Ni:W YORK. 



540 







re for suspending him fi 

 8oe nn net whieh ha-< il 



tj . And wo 



1<> tllO 



:\il Philip II. Sheridan, 



tlit! faithful dis- 

 ::up<>sed upon them by tho laws of 

 id. 



Rteotr, /, That we renew our thanks to all those 



...<i in 



1 i -tituti'in, imd the laws. 

 uiul that cur flunk* tin 1 specially due to thOM tried 



i> against the arbl- 



. -in.'li' individual, and havu nobly 

 .pied forward tho clearly indicated 



That <>ur natura!i/.ed fellow-citizeni are 



!eet'n>nin f'irfi',Mi lands as our 

 Mitli, and that it is the dutv of our 



to secure their protection in all cases, 



.11 hazards. 



The I Jemocratic Convention met at Albany 

 i ( >ctober, and elected lion. Horatio 

 in- pre.-ideiit, who addressed the assem- 

 bly, on taking the fhair, in a speech deprecating 

 ..Insion from the practical benefits of the 

 Union of the Southern States. Tho platform 

 adopted by the convention was set forth in 

 declarations: 



'. That we pledge ourselves to redeem New 

 !'<nn corruption and misrule as tho first great 

 restoration of the Union and constitutional 

 nent. 



Second. That regarding the national debt as a sacred 

 tion, we demand economy of administration, 



he collection and -application of revenues, 

 simplification of and equality in taxation, and a cur- 



benefit or the people instead of corpora- 

 tions, to the end that the public faith may be pre- 

 1 and the burdens of taxation lessened. 

 I. That we denounce the effort of the Radical 

 party to retain the power it has usurped bv establish- 

 ipremacy in the South by military force, 

 I with tho disfranchisement or the mass of the 

 white population, as an outrage upon democratic 

 principles, and an attempt to undermine and destroy 

 public; and that wo stigmatize the refusal or 

 ,riv in this State to submit the question of negro 



ho people as a cowardly evasion of a para- 



i n the pending struggle. 



i-th. That the revelations of corruption in the 

 management of the canals, tho confessed degradation 

 lature, the report to extraordinary com- 

 missions to control municipalities, the demoralization 

 of tho revenue service, and the fact that a partv hold- 

 ing power over Congress ? the Judiciary, the Execu- 

 id the Army, has failed to bring peace and solid- 

 ity and credit to tho country, demonstrate its utter 

 'ity to administer government, and tho noces- 



ing power from such hands. 

 "'. That while we approve of an excise law 

 which shall bo applicable to tho whole State and se- 

 cure public order, we are, as we have ever been, hos- 

 Sation which, under the pretext of moral 

 . invades private rights, subjects citizens to 

 <>us searches and seizures, and interferes with 

 social and religious customs, and that the excise law 

 i:> April, 186 (passed by tho Republican 

 : iturt'), should be repealed. 

 ? That we reaiurm tho doctrine of "William L. 

 . in tin- K-)st/a ease, that adopted and native 

 alike entitled to the protection of the 

 I we call upon the Federal Govern- 



I'lio profound gratitude of tho nation is 

 il soldiers and sailors who won 1 im- 

 ablo honor in tho ranks of the Army and Navy 

 VOL. vii. 85 



of the Republic. Impelled by a dcen and patriotic 

 dMin to maintain I andthelawi 



>tailiiiu' M. 



iluiid' 

 petoa- 

 tion of which the\ 



The convention nominal rretnry of 



n ; lor Comptroller, Win. 

 !'. Al!> :i. <d' OflWegO; lor Tivasmvr. \\ . 

 II. liri-tol, ol Tio^a ; for Attoniey-d.-in-nd, 

 Mar>h;d 15. Champlain. "i' Ai!> L'any ; for Canal 

 Commissioner, John IX Fay, of Monroe ; for 

 State Engineer, Van Renwelaer Ilirhmond, of 

 "Wayne ; for State Prison Inspector, Solomon 

 Schen, of Erie ; for Judge of Court of Appeals, 

 Martin Grover. 



The election took place on the fi-st Tuesday 

 in November, and resulted i;i the choice of tho 

 entire Democratic ticket. The whole vote for 

 Secretary of State was 698,128, of which Nelson 

 received 373,029 and McKean 325,099, thin 

 giving a majority of 47,930 to the Democratic 

 candidate. 



Several cases were decided in the Court of 

 Appeals in the early part of tho year, involving 

 the constitutionality of the Excise Law. The 

 law was sustained in the court, and has been 

 very efficiently executed throughout the year. 



Work has been begun at Albany on a' mag- 

 nificent new building, for the purposes of a 

 State capitol. It is estimated that this struc- 

 ture will cost nearly five millions of dollars, 

 and require six years for its completion. 



The Legislature of 1868 assembled on the 7th 

 of January. Among the important measures 

 which have come before that body, is one for 

 regulating the sale of intoxicating drinks, and 

 one providing for the punishment of official 

 corruption. The following financial resolution 

 has been introduced in the House of Repi\ 

 atives by a Republican member : . 



Retained (if the Senate concur), That all the bonds 

 of the United States hereafter issued should be sub- 

 ject to taxation for State and municipal purposes ; 

 that all bonds of the United States not expressly pay- 

 able in gold, heretofore issued, should bo paid in le- 

 gal-tender notes of the United States as soon as tho 

 Government has the right to pay such bonds, unless 

 tho holders thereof will exchange them at par for new 

 six per cent, bonds payable in gold twenty or thirty 

 years from date, subject to taxation for State and 

 municipal purposes; that buyers shall declare all 

 bonds of tho United States, heretofore issued, subject 

 to taxation for State and municipal purposes, as soon 

 as the Government has the right to buy thenij if tho 

 holders thereof shall choose to retain them. ! 



' landing them for new six per cent, bonds of 

 the United States, payable in gold twenty or thirty 

 years from date, subject to taxation for State and 

 municipal purposes ; ' tho object being to make all 

 bonds of the United States subject to State and muni- 

 cipal taxation as soon as it can be done e 

 with the Constitution of the United States, t 

 same extent that bonds of the several States and of 

 counties, towns, cities, and villages are now subject 

 to taxation under the laws of the ditleront States. 

 And our Senators and Representatives in Congress 

 are requested to favor the passage of JaWs for carry- 

 ing the foregoing views into effect. 



The members of this Legislature stand divid- 

 ed between the political parties in tho propor- 



