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but the maimed soldier, his widow and orphan, with 

 a depreciated currency. And, when the war was over 

 and our cause gained, it declared that with victory our 

 cause was lost : and virtually proclaimed to a victo- 

 rious army and navy, that they had destroyed tho 

 Union in whose name and cause they had triumphed ; 

 instead of punishing rebels according to law, it 

 punished sovereign States for political opposition, 

 and erected five military dictatorships over ten States 

 of the Union ; it established military law in time of 

 peace ; it removed civil officers legally elected by 

 the people, and substituted its pliant tools in their 

 stead ; it declared white men disloyal until the con- 

 trary was proved, and declared all black men loyal 

 without proof; it used Federal power to control suf- 

 frage in the States ; it established a Freedmen's Bu- 

 reau to feed and clothe the blacks as pensioners on 

 the national bounty ; while poor white men, their 

 wives, and their children, were suffered to starve 

 without sympathy or succor. Of these latter uncon- 

 stitutional, revolutionary, and outrageous acts it has 

 been guilty since the declaration of peace, and all for 

 the reason that it dare not trust the verdict of the 

 people of the North upon its policy and acts, and 

 aims now with negro votes to rule the white North. 

 Nor is this all. It has driven Senators and Represent- 

 atives, legally elected by the people, from the halls 

 of Congress, because of political opinions ; it has re- 

 tained political friends, in both Houses, who are 

 charged and admitted, by themselves, to be cruel, 

 corrupt, and unworthy ; it has sought to destroy the 

 executive and judicial departments of the Govern- 

 ment, that it might rule without check. In short, it 

 has cheated the people, impoverished the country, 

 oppressed the poor, pampered the rich, violated the 

 great charter of our rights and liberties, and by all its 



to rule in hell than to serve in heaven. 



<ed, That the Republican majority in Congress 

 has already taken a bold and alarming stride toward 

 military despotism in its reconstruction scheme jWhere- 

 by the negro States, under the military supervision of 

 its presidential candidate, will cast nearly one-fourth 

 of the electoral vote ; and whereby eighteen million 

 Northern whites are practically controlled, in the 

 Senate of the nation, "by four million negroes, and 

 forty thousand Federal bayonets. 



Resolved, That, in this fearful crisis, the only hope 

 of the country and of constitutional freedom is in the 

 Democracy, the justice and wisdom of its principles, 

 and in the integrity and intelligence of the people. 



Resolved, That it is our firm and united purpose to 

 restore the Union of the States ; to keep the Federal 

 Government and each of its departments within its 

 proper sphere, and cause it to respect the reserved 

 rights of the States, and of the people ; to abolish all 

 bank- and tariff monopolies ; to abolish Freedmen's 

 Bureaus and standing armies in time of peace ; to ar- 

 rest the extravagance and corruption that are wasting 

 our substance ; and, by careful economy in the admin- 

 istration of affairs, to restore credit to the Govern- 

 ment and value to its currency ; to hold all men in- 

 nocent until proved guilty ; to punish crime accord- 

 ing to law ; to protect the foreign citizen in his rights 

 both at home and abroad; to do equal and exact jus- 

 tice to all men, irrespective of color or race ; and to 

 keep this, as our fathers made it, a white man's Gov- 

 ernment, an asylum for the oppressed of all nations, 

 and a dispenser of blessings to all who submit to its 

 laws. 



Resolved, That we propose to have all Government 

 bonds bear taxation equally with all other property ; 

 that we will maintain the national faith inviolate,' 

 that all public debts shall be honorably paid ; that 

 the bonds of the Federal Government, issued after 

 greenbacks were made a legal tender, shall be paidin 

 the currency of the country, except where otherwise 

 expressly provided by law or stipulated in the bond. 



Resolved, That we deprecate any legislation which 

 tends to take the public domain from the actual set- 

 tler and donate it to speculating corporations. 



Resolved, That the debt of gratitude due the sol- 

 dier and sailor, who defended us in peril, " is tho 

 only debt the nation can never pay-" but we shall 

 cherish the memory of the gallant dead, and guard 

 with tender care the interests of his widow and or- 

 phan, shall remember the services and promote the 

 welfare of the living, and give to all the honor that 

 is ever due to brave and patriotic service. 



The Republican and Democratic State Con- 

 ventions, to nominate State tickets, adopted 

 the platforms of the National Conventions re- 

 spectively, and indorsed their nominations, and 

 the latter also passed, among others relating to 

 State affairs, the following resolution : 



Resolved, That negro suffrage, sumptuary laws, in- 

 terference in municipal government by commissions 

 or other State agencies, test-oaths, religious or secta- 

 rian discriminations of every kind, are contrary to 

 the true interests of our people, and will be opposed 

 by the Democratic party. 



The whole number of votes cast for presi- 

 dential electors, at the general election in No- 

 vember, was 225,628. 



For Grant and Colfax electors 128,560 



For Seymour and Blair electors 97,068 



Republican, majority 31,492 



For Governor the vote stood : 



Henry P. Baldwin, Republican 128,051 



John Moore, Democrat 97,290 



Scattering 70597,995 



Baldwin over all 30,056 



The Republicans elected the remainder or 

 their State ticket at the same election, hy ma- 

 jorities averaging about 30,700, as follows: 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Morgan Bates ; Secretary 

 of State, Oliver L. Spalding ; State Treasurer, 

 Ebenezer O. Grosvenor ; Auditor-General, Wil- 

 liam Humphrey; Attorney-General, Dwight 

 May; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Oramel Hosford; Commissioner of the State 

 Land-Office, Benjamin D. Pritchard ; Member 

 of the State Board of Education, Daniel E. 

 Brown. The vote in the several congressional 

 districts was as follows : 

 District 1. Fernando C. Beaman, Republican. 22,197 



" Merrill J. Mills, Democrat 20,595 



District 2. WilliamL. Stoughton, Republican. 25,196 



" Henry Chamberlain, Democrat. . . . 17,396 

 District 3. Austin Blair, Republican 19,268 



" Isaac M. Crane, Democrat 16,268 



District 4. Thomas "W. Ferry, Republican 23,043 



" Lyman G. Mason, Democrat 13,714 



District 5. Omar D. Conger, Republican 16,347 



" Byron G. Stout. Democrat 14,623 



District 6. Randolph Strickland, Republican. 20,115 



" W illiam Newton, Democrat 16,720 



The Legislature, chosen at the same time, 

 was divided between the two parties as fol- 

 lows: 



Senate. House of Rep. Total. 



Republican 26 



Democratic 6 



33 



Republican maj... 20 46 66 



The number of convicts in the State Prison, 



