Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-29

must be guided, not by the genius of any
one state, but by the average genius of al.
4. The constitution wisely forbids CON
gress to make any law respecting Hi estab-
lisnment Of religion, but it is idle to hope
that nation can be protected against the
influence of sectarianism while each state
is exposed to It's denomination. We,
therefore, recommend that tho const tuition
be SO amended as TO lay the same prohibi-
tion on the legislature of each state, and to
forbid the appropriation Of public funds to
the support of sectarian schools
s. We reafirm the belief avowed in 1916,
that the duties levied for the purpose Of
revenue should so discriminate as TO favor
American labor; that no further grant Of
the public domain should be made to any
railway or other corporation; that slavery,
having perished in the states, its twin
barbariLy. polygamy, must die in the tori
tories; that every the protection ac-
corded to q citizen Of American birth must
be secured to citizens by American adop-
ton; that we esteem it the duty of congress
to develop and improve our water course.
and harbors, but insist that further subsi-
dies to private persons or corporations
must cease; that the obligations of the re-
public to the men who preserved its integ-
rity in the day of battle are undminished
by the lapse of fifteen years since their final
victory. Their perpetual honor is, and
shall forever be, the grateful privilege and
sacred duty of the American pa0ple.
g. Since the authOrity to regulate inlmi-
grafton and intercourse between the
United States and foreign nations rests
| with the congress of the United States and
| its tresty-making powers, the republican
party, regarding the unrestriCted lmmigra-
tion of Chinese as an evil Of great magni-
| tude, invoke the exercise of that power to
restrain and limit that immigration by the
| enactment of such Just, humane and rea-
sonabie provisions as will produce that re-
| suit.
| I. That the purity and patriotism which
/ characterlzes the earlier career of Ruther-
| ford B. Hayes, in peace and war, and
which guided the thoughts of our imme-
| diate predecessors to him for q presiden.
| tial candidate, have continued to inspire
him in his career as chief executive, and
that history will accord his administration
| the hOGOr5 which are due to an efficient
| just and courteous discharge of the public
business, and will honor his interpostion
between the people and proposed partisan
laws.
8. We charge upon the democratic party
| the habitual sacrifice Of patriotism and
J justice to to supreme and Unsuitable lus
| for Office and patronage; that to obtain pos
session of the national and state govern
ments, and the control of place. they have
obstructed all efforts TO promote the puri J
aud to conserve the sutfrages; have devised
! fraudulent certihcations and Feturna; have
lsbored to unseat lawfully elected mem
| bers of congress, to secure at all haz9rd
the vote of sjority of the states in tht
house Of representatives; have endeaVoreC
to occupy by force and fraud the places o
t ust given to others by the people of Maine
which were rescued by the courage il
action of Maine's patriotic cons; have By
methods, vicious in principle and tyFanni
cal in practice; attached partisan legisla
| ton to appropriation bills upon whose pas
sage the very movement OF the govern
| ment depends; have crushed the rights o
individuals; have advocated the principle
and sought the favor Of rebellion sgalns
The nation, and have endeavored 10 oblite1
ate the sacred memories of the war an
to overcome the inestimably valuable r,
suits of nationality, personal freedom ar
individual equality. The equal, steady an
complete enforcement of the laws and th
protection of our citizens in the eDjoymeI
of all the privileges and immunites guar
anteed by the constitution is the first dut
of the nation. The danger of a solid sout
can only be averted by faithful perform
ance of every promise which the natio
has made to the citizens. Whatever prom
ises the nation makes, the nation must pei
form, and the nation with safety relegate
this duty to the state. The solid aout
must be divided by the peaceful agencies
the ballot, and all opinions must there fin
free expression, and to this end the hone
voter must be protected against terrorism
violence and fraud, and we affirm it to be th
duty and purpose of the republican party
use all legitim ate means to restore all of th
states Of this Union to the perfect harmon
which may be possible, and we submit
the practical, sensible people of the Unite
States to say whether it would not be daI
gerous to the dearest interests of our cour
try at this time to surrender the admin:
tration of the national government to
party which seeks to withdraw the e1istin
policy under which we are so prosperou
and thus bring distrust and confusion whel
there now exists order, confidence AT
hope.
The republican party, aahering to II
principle affirmed by its last national col
ventlon of respect fer the constitution
rules governing appointments to ofic
adopts the declarations of President Haye
that the reform Of the civil service shoul
be thorough, radical and complete. I
this end it demands the cooper ton Of tt
legislative with the executive departmel
of the government, aud that congress sha
so legislate that fitness, ascertained b
; proper practical tests, shall admit to II
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