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charged ; and we call upon the Pn-Htdont to t.. 



r tho release of all such persons. 



liis i.l. libations to do no, uud assured of 



flint from Maine to California the De- 



ri.^iii.' in their might to overturn and 



motive part\ , and tliu 



.nsettH will do thi-ir part in 



rk. 



That ;iu Increase of the State debt, during 



',<niii, and the wash-fill extravagance 



. in power, wlfu-li lias added to ratlicr 



lie debt, is alarming, and demands 



administration in the State government. 



'i-mocratio party is now and 



uluiis in favor of aiding and protecting 



tin- interests of labor by any legitimate, means, be- 

 le main basis of all material prosperity, 

 au.l l.ee.iuso the happiness and well-being of the 

 ma** nf any nation must always depend upon 

 ty ot labor ; therefore, wo are in favor of 

 KDy legislation necessary to enable the laborer to se- 

 cure thr fair and just reward for his labor, and of the 

 immediate ivi.eal of those unjust and unequal class 

 Bby consumers and producers are alike 

 defrauded hy monopoly and speculation. Wo are 

 i favor of a system by which men and women 

 who labor may be enabled to use and invest their 

 earnin rativc effort, and obtain such a just 



and fair share, of the profits of labor and capital com- 

 bine, 1, as will unable them to regulate and control the 

 hours of their own labor, and that such a system 

 should be encouraged by all proper and necessary 

 legislation. 



John Quincy Adams was unanimously nomi- 

 nated for Governor; George M. Stearns was 

 nom'mat .-<! liy acclamation for Lieutenant- 

 jior. The remainder of the ticket was 

 referred to a committee, whose report, bearing 

 the following name?, was adopted: For Audi- 

 tor, Arthur F. Deveraux, of Roxbury ; Sec- 

 retary of State, Charles Brimblecombe, of 

 Barre; Attorney-General, William '0. Endi- 

 cott, of Salem ; Treasurer, Harvey Arnold, of 

 Adams. 



The election, which took place on the 6th of 

 November, resulted in the choice of the entire 

 Republican ticket. Tho whole vote for Gov- 

 ernor was 168,791 of which Bullock received 

 98,306, and Adams 70,860, giving the former 

 a majority of 27,946 over the latter. The 

 members chosen to sit in tho Legislature of 

 1868 are divided thus between the two par- 

 Setiate Republicans 32, Democrats 8; 

 House of Representatives Republicans 170, 

 Democrats 02 and 8 unclassified. The posi- 

 tion of candidates on the liquor question was 

 made a test at the election, which resulted in 

 sending members pledged on that subject as 

 follows : in the Senate, 31 for license and 9 for 

 prohibition ; in tho House, 184 for license, 

 50 for prohibition, and 6 uncertain. There 

 has been a general cessation of seizures and 

 9 on the part of tho State constables 

 since tho election. 



At the end of the year the total funded debt 

 <>f kfasaohusetts amounted to the sum of 

 14,6 P.1.25, of which the payment of $21,- 

 605,700 is amply secured by sinking funds, 

 bonds, mortgages, and collaterals, leaving 

 $2,378,889.25 with no special provision for its 

 liquidation ; $888,000 of this last sum consists 



of a loan authorized in 18(53, tho proceeds of 

 which were to be devoted to work* for the de- 

 fence of tho coast, and $359,0(52.28 of this 

 amount still remains in the treasury unex- 

 pended. There is al>o an iuil'uinl<-'l debt n-p- 

 .<! by temporary loans and floating lia- 

 bilities, amounting, on the 1st of January, 1868, 

 to $967,230. The State expenditures esti- 

 mate.! for the eiiMun;.' year will amount to 

 $1,571,100 for ordinary expenses, and $4,800,- 

 760 for extraordinary expenses. The amount 

 of revenue from various sources is set down at 

 $1,128,700. There is a State agency estab- 

 lished at Washington to prosecute the claims 

 of soldiers for bounties, pensions, and arrears 

 of pay; $203,458.41 have been collected from 

 tho United States for 1,870 claimants, and more 

 than 8,000 claims remain unsettled. The 

 agency has also ascertained and certified the 

 military history of 8,719 men, while the total 

 expenses for the year fall short of $7,500. 



The free public schools of Massachusetts 

 maintain their high position and have been in 

 their usual prosperous condition. $2,355,505.96 

 were raised by taxation during the past year 

 for the support of education in the State. 

 There have been 236,000 pupils in attendance 

 upon the public schools, during an average 

 period of eight months, more than 210,000 of 

 whom were between the ages of five and fifteen. 

 The money raised by taxation for the support 

 of schools shows an expenditure of an average 

 of nine dollars upon the education of every 

 child in the State. The number of teachers 

 employed has been nearly 8.000, of whom little 

 short of seven-eighths are females. Two im- 

 portant questions have been much agitated by 

 those specially interested in educational matters 

 in the State, that of paying higher salaries to 

 teachers, especially female teachers, and that of 

 forbidding corporal punishment in the public 

 schools. Several cases of prosecution of teach- 

 ers for inflicting severe punishment have oc- 

 curred, and a strong sentiment exists in the 

 community against permitting corporal punish- 

 ment in any case. 



The Massachusetts Agricultural College, estab- 

 lished by act of General Court in 1863, on the 

 foundation of the grant of 360,000 acres of 

 the public lands, was opened for the reception 

 of pupils in October, and forty-seven are already 

 in attendance. This institution has been located 

 in the town of Amherst, the citizens of that 

 town having pledged $75,000 for the benefit of 

 the enterprise in consideration of its being sit- 

 uated there. The proceeds of the sale of one- 

 t ftith of the lands granted by Congress were 

 allowed tho trustees for the purchase of the 

 farm, and the income to be derived from two- 

 thirds of the fund raised by the sale of the re- 

 mainder is to form a permanent endowment. 

 Such buildings have already been erec: 

 the present needs of the institution demand. 

 Among these is a plant-house, constructed afa 

 cost of $10,000, which sum was given for the 

 purpose by Mr. Durfee, a public-spirited citizen 



