The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-06-17

Mr.. Pierrepont, Of New York,
from the committee, came to the
front and reported:
The Republican party, in National
Convention assembled, at the end Of
twenty years since the Federal Gov
ernment was first submitted to its
charge, submits to the people Of the
United States this brief report Of its
administration. 1t suppressed a re-
bellion which had armed nearly a
million of men to subvert the Ma.
tional authority. It reconstructed
the Union of the States, with free
dom instead Of slavery as its corner
stone. 1t transformed four million
human beings from the likeness Of
things to the rank Of citizens 1t
relieved Congress from the infa-
nous work of hunting fugitive slaves,
and charged it to see that slavery
does not exist. It has raised the
value of paper currency from 38 per
cent. to the par Of gold. It has re-
stored upon a solid basis payment in
coin for all the national obligations,
and has given us a currency absO-
Iutely good and equally good and
equal in every part of our extended
country. It has lifted the credit Of
the nation from the point where 6
per cent. bonds sold at Sc, to that
| where 4 per cent. bonds are eargerly
sought at o premium. Under its ad-
ministration railways have increased
from $1,000 miles in 1860 to more
than $500 miles in 1879. Our for
eign trado has increased from $780,
| 100000 to S1,15O,OOO,OOO in the
same time, and our exports, which
were S20,000,000 less than our i'm
ports in 1860, were S264,OOO,O0O
more than our imports in 1879.
Without resorting to loans, it has,
/ since the war closed, betrayed the
ordinary expenses OF Government,
besides the accrUing interest on the
public debt, and disbused annually
over S3O,OOO,OOO for soldiers pen.
sions. It has paid over S888,OOO,OOC
of the public debt, and by refunding
the balance atloWer rates has reduced
the annual interest charge from
nearly SI51,OOO,OOO to less thar
| S89,0OO,OOO All the industries o.
the country have revived, labor il
in demand, wages have increased
and throughout the entire country
there is evidence of a coming pros
perity greater than we have ever en-
ioyed. Upon this record the Repub
lican party asks for the continued
confidence and support Of the people
and this Convention submits 70,
their approval the following state
= ment of the principles and purpose
which viii continue to guide and in
f spire its efforts:
! I. We affirm that the work Of tn
last twenty-one years has been sucl
a as to commend itself to the favor O
2 the nation, and that the fruits of th
g costly victories which we hav
achieved through immense dificul
ties should be preserved; that th
peace now gained should be cher
D ished that the discovered Uniol
= now happily restored should be per
e petuated, and that the libertie
secured to this generation should b
s transmitted undiminished to futur
p generations that the order estab
: lished and credit acquired shoul
: never be impaired; that the pension
' promised should be paid; that th
= debt so much reduced should be eZ
d tinguished by the payment Of ever
!, dollar thereof; that the reyiying in
dustries should be further promoted
, and that the commerce already s
great should be steadily encouraged
2. The Constitution Of the .. S
is a supreme law and not a mer
contract out Of confederated State
j. it made a sovereign Nation; som
powers are denied to the NatiOl
while others are denied to States
but the boundary between the pow
t ers delegated and those reserved
to be determined by the Nations
: and not the State tribunals
8. The work of popular educG
e ton is one left to the care of th
several States, but it IS the duty {
the National Government to aid tha
= work to the extent of its cOnstilU
!. tional ability. The intelligence
the Nation is but the aggregate {
e the intelligence in the several State
s and the destiny of the Nation mu.
be guided, not by the genius Of an
l one State, but by the average geniU
u of oil.
1. The Constitution wisely fol
/ bids Congress making any law T.
specting an establishment of reiG
b ion, but it is idle to hopo that th
It Nation can be protected against IL
influences Of sectarianism while eac
y State is exposed to its domination
: We therefore recommend that Il
I" Constitution be so amended as to Ia
% the same prohibition upon the Legi
st lature Of each State, and also to 10
o bid the appropriation of the publ
funds to the support Of sectaria
e schools.
e 5. We reafirm the belief, ayow6
p in 1876. that the duties levied f
the purpose of revenue should
70 discriminate as to favor Americ5
II labor; that no further grant Of Il
10 public domain should be made
any railway or other corporation
q, that slavery having perished in Il
II States. its twiu Jarbarity-pOlyg
f my-musb die in the TerritOrie
IS that everywhere the protection
corded TO a citizen of American bir
20 must be secured to O citizen
~ American adoption. That we
rt TEEN it the duty Of Congress to q
If velop and improve our water cOurs
and harbors, but insist that furth
ed subsidies to private cOrporatio
e- must cease; that the obligations
,@ the Republic to the men who pl
IN served it's integrity in the hour
battle are undiminished by the Lar
ly of fifteen years since their final V
a tory. Their perpetual honor is q
~ IL shall forever be the grateful pr
ne Iere and sacred duty of the Anne