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control and within the borders o their own 

 State. I recommend this subject to your con- 

 sideration, suggesting that provision be made 

 for the erection, within the next two years, of a 

 Hospital for the Insane." 



He urges' upon the General Assembly the 

 erection of a State Penitentiary, as a public 

 necessity ; stating that the escapes of criminals 

 from the places of their detention have been so 

 frequent till within a short time that "sentence 

 of imprisonment was little more than a farce ; " 

 and that at present they " are confined in over- 

 crowded county jails, frequently in cells under 

 ground, badly ventilated, damp, and unwhole- 

 some." He recommends " that the Legislature 

 take such action as may be necessary to effect 

 the early building of the penitentiary, and 

 that the State convicts be employed in the con- 

 struction." 



Pursuant to a call previously published by 

 the Republican State Central Committee, the 

 Republican State Convention met at Nebraska 

 City, on April 29, 1868, when they nominated 

 their candidates for Governor, Secretary of 

 State, Auditor, Treasurer, and three presiden- 

 tial electors, and before adjourning adopted, 

 as their platfo'rm, the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That we point, with pride and satisfac- 

 tion, to the history and record of the great national 

 Republican party of the Unite^ States and ask for 

 it the confidence and unfaltering support of our fel- 

 low-citizens : 



1. Because it has saved the Republic from over- 

 throw by putting down the most wanton and wicked 

 rebellion, urged in the interest of slavery and oppres- 

 sion, ever known to the history of the world. 



2. Because it has stood, like a " wall of fire," be- 

 tween the oppressed and their relentless and unre- 

 pentant oppressors, as it .still demands that, in the 

 reconstruction of the rebel States, loyal men only shall 

 control. 



3. Because it has given to the country a homestead 

 law, thus providing free homes for free men, and 

 providing " land for the landless without money and 

 without price." 



4. Because it has chartered and endowed the great 

 Pacific Railroad, thus uniting, with iron bands, the 

 Atlantic with the Pacific, and bringing through the 

 State the commerce of China and India, in exchange 

 for the commodities and productions of American 

 labor, skill, and enterprise. 



5. Because it is the vivifying power which imparts 

 to the efforts of the struggling friends of freedom, 

 throughout the world, their light, their heat, ana 

 their highest value. 



Resolved, That, we heartily approve of and accept as 

 just the doctrine of universal amnesty and ftnpartial 

 suffrage, believing that in its application will be 

 found a just rule for a permanent settlement of the 

 great question of reconstruction. 



Resolved^, That, recognizing the doctrine that allegi- 

 ance is alienable, our national Government should 

 protect American citizens abroad, whether native or 

 foreign "born, and any_ outrage committed on the per- 

 son of an American citizen by a foreign Government 

 should be resisted at every cost, at all hazards. 



Resolved, That the nation is deeply indebted to the 

 soldiers and sailors who gallantly defended it in the 

 late war of the rebellion, and that the memory of 

 those who perished in the conflict should and will 

 be held in grateful remembrance, and their widows 

 and children should be tenderly cared for by the na- 

 tion ; that those who returned and are in our midst 

 we congratulate, and tender them the assurance of 



our honor and regard, and trust they will aid in per- 

 petuating the liberties of the Constitution of the coun- 

 try they perilled their lives to save. 



Resolved, That the Republican party was organized 

 for the preservation of the life of our nation, and for 

 the purpose of establishing equality to all before the 

 law ; and that while, as a party, we favor all move- 

 ments tending to promote public morality, yet we 

 are opposed to all prohibitory laws and statutes in- 

 terfering with the national customs of any portion of 

 our citizens, as subversive of sound morality and as 

 unnecessary abridgments of the liberties of the per- 

 son guaranteed the people by all republican consti- 

 tutions. 



The Democratic State Convention also was 

 held in Omaha, on the 5th of August, 1868, 

 and nominated their candidates for State offi- 

 cers and the presidential electors. 



The qualifications required of a voter in 

 Nebraska are as follows : 



Every male citizen of the United States, and he 

 who has filed his declaration of intention to become 

 such, and who has attained the age of twenty-one 

 years, and shall have been an actual resident of this 

 State for six months, of the county twenty days, and 

 of the precinct ten days next preceding the election, 

 is a voter at all elections in this State, excepting as 

 per provision made by section fifty-three of the elec- 

 tion law. 



All male persons, who can show the registrar that 

 the above facts will exist the day preceding the elec- 

 tion, are entitled to registration. 



Any foreign-born male coming to the United 

 States before twenty-one years of age, and whose fa- 

 ther files his declaration of intention to become a 

 citizen before his children are twenty-one years old, 

 is thereby made a voter. 



Any foreign-born male who has served in the 

 United States army, and can show an honorable dis- 

 charge, is a voter. 



NETHERLANDS, THE, a kingdom in Eu- 

 rope. King, William III., born February 19, 

 1817; succeeded his father, March 17, 1849. 

 Area, 13,890 English square miles ; population 

 (according to the calculation of the Royal 

 Statistical Bureau), in 1866, 3,552,665; at the 

 close of 1867, 3,592,416. An official census is 

 taken every tenth year ; the result of the last 

 censuses was as follows : 1859, 3,293,577 ; 1849, 

 3,056,879; ^839, 2,860,450; 1829, 2,613,487. 

 The large cjties are, Amsterdam, 267,627; Rot- 

 terdam, 117,107; the Hague, 89,068. The 

 population of the Dutch colonies is as follows : 

 East Indies (1866), 20,523,742; West Indies, 

 84,486; coast of Guiana, about 120,000; total, 

 20,728,228. In the Dutch East Indies there 

 was, in 1866, a European population of 36,124 

 (of whom 29,768 were born in the colonies) ; 

 exclusive of 11,492 soldiers and their descend- 

 ants (886). The number of Chinese in the 

 same colonies was 241,533. The budget for 

 1868 fixes the expenditures at 99,665,824 guil- 

 ders, and the receipts at 94,865,321 guilders.' 

 The public debt, in 1868, was 968,243,913 

 guilders. The army, in 1867, consisted of 61,- 

 318 men; the army in the East India colonies, 

 of 27,168 men. The fleet, on July 1, 1868, 

 consisted of 135 vessels, with 1,325 guns. The 

 imports, in 1866, amounted to 528,970,000 

 guilders, and the exports to 436,590,000 guil- 

 ders. The merchant navy, on December 31, 



