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military repression and dictation, have been sub- 

 jected to robbery and waste, which have already im- 

 posed upon them nearly four hundred millions of 

 debt, oppressing industry and hindering immigra- 

 tion, and, by destroying their credit, exposing the 

 country to the shame and contagion of repudiation. 



Resolved, That the Kepublicans of this State, who 

 secured power by pretence of sympathy with reform, 

 deserve the severest judgment of the people for their 

 falsity to their pledges. The record of the last ses- 

 sion shows that they condoned alike the offense of a 

 Senator who sold his vote, and of the Senator who 

 purchased it ; passed over, without censure, Che ex- 

 tortions of their clerk ; violated their oaths by mak- 

 ing a false and unjust apportionment of congres- 

 sional districts ; encouraged personal and local legis- 

 lation ; obeyed, without resistance, the dictation of 

 great moneyed corporations ; refused to enact re- 

 forms essential to the general good, and laid them- 

 selves open to the grossest charges of venality and 

 corruption. 



Resolved, That a pure judiciary is the essential 

 foundation of a free State. We congratulate the peo- 

 ple upon what has been done to purify our existing 

 system ; and that we demand that the work of re- 

 form shall go on, without regard to party, until our 

 judiciary shall stand, acknowledged by the world, 

 free and pure and independent. 



Resolved, That the canals of New York are the 

 property of the people of the State ; and that we 

 repel all propositions to subject them to the manipu- 

 lation and control of the Federal Government. The 

 policy which the people should enforce, in their 

 management, is economy in expenditures, and the 

 lowest tolls adequate to meet their annual obliga- 

 tions, with a view to their speedy and final exemp- 

 tion from debt, and free navigation to all comers. 



Among those adopted by the Liberal Ke- 

 publicans were the following : 



4. That we welcome the cordial acceptance of both 

 platform and candidates by a great party heretofore 

 antagonistic to us, and embracing wellmgh one-half 

 of the voters of the Union, as the most cheering 

 omen of better times. We value party organiza- 

 tions only so far as they secure the triumph of first 

 principles, and whoever, in good faith, accepts 

 these, are our political brothers. 



5. We recognize the two great political duties of 

 the hour to be reform in national and State admin- 

 istration, and reconciliation and reunion with the 

 South. We look for both in the triumph of the na- 

 tional and State ticket. We rejoice in the partial 

 success of the first in New York, and the choice of 

 reform candidates, ^Republican and Democratic, at 

 the last election. 



6. We deplore the failure of our last Legislature to 

 carry forward the reform movement to its legitimate 

 results, and we charge that failure largely upon the 

 custom-house and other Federal interference. We 

 condemn especially the neglect of the Legislature to 

 purify itself by expelling its own corrupt members, 

 and to inflict adequate punishment upon all other 

 corruptionists within its reach ; but we thank it, and 

 congratulate the State for the partial purification of 

 the judiciary, and we demand that this reform^ and 

 a more rigid system of economy and accountability, 

 be extended to every department of the civil service. 



7. That, in view of the fact that every producer 

 and consumer is affected by the cost of the trans- 

 portation of breadstuffs and merchandise between 

 the grain-fields of the West and the cities of the 

 East, the business interests of our State demand a 

 fostering and generous canal policy, looking alike 

 to the placing and maintaining in the most efficient 

 condition of our great arteries of communication, 

 and to the diminishing of taxation upon their traffic 

 by reducing the tolls as far as possible. 



The Democrats who did not approve of join- 



ing with the Liberal Republicans held a con- 

 vention at Albany on the 3d of October, and 

 nominated an independent electoral ticket. A 

 proposition to name candidates for State of- 

 fices was voted down after some warm discus- 

 sion. The following resolutions were unani- 

 mously adopted : 



Whereas, Those illustrious men who achieved our 

 independence, and who have written their names on 

 a glorious immortality, established our Government 

 for the benefit of the many instead of the few ; and 

 whereas, by the 'power of political patronage and 

 the corrupt use of money, all this has been changed, 

 and the Government, as now administered, tends di- 

 rectly to the benefit of the few instead of the many : 

 therefore, be it 



Resolved, That, in order to maintain the Govern- 

 ment as originally established by the fathers of the 

 Eepublic and cemented by their blood, we pledge 

 our best energies to accomplish the great work of 

 reform inaugurated by our illustrious chief, Charles 

 O'Conor, of'New York, and his associates. 



Resolved, That the betrayal of the Democratic 

 party by the Baltimore Convention, in the adoption 

 of the platform of principles and the candidate of a 

 faction of a hostile political party, is deserving of 

 our abhorrence and execration. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party is a party of 

 principle, and as a party organization cannot exist 

 without a maintenance of its principles, and that the 

 selection of candidates not representatives of its 

 principles is not to be tolerated, and absolves every 

 Democrat from giving a ticket so selected his sup- 

 port or sympathy. 



Resolved, That a coalition of parties for the sake 

 of office and the patronage of the Government is at 

 the sacrifice of principle, iniquitous in its concep- 

 tion^ dishonorable in its nature, and must result in 

 inevitable discomfiture and disgrace. 



Resohed, That in the early history of our Govern- 

 ment, without the intervention of convention or 

 platform, the most eminent and worthy men were 

 selected for the highest offices of the Government, 

 whose well-known principles and consistency were 

 sufficient guarantee for their fidelity, and that in 

 presenting the names of Charles O'Conor for Presi- 

 dent, and John Quincy Adams for Vice-President, 

 the Louisville Convention have not been actuated 

 by any sectional consideration, but by the motive 

 to present men of national reputation, whose great 

 abilities and purity of character eminently fit them 

 for the highest offices of the Government, and for 

 whom the Democratic party can consistently cast 

 their suffrages. 



The whole vote cast for presidential elec- 

 tors in November numbered 829,693. Of 

 these, 440,759 were in favor of the election of 

 Grant and Wilson for President and Vice- 

 President, and 387,279 for Greeley and Brown, 

 making Grant's majority over Greeley 53,480. 

 There were also 1,454 votes for Charles 

 O'Conor for President and 201 for Jeremiah 

 S. Black, temperance candidate. Grant's ma- 

 jority over all was 51,825. The total vote for 

 Governor was 840,151, of which Dix received 

 447,801, and Kernan 392,350 ; Dix's majority, 

 55,451. Tremain received 438,456 votes for 

 Congressman at large and Cox 400,697, mak- 

 ing the majority of the former 37,759 in a 

 total vote of 839,153. The Republicans chose 

 23 Representatives to Congress and the Demo- 

 crats 9. The Legislature now stands 24 Re- 

 publican's and 8 Democrats in the Senate, and 

 91 Republicans, 35 Democrats, and 2 Inde- 



