The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-26

A Hearty Endorsement of the Republican
Protective Policy-The Effect of 1t On
American Labor Strongly Set F"rth--A
Convertible Currency and an Interua.
tional standard of Value Demanded
Good Words for Our Sister Republics
Intimidation in the South-A Liberal
school =, stem tor the Colored People
Immigration of Scrvile Races Not DeSir-
cd-Po ygamy Should he Administrations
Soldier Obligations.
The following is General John \.
Logan's letter accepting the Republic
can nomination for Vice President:
WASHINGTON, July 70, 1854.
10 tie lien. /ohN b. Henderson,
Chairman ofMc Committee
DEAR SlR-IIaving received from YOU
on the 2lth of June the official notll-
cation of my nomination by the Ma
tional Republican Convention as the
Republican candidate for NiCe-Presi-
dent of the United States, and Consid-
ering it to be the duty of every man
devoting himself to the public service
to assume any position to which ne may
be called by the voice of his country
men. | accept the nomination with 4
grateful heart and 4 deep sense of its
responsibilities and if elected shall en-
deavor to discharge the duties of the
office to the best of my ability.
This honor, as is we'll understood,
was wholly unsousht by ice. That it
was rendered by the representatives of
the party, in a manner SO tlattering,
will serve to tighten whatever labors |
may be called upon to perform.
Although the variety of subjects Gov
cred in the very excellent and vigorous
declaration of principles adopted by
the late convention prohibits, upon an
occasion calling for brcvity of express
sion, that full elaboration of which they
are susceptible, l avail myself of party
usage to signify my approval of the
various resolutions of the platform, and
to discuss them briefly.
PROTECTION TO AMERICAN IAEOR.
The resolutions of the platform de
claring for levy of such duties "as TO
afford security to our diversified indus
tries, and protection to the rights and
wages of the laborer, to the end that
active and intelligent labor, as well as
capital, may have its just award, and
the laboring man his full share i'll the
national prosperity" meets my hearty
approval.
If there be 4 nation on the face of
the earth which might, if it were a de
sirable thing, build wall upon its every
boundary line, deny communion to all
the world, and proceed to live upon its
own resources and productions, that
nation is the United States. There is
hardly a legitimate necessity Of civilized
communities which cannot be produced
from the extraordinary resources of our
several states and territories, with their
manufactures, mines, farms, timber
lands and Waterways. This clrcum-
stance. taken in connection with the
fact that our form of government Is
entirely unique among the nations OF
the world, makes it utterly absurd to
institute comparisons between our own
economic systems and those of other
governments, and especially to attempt
to borrow systems from them. We
stand alone in our circumstances, our
forces, our possibilities and our aspira-
tons.
In all successful government it Is
prime requisite that capital and labor
should be upon the best terms, and
that both should enjoy the highest at
tainable prosperity. If there be dis
turbance of the just balance between
them, one or the other suffers and dis
satisfaction follows, which is harmful to
both.
The lessons furnished by the com
paratively short history of our own
national life have been, too much over
looked by our people. The fundamental
article in the old Democratic creed
proclaimed almost absolute free trade,
and this, too. not more than 4 quarter
of 4 century ago. The low condition
of our national credit, the financial and
business uncertainties and general lack
of prosperity under that system, can be
remembered by every man now in mid
die life.
Although in the great number Of re-
forms instituted by the Republican par
ty sufficient credit has not been pub
licly awarded to that of tariff reform, its
benefits have, nevertheless, been felt
throughout the land. The principle
underlying this measure has been in
process of gradual development by the
Republican party during the compar-
atively brief period of is power, and
today a portion of its antiquated Dem
ocratic opponents make unwilling con
cessions TO the correctness of the doc
trine of an equitably adjusted protec-
tive tariff by following slowly in its
footsteps, though very long way in
the rear.
The principle involved is one of no
great obscurity, and can be readily
comprehended by any intelligent per-
son calmly rejecting upon it. The
political and social systems of some of
our trade-competing nations have Gre
ated working classes miserable in the
extrefne. They receive the merest
stipend for their daily toll, and in the
great expense of the necessities of life
are deprived of those comforts of
clothing, housing and health-producing
food with which wholesome mental and
social recreation can alone make eNis-
tence happy and desirable.
Now, if the products of those coun,
tries are to be placed in our markets
alongside of American products, either
the American capitalist must suffer in
his legitimate profits, or he must make
the American laborcr suffer in the at
tempt to compete with the species of
labor above referred to. In the case of
4 substantial reduction of pay, there
can be no compromising advantages for
the American laborer. because the AZ
ticles of daily consumption which he
uscs-with the exception of articles not
produced in the United States and easy
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