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UNITED STATES. 



11. Among the questions winch press for attention 

 is that "which concerns the relations of capital and 

 labor, and the Republican party recognize the duty 

 of so shaping legislation as to secure full protection 

 and the amplest freedom for capital, and for labor, 

 the creator of capital, the largest opportunities, and 

 a just share of the mutual profits of these two great 

 servants of civilization. 



12. We hold that Congress and the President have 

 only fulfilled an^imperative duty in their measures 

 for the suppression of violent and treasonable or- 

 ganizations in certain lately rebellious regions, and 

 for the protection of the ballot-box, and therefore 

 they are entitled to the thanks of the nation. 



13. We denounce the repudiation of the public 

 debt in any form or disguise as a national crime ; 

 we witness with pride the reduction of the principal 

 of the debt, and of the rates of interest upon the 

 balance, and confidently expect that our excellent 

 national currency will be perfected by a speedy re- 

 sumption of specie payment. 



14. The Kepublican party is mindful of its obli- 

 gations to the loyal women of America for their noble 

 donation to the cause of freedom, their admission to 

 the wider fields of usefulness is viewed with satis- 

 faction, and the honest demands of any class of citi- 

 zens for additional rights should be treated with 

 respectful consideration. 



15. We heartily approve the action of Congress in 

 extending amnesty to those lately in rebellion, and 

 rejoice in the growth of peace and fraternal feeling 

 throughout the land. 



16. The Eepublican party propose to respect the 

 rights reserved by the people to themselves, as care- 

 fully as the powers delegated by them to the State 

 and to the Federal Government. It disapproves of 

 the resort to unconstitutional laws for the purpose 

 of removing evils, by interference with rights not 

 surrendered by the people to either the State or na- 

 tional Government. 



IT. It is the duty of the General Government to 

 adopt such measures as will tend to encourage Ameri- 

 can commerce and ship-building. 



18. We believe that the modest patriotism, the 

 earnest purpose, the sound judgment, the practical 

 wisdom, the incorruptible integrity, and the illus- 

 trious services of Ulysses S. Grant have commended 

 him to the heart of the American people, and, with 

 him at our head, we start to-day upon a new march 

 to victory. 



President Grant was renominated by accla- 

 mation as the candidate for the presidency, 

 and Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, received, 

 as the candidate for the vice-presidency, 364 

 votes against 321| votes for Schuyler Colfax. 



President Grant subsequently accepted the 

 nomination in the following letter : 



EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) 

 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 10, 1872. j 

 Honorable THOMAS SETTLE, AND OTHERS, President of 

 National Republican Convention : 



GENTLEMEN : Your letter of this date, advising me 

 of the action of the convention held in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., on the 5th and 6th of this month, and of my 

 unanimous nomination for the presidencv bv it. fs 

 received. 



I accept the nomination, and through you return 

 my heart-felt thanks to your constituents for this 

 mark of their confidence and support. If elected in 

 November, and protected by a kind Providence in 

 health and strength to perform the duties of the high 

 trust conferred, I promise the same zeal and devotion 

 to the good of the whole people for the future of my 

 official _life as shown in the past. Past experience 

 may^ guide me in avoiding mistakes inevitable with 

 novices in all professions, and in all occupations. 



When relieved from the responsibilities of my 

 present trust, by the election of a successor, whether 



it be at the end of this term or next, I hope to leave 

 to him, as Executive, a country at peace within its 

 own borders, at peace with outside nations, with a 

 credit at home and abroad, and without embarrassing 

 questions to threaten its future prosperity. 



With the expression of a desire to see a speedy 

 healing of all bitterness of feeling between sections, 

 parties, or races of citizens, and the time when the 

 title of citizen carries with it all the protection and 

 privileges to the humblest that it does to the most 

 exalted, I subscribe myself very respectfully, your 

 obedient servant, U. S. GKAJNT. 



The regular Democratic Convention, in re- 

 sponse to a call of the National Committee, 

 assembled in Baltimore on July 9th. It was 

 organized by the appointment of James E. 

 Doolittle, of Wisconsin, as permanent chair- 

 man. The committee on resolutions reported 

 as follows : 



We, the Democratic electors of the United States, 

 in convention assembled, do present the following 

 principles, already adopted at Cincinnati, as essen- 

 tial to just government : 



1. We recognize the equality of all men before the 

 law, and hold that it is the duty of Government, in 

 its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and 

 exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, 

 or persuasion, religious or political. 



2. We pledge ourselves to maintain the union of 

 these States, emancipation and enfranchisement, and 

 to oppose any reopening of the questions settled by 

 the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments 

 to the Constitution. 



3. We demand the immediate and absolute remov- 

 al of all disabilities imposed on account of the re- 

 bellion, which was finally subdued seven years ago, 

 believing that universal amnesty will result in com- 

 plete pacification in all sections of the country. 



4. Local self-government, with impartial suffrage, 

 will guard the rights of all citizens more securely 

 than any centralized power. The public welfare re- 

 quires the supremacy of the civil over the military 

 authority, and freedom of person under the protec- 

 tion of the habeas corpus. We demand for the indi- 

 vidual the largest liberty consistent with public or- 

 der, for the State self-government, and for the nation 

 a return to the methods of peace and the constitu- 

 tional limitations of power. 



5. The civil service of the Government has be- 

 come a mere instrument of partisan tyranny and 

 personal ambition, and an object of selfish greed. It 

 is a scandal and reproach upon free institutions, and 

 breeds a demoralization dangerous to the perpetuity 

 of republican government. We therefore regard 

 such thorough reforms of the civil service as one of 

 the most pressing necessities of the hour ; that hon- 

 esty, capacity, and fidelity, constitute the only valid 

 claims to public employment ; that the offices of th 

 Government cease to be a matter of arbitrary favc 

 itisrn and patronage, and that public station becor 

 again a_post of honor. To this end, it is imperative 

 ly required that no President shall be a candid* 

 for reelection. 



6. We demand a system of Federal taxation which 

 shall not unnecessarily interfere with the industry 

 of the people, and which shall provide the means 

 necessary to pay the expenses of the Government, 

 economically administered, the pensions, the inter- 

 est on the public debt, and a moderate reduction an- 

 nually of the principal thereof; and ; recognizing 

 that there are in our midst honest but irreconcilable 

 differences of opinion with regard to the respective 

 systems of protection and free trade, we remit the 

 discussion of the subject to the people in their con- 

 gressional districts, arid to the decision of Congress 

 thereon, wholly free from Executive interference or 

 dictation. 



7. The public credit must be sacredly maintained, 



