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MASSACHUSETTS. 



MATTISON, HIRAM. 



expenses of the Government to "be applied to the pay- 

 ment of the public debt. 



Resolved, That while we deny any responsibility 

 for the form of the present license law, we are fully 



Eersuaded of the wisdom of some system of regu- 

 iting the sale of liquors as distinguished from the 

 principle of total prohibition. 



Resolved, That the memory of the services of our 

 soldiers and sailors, who carried the flag of our coun- 

 try to victory during the late rebellion, should ever 

 be borne in the hearts of a grateful people, and all 

 guarantees given in their favor must be faithfully car- 

 ried out. 



Resolved, That it is the duty of the United States 

 to protect all citizens, whether native born or natural- 

 ized, in every right at home and abroad, regardless 

 of any claim of foreign nations to the doctrine of per- 

 petual allegiance. 



Resolved, That labor is the true source of all wealth, 

 and the men of labor are not only the real authors or 

 the material well-being, but the best defenders of the 

 honor and interests of the country; it is, therefore, 

 not less the dictate of wise policy than of sound 

 principles, that the rights of labor be fully maintained, 

 and every possible opportunity of individual improve- 

 ment secured by just laws to the workingmen of the 

 country. 



The following is the platform of the Repub- 

 lican Convention : 



Resolved, That the Republicans of Massachusetts 

 heartily approve the platform adopted by the Repub- 

 lican party of the nation at Chicago, and pledge their 

 earnest support to the election of Ulysses S. Grant 

 and Schuyler Colfax, as essential to the peace, safety, 

 and honor of the country. 



Resolved, That the rights of the loyal citizens of the 

 South, won in war and secured by national legisla- 

 tion, shall be maintained. 



Resolved, That we heartily approve the system of 

 reconstruction as wise and humane, and as demand- 

 ing no more than the security and good faith of the 

 country require. 



Resolved, That we reprobate the position of the 

 Democratic party, recently and authoritatively taken, 

 which has resuscitated the rebellion, and purposes to 

 overthrow by force, if necessary, the already effected 

 reconstruction. 



Resolved, That the success of the Democratic party 

 tends directly to revolution and civil war. 



Resolved, That the success of the Republican party 

 is essential to the public credit, as this party alone 

 can be relied upon to make the actual and honest pay- 

 ment of the public debt, in gold and silver, a matter 

 of sacred honor ; while the Democratic proposition is 

 an evasion of our duty, and a fraud upon those who 

 have trusted the nation. 



Resolved, That we offer to the suffrages of the peo- 

 ple William Claflin for Governor, and Joseph Tucker, 

 for Lieutenant-Governor, and the other candidates 

 for State offices nominated < by this convention, as 

 persons true to our great national cause, and deserv- 

 ing the confidence of the people. 



Resolved, That the public life of the Honorable 

 Charles Sumner during three terms of service in the 

 Senate of the United States has fully justified the con- 

 fidence which has been successively reposed in him 

 that his eloquent, fearless, and persistent devotion to 

 the sacred cause of human rights, as well in its early 

 struggles as in its later triumphs ; his beneficent ef- 

 forts", after the abolition of slavery, in extirpating 

 all the incidents thereof; his constant solicitude for 

 the material interests of the country ; his diligence 

 and success, as chairman of the Senate Committee on 

 Foreign Affairs, in vindicating the policy of maintain- 

 ing the just rights of the Government against foreign 

 powerSj and at the same time preserving peace with 

 the nations all present a public record of rare use- 

 fulness and honor and that his fidelity, experience, 

 and honorable identification with our national his- 



tory, call for his reelection to the high office in which 

 he has rendered such illustrious service to his coun- 

 try and to mankind. 



The election in November resulted as follows : 

 Whole vote for Governor, 195,471 : for William 

 Claflin, the Republican candidate, 132,121 ; for 

 John Quincy Adams, candidate of the Demo- 

 crats, 63,266 Claflin's majority 68,855. The 

 other State officers elected, all Republicans, 

 were: Lieutenant-Governor, Captain Joseph 

 Tucker; Secretary of State, Oliver Warner; 

 Attorney-General, Charles Allen; Treasurer, 

 Jacob H, Lord ; Auditor-General, H. S. Briggs. 



The vote cast for presidential electors was 

 195,911 ; of these, 136,477 were in favor of the 

 election of Grant ; 59,408 for Seymour Grant's 

 majority, 77,069. Ten Representatives of the 

 State in Congress were chosen, all of whom 

 were Republicans. The composition of the 

 State Legislature of 1869 is 38 Republicans 

 and 2 Democrats in the Senate, and 224 Re- 

 publicans and 16 Democrats in the House of 

 Representatives. 



MATTISON, Rev. HIRAM, D. D., a Meth % 

 odist clergyman and author, born in Oswego,* 

 N. Y., in 1811 ; died in Jersey City, N. J., 

 November 24, 1868. He was, we believe, a 

 graduate of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 

 and, though he commenced preaching, soon 

 after his graduation, in the limits of the Black 

 River Conference, he was for many years a 

 professor in the Black River Institute, having 

 for his department mathematics and physics. 

 He was very fond of astronomy, and prepared 

 an elementary text-book on that subject, as 

 well as an edition, thoroughly remodelled and 

 revised, of Burritt's Geography of the Heav- 

 ens, with an atlas of the starry heavens, on a 

 different plan from Burritt's. In 1850 he 

 abandoned teaching and entered the itineracy, 

 being assigned to one of the prominent Meth- 

 odist churches in New York City. From that 

 time he made his home in that city or its 

 vicinity. On the establishment of the National 

 Magazine, a literary and religious periodical 

 published by the Methodist Book Concern, he 

 became a leading contributor, and his articles 

 were noticeable for their intellectual vigor. 

 His disposition, however, led him into polem- 

 ics, and there was hardly a prominent ques- 

 tion in theology, ethics, or reform, into which 

 he did not plunge with all the ardor of his 

 nature. He was a determined foe to the theo- 

 ries and manifestations of the Spiritualists, 

 and combated their system with great zeal and 

 pugnacity. He lectured on this subject many 

 times, and published a small treatise " to show 

 up," as he said, "the humbug of their preten- 

 sions." He was a zealous antislavery advo- 

 cate, and partly because the Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church did not take as advanced ground 

 as he thought right, and partly from dissatis- 

 faction with their mode of representation, he 

 withdrew, in 1860, from that Church, and 

 founded a body to whom he gave the name of 

 " Independent Methodists." He had been from 





