. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. HORACE CARL SCHURZ. 471 472 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ough reform of the civil service, no President a candidate for re-election ; (6) modest
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. HORACE CARL SCHURZ. 471 472 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ough reform of the civil service, no President a candidate for re-election ; (6) modest revenue for all the needs of the government;on the matter of a tariff, the question relegated to the people ofthe Congressional districts for discussion; (7) maintenance ofpublic credit, return to specie payments, honor for the soldier,no more land grants to railroads, fair dealing with foreignpowers. The Republican National Convention met at Philadelphia,June 5, 1872, and renominated for President Ulysses S. Grant,111., and nominated for Vice-President Henry Wilson, Mass. Itsplatform (i) pointed, as the result of Republican policy, to asuppressed rebellion, emancipation, equal citizenship, universalsuffrage, no punishment of men for political offences, a humaneIndian policy, a Pacific railroad, public lands freely given to ac-tual settlers, protected immigration, uniform national currency^high national credit, careful collection and expenditure of rev-enue
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