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LIZZIE.
Jly sister, Ihou hast gone from usr
To fairer homes nbore;
"Where angels meek and pare and bright.
Sing 6ongs of hallowed love.
Thy earthly cares, all, all are past
Thy tears iiomore Khali flow;
. A blessed peace is o'er thee now,
Which shines with radiant glow.
"We loved thee, fondly; nay, too well;
Twas bitter pain to part.
But earthly hopes. we find but pain,
That grieve, then break the heart.
"Why should we mourn when thou nrt
blesed,
Thy soul so chaste and meet,
A heavenly crown upon thy brow,
And a seat at Jesus feet?
V,'c see the pictures on the wall,
- Arranged by your dear hand;
ris the brightest face among them all,
- That leaves a broken band.
And every token thou hast left.
Fill our longiug eyes with tears;
Our family Joys are not so sweet.
As in by-gone happy years.
ftomctimes think you sec us here,
And look with deathless love,
Upon the sorrowing ones you left
To soar to realms above.
It seems as If yonr gentle voice, .
Is whispering in my car:
He patient, sister,. wo shall meet,
c
You will all Join me hero."
i, .
"We've watched the trees and shrubs so
green,
- You planted with such pride.
And every bud bursts Into bloom.
As if you had not died.
The honeysuckle twines around
The trellis on the lawn ;
The waxen flowers give rich perfume,
As If you had not gone.
Our mother laid your treasures by.
With white and saddened face,
, And every keepsake brought to mind.
How short was your bright race.
t Yet faithful, earnest to the last,
Your earthly course was run.
And by-thy purity of heart.
A home in Heaven wa. won.
F.
THE HARTFOItl) CONVENTION.
A Brief Review of its Sessions and
Purposes.
IThe memory of the Hartford con
"c volition, the first secession convention
ever held in the United States, is loth
' to die out of American politics. It is
. now brought up by a vote of both
houses of the Connecticut Legislature
appropriating $500,000 fcr the erection
of a new State House in Hartford, al
ways provided that the authorities of
that city subscribe an equal amount
.towards the building, and furnish a
aite. The present capitol, built in
1790, is memorable as the place in
-which the Hartford convention met,
and.tradition still points to the right
hand as you face the presiding officer
of the Senate, as the exact spot where
, the twenty-three delegates held their
deliberations while sitting in a half
circle about tho huge fire rendered
grateful by a New England Deccm-
ber and January. Assembling on tho
15th of the former month, 1S14, the
convention remained In Eessioh to the
5th of January, 1815, tho comgosition
jO.f the assembly being as follows:
r Fron; Mapeacbusette, 9 delegates;
from CoK.nectfiur, 7; Rhode Island,
4;, New Hampshire, 3; Vermont, 1.
Tho occasion of the gathering was
-c this:. That the Nejv England States
doomed themselves h.srdij' used du-
-.ring the war of 1814, by the form, or
R9 some insists, tho fact, of . draft law
o'f the Federal government, and in
compliance with a call from Kfasst:-
vChusetts for a convention to protest
"- against the same, appointed delegate.
George Cabot, of Massachusetts, was
elected president, and Theodore
f Dwight appointed secretary.
The sessions of the. convention were
ield with closed doors, so that the
proceedings were never known be
yond the report and very meagre jour--'aalputbttii.
This report is in four
'-resolutions, which may be thus sy
1 arappsized- firetj denouncing military
draftsand conscriptions by the Fed
eral government second, applying to
' "said'governraentrfer leave for the New
England Siates'to Jefend tlxemselves
by State action -t'rird, recorn mending
the Legislatures of the several "Sew
pgland States to authorize the gov
ernors thereof, respectively, to put
ttieir militia in fighting trim - and
fourtbt calling -on other States to
jenito- with those represented in the
convention todemand the adoption of
Bix amendments to the Federal Con
stitution:. Tbe "first of these proposed
changes was "to exclude slaves from
the basis of he representation, I.e.,
"to abrogate the three-fifths rule, some
. thing which has at last been done,
though by .counting the blacks up
two-fifths instead of down three; the
second to require a two-thirds vote of
eaoh house of Congress to admit new
-. States, a provision which, it is curious
to remark, was incorporated In the
Confederate constitution ; third, no
embargo for more than sixty days;
fourth, no interdiction of commerce
- .with foreign nations without a two
thirds vote In either house; fifth, to
require a like two-thirds vote to de-
clare war; and sixth, that the Presi
dency should bo but for one term only
another provision inserted in the
Confederate constitution, aud the ex
act doctrine so assiduouslj' favored by
Mr. Greeley, and even endorsed when
first entering the white house by Mr.
