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which resolutions were adopted declaring that 

 they had u no sympathy with that political 

 party which has among its earnest supporters 

 the Tammany Democracy and the Ku-klux 

 Klan," and that they discovered, in "the pres- 

 ent remarkable alliance between the enemies 

 of republican institutions and the followers of 

 Horace Greeley, an attempt to wrest the Gov- 

 ernment from the control of men of tried and 

 undoubted loyalty." They declared their sym- 

 pathy with the Republican party, and pledged 

 their support to its candidates for national 

 and State offices. Finally, they approved of 

 the proposition to establish a Soldiers' Home 

 in the State, and urged a full representation 

 of the soldiers and sailors of the State at the 

 National Convention, to be held at Pittsburg, 

 on the 17th of September. 



The Republican Convention, for the nomi- 

 nation of State officers, was held at Utica, on 

 the 22d of August. A platform was unani- 

 mously adopted, embracing the following prin- 

 cipal resolutions: 



Resolved, That the rightful purpose of government 

 is the security of individual liberty and equality be- 

 fore the law ; that the return to power, under any 

 pretence, of the party which nurtured slavery, 

 brought on the war and resisted reconstruction, 

 would necessarily imperil that security and destroy 

 the general confidence which has steadily increased 

 under Republican administration ; we hold that the 

 lawlessness which has disturbed some parts of the 

 Southern States, and which has been checked firmly, 

 but gently and constitutionally, by the national Gov- 

 ernment, is due mainly to a feeling naturally embit- 

 tered by the issue of the war and by the overthrow 

 of old institutions, and constantly excited by the 

 hope of a Democratic restoration ; we believe, there- 

 fore, that the defeat and disorganization of the 

 Democratic party are indispensable to complete na- 

 tional harmony. 



Resolved, Tliat the welfare of the State imperative- 

 ly requires that the reform, in the interest of honesty 

 and economy, which was so auspiciously begun last 

 year, and which has broken the Tammany Ring and 

 purified the Bench, shall be continued and extended 

 to every branch of the Government. 



Resolved^ That the principles and history of the 

 Republican party, with the spotless character of the 

 candidates we present, are the guarantees that their 

 election would secure a wise, faithful, and efficient 

 administration of the State government ; that the 

 modest patriotism, the earnest purpose, the saga- 

 cious judgment, the practical wisdom, the incorrup- 

 tible integrity and the illustrious services of Ulysses 

 S. Grant, have commended him to the hearts and 

 judgments of the American people ; and that, with 

 him for a leader we cannot in the future, any more 

 than in the past, fail of success. 



Resolved^ That in Senator Henry "Wilson, our 

 nominee for Vice-President, we present a statesman 

 who, by force of his own character and efforts, with- 

 out adventitious aids, has made his way from an 

 humble condition in life to the front rank of Ameri- 

 can citizens, and who, during a long public career, 

 has been always the able advocate and defender of 

 every just and benevolent purpose. With these 

 nominees, and on the platform adopted at Philadel- 

 phia by the Republican National Convention, we 

 confidently await the verdict of the American people. 



Resolved, In the profound conviction that the con- 

 tinued success of the Republican party is the sole 

 security of reform and progress, we heartily approve 

 the general principles declared by the late Repub- 

 lican Convention at Philadelphia, and gladly ratify 



the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant and Henry "Wil- 

 son, pledging our most earnest and honorable efforts 

 for their triumphant election. 



Resolved) That the increase of the State debt, by 

 the amount of $6,600,000, is an index of the extrava- 

 gance and looseness of the Democratic management 

 of our State finances, and is in striking contrast with 

 the reduction of the national debt by the amount of 

 $337,404,803 since March 1, 1869, and the constant 

 and repeated abolition of the national taxes of more 

 than $150,000,000, for which we are indebted to the 

 Republican Congress and Republican Administra- 

 tion. 



Resolved, That we appeal with assured confidence 

 to the electors of New York to sustain a national 

 Administration whose fruits are prosperity and peace, 

 and to establish a State administration which shall 

 bring back an honorable name and a creditable gov- 

 ernment to this Commonwealth. 



Resolved) That we welcome to pur ranks honest 

 Democrats, who spurn the unprincipled coalition 

 which seeks to ally them with the discarded ele- 

 ments of the Republican party. 



Resolved) That the time has come when the main 

 canals of the State of New York should be adapted, 

 by an enlargement of their locks, to steam-navigation, 

 and made as free to the commerce of the nation as an 

 economical maintenance of them in good repair will 

 permit, and that both of these results should be se- 

 cured without burdening the tax-payers of the State 

 the first, by accepting an appropriation from the 

 General Government to improve one of the national 

 highways of commerce ; and the second, by refunding 

 the canal debt of the State in bonds having a long 

 period to run and bearing a low rate of interest. 



Resolved) That we point with pride to the prosperi- 

 ty that has attended the canal commerce since it has 

 been in the control of the Republican party. 



The ticket put in nomination was as fol- 

 lows: For Governor, General John A. Dix; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, General John C. Robin- 

 son ; Canal Commissioner, Reuben B. Stroud; 

 State-prison Inspector, Ezra Graves ; Con- 

 gressman at large, Lyman Tremain ; presiden- 

 tial electors at large, Frederick Douglas, Emil 

 Sauer, and Stewart L. Woodford. District 

 electors were also nominated, and a State 

 Central Committee chosen. 



Conventions of the Democrats and Liberal 

 Republicans were held at Syracuse, on the 4th 

 and 5th of September. Conference commit- 

 tees were appointed to secure joint action in 

 the matter of nominations, and a common 

 electoral ticket was agreed upon. The candi- 

 dates nominated for State officers were the 

 following, the Liberal Republicans naming the 

 Lieutenant-Governor and State-prison Inspec- 

 tor, and accepting the Democratic nominees 

 for other offices: For Governor, Francis Ker- 

 nan ; Lieutenant-Governor, Chauncy M. De- 

 pew ; Canal Commissioner, John F. Hubbard, 

 Jr.; State-prison Inspector, Enos C. Brooks; 

 Congressman at large, Samuel S. Cox. A 

 series of resolutions was adopted in each con- 

 vention. The following were the principal 

 ones adopted in the Democratic Convention: 



Resolved) That the condition of the country is 

 such as to demand the sacrifice of past prejudices. 

 The tone of administration has been lowered ; th 

 civil service has grown corrupt; the military jK^.vur 

 is too readily resorted to ; the bureaus at Washing- 

 ton have become the centres of favoritism and job- 

 bery ; and the Southern States, under a system ot 



