Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — Ohio Bepublican Resolutions. [ARTICLE]

Ohio Bepublican Resolutions.

The following resolutions were adopted hy the recent Republican State Convention of Ohio: Buolved, That as citizens of the nation representing the Republican sentiment of oar honored Commonwealth, we regard with sincere satisfaction the fidelity evinced by General Grant to the Republican party, and the policy, both foreign and domestic, of his national administration, and pledge our cordial support to the measures inaugurated to insure conciliation, economy and Justice at home and command consideration and respect abroad. 1 That we hail with prida the patriotic and constitutional declaration of General Grant In his inaugural address, that while he will on all subjects have a policy to recommend to Congress, he will have none to enforce against the will of the people—a sentiment which assures the country of an executive administration founded on the administration of Washington and Madison, and that will secure to Congress the unrestricted exercise of its constitutions! functions, and to the people their rightful control of the Government. & That the abolition of slavery was a natural and necessary consequence of the war of the rebellion, and that the reo. nstrnction measures of Congress were measures well adapted to effect the reconstruction of the Sonthern States, and secure the blessings oi liberty and a free government, and as a compl tion [of those measures, and finally believing in its essential justioe, we are in favor of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States 4. That the late Democratic General Assembly. In its reckless expenditures of public money: Its utter neglect of tbe business interests of the State by failing to enact the wise and much-need-ed financial measures providing for the assess ment and equalization of taxation prepared hy tbe commission appointed by the preceding General Asaembly; its hostility to our benevolent and literary institutions; its failure to carry out the repeated pledges of the Democratic party to secure economy In tbe State; its extraordinary length of session in time of peace resulting in aa expense to the State, amounting, for the pay of its members alone, to more than doable that of the preceding General Assembly; its malignant attempt* to disfranchise disabled soldiers and citizens of the State; it* attempt to take from the Geaarai Gosunreent the right to pursue, arrest and punish those who violate tbe laws made in pancaaee of the Constitution of tbe United States, and the vicious acta Intended to d 5S r^T .? >B iß?^* r °* the Mtion preserve and protect the liberty and safety of tt# citizens, has shown the Democratic party onworthy of the trust, confidence and support of «n honest and party of Ohio is in favor I j of a speedy establishment of a Soldiers’ Orphans' Home in Ohio, not only a* an act of J ustice to the many poor and helpless orphans of deceased soldiers, bnt at a recognition of the patriotic services of their lathers in the late war, and for the purpose of redeeming the pledges made by all lays! psouje to protect the families of those who Ad fell in the cause of human liberty