Grant and that no State furnish the
President two term3 in succession.
"Whether a disruption of the Union
was ever mooted In the convention is
a matter that can now hardly be
cleared of doubt. In 1S32-, the secre-
tary, Mr. Dwight, published a history
of the body, but does not meet this
point as fully as hisgopportunities al
lowed him, and in tho certificate of
Mr. Cabot, the 'president, that the
journal put forth is an actual -transcript
of the proceedings, there is a
like mistiness, the certification speak
ing of diseussions, when on the jour
nal no discussions appear, but only
' tho mention that there were discus
Kione. The popular Impression long
was that tho propriety of secession
was considered, and the probabilities
lean in favor of this view. Whatever
Is talked of, however, the old Connec
ticut State house, soon to be replaced
by tt modern structure, wasthe sea
son hall of tho far-famed Hartford
Convention, nild in tho passing away
of tho antique edifice one more a on
ii'mcnt of our politico-legislative lis
Urry d!SRPlens
Lincoln, Hayes, Tilden.
From the Inter-Ocean.
On the journey to Washington, in
1SGI, where he was about to take the
oath of office and assume the duties
of the Presidency, Mr. Lincoln pass
ed through Philadelphia. While there
he made a brief speech upon the occa
sion of the raising of the United
States flag over Independence Hall.
He eaid :
I have often pondered over the dan
gers incurred by the men who assem
bled here and framed and adopted the
Declaration of Independence. I have
pondered over the toils that were en
dured b3 the officers and soldiers of
the army who achieved that inde
pendence. I have often inquired of
myself what great principle or idea it
was that kept this confederaci so long
together. It was not the mere matter
of the separation of the colonies from
the mother-land ; but that sentiment
in the Declaration of Independence
which. oave liberty not alone to the peo
ple of this country r bid, I hope, to the
world for all future time. It was that
which gave promise that in due time.
the weight woxdd be lifted from the
shoulders of all men. This is the sen
timent embodied in the Declaration of
Independence. Now, my friends,
can this country be saved on that ba
sis? If it can I will consider myself
one of the happiest men In the world
if I can help to save it. If it cannot
be saved on this basis it will be truly
awful. Jhit if this country eannol be
saved without giving up that principle,
I was about to say that would rather
be assassinated on this tpol than surren
der it.
A few months later, when it had
become necessary for Mr. Lincoln to
appeal to the people for volunteer sol
diers to save the country, the present
Republican candidate for President,
Rutherford B. Hayes, in response to
Lincoln's call, said :
I would prefer to go into to this war,
if I knetv I was to die or be killed in
the course of it, rather than live through
and after it without taking any part in
it.
In 1S04, after Mr. Lincoln had labor
ed three years for the salvation of the
country on the basl9 of the principle
of equal rights laid down in the Dec
laration of Independence, and after
Colonel Hayes had fought three years
in the field in fulfillment of hi3 patri
otic declaration of 1S61, Samuel J.
Tilden, tho Democratic candidate for
President, being appointed a member
of the Democratic National Conven
tion Committee on Platform, reported
the following resolution, which was
adopted :
Iicsolvcd, That this convention does
explicitly declare as the sense of the
American people, that after four years
of failure to restore the Union by tho
experiment of war during which,
under the pretense of a military ne
cessity or war power higher than the
Constitution, the Constitution itself
has been disregarded in every part,
ami public liberty and private right
alike trodden down, and the material
prosperity of the country essentially
impaired justice, humanity, Jibert,
and the public welfare demand
that immediate efforts be madefor a
cessation of hostilities, with a view
to an ultimate conventi6n of the
States, or other peaceable means,
tho end that at the earliest
practicable "moment peace may
be restored on the bnsisof the Federal
States.
The American people sustained the
resolutions and.auts of Abraham Lin
coln and Rutherford B. Hayes, and
put the seal of the emphatic condem
nation upon the resolution of Samuel
J. Tilden. Will they noiv trust tho
m.tn who was o false, so cowardly.
i Odd so unpatriotic twelve years ago?
