Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-07

greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upor
this record the republican party asks for the
continued confidence and support of the PEG.
| pie, and this convention submits for their ap.
proval the following statement of the princi.
Piles and purposes which will continue to
guide and inspire its efforts:
First-We affirm that the work of the last
81 years has been such IS to commend itself
to the favor of the nation, and that the fruits
Of the costly victories which we have achiev-
ed through immense difficulties should be pre-
served; that the peace regained should be
cherished: that the discovered Union. now
happily restored, should be perpetuated and
that the liberties secured to this generation
should be transmitted, undiminished, to future
generations; that the order established and
the credit acquired should never be impaired;
that the pensions promised should be ex-
tinguished by the full payment of every
dollar thereof: that the reviving industries
should be further promoted, and that the
commerce, already SO great, should be stead
lily encouraged.
Second-The constitution of the United
States is a supreme Law, and not a mere con-
tract. Out of confederated States it made
sovereign nation. Some powers are denied
TO that nation, while others are denied to the
delegated and those reserved is to be deter
mined BY the National and not by the State
tribunals. [Applausel.
Third-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 its constitution
al duty. The intelligence of the nation is but
the aggregate of the intelligence in the sew
eral States, and the destiny of the nation
must be guided. not by the genius of any one
State, but by the average genius of all
Fourth-The constitution wisely forbids
Congress to make any law respecting an
establishment of religion, but it is idle
to hope that the nation can be protected
against the influence of sectarianism 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 Legislature of each state, and to
forbid the appropriation of public funds to
the support of sectarian schools Cheers
Fifth-We affirm the belief avowed in 1876
that the duties levied for the purpose
of revenue should so discriminate as to
favor American labor [applause1; that
no further grant of the public domain
should be made to any railway or
other corporation; that slavery having
persisted in the States. its twin barbarity-
polygamy-must die in the Territories APP
plausel that everywhere the protection
accorded to citizens of American birth must
be secured to citizens of American adoption;
that we esteem it the duty Of Congress to
develop and improve our water courses and
harbors, but insist that further subsidies
to private persons or corporations must cease;
that the obligations OF the republic to the
men who preserved its integrity in the hour
l. 1,.1I h. ,.N<ls
years since that victory. To do them per-
petual honor is, and shall forever be, the
grateful privilege and sacred duty of the
American people.
Sxth-The authority to regulate immigra-
ton and intercourse between the United
States and foreign nations rests with
Congress. or with the United States and its
treaty making power. The republican
party, regarding the unrestricted immigration
of Chinese as an evil of great magnitude,
invokes the exercise of those powers to re-
strain and limit that immigration, by the
enactment of such inst, humane and reason
able provisions as will produce that result.
Seven.h-That the purity and patriotism
which characterized the earlier career of
Rutherford Il. Hayes, in peace and war. and
which guided the thoughts of our immediate
predecessors to him for presidential candi-
uatc, nave COHtIiueu W lHsput III HIS
career as chief executive, and that history
will accord to his administration the honors
W ich are due to an efficient, just and courte-
Gus discharge of the public business. and will
honor his interpretations between the people
and proposed partisan laws. Cheers.
Eighth-We charge upon the democratic
party the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and
Justice to supreme and Unsuitable lust of Of
fee and patronage; that to obtain possession
of.the National and State governments and
the control of place and position they have
obstructed all effort to promote the purity and
to preserve the freedom of suffrage and have
devised fraudulent certifcations and returns;
have labored to unseat lawfully-elected
members of Congress to secure at all hazards
the vote of a majority of the States in
the House of Representatives; have endeav-
ored to occupy, by force and fraud, the places
of trust given to others by the people of
Maine. and rescued by the courage
in action of Names patriotic sons
have BY methods vicious in principle and
tyrannical in practice, attached partisan leg
islation to appropriation bills, upon whose
passage the very movements of the govern
ment depend: have crushed the rights Of in
dividuals; have advocated tide principles and
sought the favor Of rebellion against the Ma
ton, and have endeavored to obliterate the
sacred memories of the war and to overcome.
its inestimable valuable results Of nationality,
personal freedom and individual equality. The
equal, steady and complete enforcement Of
the laws and the protection of all our citizens
in the enjoyment of all the privileges and
immunities guaranteed by the constitution
are the first duties of the Nation. The dan
gers of solid South can only averted by
faithful performance Of every promise which
the Nation has 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 enduring peace can De secured,
ard genuine prosperity established through
out the South. Whatever promises the Ma
ton makes, the Nation must perform, and
the Nation cannot, with safety, relegate this
duty to the States. The solid South must
be divided by the peaceful agencies of the
ballot, and all opinions must there fpd 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
the purpope of the republican party to use
every legitimate means to restore all the
States of this Union to the most perfect har-
mony that may be practicable, and we SUBJ