Platform :

"The  Republican  party,  in  national  convention  assembled,  at  the
end  of  twenty  years  since  the  Federal  government  was  first  committed
to  its  charge,  submits  to  the  people  of  the  United  States  this  brief
report  of  its  administration:

"It  suppressed  a  rebellion  which  had  armed  nearly  a  million  of
men  to  subvert  the  national  authority ;  it  reconstructed  the  Union  of
the  States  with  freedom  instead  of  slavery  as  its  corner-stone;  it
transformed  4,000,000  human  beings  from  the  likeness  of  things  to
the  rank  of  citizens;  it  relieved  Congress  from  the  infamous  work  of
hunting  fugitive  slaves,  and  charged  it  to  see  that  slavery  does  not
exist.
"It  has  raised  the  value  of  our  paper  currency  from  38  per  cent,
to  the  par  of  gold ;  it  has  restored  upon  a  solid  basis  payment  in  coin
of  all  national  obligations,  and  has  given  us  a  currency  absolutely  good
and  equal  in  every  part  of  our  extended  country;  it  has  lifted  the
credit  of  the  nation  from  the  point  of  where  6  per  cent,  bonds  sold
at  86  to  that  where  4  per  cent,  bonds  are  eagerly  sought  at  a  premium.
"Under  its  administration  railways  have  increased  from  31,000
miles  in  1860  to  more  than  82,000  miles  in  1879.
"Our  foreign  trade  increased  from  $700,000,000  to  $1,115,000,-
000  in  the  same  time,  and  our  exports,  which  were  $20,000,000  less
than  our  imports  in  1860,  were  $265,000,000  more  than  our  imports
in  1879.