In 2SG4 the Union and tho great
principle of equal rights enunciated in
theDeolaration 0f Independence were
tremLl'ng i'1 tho balance. Rather
than .sbandon the Union and this
principle .Lincoln declared, before a
blow had .been struck, tuat lie would
prefer to bo Assassinated ; and Hayes
said he would rather be killed than
live through ad ufter the war with
out taking part in it. Rut Tilden de
nounced the war:as a failure, aud de
manded a cessation of hostilities. He
oried, peace! peacb I" when there
could be no peace witut dishonor,
no peace without the sacrifice of the
great principle of equal rights. Such
records as that of Tilden in rSG4canuot
be, are never, forgotten. As tL'e memo
ry of the Tory of the first Revolution is
despised even to this day, so the" sym
pathizer with the rebellion of 1S61
will be looked upon with distrust a.Ti
suspicion to the latest day of his lift"-
The destinies of the govertnent of
this country will never be intrusted
to the party that resolved the war
against the rebllion a failure, and in
favor of begging for a dishonorable
peace! When Samuel J. Tilden put
his name to that fatal resolution he
sigued away all olaim to the confidence
of tho American peoplo.
An Incident in the Career erf Hayes.
A gentleman of this city, who- was
an officer in thoservice of the Confed
eracy during thq War, tells how he
formed the acquaintance of Rutherford
B. Hayes at n critical moment In the
life of that distinguished gentleman.
Hayes, while Colonel of an Ohio reg
iment, was captured and brought into
tho Confederate camp, where a young
officer, being Intoxicated, drew a pistol,
and attempted to fire at him. Our ta
formant, luckily for tho Presidential
candidate, seized the weapon in the
hands of the intoxicated officer, and
placed him under arrest. Eventoally,
the surrender follwed, and his rescuer
met Colonel Hayes (now General; in
this citv and thev talked over the
incident referred to, which came bo
near blasting all hopes of future Pre
sidential honors. Hayes expressed
his gratitude, and assured him of any
favors that might lie In hia power to
grant. The nomination of Mr. Hayes
has reminded him forcibly of this in
cident, and he now has in preparation
a congratulatory letter to that gentle
man, timidly reminding him of that
promise. Knoxville, Tcnn., Age.
Vell.sare, said a Centennial rest
aurant keeper, shrugging his shoul
ders when a customer fronl Arkansas
demurred to paying one dollar for a
cup of coffee and a roll, 'ze price he
may luke large, zat I admete- but
zen, sare, refleot zat you nafer hafe
anorzer Bhance like zese for une h.un-dreiyare.'
In the l'Shephcrd of the Valley"
published at St. Louis, under the im
mediate supervision of Archbishop
Kendrick, of the Roman Catholic
Church, the following editorial re
cently appeared :
"We confesss that tho Roman
Catholio Church is intolerant; that is
to eay, that it uses all means in its
power for the extirpation of error
and sin; but this intolerance is the
logical and necessary cansequence of
its infalibility. She alone has the
right be intolerant, because she alone
has the truth. The Church tolerates
heretics, but hates them mortally, and
employs all her force to secure their
annihilation. When the oatholica
shall here be in possesson of consider
able majority which will certainly
be the case bye and bye, although the
time may belong defered then relig
ious liberty will have come to an end
in tho republic of tlio United States.
Our enemies say this, wo believe
with them. Our enemies know that
wo do not pretend to bo better than
our Church, and in what concerns
tills, her history is open to tho eyes
of all. They know, then, how the
Roman Church dealt with heretics in
the middle ages, and how she deals
with them to-day, everywhere, where
she has the power. Wo no more
think of denying these historical
facts, than wo ioof blaming tho saints
of God, and the princes of the Church
for what they have done or approved
In theso matters. Heresy Is mortal
sin; it kills the soul, and precipitates
the whole soul into Hell. It is more
over a most contagious disease, and
propagates itself indefinitely wher
ever it has got foothold, and thus puts
in jeopardy the temporal aud moral
welfare of innumerable generations
to come. This is the reason why
princes, truly Christian, extirpate
heresy, root aud branch, in their king
doms, and that Christian States drive
it out of their territories, as far as they
are able to do it. If we now abstain
from persecution heretics here we bold
ly repeat it, it is because we are too
weak, and because we believe that in
this condition of things, we should, in
attempting it, do the Church we serve
more harm than good."
Reform Is necessary to put a stop to
the profligate waste of the public
lauds, and their diversion from actual
settlers, by the party in power, which
lias squandered 200,000,000 acres upon
railroads alone. National Democrat
ic Platform.
