Year: 1870

has been issued, and is worthy th,
consideration of every opponent o
Democracy. 1t appeals to the gooC
sense of the masses, and should have
the effect of rousing up our party
throughout the State.


ROOMS OF THE


REPUBLICAN, STATE CENTRAL CONT,


LOUISVILLE, May 1870.


To THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY: The
State Central Committee OF the Re
publican party, in view of the exist
ing status of political affairs within
Kentucky, beg leave to send forth
greeting and congratulation to her
people. ProftiDg by their severe les
sons. coudemning the past years Of
reckless extravaqance aud riotous op-
nressiou at the hands Of the controll-
Ing party within the State, they join
with the former, this. their earnest
appeal 10 the Republican party, urg-
ing upon them the necessity of at
once perfecting thoroueh and active
organization in every county and vot-
ing precinct.


However hopeless heretofore has
been our minority, the committee feel
warranted in assuming that it re-
mains no longer hopeless. In the
light Of reason. progress and Justice,
as incorporated into the fundamental
law of the nation, strengthened by an
honest individual and party effort.
the result of our approaching cleo.
tious, will be more exultiDgly crafty
ing not only to our people within the
State, but to the friends Of free gov
ernment throughout the country.


The cheering news from some sec
tions, of msjorities already recorded,
of the hopeful condition in others,
and of the determination and tenacity
of purpose of our friends in every
part, inspires the committee greeting.


Believing the ballot to be the cap
sheaf of liberty, the helm within the
hand and the right of every citizen,
the committee sends congratulations
to the people upon the triumph of
Justice in the ratification of the Fif-
teenth Amendment to the Federal
Constitution. Regarding this con-
summation as the peaceful, successful
and lawful termination of a question
which has proved the fruitful source
of strife and contention for so many
years; which has called forth so much
of bitter animosity and autagonism
between sections. communities and
neighbors, which, now removed,
leaves but q community of interest
from sea to sea; and 10 no State a
more perfect harmony than in our
own. To those immediately the re.
cipients of this right. the colored
people, we give the perfect
assurance of the Republican party,
through whom alone this grand
result has been accomplished, that as
in the past, so fearlessly and earnest
~ they have battled to effect it, so iu
the future, will they demand for them
the rights and power conferred there
by; charging In the most solemn man
ner upon them their duty to their
God; the necessity of perfect fealty
to the Government which, in the face
of so dire opposition at the hands of
the Democratic party, has placed this
vesture Of strength aud manhood up
on them, commencing education for
themselves and for their children !;
the necessity of instructiUg them
selves as to their duties as citizens;
the exercise Of those rights in an un-
osteniatious and lawful manner;
charging upon them to beindustrious.
and placing before them the well
proved proposition that labor can
better exist without capital than cap
ital without labor.


The Republican party appeals to
the people of Kentucky for such &C
ton as will set aside a proportionate
share of the educational fund for the
purpose of properly schooling the col
ored children. 1t condemns any and
all Withholding Of the same, or its sp
plication to other aud foreign objects.


It appeals to the people for recog
milton cf the right of colored people
to testify in every tribunal. and to be
heard in every cause, wherein the
truth of an accusation of the right as
between individuals depends upon
the same, or may be material thereto


The republican party condemns the
extravaganza that has marked the ad-
ministratiou of the State government,
and pities the spirit that has moved
the Legislature to forget its high cll'
ling. and caused its legislation to be
for party and partisan purposes.


Ever ready to support and defend
the right, to yield implicit obedience
to the laws of the State of Kentucky,
and of the general government, the
party with confidence appeals to the
people of Kentucky. to divest them
selves of passion and every prejudice,
aud to yield to every man aud set OF
men the rights under the law accorded
to them.


1t is proposed and urged upon the
part of the Democracy to make war
even unto qualification aud repeal, in
order to divest these rights.


The result of this can be but to
open up the foOdgates of dissention
and discord. We ask of every Dem
ocrat Of the old school. is this the
meaning of the term2 OF the people
of Kentucky we ask, shall it be done
To the Union men of 1861. since to-
day the measures and differences
upon which you halted lie buried OF
forever settled, the principles now to
be acted upon look In confidence for
your earnest aid and active support,
The middle wall of partition lies
crumbled. a future of certainty and
| strength lies open before you.


The men who in 1865 in good faith
surrendered the arms so zealously
welded against the Government. with
this new regime. should cut alooI
from further afiliation with the marty
of dead issues. The party whose
witheriDg prejudice, without the pow.
er of purpose to bind up eapino
wounds, to building up broken for.
tunes, or to make glad your wasted
fields; whose greatest solioitude and
most perfect care seems to have been
to deter you from being true to your.
selves in the discharge of your mos
solemn obligations, and of duties 81