Year: 1871

perpetuate the principles of the National Repub-
lcau PARTY. That with pride and sat
istacton TO the many practical and substantial
triumphs of those principles achieved during
The past ten years in the coercion by force of
the rebellious States into obedience of the Fed
eral Constitution and laws; in maintaining
through a long, severe and bloody struggle the
authority of the General Government against
powerful armies in front, English and French
Interference on the flank, and the Democratic
party in the rear in roofing out the Democrat
ic institution of slavery, and banishing it for
ever from the jurisdiction of the United States
in prohibiting any State from abridging the
privileges of any citizen of the Republic in
providing irrepealable guarantees for the pay
ment of the public debt incurred in suppressing
the late rebellion, and securing the people of all
The States against being taxed for the payment
of the dett of the late rebel Confederacy; in de-
clarjug the civil and political equality of every
citizen, and in establishing all these principles
in the Federal Constitution, by amendments
thereto, the permanent law.


'Secend-That in Ulysses S. Grant we recog-
nize large measure of the patriotism, ability
and honesty which distinguished the Presiden-
tal career Of Abraham Lincoln, and we feel as
surea that the storm of talsehood and petty
SANDER directed against him by the malice of de-
teated enemies will no more prevail in deprecia-
ting his character in the minds of the people,
than when the same means employed by
the same agencies to destroy his great co-laborer
and predecessor that his services both military
aud civil, entitle him to the regard and conf
dence of the whole American people, and give
assurance that the wisdom, perseverance and
capacity which commanded success at the head
OF great armies, will in the civil affairs of the
Government accomplish results equally import
ant and valuable


Third--That the present National Administra-
tion, inaugurated amid political, civil and social
disorders incident to civil war, and confronted
1ra lirot tfC, a
alleled in their difficulty and extent, has thus far
achieved most gratifying success and given
universal assurances of the stability and power
of popular government. That by its judicious
conduct of foreign relations, its firm and
impartial attitude toward the great powers Of
Europe, recently involved in desolatng and
destructive war; its prompt and rigid enforce
ment of the laws Of neutrality; its successful
solution Of grave and threatening issues long
pending between our own country and Great
Britain its wise and economical mana cement
of the national finances its correction Of frauds
in the revenue, and efficient collection Of the
same its retrenchment of expense in all the
departments of Government its reduction of
the public debt by more than two hundred mill
lions of dollars its dimnution of taxation
eighty millions of dollars per annum, and its es-
tablishment of the public credit upon a secure
basis, it commands universal respect at home
and abroad, and deserves the continued conf
dence and support Of the American people.


Fourth-That the concentration of the landed
property Of the country in the possession and
ownership of few, to the exclusion of the many,
is in contrayenton of the theory of American
government, subVersye to the rights. liberties
and happiness of the masses Of the people and,
if permitted, would inevitably terminate in the
speedy establishment Of an aristocracy upon the
ruins of our free institutions and we are in fa-
of such legislation both by the nation and
the State shall secure just and equal dstri-
fut If 10 nd tO hon,
respectively, to actual settlers and proprietors in
small quantities, at the lowest reasonable prices
and for homestead purposes only.


Fifth--That the safety ard perpetuity Of Re
publican institutions depend mainly upon popu-
lar education and intelligence We therefore
approve and recommend a common school sys-
TEN, that shall not only extend its benefits to all
but which shall be compulsory upon al-aud
we are infexby opposed to any application of
the public school moneys with any reference to
distinction in religious creeds.


Sixth-That religious liberty in its broadest
sense is fundamental principle of American
government; and legislative enactments having
in view the establishment Of creeds, the regula-
tion of modes of worship, or the enforcement of
religious obseryances OF any kind, are inconsistent
Herewith, and nyason of the right Of the citizen.


Seyenth-That the presence in our midst Of
large numbers of Chinese who are incapable of
assimilation with our race, ignorant Of the
nature and forms of our Government, and who
manifest no disposition to acquire a knowledge
of the same, or to conform to our habits, man
ners and customs, is serious and continuing
injury to the best interests of the State that
their employment under the plea of cheap wages
is offensive to the exalted American idea of the
dignity of labor, detrimental 10 the prosperity
and happiness of our own laboring classes and
an evil that ought to be abated that while we
uDsparingly reprobate and denounce all acts Of
violence wheresoeyer and by whomsoever COM
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their admission to citizenship, and demand Of
the Federal Government the adoption Of such
treaty regulations and legislation as shall dis
courage their further immi grafton to our shores.


Eghlh-That the subsidizng of railroads, or
other private corporations by grants of public
lands, or by taxation of private property in any
form, is contrary to SQUAD niaxms of govern
Dent, productive of gross corruption and abuse,
and plain invasion of the rights of the citizens.
And we hereby pledge the Republican party to
an incorporating opposition to any and all
legislation for such purpose and whereas the
Sapreme Court has decided that such legislation
is not 10 conflict with the Constitution, there
fore resolved, That we are in favor Of an amend
ment to that instrument prohibiting the enact
ment OF any law granting such subsidies


Ninth That demand an immediate repeal
of the act of the last Legislature commonly
known As the " five per cent subsidy law


Tenth-That the scaadaiUus abuse Of power
exhibited by Democratic Legislature in the
creation OF useless sS9fces, boards and commits
sons and the exSoilant increase of fees and
salaries, for partisan purposes its palpable and
wanton violation Of plain provision of the Con
sttution by the infamous enactment commonly
known as the lottery bill = its measureless
subserviency on corrupt lobby, evinced By nu-
merous prohigate grants of subsidies to rail
way companies; official sanction of most OF
these pernicious measures, including the afore-
said :" Lottery bill, by the present Democratic
Sttte Executive, and in addition thereto, his of
fetal approval of n series of legislative enact
ments, whereby railway corporations have been
subsidized to the extent of S4 ,000, 600, afford