About the time of the adoption of
the Democratic platform, of which the
above is a plank, at St. Louis, the
Hon. Thomas L. Jones, of Kentucky,
Chairman of the Committee on Rail
ways and Canals, made the following
declaration in the lower house of Con
gress :
Now I beg the gentlemen not to bo
too much frightened about subsidies.
Mr. Speaker, I profess, and so do my
brethren on this floor from the Soutli
who advocate railroads, to be as much
devoted to State rights as any mem
bers here ; but I givo fair notice that
we intend, before this Cohgress ex
pires, and In the next Congress, If
any or us aiiuuiu bo here, iu hk rut a
subsidy from the General Govern
ment to build a railroad through the
South.
Tho Democratic party ia very ac
commodating. Its national conven
tion denounces all subsidies to rail
ways, aud pledges the party to oppose
and defeat them one and all ; but the
Democratic Chairman of the commit
tee which has the question of railway
subsidies hi charge bold!jT declares
that he and his Democratic brethren
will demand a government Bubsidy to
build a railroad through the South.
The people can take their choice.
Those who are opposed to subsidies
can pin their faith to the National
Democratic platform, while those
who are in favor of subsidies can rely
upon the honorable Chairman of the
nouso Committee on Railways and
Canals. Both declarations aro Dem
ocratic, und they look both ways.
Robinson Crusoe's Island.
Every boy who has read the story
of Robinson Crusoe's will be glad to
know how that island looks today.
Tho latoProf. Agasaiz wrote of it as
follows:
"The Island of Juan Fernandez is
more famous from Defoe's description
than from Selkirk's history. Selkirk
..discovered the island in 1713 and iu
tioduced goats. In 1771 an Italian
waO loft there and subsisted on goats
thret years- before taken oil. In 1804
a Scotch tailor, Alexander' Selkirk,
was left there and taken off? in 1S09,
having h'ved there four years and four
months in solitude, living Kke hia
Italian prea'ecessor, mostly on goats'
flesh. Ho told his story to Defoe.'
The wild go. "Us are still numerous
there, and flocks of hundreds of them
may be seen upon the mountains.
This island is about ten or twelve
miles long by four in breadth, the
shores mostly precipitous and the
mountain sides three thousand feet
in height. The waters aiound the is
land is deep, aud the wholeappearanco
Is as if there had once been au expen
sive island with a rugged chain up.in
It, that suddenly the bottom had been
nuuuiicu nuiu uuuer mi u.-i.t:trjt iuia
I... i..i r. .. I -ii .. . l.i
patch of ten miles by four, and all but
this patch had sunk into the eea. Val
leys and mountain spurs and gentle
slopes are all cut off by this precipi
tous edge, and there are but few. pla
ces on the island where you can effect
a landing.
There are to-day twelve persons, in
cluding several children, living on the
islaud. They have good poultry and
vegetables, splendid beef and oan get
goats by climbing after them. Other
thiug they purchase with the proceeds
of their beef, milk and poultry, for
which they find purchasers in Ameri
can whalers."
;
A certain gentleman of this county
had a daughter who married. A short
time after she was taken sick, and her
father being in town one day, was
asked by a lady : Your daughter i3
convalescent, I learn.' The father,
who has an aversion to any word of
more than one syllable, responded
with a twinkle of the eye : 'Oh, no,
'ttoiut time forthat yet: 'faint that."
A RARE ROMANCE.
Tho Adventures of a Polish Count.
From the Buffalo Courier.
One of the most fiequent habitues
of Fifth avenue is an old Polish Count
who has taken hia daily stroll there
lorover iwentj' year3. His story is
as strange as acy that the novelist in
vent. Twenty-eight years ago he
was cast into prison for taking part in
the Polish Insurrection. He was be
trothed to a young woman, and she
visited him frequently in prison and
cheered him with hopes of speedy re
lease. Finally she proposed a meas
ure that would insure his freedom.
Money would be neoessary, a great
deal of it. Ho possessed considerable
wealth, but owing to his situation
could not command it. She suggest
ed that if it were in her hands she
could use it to get him out of prison.
They would then leave the country
together, marry, and bo happy. His
faitli in her devotion was strong. The
property that was his became hers.
