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MICHIGAN. 



The following incorporated cities have a 

 population exceeding 5,000 : 



Detroit... .. 116,403 



Grand Eapids 82,037 



Bay City 20,654 



East Saginaw 19,047 



Jackson 16,107 



Kalamazoo 11,840 



Muskegon 11,299 



Saginaw City 10,531 



Port Huron 8,871 



Flint 8,418 



Ann Arbor 8,103 



Adrian 7,848 



Battle Creek . . 7,070 



Manistee 6,902 



West Bay City 6,399 



Alpena 6,154 



lehpeming 6,039 



The Eepublican party of the State held a 

 convention at Jackson, August 5th, nominated 

 a full State ticket, and put forth the following 

 platform : 



1. The Eepublican party of the State of Michigan, 

 assembled by its delegated representatives in the city 

 of Jackson, upon the spot where the national Eepub- 

 lican party was born, after an unbroken supremacy in 

 the State of a quarter of a century, and in the nation 

 of twenty years, grateful to an overruling Providence 

 and a loyal people for the grand achievements of the 

 past, here declares itself now, as ever, faithful to the 

 great principles of liberty, equality before the law, the 

 perpetual union of the States, the supremacy of the 

 nation, free thought, speech, press, and ballot, and the 

 inviolable sacrcdness of the constitutional results of 

 the war for the Union. 



2. With pride and satisfaction it challenges scrutiny 

 of its records during the past twenty-five years a 

 record unequaled in the history of parties since the 

 foundation of the government. 



Among the accomplished results we here recall the 

 consecration of the Territories to freedom ; the aboli- 

 tion of slavery in the District of Columbia ; the pres- 

 ervation of the integrity of the Union against the great- 



est and most cruel rebellion in history ; the provision 

 of free homesteads for freemen ; the emancipation of 

 four million slaves ; the conferring of equal civil and 

 political rights on the emancipated race ; the creation 

 of a war currency never equaled, and the restoration 

 of that currency, by good faith and honesty, to equality 

 with the best money in the world ; the payment with 

 heroic fidelity of more than two thirds of the cost of 

 the war ; the vast reduction of the principal and in- 

 terest of the public debtj and the elevation of the pub- 

 lic credit until the nation's four per cent, bonds are 

 eagerly sought at par ; the linking of the two oceans 

 with bonds of iron ; the enactment of just and equal 

 pension and bond laws for the defenders of the Union 

 and their widows and orphans ; the settlement of mo- 

 mentous international questions by peaceable arbitra- 

 tion, and the elevation of the United States to the rank 

 of a first-class nation, grand in peace and mighty in 

 war, making a " government of the people, by the peo- 

 ple, and for the people," respected around the whole 

 earth. 



During this same period the Democratic party has 

 been as a party abjectly pro-slavery, timeserving, un- 

 patriotic, in part treasonable, reactionary, and obstruc- 

 tive. It prostrated the nation's credit ; it undermined 

 the bulwarks of the Constitution with the pernicious 

 doctrine of State supremacy ; it armed the rebellion ; 

 it encouraged treason ; it discouraged the defense of the 

 nation's lite ; opposed the draft ; inaugurated bloody 

 riots ; declared for a trace with rebels in arms ; pro- 

 nounced the war a failure ; defamed the greenback out 

 of a share of its honest value ; bitterly opposed free- 

 dom for the slave, civil rights for the freedman, and 

 the franchise for the black citizen ; denounced the con- 

 stitutional amendments as " revolutionary and void " ; 

 denied freedom of speech, press ; and ballot in the 

 South; by shot-guns, intimidation, and tissue-bal- 

 lots, gained control of both Houses of Congress ; and 

 attempted to revolutionize the government by refusing 

 necessary supplies, and by coercion of the Executive, 

 after having failed to steal the Presidency by bribery. 



It is now conspiring, under pretenses of repentance 

 false upon their face, to install " the lost cause " in 

 the capital of the nation ; to reorganize the Supreme 

 Court; to undo all war legislation, and to make it 

 easy to annul the constitutional amendments, and 

 bankrupt the Treasury with rebel war claims and com- 

 pensation for emancipated slaves. 



With this record behind us, and our face set coura- 

 geously and confidently -to the duties and responsi- 

 bilities of the future, we do here declare : 



1. That the administration of the Constitution, the 

 protection of the Union, and the enforcement or the 

 constitutional amendments, should be intrusted to 

 their friends, and not to their enemies, who have re- 

 lentlessly sought to destroy them each and all. 



2. That the blight of slavery will not have been 

 wholly eradicated until all men shall be in fact, as they 

 are of right, equal before the law. 



3. We demand for every citizen, rich and poor, 

 white and black. North and 'South, the right and privi- 

 lege of casting his ballot once, and but once, at each 

 election, and of having that ballot fairly counted and 

 returned, without terror of shot-guns, frauds of tissue- 

 ballots, or cheats of cipher dispatches. 



4. We believe that the United States are a Union, 

 not a Confederacy ; a nation and not a league. The 

 Constitution is a supreme law, and not a treaty be- 

 tween foreign powers. 



5. The Union must and shall be preserved ; the pub- 

 lic faith must be maintained ; the public debt must be 

 faithfully paid ; the pensions of the nation's defenders 

 and their dependents must be sacredly guarded ; the 

 public lands preserved for actual settlers ; fidelity, in- 

 telligence, and efficiency, exacted in the public service, 

 without destroying the freedom of the office-holding 

 citizen ; specie* resumption must be maintained ; the 

 laws for the protection of the purity of elections must 

 be adhered to and enforced ; education must be fos- 

 tered ; industry, economy, temperance, and morality 





