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the nation that the party, in this State, is now united, 

 vigorous, and enthusiastic. There is no cause for 

 schism, and there is no schism in it; that it will poll 

 the full Republican vote of the State for the nominees 

 of the National Republican Convention ; that the so- 

 called Liberal Republican faction, if considered apart 

 from the Democratic party (as it should not be), is 

 contemptible in numbers, too feeble to organize, and 

 too cunning to expose its weakness by a separate 

 organization a mere clique of disaffected persons 

 seeking to perpetuate a division which is now utterly 

 groundless, without the indorsement of a respectable 

 minority of Republicans, and powerless to embarrass 

 the party. 



4. We declare our unswerving confidence in the 

 integrity, patriotism, and zealous devotion to public 

 interests of the present Chief Magistrate of the nation. 

 We pledge ourselves and the Republican party to 

 abide by, support, and carry to victory, the platform 

 aud candidates presented to the people by the Na- 

 tional Convention to be assembled at Philadelphia, 

 on the 5th of June next. 



5. That in our opinion the true policy of the Gov- 

 ernment toward those lately^ in rebellion against its 

 authority is general and universal amnesty, and, to 

 this end, we indorse the recommendations of the 

 President of the United States, in his last annual 

 message to Congress. 



A Democratic Convention was held at Jeffer- 

 son City, on the 12th of June, to appoint dele- 

 gates to the national convention of the party at 

 Baltimore, in July. At this the following res- 

 olutions were unanimously adopted : 



The Democratic party of Missouri cannot be un- 

 mindful of the fact thatj prior to the last general elec- 

 tion in this State, while tyranny, oppression, and 

 plunder, prevailed, the large majority of citizens 

 were powerless to rid themselves of these terrible 

 evils, or accomplish any political result ; that large 

 numbers of them were disfranchised, and by the 

 wicked > machinery of the registration laws, and their 

 more wicked execution, and by unscrupulous and sys- 

 tematic frauds, the people were doomed to hopeless 

 subjection to the corrupt rule of an unprincipled mi- 

 nority ; and it was by this patriotism and sense of jus- 

 tice of the Liberal Republican party, in aid of the he- 

 roic struggles of the Democracy, that the State of Mis- 

 souri has been redeemed, and all of her citizens stand 

 forth to-day freemen once more. The same radical 

 party now in power in the nation, animated by the 

 same spirit of hate and oppression, have, for a long 

 series of years of profound peace, subjected the peo- 

 ple of many of the States of this Union to a system of 

 tyranny, spoliation, and plunder, even more aggra- 

 vated than that under which the people groaned and 

 suffered in Missouri. By frauds the most gigantic, 

 force most unlawful and oppressive, they now hold 

 the reins of power, and wield the machinery of gov- 

 ernment. They have established a military despot- 

 ism in many of the States, and may, under the legis- 

 lation of a subservient Congress, establish the same 

 military rule in other portions of this country, at the 

 will of the President, who has required thorn to make 

 him the candidate for reelection. The Liberal Re- 

 publican party of the country, impelled by the same 

 sense of justice, offers, in cooperation with the De- 

 mocracy, to reestablish, throughout the entire coun- 

 try, the liberty of all citizens and their local self- 

 government ; to overthrow military rule, to establish 

 justice, and to restore fraternal relations between 

 the different sections of our entire country. The 

 Democracy of Missouri declares that it is our duty to 

 cooperate with them in this great national achieve- 

 ment, and we will earnestly discharge that duty. 

 The Liberal Republicans have already placed their 

 ticket in the field, pledged to carry out the great and 

 controlling objects above referred to, and, to the sup- 

 port of that ticket, a large portion of both the Liberal 



Republican and Democratic parties of the country 

 are already committed. It would be not only unwise, 

 but, in our solemn judgment, a wicked trifling with 

 the dearest interests of the people, should the De- 

 mocracy place another ticket in the field, for the 

 presidency and vice-presidency, and thus insure the 

 reelection of Grant, the continued oppression and 

 plunder of the people, and the destruction of liberty 

 and constitutional government throughout the land : 

 therefore 



Resolved, That the delegates appointed to the con- 

 vention to be held in Baltimore, in July, are in- 

 structed to vote- as a unit against the nomination of 

 any candidates for President and Vice-President at 

 the approaching election. 



On the 21st of August the Democrats and 

 Liberal Republicans met in separate conven- 

 tions at Jefferson City, for the purpose of nomi- 

 nating presidential electors and candidates for 

 the State offices. They were in session two 

 days, and a joint committee of conference 

 agreed upon a plan of dividing the nomina- 

 tions, which was approved by both conven- 

 tions. This gave to the Democrats one of the 

 two electors at large, six of the thirteen dis- 

 trict electors, and the Governor, Treasurer, 

 Auditor, Attorney-General, and the four judges 

 of the Supreme Court ; and to the Liberal Re- 

 publicans the rest of the electoral ticket, the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, and 

 Registrar of Lands. Each convention made 

 the nominations allotted to it, and then the 

 whole ticket was ratified in a joint meeting. 

 The State ticket was as follows : for Governor, 

 Silas "VVoodson, of Buchanan County; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Charles P. Johnson, of St. 

 Louis ; Secretary of State, Eugene F. Weigel, 

 of St. Louis ; Treasurer, Harvey "W. Salmon, 

 of Henry; Auditor, George B. Clarke, of 

 Washington; Attorney-General, H. Clay Ew- 

 ing, of Cole; Registrar of Lands, Frederick 

 Salmon, of St. Charles; Judges of the Su- 

 preme Court, Washington Adams, of Cooper, 

 for the residue of an unexpired term of two 

 years ; Henry M. Vories, of Buchanan, for a 

 full term of six years, and Ephraim B. Ewing, 

 of St. Louis, and Thomas A. Sherwood, of 

 Green, for additional judges under the pro- 

 posed amendment to the constitution. The 

 platform of the National Convention at Cin- 

 cinnati was accepted, but no additional decla- 

 ration of principles was made. 



The Republican Convention, for the nomina- 

 tion of an electoral ticket and candidates for 

 the State offices, was held at St. Louis, on the 

 4th and 5th of September. The State ticket, 

 as finally agreed upon, was as follows : for 

 Governor, John B. Henderson; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Colonel J. H. Stover ; Secretary of 

 State, F. W. Voerde ; Treasurer, D. Q. Dall- 

 meyer ; Auditor, Daniel O'Conner ; Attorney- 

 General, Jefferson Chandler; Registrar of 

 Lands, F. A. Nichy; Judges of the Supreme 

 Court, Henry A. Clover for the two years' 

 term, George H. Shields for six years, and J, 

 P. Ellis and Ira E. Leonard for the proposed 

 additional judgeships. A platform was adopt- 

 ed, which was as follows : 



