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NEW YORK. 



having control of the Democratic party in New York, 

 we should regard the success of the party as a ca- 

 lamity almost as disastrous as would have been the 

 triumph of the rebellion in its war against the Union : 

 and, having by harmony and earnest effort crushed 

 treason and secession, the Republican party enters 

 this canvass resolved to achieve as great a tri- 

 umph over misgovernment, organized corruption, 

 and fraud. 



Resolved, That we call upon Congress, as far as 

 may be compatible with the national credit, to con- 

 tinue to reduce taxation, and as rapidly as possible 

 remove the^burdens from the national industry ; that 

 while our interest account, our pension-rolls, and 

 other obligations entailed by the rebellion shall re- 

 main, we are in favor of such a tariff as will yield the 

 needed revenue with the least injury to the people, 

 at the same time affording protection to our own 

 rather than to foreign manufactures. 



Resolved, That a government owes to the citizen 

 every guarantee of fairness and legality in the per- 

 formance of his duty at the polls. We cordially ap- 

 prove of the measures taken by Congress for the pro- 

 tection of the franchise, and are in favor of such a 

 law for the registration of voters as will give to our 

 elections freedom and purity. 



Resolved, That as honest and justly-paid labor is 

 the foundation of a nation's greatness, and its pro- 

 tection the highest mission of governmentj we ear- 

 nestly urge all wholesome legislation fostering rela- 

 tions and conditions in which all who labor may be 

 properly rewarded for their toil and encouraged in 

 every effort toward their prosperity, education, and 

 advancement. 



Betctoed, That, so long as the people of the several 

 localities have the right by law to license the sale of 

 intoxicating liquors, they also, by a majority of votes, 

 should have the right to prohibit it. 



Resolved^ That the Eepublican party is the party 

 of enterprise and progress, and declares for cheap 

 transportation and for bringing the breadstuffs and 

 products of the West, with the least expense, to the 

 homes and markets of the East, and, reprobating as 

 we do the profligacy and extravagance which have 

 characterized the Democratic management of our 

 canals, we are in favor of low tolls and making the 

 great avenues of trade as rapidly and as nearly free 

 as can be done without increasing the burden of 

 taxation. 



Resolved, That we congratulate the Eepublicans of 

 the State and country upon the auspicious result of 

 the elections in all the States and Territories, so far 

 as they have been held, during the present year. 

 California, from her Golden Gate, Maine, from her 

 pine-forests, with rehabilitated North Carolina and 

 sturdy Connecticut, appeal to New York to resume 

 her natural leadership in the Eepublican phalanx, 

 and the Empire State cannot refuse the invitation 

 nor prove false to obligations of honor and of duty. 

 Resolved, That this convention adjures the Ee- 

 publicans of the State to counsel for union and har- 

 mony ; that the dictates of patriotism and wisdom 

 require that we shall wage war only with the common 

 enemy, while, with friends within the Eepublican 

 party, "let us have peace." Above men, above fac- 

 tions, are principles, and the cause on which depends 

 the future of the republic and of humanity. 



Resolved, That in the ticket presented by this 

 convention we recognize worthy and tried Eepubli- 

 cans who are deserving of hearty support for the 

 several positions for which they are presented, and 

 we ask for them that generous and enthusiastic con- 

 fidence and favor which shall insure them a trium- 

 phant election. 



The nominations made TV ere as follows: for 

 Secretary of State, G. Hilton Scribner, of West- 

 Chester County; for Comptroller, Nelson K. 

 Hopkins, of Erie ; for Treasurer, Thomas E. 

 Rains, of Monroe ; for Attorney-General, Fran- 



cis IT. Barlow, of New York ; for State En- 

 gineer and Surveyor, Wm. B. Taylor, of Oneida; 

 for Canal Commissioner, Alexander Barkley, 

 of Washington; and for State-prison Inspec- 

 tor, Thomas Kirkpatrick. 



A joint committee, appointed by the State 

 Temperance Society, the Grand Lodge of Good 

 Templars, and the Grand Division of the Sons 

 of Temperance of Eastern New York, held a 

 meeting at Syracuse on the same day, and 

 adopted the following : 



Resolved, That a sub-committee of three be ap- 

 pointed to ask the Eepublican State Convention, 

 which is to assemble to-day, to reindorse local pro- 

 hibition as advocated by the organizations repre- 

 sented by the joint committee, consisting of John 

 O'Donnell, Eev. S. B. Dickinson, and Dr. J. C. 

 Gallup. 



Resolved, That it is the imperative duty of every 

 temperance elector to support and vote only for such 

 candidates for Senators and Assemblymen as are 

 known to favor local prohibition. 



Resolved, That all temperance organizations,, of 

 whatever name, are earnestly requested to cooperate 

 in a united effort to secure the enactment of the pro- 

 posed law. 



The Democrats held their convention at 

 Rochester on the 4th of October. Here, too, 

 there were contesting delegations from New 

 York, one of them representing the wing of the 

 party controlled by the Tammany Society, and 

 the other appointed by the opponents of that 

 organization. On account of various charges 

 of corruption which had been brought against 

 officials in New York connected with the Tam- 

 many Society, a strong effort was made to ex- 

 clude their delegates. Mr. Tweed, who led 

 that body, offered to compromise the matter 

 by withdrawing his followers if the rival dele- 

 gation was also excluded. This was agreed 

 to, after a warm discussion. The following 

 was the platform adopted : 



Resolved, That the Democracy of New York ar- 

 raign before the people of the Union the Administra- 

 tion at Washington, as false to its pledges and faith- 

 less to constitutional obligation. It has prolonged 

 the dissensions that follow civil war, kept alive sec- 

 tional animosities, refused ^amnesty to submissive 

 citizens, and has set up privileged classes and initi- 

 ated a system of exemptions from taxation and pro- 

 tection to moneyed interests, the tendency of which 

 is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. It 

 has squandered upon mammoth corporations the 

 lands which were the pledged heritage of the settlers, 

 and it now attempts to perpetuate its power by a 

 recourse to the grossest corruption, by the direct 

 interference of Federal office-holders in popular elec- 

 tions, and by a resort to military force to repress the 

 civil tribunals of the country, and to control populai 

 assemblages and elections acts and usurpations 

 which all history shows are strides toward despot- 

 ism, and whichj if not arrested, must prove fatal to 

 our republican institutions. 



Resolved, That we recognize the emancipation of 

 the freedmen of the South and their enfranchisement 

 and perfect equality before the law, as the inevitable 

 sequence of the civil war and of the overthrow of 

 the rebellion against the Union. . And we hold it to 

 be the duty of all to sustain them in the enjoyment 

 of their established rights, and to aid them in pro- 

 moting their own welfare and the general prosperity 

 of the country. 



Resolved, That we view with indignation the cor- 



