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NEW JEKSEY. 



NEW YORK. 



pie of government which we are not prepared to 

 accept tor ourselves. 



Resolved, That the Eepublican party of New Jer- 

 sey, encouraged by past triumphs, and proud of the 

 high record of its executive, its legislators, and its 

 Senators and Representatives in Congress, cheer- 

 fully accept the issue of impartial suffrage as one of 

 the most important questions to be adjusted in the 

 approaching campaign, confident that it will be sus- 

 tained by the calmer judgment and patriotic senti- 

 ment of the people of the State and the gracious ap- 

 proval of Almighty God. 



Resolved. That this convention approves the course 

 of the loyal majority in Congress in steadfastly resist- 

 ing the attempts of the President to substitute his 

 will for the authority of Congress in reconstructing 

 the States lately in rebellion, and that we adjure 

 them, as they value liberty and the safety of the na- 

 tion, to persevere in that resistance to the end. 



At the election in November only members 

 of the Legislature and county officers were 

 voted for. The Legislature is divided politi- 

 cally as follows, viz. : 



Democrats. Republicans. 



Senate 11 10 



House 46 14 



5V 24 



The vote for county officers -was as follows : 

 Democratic, 67,468 ; Eepublican, 51.114. Dem- 

 ocratic majority, 16,354. 



NEW YORK. The financial condition of 

 the State of New York in 1867, as ascertained 

 from official sources, may be briefly stated as 

 follows : The total value of the property of 

 the State, as returned to the assessors, is 

 $1,664,107,725. The aggregate annual taxa- 

 tion imposed upon this property was stated by 

 the Financial Committee of the Constitutional 

 Convention, in August last, at $180,981,398, or 

 more than eleven per cent, of the whole as- 

 sessed valuation. The census of 1865 gives 

 the entire population of the State as 3,827,818, 

 calling it 4,000,000 at the present time. The 

 annual taxes exceed $45 for every person in the 

 State, or $200 for each voter. The debt of 

 the State, on the 30th of September, amounted 

 to $41,114,592, after deducting the balance of 

 sinking funds unapplied. If the debt of the 

 State and of cities and towns be thrown to- 

 gether into one aggregate, along with the pro- 

 portion of the national debt which will fall to 

 the lot of New York, the entire burden of in- 

 debtedness now resting upon the common- 

 wealth will be shown to be upward of $630,- 

 000,000. The following table (se"e page 541) 

 exhibits the debt of each county in the State. 



The finances of the canals of the State are 

 fully exhibited by the following figures: 



September 5th, the Democratic State Commit- 

 tee issued an address to the people, in which they 

 referred to the question of suffrage as follows : 



The right of suffrage, whether it is considered a 

 natural or conferred right, has always, since the Bevo- 

 lution which separated the States of the Union from 

 the dominion of Great Britain, been controlled by 

 the people of the several States respectively. There 

 is not a syllable or letter of the Federal Constitution 

 which, by the most latitudinarian construction, yields 

 it to the Federal Government, and any attempt 

 to exercise it by the Congress of the United States 

 is a usurpation entirely destructive of the rights 

 of the States, so jealously guarded by the found- 

 ers of the republic. The pretext or the Eepub- 

 lican party is, that the interference of Congress in 

 the suffrage of the Southern States is justified by the 

 late rebellion, or, in other words, that in order to 

 punish the Southern people for rebelling against the 

 authority of the Federal Government, they have in- 

 flicted upon them negro suffrage, and placed the gov- 

 ernment of their States within the control of the negro. 

 That this act of wanton cruelty has no warrant in 

 the Constitution, and is in direct opposition to the 

 professions of the Eepublican party pending the war, 

 when the people expended their blood and treasure for 

 the maintenance of the Union as it was, cannot be 

 denied. Nevertheless, it has been perpetrated, and 

 greatly as we would condemn it in regard to its effects Balance In the treasury and invested Oct. 1, 1860. . $4,884,634 



upon the white people of the South^ large propor- Keceived durin S the ?<* r 6 . 681 -* 29 



tion of whom were faithful to the Union and periled Total ... $10,565,963 



all they held dear in the world in its support, we pro- p a jd during' t'lie year.'.'.'.'.'. .'.'...'.'.'.'..'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'..' 6,725,027 

 pose at the present only to refer to its effect upon the 

 white people of the Northern States. Leaving a balance September 80, 1867, of $3,840,936 



First it makes the negroes participators with us REVENUE DURING THE FISCAL TEAK. 



in the choice of Senators and Eepresentatives in From tolls $3,992.162 



Congress, as well as in the electoral college for the Rent of surplus water 1,165 



election of a President and Vice-President. Ten Interest on current canal revenues 51,4-37 



States of the Union, if under existing circumstances Miscellaneous receipts 



they may be so termed, with about one-fourth of the T tel 4 050~357 



representation in the electoral college controlled by 



negroes, is humiliating to the white voters of the 



North. But this is not all To Canal Commissioners for repairs $313,681 



The Eepublican party insist that because they To Contractors for repairs... 691,033 



have given^hesuffrLt y o the negro in the SontheiJ BS5SSM&'*^ '' 162 

 States, they must, to be consistent, admit the North- O f inspectors and expenses of Collect- 

 em negroes to a similar privilege ; and the members ors 1 offices 76,163 



of that party in this State have, at a recent conven- To salaries chargeable to annual revenues, 

 tion held at Trenton, most solemnly and unanimously refunding tolls, printing, and miscella- 



pledged themselves to the eradication of the word neous payments 69,153 



"white" from the suffrage article of the State con- i,^u,i^ 



stitution, and have, with equal decision, resolved to Surplus revenues... .. $2,830,165 



call " upon Congress to take measures to induce or 



compel all the States to establish a just and uniform Surplus revenues which have been transferred 

 rule of suffrage, excluding all distinctions of class to the sinking funds as follows : 



^eTfen^th, tissue fairly stated, and it is for gS^^ll^SlS^Stafc::^^ 



the people ot JNew Jersey to determine at the coming under article 7, section 3, of the Constitution 780165 



election whether they are willing or not to share with 



the colored race in the government of the State. Total 



