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the country, should be observed in. all legislation by 

 Congress relatingto the Constitution and its amend- 

 ments ; that the Democratic party is opposed to the 

 withdrawal of civil and political rights from any class 

 of the people, and that we demand the removal of all 

 political disqualifications. 



6. That the defalcations, embezzlements, and cor- 

 ruptions of the national Administration, and the pros- 

 titution of legislation to the demands of unscrupulous 

 lobbies and greedy monopolies, are a national scan- 

 dal and disgrace, and most dangerous blow to the 

 public credit, and an intolerable outrage upon the 

 tax-payers of the country. 



V. That, as the representatives of a Constitution- 

 loving and law-abiding party, we deprecate and de- 

 nounce every outbreak of lawlessness and violence, 

 whether committed at the North or at the South, and 

 that the acts of Congress which authorize the em- 

 ployment of the standing army to garrison the places 

 where elections are to be held, and to constitute a 

 local police in the States, and which empower the 

 officers of the Federal Administration to interpose 

 military force for the purpose of overawing political 

 conventions of its people, are' subversive ot free gov- 

 ernment arid a perpetual menace to public liberty. 



8. That, while the people of this country hope that 

 in the time to come they may extend the blessings 

 of our form of government over the entire continent, 

 the course pursued by the national Administration in 

 its efforts to annex San Domingo was an unjusti- 

 fiable usurpation, and a wicked attempt to lay hold 

 of the faith of this people in their high destiny, for 

 unworthy purposes of personal gain. 



9. That, while it is a State duty to foster all proper 

 public improvements of the rivers within our bor- 

 ders the character of the improvement begun and 

 projected on the Fox and Wisconsin Kivers, and the 

 benefits to be derived therefrom, are such that it is a 

 matter of national concern, which should be per- 

 sistently pressed upon the attention of the Federal 

 Government. 



Whereas, Believing that no past habits of associa- 

 tion and partisan afhliation she aid prevent the citi- 

 zens of a free country from cooperating together for 

 the success of principles that are necessary for the 

 public safety, and vital to the cause of good govern- 

 ment: therefore 



Resolved, That we commend the principles herein 

 announced to the calm and candid judgment of the 

 people of all parties in the State, and we solicit in 

 their behalf, and for the candidates nominated upon 

 the platform, the support and suffrage of all our 

 honest and patriotic fellow-citizens. 



At the same time, a full State ticket was 

 nominated, as follows : For Governor, James 

 E. Doolittle, of Racine ; for Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, John A. Rice, of Richland ; for Secre- 

 tary of State, Milton Montgomery, of Sparta ; 

 for State Treasurer, Anton Klaus, of Brown ; 

 for Attorney-General, Edward S. Bragg, of 

 Fond du Lac ; for State-prison Commissioner, 

 Lars E. Johnson, of Lafayette ; for State Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, Warren 

 D. Parker, of Rock ; for Commissioner of Im- 

 migration, Jacob Roden, of Dodge. 



The Republican party held their State Con- 

 vention at Madison, on the 30th of August, 

 1871. The nominations for the several State 

 offices were as follows : For Governor, Cad- 

 wallader C. Washburn, of La Crosse ; for Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Milton II. Pettit, of Keno- 

 sha ; for Secretary of State, Llewellyn Breeze, 

 of Columbia ; for State Treasurer, Henry 

 Bsetz, of Manitowoc ; for Attorney-General, 

 S. S, Barlow, of Sauk ; for State-prison Com- 



missioner, G. F. Wheeler, of Fond du Lac ; 

 for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Samuel Fallows, of Milwaukee ; for Com- 

 missioner of Immigration, Ole C. Johnson, of 

 Rock. The following series of resolutions 

 was adopted : 



This convention, representing the Eepublicans cf 

 "Wisconsin, resolves : 



1. That we refer with pride to the history of the 

 Kepublican party of the United States. By its early 

 resistance to the encroachments of slavery ; by its 

 patriotic devotion to the cause of the Union during 

 the late civil war ; by its emancipation, at the proper 

 time, of an oppressed people from bondage ; by its 

 signal overthrow of disloyalty- and treason ; by its 

 justice, firmness, and magnanimity in guarding and 

 securing the results of the war, and giving and as- 

 suring to all citizens liberty and equality before the 

 law ; by its grateful care and just provision for the 

 nation's defenders ; by its honor and good faith tow- 

 ard the nation's creditors ; by its wise and liberal 

 policy in granting homesteads to settlers, and in 

 aiding the development of the Western States and 

 Territories ; by its successful advocacy of humane 

 principles of international law, not hitherto recog- 

 nized by the civilized world ; by its peaceful settle- 

 ment of our controversies with Great Britain, on 

 terms honorable, advantageous, and tending to se- 

 cure permanent peace and concord between the two 

 nations ; by its judicious direction of our financial 

 system, whereby the nation was enabled to meet the 

 emergencies of a great war, to furnish a sound and 

 uniform currency, and to prevent the commercial 

 depression, revolution, and disaster visually attendant 

 upon civil strife ; and generally, by its successful 

 administration of national affairs during ten eventful 

 yearSj it has proved, on all occasions, its fidelity to 

 the highest interests of the country. A party, whose 

 career has thus been signalized at every step by 

 great triumphs of human freedom and progress, needs 

 not to depart from the path of honor and duty iu 

 which its victories have been won, and we believe 

 that, upon its continued ascendency and a steadfast 

 adherence to its cardinal principles, the peace, pros- 

 perity, and honor of the country depend. 



2. That wo regard the recent amendments to tlie 

 Constitution of the United States as just and wise 

 articles of organic law, essential at the present time 

 to secure constitutional liberty, and ever to be zeal- 

 ously unheld and enforced ; that, under the Consti- 

 tution thus amended, the Federal Government pos- 

 sesses, and ought to exercise, whenever and wher- 

 ever necessary, sufficient power to protect every 

 citizen under our flag in the free expression of his 

 sentiments, the free exercise of the ballot, the full 

 enjoyment of his property, and the absolute safety 

 of his person. 



3. That we rejoice in the recuperation of the South- 

 ern States under the benign influence of free labor ; 

 that we urge upon those lately in rebellion not to 

 retard the prosperity of the South by permitting 

 lawlessness and violence therein. We entreat them 

 to take a bold stand for law and order, to accept tho 

 results of the war, and to cooperate with us in effoi 

 to advance the prosperity of the whole country ; ai 

 we hope that the time may speedily come when per- 

 secution and outrage of loyal men shall wholly cease, 

 and when political disabilities imposed for participa- 

 tion in rebellion may be removed without danger to 

 the rights of those who have remained faithful to 

 the Union. 



4. That we believe that the prosperity of the coun- 

 try and the stability of its monetary system, as \\-< il 

 as its credit and influence in the family of nations, 

 depend upon the maintenance of the public faith. 

 To that end we favor the continued reduction of tho 

 national debt, so steadily as to prevent depreciation 

 of our bonds and currency, so gradually as not to 



