Year: 1871

bled ave~ their determination to maintain and
penpetnate the principles of the National Repub-
iican party. That recur with pride and sat
fstactron TO the many practical and substantial
triumphs of those principles achieved during
she past ten years in the coercion by force of
eSe rebellious States into obedience of the Fed
etal Constitution and laws in maintaining
through 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 irrepealabe 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 debt of the late rebel Confederacy in de-
eiaFng the civil and political equality of every
citizen, and in establishing all these principles
IN the Federal Constitution, by amendments
thereto, as the permanent law.


Second-That in Ulysses S. Grant we recog-
nize large measure of the patriotism, ability
and honesty which distinguished the Presden-
tal career of Abraham Lincoln, and we feel as
sured that the storm of falsehood and petty
slander directed against him by the malice of de-
feated enemies will more prevail in deprecia-
ting his character in the minds OF the people,
than when the same means were employed by
the same agencies to destroy his great co-laborer
and predecessor that his services both military
and 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.


Thrd-That the present National Administra-
tion, inaugurated amid political, civil and social
...n,A
by complication foreign and domestic, unpar-
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 our 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
mentor 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 management
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 mil
lions of dollars its dmnution of taxation
eighty millions of dollars per annum and its es-
tablshment Of the public credit upon secure
basis 1T 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 cOntraventon of the theory of American |
government, subversve 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-
vor OF such legislation both by the nation and
the State as shall secure just and equal distri-
button OF the public lands remaining to them
respectively, to actual settlers and propretors in
small quantities, at the lowest reasonable prices
and for homestead purposes only. t


Fifth-That the safety ard perpetuty 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 all-and |
we are nfexibly 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- |
ton OF modes of worship, or the enforcement of
religious obseryances of any kind are inconsistent
Herewith, aud inyasi0ns of the right of the citizen


Seventh-That the presence in midst of
large NUMBERS of Chinese who are incapable of
assimilation with our own 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 to the prosperity |
and happiness OF our own laboring classes, and
an evil that ought to be abated that while we
unsparngly reprobate and denounce all acts of
violence wheresoever and by whomsoever com
mltted upon them, we are inhcxibly opposed to !
their admission to citizenship and demand of |
the Federal Government the adoption of such |
treaty regulations and legislation as shall dis |
courage their further immigration to our shores |


Eighth-That the subsidizing of railroads. or
other private corporations by grants of public
lands, or by taxation of private property in any
form, is contrary to sound maxims of govern |
menti productive of gross corruption and abuse, |
and plain invasion of the rights of the citizens |
And we hereby pledge the Republican party to
an uncompromiSing opposition to any and all |
legislation for such purpose; and whereas the |
supreme Court has decided that such legislation |
is not in conflict with the Constitution there |
tore resolved, That we are in favor of an amend |
ment to that instrument prohibiting the enact |
nent of any law granting such subsidies.


Ninth-That we demand an immediate repeal
OF the act of the last Legislature commonly
known as the @ five per cent subsidy law


Tenth-That the scandaous abuse of mower |
exhibited by a Democratic Legislature in the |
creation OF useless Offices boards and commits
siOns, and the exorbitant increase of fees and
salaries, for partisan purposes its palpabe and
wanton violation of plain provision of the Con-
stituton by the famous enactment commonly
known as the lottery bill !" its measureess
subserviency on a 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 4" Lottery BILL" by the present Democratic
State Executive, and in addition thereto, his Of
fetal approval Of series of legislative enact
ments, whereby railway corporations have been