Her influential friends were at work,
she said, and ho would be released
very soon. One day her usual visit
was made. Another day passed, and
another, and she did not come. A
week passed, and the lonely prisoner
then learned that he had been deceiv
ed. His beautiful intended bride had
turned his property Into cash, and
eloped with a man whom he had al
ways regarded as a friend. A year af
terward his prison doors opened and
lie walked forth to Freedom. A
few brief inquiries satisfied him that
the woman and her accomplice had
made their way across tho oceau. He
determined to follow them, and came
to New York. It was months before
he got any trace of them. He learned
then that they had gone westward,
and he went to St. Louis in pursuit.
They had gone to New Orleans ; he
followed them. For over a year he
continued the chase, visiting in turn
almost every city in the United States,
but never overtaking them. At last
he returned to New York, and in less
than a week he met them face to face
in Broadway. He upbraided the wo
man and fiercely threatened the man.
The upshot of all was a proposal from
the latter that so shocked the count
that ho turned away speechless. Said
the scoundrel in substance : "Take
her now and marry her if you wish to
I don't want her any longer." The
count never saw them again. Two
3'ears later ho heard of the woman's
death by suicide and he procured a
decent burial for the body. What be
came of her companion he neither
knew or cared.
A Fearful Summons.
'Mr. Smith, I called toseeiflco'd
take your life.'
'Wh wh what d'you say?' ex
claimed Smith, in same alarm.
'I say that I've como around to take
your life. My namo is Gunn. As
soon as I heard you were unprotected,
that von had nothintr on your life. I
thought I would just run in and set
tle tho thing for you at once
Then Smith got up aud went to Iho
other side of the table, aud said to
himself:
'It's a lunatic who has broken out
of the asylum. He'll kill me if I hal
loo or run. I must humor him.'
Theu Gunn, fumbling in his pocket
for his mortality tables, followed
Smith around the room and said to
him :
'You cau choose your own plan, you
know. It is immaterial to me. Some
folks like one way, and some like an
other. It's a matter of taste. Which
one do you prefer?'
'I'd rather not die at all,' said
Smith iu dispair.
But you've got to die, of course,'
said Gunn; 'that is a thing there fe
no choice about. All I can do Is to
make death easy for you ; to make
you feel happy as you go off. Now
which plan will you take?'
'Couldn't you postpone it until to
morrow, so as to givo me time to
think?'
'No ; I prefer to take you on the
spot. I might as well do it now as at
any other time. You have a wife and
children?'
Yes, and I think you might have
some consideration for them, aud Jet
me off.'
Well, that's a curious kind of ar
gument,' said Gunn. When I take
you your family will be perfectly pro
tected, o"f course, and not otherwise.'
But why do you want to murder
mo? I'
Murderyou! Murder you ! Who
in thunder Is talkingabout murdering
you?'
'Why, didn't you say '
'I called to get you to take out a life
insurance policy in our company aud
I '
Oh, you did, did you?' eaid Smith,
suddenly becoming fierce. 'Well, I
ain't agoing to do it, and I want you
to skip out of this office, or I'll brain
you with the poker. Como now skip!'
Then Mr. Guun withdrew without
selling a policy, and Mr. Smith was
s uuiuaureu. s-nu. isuucun
Mr. John Kelly, who led the anti
Tilden delegation at the St. Louis
convention, amongst other remarks
Baid :
There, sitting in the New York del
ogation, is a very respectable minority
who agree with me that it would be
a fatal polioy to nominate Samuel J.
Tilden. Their mouths are stifled,
their tongues are closed within their
mouths ; they can say nothing here
In view of the action taken by the
majority of the delegation. If they
were allowed to speak they would tell
you that, sitting directly in front of
me, there are seventeen delegates op
posed to Mr. Tilden's nomination."
Mr. Kelly, however, now saj'3, not
enthusiastically, that he will do what
he can for the "fatal policy."
John,' said a fond little wife, en
thusiastically, pointing out to her
husband a little shop in a fashionable
street, 'when you die, I'm going to
take the life insurance money and buy
...f liftln nlnnn n n A .,... .. r. a .vt.lli
Jiuub unit jj.inti'.-) uuu cui up. us a miin-Iier.'
Pointed Paragraphs.
Wiiat a blessing it is to be simple;
to have the body satisfied with simple
food and the mind satisfied With sim
ple truth.
After all Is said and done, if there
was not anything but lambs in the
world, life and mutton would be a
great drug.
