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now hold your office, involves of necessity a mere 

 review of the propriety of your election by the 

 people, a power which, we believe, is not conferred 

 upon the Senate. If it can be done in one case, it 

 can be done in all cases of the election of officers 

 coming within the provisions of the constitution 

 which we have quoted, without reference to the con- 

 duct of the officers after their election. 



Notwithstanding these convictions we were will- 

 ing to aid you as far as our assistance could be of 

 service ; and the Senate having determined that " all 

 the rules legal and usual in courts of record in this 

 State, in regard to the introduction of evidence and 

 the examination and cross-examination of witness- 

 es " should be observed, we hoped not only that the 

 investigation might lead the Senate to the conclusion 

 that you ought not to be removed from office, but 

 that nothing for which you were not properly and 

 legally responsible would be admitted in evidence, 

 to operate elsewhere than before the Senate to your 

 prejudice. We beg leave, however, to state, without 

 intending any reflection upon the Senate or upon the 

 gentlemen conducting the proceedings against you, 

 that our views, in regard to the admissibility of 

 much of the evidence produced against you, differ so 

 widely from the ruling on the subject, that we are 

 disposed to question the pi'opriety of our continuing 

 longer in the position we have occupied, and to 

 doubt whether our doing so would be of any essen- 

 tial service either in your defence, or in excluding ? 

 from the record of the proceedings against you, oi 

 what we deem irrelevant and improper evidence. 

 We, therefore, with your approbation, are disposed 

 (and we would advise you to that course) to leave it 

 to the Senators, unimpeded by you or by us in your 

 behalf, to make such disposition of the charges 

 against you as in their judgment of their power and 

 duty shall seem just and right. 



A few days later, Judge Medium was re- 

 moved by the necessary two-thirds vote of the 

 Senate, and shortly after died of a disease 

 caused or greatly aggravated by the proceed- 

 ings against him. 



Similar proceedings were begun against 

 Horace G. Prindle, Judge of Chenango 

 County, who was accused of official miscon- 

 duct. The investigation into his case was not 

 concluded till near the end of the year, when 

 it was carried on by a committee of the Sen- 

 ate, and resulted in an acquittal. 



Judge George M. Curtis, of the Marine 

 Court of New York City, was impeached be- 

 fore the Legislature adjourned, on charges 

 presented by the Bar Association of that city. 

 His case was not disposed of until after the 

 beginning of the session of 1873, when he was 

 acquitted. 



The first political convention of the year 

 was that of the Colored Republicans, at Troy, 

 on the 8th and 9th of May. An address to 

 ihe^ colored voters of the State was issued, in 

 which the " unwise and unreasonable move- 

 ment of the Liberal Republicans " was depre- 

 cated, and support recommended for " the 

 great Republican party, which has not only 

 been true to us in the past, but is also the 

 casket of our deepest hopes for the future." 

 The following resolutions were also adopted : 

 _ Eesolved, That the duty of every colored American 

 lies within the lines of the Republican party, and 

 that any departure therefrom must inevitaby lead 

 into the camp of the common enemy. 



That we are greatly endeared to the Eepublican 



party, because in its ranks are to be found all that 

 remains true of the ever-to-be-revered liberty and 

 abolition parties, and because the Eepublican party, 

 true to its baptismal vows, have, during the twelve 

 years of its existence, not only suppressed the most 

 cruel and most wicked rebellion that ever cursed a 

 land, and established the supremacy of republican 

 institutions all over the country, but have forced 

 traitors, great and small, wherever and whenever 

 found, to DOW in honorable submission to the majes- 

 ty of the law. And not only because this great 

 party has, through its legislators, executives, and its 

 judiciarVj emancipated the American slave and 

 clothed him with citizenship and political rights, but 

 because it also has and does guarantee and vouchsafe 

 to him and to his, despite the opposition and protest 

 of the Democratic party and its allies, the recogni- 

 tion of their manhood', and a liberal share of the 

 Federal patronage under its control. 



That we indorse the Administration of President 

 Grant ; that we regard it as being eminently wise, 

 liberal, and statesmanlike, and as fulfilling our ex- 

 pectations of what a Eepublican Executive ought to 

 be. 



That we will in the future, as we have in the past, 

 support the regular Eepublican nominees when 

 made, both State and national. 



That we recommend to the Eepublican State Con- 

 vention, to be held at Elmira on the 15th inst., the 

 propriety of sending a representative colored man to 

 the National Convention at Philadelphia as a dele- 

 gate at large ; and we respectfully but earnestly ap- 

 peal to that State Convention to recognize the re- 

 spectability and influence of the colored Eepublicans 

 of the State of New York by naming as such dele- 

 gate William F. Butler, of New York, our chosen 

 representative. 



That this convention demand of the Philadelphia 

 Convention the recognition and the enforcement of 

 our civil rights. 



The Democrats held a convention at Roches- 

 ter, on the 15th of May, for the purpose of 

 choosing delegates to the National Convention. 

 The following resolutions were adopted : 



1. That we recognize the changes in the nature 

 and the Constitution of the Government which have 

 taken place, and, without reopening questions of the 

 past, are now ready to cooperate with those, what- 

 ever their previous affiliations, who favor limited 

 and localized governments, who seek to restrain the 

 exercise by Congress of absolute and general powers ; 

 to prevent its entering on private legislation ; to re- 

 strain the growth of vast corporations, and to work 

 permanent civil service reform. 



2. That recent declaration of political principles 

 by the Convention at Cincinnati is evidence of the 

 progress of public opinion toward sound and whole- 

 some views of government, and we believe that all 

 patriotic citizens may unite upon that platform for 

 the purpose of _ restoring the honest administration 

 of national affairs, and enforcing the obligations of 

 the Constitution ; and our delegates to Baltimore are 

 instructed to take the course best calculated to secure 

 the triumph of these principles and the selection of any 

 candidate representing them who shall meet the ap- 

 proval of the Democracy in the National Convention 

 assembled. 



The Republicans met at Elmira on the same 

 day, and appointed delegates to their National 

 Convention, and adopted resolutions, indors- 

 ing the Administration of President Grant, 

 favoring a tariff for revenue only, and urging 

 complete union and harmony in the ranks of 

 the party. 



There was a Convention of Soldiers and 

 Sailors at Utica, on the 20th of August, at 



