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Uiiion, which adopted the following resolu- 

 tions among others : 



Resolved, That the national honor must be preserved 

 by paying its debts in good faith, and that every debt 

 of the Government, not otherwise specifically con- 

 tracted, shall be paid in the lawful currency of the 

 United States; that the bonds, when redeemable, 

 should be paid in legal-tender notes or exchanged for 

 other bonds, at three per cent., convertible into law- 

 ful money, at the pleasure of the holders. 



Resolved. That the public interest demands the 

 withdrawal of the circulation of the national banks, 

 and the substitution of legal-tender Treasury certifi- 

 cates in their stead. 



Resolved, That no more of ^the public domain shall 

 be granted to any corporation under any pretext 

 whatever, and all the lands not disposed of should be 

 withdrawn from the market ana granted only in 

 small quantities to actual settlers. 



The Convention of Eepublicans, for the nomi- 

 nation of State officers and Presidential elec- 

 tors, met at Syracuse, on the 8th of July. John 

 A. Griswold, of Troy, was nominated for Gov- 

 ernor ; Alonzo B. Cornell, of Ithaca, for Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor ; Alexander Barclay, for Ca- 

 nal Commissioner ; Henry A. Barnum, Inspec- 

 tor of Prisons ; Campbell A. Young, Clerk of 

 Court of Appeals. The following is the plat- 

 form of the party as adopted at this conven- 

 tion : 



Resolved, That we tender to Congress our warmest 

 thanks for the intrepidity, sagacity, and foresight 

 with which it has accomplished the great work of 

 reconstruction; betrayed by a recreant President, 

 assailed by the remnants of the rebel armies in the 

 Southern States, and their natural allies in the North- 

 ern States, it has persistently and firmly completed 

 its work, step by step, until nearly every State in re- 

 bellion once again^ sits in the council or the nation. 

 The Congress which reconstructed the Union will 

 live in history with the Congress that decreed the 

 downfall of slavery ; and be forever entitled to the 

 esteem of the American people. 



Resolved, That, in welcoming back to the Union 

 our brothers of the South, we commend and sympa- 

 thize with the spirit of magnanimity which has been 

 exhibited to those who, whatever may have been 

 their errors, show a loyal sympathy with the princi- 

 ples of impartial suffrage, and that we trust the spirit 

 will be continued so long as it is invited by corre- 

 sponding acts of loyalty, until every restriction and 

 disqualification is removed from those who have been 

 rebels, as well as those who have been in bondage. 



Resolved, That the ^Republican party can never fail 

 to give, to the brave men who defended the Union in 

 the army and navy, the assurance of profound and 

 grateful esteem. To have been a soldier of the Union 

 is as proud an honor as to have been a soldier of the 

 Bevolution. The country owes to its soldiers and 

 sailors its liberty, its glory, its very life; and we 

 pledge ourselves to sustain every just demand they 

 may make upon the people, prompt payment of their 

 bounties, generous laws, and the assignment of the 

 public lands under the homestead law, which are the 

 best compensations that can be made for their de- 

 voted and self-sacrificing patriotism. 



Resolved, That we demand from the General Gov- 

 ernment a pure and economical administration of the 

 public^affairs ; the lessening of taxation ; the prompt 

 collection of the revenue ; the reduction of the army 

 and navy a less prodigal management of the public 

 land ; and, as rapidly as consistent with the burdens 

 now resting upon it, a return to specie payments ; 

 that we ^ especially desire such a development of 

 commercial, manufacturing, agricultural, and mining 

 interests, as will enable us to increase our public 

 wealth, and thus more easily pay our national debt. 



.twwi/n/ou', That the honor of the American people, 

 as dear to us now as when we welcomed death and 

 sorrow in defence of the Union, demands the pay- 

 ment of our National obligations according to their 

 letter and spirit ; and that we regard any attempt at 

 repudiating these contracts, or evading their payment, 

 as dishonoring us in the eyes of mankind, and a 

 crime against the national honor, ojily surpassed by 

 the crime of treason itself. 



Resolved, That we welcome to our country the peo- 

 ple of other lands, that we believe in generous laws 

 of naturalization and immigration, and that no matter 

 what country claims the birth-place of an American 

 citizen, the nag should cover him with the majesty of 

 our national power, and protect him in peaceable 

 pursuits in any quarter of the world. 



Resolved, That regarding the triumph of the Demo- 

 cratic party as the greatest calamity that could be- 

 fall the American people, we proudly accept, as our 

 candidates, Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. 

 "We accept them as the representatives of all that has 

 been glorious and heroic in our war, and of the wis- 

 dom and the courage of [Republican statesmanship. 

 Their election will be an assurance that freedom will 

 be maintained, justice enforced, and the national 

 honor protected. 



The Democratic Convention met at Albany 

 on the 2d of September. By far the larger 

 part of the delegates favored the nomination 

 of John T. Hoffman for Governor, at that 

 time Mayor of the City of New York, but a 

 disposition having been shown by some of the 

 party to bring forward the name of Henry 0. 

 Murphy as a rival candidate, that gentleman 

 wrote a letter to the convention requesting 

 that such a course might be avoided. Mr. 

 Hoffman was nominated by acclamation, and 

 Allen 0. Beach was put on the ticket for Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor. Oliver Bascom was the 

 nominee for Canal Commissioner; David B. 

 McNeil, for Inspector of Prisons ; E. 0. Perrin, 

 Clerk of Court of Appeals. The platform rati- 

 fies the nominations and reaffirms the princi- 

 ples of the National Democratic Convention, 

 and calls the special attention of citizens to the 

 following propositions : . . 



1. Immediate restoration of all the States to their 

 rights in the Union under the Constitution, of which 

 some of them are deprived by the unconstitutional 

 and revolutionary measures of a Congress which is 

 perpetuating disunion, and, by its usurpations of 

 power, threatens the establishment of a centralized 



overnment in place of a Federal Union of equal 

 tates. 



2. Amnesty for all past political offences, and the 

 regulation of the elective franchise in all the States 

 by their citizens, without any interference whatever 

 by the Federal Government. 



3. Payment of the public obligations in strict ac- 

 cordance with their terms in gold, only when gold 

 is nominated in the bond, and in the lawful currency 

 of the country when coin is not specified. 



4. Equal taxation of every species of property, in- 

 cluding Government bonds and other public securi- 

 ties ; the simplification of the system and the discon- 

 tinuance of inquisitorial modes of assessing and 

 collecting internal revenue. 



5. One currency for the Government and the 

 people, the laborer and the office-holder, the pen- 

 sioner and the soldier, the producer and the bond- 

 holder. 



6. Eeform of abuses in administration ; reduction of 

 the standing army and navy; abolition of the Freed- 

 men's Bureau, and all political instrumentalities de- 

 signed to secure negro supremacy ; restoration of 



