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PENNSYLVANIA. 



in favor of Grant as the Eepublican candidate for 

 President, and in so doing^ feel that we are not sim- 

 ply responding to the wisnes of our constituents, or 

 helping to pay a portion of the debt we owe to that 

 great soldier, but are preparing the way to a sub- 

 stantial triumph, which, while perpetuating the Ee- 

 publican party, preserves and perpetuates Republican 

 creeds. 



Resolved, That we earnestly call upon the Senate of 

 the United States, sitting as a Court of Impeachment, 

 to proceed without fear, favor, or affection, and that 

 the people of Pennsylvania will stand by and main- 

 tain the just judgment of law, 



Resolved, That the soldiers and sailors of the Union 

 who fought and conquered armed rebellion in the 

 field, and who stand true to the principles which 

 they vindicated and the flag which floated over 

 them and led them to victory, are entitled to un- 

 dying gratitude from loyal people ; and, as they saved 

 the country by trials ? sufferings, and sacrifices, they 

 have considerable claims to the highest honors of the 

 nation. 



Resolved, That we tender our most cordial thanks 

 to Mr. Stanton for the firmness, courage, and patriot- 

 ism with which he has maintained the majesty of the 

 law and the rights of the people against the invasion 

 of a faithless Executive and purchased instruments ; 

 that, as experience is alike the best instructor of man 

 and nations, so the experience of the rebellion has 

 given us renewed confidence in the pledges and pre- 

 cepts of the Declaration of Independence, and that 

 with these as our guiding stars the Eepublican party 

 must always succeed. 



Resolved, That no contrast so eloquent could be 

 presented as that between the loud professions of 



S. Grant ; that, as one deals in promises to deceive, the 

 other deals yi acts that convince ; and that, while 

 Johnson has fallen rapidly away from his many vol- 

 untary covenants, Grant has accepted equal justice 

 and Radical Republicanism as a part alike of con- 

 science and duty. 



Resolved, That the public debt, incurred for the pur- 

 pose of preserving the existence of the nation, is a 

 sacred obligation, binding the people to its payment 

 in the utmost good faith, and to the full extent of its 

 legal requirements ; that the greatest prudence, judg- 

 ment and skill are requisite, and shouldj as far as at- 

 tainable, be employed at once to maintain the public 

 faith and credit, and render the burden, of which no 

 loyal citizen should complain, as light as practicable 

 upon the productive industry of the country and the 

 wages and proceeds of labor ; that it is the soundest 

 p_olicy as well as the greatest wisdom that the domes- 

 tic industry of the country should be sustained and 

 protected against foreign competition by adequate 

 tariff laws, and that, in whatever particulars existing 

 laws on the subject are defective, they should be 

 amended and made efficient for that purpose, as well 

 as for the purpose Q raising a revenue for the Gov- 

 ernment. 



Resolved, That, by the election of Grant to the Pres- 

 idency, all domestic dissensions and factious opposi- 

 tion to the complete reconstruction of the Union on 

 the firm foundations laid by the wise and judicious 

 legislation of Congress, will be immediately suppres- 

 sed, and harmony and good feeling restored settled 

 relations of business established, and a revival and 

 improvement of all disturbed sources of national 

 wealth and prosperity will be secured, when it is once 

 made manifest that the people of this country are 

 firmly fixed in their determination that the fruits of 

 the late bloodv and obstinate struggle shall not be 

 lost, and that factious and rebellious resistance to the 

 laws shall be effectually overthrown, as under military 

 hostility, which attempted to subvert the Government 

 by savage cruelty, rapine, and murder. 



Resolved, That Pennsylvania proudly tenders to 

 the loyal people of the Union, Hon. Andrew G. Cur- 

 tin, her great war Governor and soldiers' friend. 



Resolved, That every American citizen, whether by 

 birth or adoption, is entitled to the protection of the 

 nation and its flag, and, while it is incumbent on the 

 Government to initiate negotiations for the establish- 

 ment of an international law of expatriation, recog- 

 nizing naturalization by one nation as terminating al- 

 legiance due^ to another, ^and conferring all rights of 

 citizenship, it is no less its duty to vindicate its peo- 

 ple of all charges from oppression or interference at 

 home and abroad, when in the legitimate and peace- 

 ful exercise of legal and personal rights. 



At the last session of the Legislature the sub- 

 ject of adopting some measure for the preven- 

 tion of fraudulent voting was brought up and 

 discussed, and a registry law was the final 

 result. This requires the board of aldermen 

 of cities and, the corresponding officers in 

 townships to appoint a board of canvassers, 

 who should meet in their respective districts 

 on the first Monday of September in each year, 

 and on that and the two following days "make 

 out an alphabetical list of all such persons as 

 they shall know to be qualified electors, who 

 hWe voted at any preceding general election," 

 designating in each case whether the voter is 

 a housekeeper or boarder, what his occupation 

 is, and with whom he hoards, if not a house- 

 keeper. When these lists have heen complet- 

 ed they are to he publicly posted at two places 

 in each district with a " notice thereon, that 

 the board of canvassers will meet at the places 

 of holding the general elections, on the twelfth 

 day preceding the general election day, and 

 for two days then next ensuing, for the pur- 

 pose of revising, correcting, adding to, and 

 subtracting from, and completing the list." 

 The following is the section of the law pre- 

 scribing the proof of residence, etc. : 



Each person so claiming to be entitled to vote 

 therein, shall produce at least one qualified voter of 

 said division, as a witness of the residence of said 

 claimant in said division for the period of at least 

 ten days next preceding the general election, then 

 next ensuing'; Avhich witness shall take and sub- 

 scribe an affidavit to the facts stated by him ; which 

 affidavit shall define clearly the residence of the 

 person so claiming to be a voter ; and the person 

 so claiming the_ right to be registered, shall also 

 take and subscribe an affidavit stating where lie was 

 born / that he is a citizen of this Commonwealth and 

 of the United States | and, if a naturalized citizen, 

 shall also present his certificate of naturalization for 

 examination, unless he shall have been a voter in 

 such election district for five years then next preced- 

 ing the general election next ensuing ; that ne had 

 resided in this Commonwealth one year, or, if for- 

 merly a citizen therein, and has removed therefrom, 

 that he has resided therein six months next preced- 

 ing the general election then next following ; that he 

 has not moved into the division for the purpose of 

 voting therein ; that he has not been regarded as a 

 voter elsewhere ; which affidavits, both of the claim- 

 ant and his witness, shall be preserved by the can- 

 vassers. 



One copy of the revised list, when thus com- 

 pleted, is to be delivered to the board of as- 

 sessors " who shall thereupon immediately as- 

 sess a tax, according to law, upon every per- 

 son whose name is contained on the list, and 

 then deliver the same to the city commissioners, 

 who shall cause a sufficient number of copies 



