways have increased
from 81 900 miles in 1860 to than 81 goo miles
in 1879. Our foreign trade increased from $780,
100000 to $1150,0O0000 in the same time, and
our exports, which were S20,000,000 less than our
imports in 1860, were S265, 100000 more than our
imports in 1879. Without resortng to loans it has
since the closed, betrayed the ordinary ex-
penses of Government, besides the accrung interest
the public debt, and has disbursed annually more
than $50 900 for soldiers and sailors pensions
has paid SS0,0OO0OO of the public debt, and, by
refunding the balance at lower rates, has reduced
the annual interest charge from nearly Sl50,000-
600 to less than SS9,000,000. All the industries of
the country have revived, labor is in demand,
wages have Increased, and throughout the entire
country there Is evidence of 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 to their approval the
following statement of tn principles and purposes
which will continue to guide and inspire its efforts
/. We affirm that the work of the Republican party
for the last twenty years has been such to COM
mend it to the favor of the nation that the fruits of
the costly victories which have achieved through
immense difficulties should be preserved: that the
peace regained should be cherished; that the Union
should be perpetuated, and that the liberty be
transmitted undimnshed to other genera
tons; that the order established and the
credit acquired should never be impaired: that the
! pensions promised should be paid; that the
debt much reduced should be extingushcd 10y the
full payment of every dollar thereof that the reviv-
ing Industries should he further promoted, and that
the commerce, already increasing, should be steadily
encouraged.
o The constitution of the United States is a SUI
preme law and not mere contract. out of con-
/ federated States IL made a sovereign nation. Some
powers denied to the nation, while others de-
MED to the States, but the boundary between the
| powers delegated and those reserved is To be de-
termined by the national and not 10y the State tri-
/ buna.
g. The work of popular education is one left TO the
of the several States but is the duty of the
National Government to aid that work to the extent
of its constitutional ability. The intelligence of the
nation is but the aggregate of the intelligence in the
several States, and that the destiny of the nation
must be guided, not by the genius of any one State,
but 10y the average genius Of all.
A. The constitution wisely forbids Congress to
make any law respecting the establishment of relig-
ion, but 1t il id to hope that the nation be pro-
teced against the influence of secret sectaranisn,
! while each State is exposed to its domination. We,
therefore, recommend that the constitution be so
amended as to lay the same prohibition upon the Leg
isature OF each state and to forbid the appropra-
ton of public funds to the support of sectarian
schools.
5. We reafirm the belief avowed in 1876 that the
duties levied for the purpose Of revenue should so
discriminate to favor American labor; that nc
further grants Of the public domain should be made
to any railway or other corporation; that, slavery
having persisted i'll the States, its twin bar
barity, polygamy, must die II the Territories
that everywhere the protection accorded TO a
! citizen OF American birth must be secured 10
citizens by American adoption. That we deem
it the duty of Congress to develop and improve our
sea coast and harbors. but insist that further sub
sides to private persons corporations must cease
preserved its integrity in the day of battle arc undi
minished by the lapse of fifteen years since theiI
final victory. To do them honor 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
and the treaty-making power, the Republican party
regarding unrestricted immigration of Chinese as
matter of grave Government, under the exercise OF
both these powers, would limit and restrict that inn
migration by the enactment of such just, humane
and reasonable laws and treaties will produce that
result.
Z. That the purity and patriotism which charac-
terized the earlier of Rutherford Il. Hayes III
peace and war; and which guided the thoughts OF
our immediate predecessors to him for a Presiden-
tia candidate have continued to inspire him in his
career Chief Executive; and that history will ac-
cord to his administration the honors which are due
to efficient, just and courteous discharge of tile
| pubic business, and will honor his vctoes inter
posed between the people and attempted partisan
laws.
g. We charge upon the Democratic party the habit
ua sacrifice of patriotism and justice to supreme
and Unsuitable lust for Office and patronage that
to obtain possession of the National Government and
the control Of place, they have obstructed all efforts
To- promote the purity and to conserve the freedom
of the suffrage, and have devised fraudulent ballots
and invented fraudulent certifcation of returns
have labored to unseat lawfuly-elected members OF
Congress to at all hazards the vote
of a majority of States in the House OF
Representatives; have endeavored to occupy
by force and fraud the places Of trust given e
others by the people of Maine, rescued by the
courage and action Of Names patriotic sons; have
by methods vicious in principle and tyrannical In
practice, attached partisan legislation to appropria
ton bills upon whose passage the very ement OF
the Government depended; have crushed the rights
of the indivdual have advocated the principles and
sought the favor of the Rebellion against the nation
and have underworld to obliterate the sacred mem
cries and to overcome its inestmably valuable re-
suits of nationality, personal freedom and indiyid