Tho more a man or woman knows
the less they gossip about their neigh
bors. Culture kills gab. .
The road to ruin Is always kept In
good order, and those who travel It
pay the expenses.
If men of brains were always men
of honor, this world would be com
paratively safe.
It is tough to bo poor but to be
ashamed of it is putting salt on a sore.
We are all of us poorjust as we want
more, and rioh as wo want less.
Tho more intellect a man has, the
more simple ho can afford to be.
Everybody laughs at a monkey, but
nobody respects him.
The bottom round of the ladder Is
safer than the top one.
On board tho Cunard steamers the
church service is read every Sunday
morning. The muster-roll of tho
crew is called over, and they attend
service. A gentleman one day said to
one of the sailors, 'Are you obliged to
attend public worship?' 'Not exact
ly obliged, sir,' replied Jack ; 'we
should lose our grog if we didn't.'
Ki in
Central Pennsylvania lias potato
bugs, and as the worthy husbandman
in drab wanders about his garden he
remarks feelingly to his wife, 'Veri
ly, Martha, the spirit almost moves
me to eject with vehemeuce sundry of
the quaint phrases common with the
lost ones of the world's people.
8' e
A wealthy but miserly old man, di
ning in the city one day, with hisson
at a restaurant, whispered in hia ear:
Tom, you must eat for to-day and to
morrow.' 'Oh, yes,' replied the half
starved lad, 'but I hain't eaten for to
day and yesterday, yet.'
She was a young lady from Chicago,
and he asked her if she would partake
of an ice cream, and she gently ans
wered: 'If it's good, square confec
tioner's cream, I'm there; but if it's
church fair or strawberry festival
slush, count me out.'
'Harry, givo me a bite of your ap
ple,' said one little fellow to another.
'No,' refused Harry, eating away rap
idJy, 'you wouldn't like this, it is a
cooking apple and I nevergivea fel
low a bite of a cooking apple.'
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Wines', in tlio economy of Providence, this lanil
was to tc jmiijt'il of litinmn slnvery.a-'d when tlio
strenstli of the govenmetit of ttie people, by the
people, for the people, wns to beclemonstratetl.tlip
itepunlican party cameinto power. Itsdeeri have
paHl into history, ami we look back to them with
pride. Inciotwl by their memories and high aims
for the good of our country and mankind, and look
ins to the tuture with u nfalteringconraRe. hope, and
purpose, we. the representatives of the party. In
..i..n!l cuijventjon nssrmhlod, make tho lollop
ing declaration of principles:
1. The United States or America is a nation, not a
league. Hy the combined workings of the National
and State CSovernments.tindertheirrespectivecon
stltutions the rights or every citizen are secured at
home and protected abroad, and the common wel
fare promoted.
2. The Republican party has preserved those
governments to the hundredth anniversary of the
nation's birth, and they nre now the embodiments
of the great truths spoken at its cradle: That all
men are created equal: that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
nmon which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness; that for the; attainment of these ends
governments have been instituted among men, de
riving their just powers from the consent of the
governed nntll those truths are cheerfully obeyed
or, if needed to be. vigorously enforced, the work
of Uip Republican party is untinlnhed.
3. The permanent pacification of the Southern
section of the Union, and the complete protec
tion of its citizens in the free enjovment of all
their rights are duties to which the Republi
can party stunds sacredly pledged. The power to
provide for the enforcement of the pli clpies em
bodied iu the recent constitutional amendments is
vested by those amendments in the Congress ol
the United States, and we declare it to be the sol
emn obligation of the legislative and executive de
partments of the government to put into immedi
ate nnd vigorous exercise aU their constitutional
powers for removing anyjust cause of discontent
on the part of any class and securing to every
American citizen complete uoerty and exact equal
ity in the exercise or all civil, political, and public
rights. To this end we imperatively- demand n
Congress and a chief executive whose courage and
lidellty to these duties shall not falter until these
results are placed beyond dispute or recall.
4. In the lirst act of Congress signed by President
Grant, the National Government assumed to re
move any doubts of its duty to discharge all lust
obligations to public creditors, and solemnly pledg
ed Its faith to make provision at the earliest practi
cable period the redemption of United States notes
In coin. Commercial prosperity, public morals. and
national credit demand that this promise be fnl lin
ed by a continuous and steady progress to specie
payments.
