The Republican Platform

The Eepublioan State Convention held at Detroit June 13 put forth the following declaration of principies : The Republicana of Michigan, alter 24 years of unbrokeu control of the State government iu all its departuients, invite the most rigid scrutiny into the inanner in which their great responsibilities have been diacharged, and we point with gatisfaotion and pride to that faithful regard which has been evinced by the pState administration for the happiness and security of our citizens, and the maintenance of public faith. Resolved, That while we entertain an undoubting faith that in the honest judgnient of mankind the past record of the llopubücan party wili furniBh, both in its patriotisni and achieveinents, some of the most illustrious pages in our national history, we pledge to the future au . unfaltering fidelity to the ust and humane principies which in tiuios of great public extreuiity inspired and created it ; and we recognize among the sacred obligations of a Government founded on thoso prinoiples the duty of securing to all its citizens a free and untrammeled exercise of the rights ot suft'vage and of protecting every nian and woman from whom it claims allejiance in the peacenblo pursuit of an ïonest life, by every legitímate means witliin its reach. V k i i n. i . all licsolved, Tüat we congratúlate our fellow üitizens on the uninistakable evidence apparent in 80 inany directions that the business interests of the country are recovering from the long depressiou brought on by overtrading and excessive speculation, and on the cor;ainty that this rocovery is to be cuade enduring by the resuinption of specie )ayineuts, now happily within imuiediate reach, aud oertain to be accoin)lishbd without shock either to industry or oommeroe ; that in finaucial, as in other iiiatters, "the world is goverued too much," and the pressing need of' the time is stability upon wüich to build COniFdènoe, tillo wiug the uatural laws of trade to assuuie their healthtul operatiou ; and that, in cotnuion with the best iutelligence of all parties, wo rejoice iu the early adjournment of Congress and "the respite it will afford from the reek less and iiiischiövous sobemos of iguorant legislators, made formidable by the despotism of a caucus. We denouuce repudiatiou in every foriu aud repudiators in every disguise. We regard the plighted faith of a oommuriity as binding upon all itsmembers, and the failuie to fulfill a public obligatiou as a staiu upou both public and private honor : and we in.sist that the debts of the nation shall be paid with the same fairness and integrity with which an honest man seeks to pay his individual liabilities. We assert that uo prosperity can be real or durable that is fouuded on a fictitious standard ; that the value of paper currency, whether issued by goveinment or by banks, is derived from its " promise to pay " and the credit tbat promise is worth ; that the full beneflts of snch a currency cannot be realized unless it is convertible on deiuaud iuto gold and silver. ; that a circulation of' papor and coin interchangeable at par and at the will of the holder has boon proved by experience to be the best known to cotnnierce ; that this country is too greut to,submit to a subordinóte] place ajuiong commeroial nations, and its people too houest to be content with unredeenied and inedeemable promises ; aud in the name of all the producing classes and of every hoaest workinginan, we de mand a currency that is not only worth its face all ovor the Union, but will conmiand respect, recognition and its full value in evory market in the world. Resolved, That we view with appre hension the spread of opinions and the growth of sentiment, as embodied and proclaimed in the platforms, resolutions, publications and speeches of the bocallod Nitional-Greeuback party, and the various socialistic and communistic organizations and their advocates throughout the land, which, if adopted as the policy of government, must bring disaster and ruin to business, discredit and dishonor upon the nation, and tend in a high degree to subvert many of those principies whioh we re gard as fundamental in the structure and support of free government, and the Republican party will meet all these doctrines and tendencies with the most prompt, vigorous, and unoompromising opposition. Resolved, That the question of the olection of the present incumbents of the ofiioe of President and Vice-President was fiuaíly settled by the Fortyfourth Congress, and any attempt to reopen it on any pretenso whatever is fruught with dttnger to republican institutions : and the Republican party of tbis State will maintain with inflexible fitmness their right to the exercise of the fuuctions of their respective offices until termiuated in a constitutional mauner. Jiexolved, That the admiuistration of jrov. Croswell has been prudent, wise, jonest and ecouomical, and that he is ontitled to the cordial respect and confidence of the people of Michigan. - The Lansing Knight Templar Band made $1,500 out of the recent aand tournament. - A horse thief named Bennett was nabbed in Commerce, Oakland oounty, on the 1 lth. - Frank Hale, hired as farm help by E. Wilking, of Okemos, Inghani oouuty, decamped on the 9th with $200 plunder ed trom the houso.