5. Under the constitution, the President and heads
or departments are to make nomination for oIMcc,
the Senate istoadviseandconyenttoappointments,
nnd the Houe of Representatives is to accuse and
prosecute faithless ollicers. The best Interests
of the public service demand that these distinctions
be respected ; that Senators and Representatives
who may be Judges nnd accusers should not dictate
appointments to oflice. The invariable rules for
appointments should have reference to honesty, fi
delity, and capacity to the appointee, giving to the
party in power those places where harmony and
vigor of administration requires its policy to be pre
sented, and permitting all others to be tilled bvsole
reference to the efficiency of the public service and
the right of all citizens tosharein the honor of ren
dering faithful service to their country.
G. We rejoice In the quickened cotfsclencc of the
people concemingpoilticai ulhilra.and will hold all
punhc oflleers to a rlcld responsibility, and encaco
that the prosecution and punishment of all who
betray oflicial trusts shall be speedy, thorough, and
unsparing.
7. Tho public school system of the several States
is the bulwark of the American Republic, and with
aviwtoltssecurityandpernianencewcrecomniend
an amendment to the Constitution of the United
htates forbidding the application of any public fund
or property for the benefit of any schools or institu
tions under sectarian control.
8. The revenuenecessaryforcurrent expenditures
and the obligations or the publicdebt must be large
ly derived from duties on importations which, so
iarns possible, should beadlusted to promote the
Interests of American labor and advance tho pros
perity for tho whole country.
. We reaffirm our opposition to further grants of
the public lands to corporators and monopolies,
nnd demand that the national domain be devoted
to free homes of the people.
in. It Is the imperative duty of the government ko
to modify existing treaties with Kuropean govern
ments that the same protection shall be afforded to
the adopted American citizen that is given to tne
native-born, nnd that all necessary laws should be
passed to protect Immigrants In the absence of pow
er in tho States ior that purpose.
11. It is the immediate duty of Congrecs to fuliy
lnvestigaic ineeuecioi me immigration- ana im
portation of Mongolians upon the moral and ma
terial Interests of the country.
12. The Republican partyrecognlzeswith approv
al the substantial advance recently made toward
the establisment of equal rights for women by tho
many important amendments effected by Repub
lican legislation in the laws which concern the per
sonal nnd property relations or wives, mothers,
and widows, and by the appointment and election
of women to the superintendence of education,
charters, and other public trusts. The honest de
mands of this class of citizens for additional rights
and privileges and immunities, should be treated
with respectful consideration.
IX The Constitution confers upon Congress sover
eign power over thoTcrritorJes of tbeUnited States
for their government, and in the exercise of this
power it is the right and the duty of Congress to
prohibit and extirpate in the Territories that relic
or barbarism, polygamy, and we demand such leg
islation a shall secure this end and the supremacy
of American institutions in all the Territories.
14. Tb pledges- which the nation has given to our
soldiers and Siiilors must be fdlfllled. The grateful
people will always hold those who periled their
fives for the country's preservation in the kindest
remembrance.
15. We sincerely deprecate all sectional feeling
and tendencies. "e therefore note wi'h deep so
licitude that the democratic party counts as its
chief hope of success upon the electorial vote of the
united' South secured through the efforts of those
who were recently arrayed, against the nation, ana
we invoke theearnest attention of thecountry to the
grave truth that a success tnus achieved would re
open sectional strife and imperil national honor
aud human rights.
1R. We charge the Pemocratic party as being the
snnip In character and sniritas when It syn.ithized-
with treason; with making its control ol thellousfr
or Representatives the triumph anu me opportuni
ty of the nation's foes: with reasserting and ap
p'laudins In the natiocal capital the sentiments of
unrepented rebellion: with sending Union soldiers
to the rear and promoting Confederate soldiers to
the front; with deliberatly proposing to repudiate
the plighted faith ol the government: with being
equally faHe and imbecileupon the overshadowing
ends of Justice bvits partisan mismanagement and
nhomrinn nf in'vp&tfemtion : with proving itself.
through the period of its ascendency in the lower j
house or congress, uueny mcuuij'eiein. iu .u-iiuuii.-s-
ter the govenment. We want thecountry against
trusting a party thus alike unworthy, recreant, and
incapable. ..... ..
17. The national administration merits commen
dation for Its honorable work in the management
nrinip;t!r( nnd fnrpln affairs, and PresidentOriint
deserves the continued and hearty gratitude of the
American people for his patriotism and hia Im
mense services la war and icace.
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