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son : " Equal and exact justice to all men or 

 whatever state or persuasion, religious* or po- 

 litical;" the support of the State governments in all 

 their rights as the most competent administrations 

 of our domestic concerns and tbe surest bulwarks 

 against anti-republican tendercien ; the preservation 

 or the general government in its whole constitution- 

 al vigor as the sheet-anchor of our peace at home 

 and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of elec- 

 tion by the people ; absolute acquiescence in the de- 

 cisions of the majority ; the supremacy of the civil 

 over the military authority ; economy in public ex- 

 penses that labor may be lightly burdened ; the 

 honest payment of our debts and snored preservation 

 of the public faith ; the diffusion of information ; the 

 arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason ; 

 freedom of religion ; freedom of the press and free- 

 dom of person under the protection of the habeat 

 corput. 



fare, and that the granting of subsidies by the Gen- 

 eral and State governments, and the bonding of 

 cities, towns, and villages in aid of railroads and other 

 corporations, are wrong in principle, corrupting in 

 tendency, and ought to cease. 



Retohtd, That we condemn and denounce the salary 

 grab, and all Congressmen Democrat or Republican 

 who voted for it or who have not, renounced all 

 share in the plunder seized for a service already done 

 and paid for. 



Rttolctd, That we condemn and denounce the 

 President's signature to the bill which clinched this 

 iniquity, and which gave $5,000 to each Congressman 

 while procuring $100,000 for himself after Congress 

 had just refused to increase his salary, and we de- 

 mand its repeal. 



Raolced, That we condemn and denounce, as utter- 

 ly unworthy the people's confidence, the Republican 

 party for having permitted the Credit Mobilier frauds 

 to pass unpunished, in which its two Vice-Presi- 

 dents, more than one of its United Slates Senators, 

 and its five chairmen of the five chief committees of 

 the House of Representatives were guilty partici- 

 pants, and the two foremost defenders of which have 

 been rewarded by that party's head, one with a 

 foreign mission, and the other with the use of the 

 Federal patronage to elect him Governor of a ncigh- 



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Sttolftd, That we condemn ta utterly unworthy 

 the people's confidence the Republican party which, 

 in this State, assisted a corrupt ring to grasp, with- 

 out an election, all the powers of the city govern- 

 ment of New York, and when the Democratic party 

 had excluded them from its ranks and united to ex- 

 pel them from power, itself seized the occasion to 

 create a new ana more corrupt custom-house ring on 

 the ruins of municipal reform, and to inflict upon 

 the tax-burdened citizens of our commercial nie- 

 tnpolis a costly, complex, and cumbersome charter 

 of government. 



KetolntJ, That we condemn and denounce theeon- 

 duct of the President in setting up by the bayonet a 

 government in Louisiana not chosen by the people, 

 having no title to authority, as a flagrant violation 

 of the Federal Constitution and the rights of a sitter 

 State. 



Raolttd, That we demand revenue reform, to wit : 

 That our ctutom-house revenue shall be got from 

 low and therefore productive duties on n few m 

 not from high and therefore less productive duties 

 on two thousand article* ; that the needless burden 

 of a high protective tariff shall no longer he ad. Id 

 to the necesary burden of a huge public debt ; and 

 since the power granted to Congress in the Consti- 

 tution i limited to the collection of revenue for gen- 

 eral uses only, we demand a revenue tariff which 

 shall stop enriching one section at the expense of 

 other sections, a few monopolists at the expense of 

 the whole people. 



Rftolctd, That we demand specie payments, for in 

 the language of the Supreme Court, before its ! 

 was packed to reverse a righteous decision, an act 

 making promises to pay paper dollars a legal t 

 in payment of dii i-lvcontraetedisprohib- 



iteu by the Constitution, and the coinage pou 

 tVrrcd on Congress U an implicit power not to cursu 

 the people with a currency inconvertible with 

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Kaolctd, That wo demand that the fiscal : 

 of paper inflation, protective tariff, and Government 

 subsidies, shall be abandoned to the hull'-vi 

 nations and agus of which it is a relic, because it plun- 

 ders the farmers of the United States both in tlio 

 incomes and outgoes; it hamstrings our manifold in- 

 dustries, and converts our foreign commerce into an 

 unsafe speculation and our domestic trade 

 game of chance ; it breeds extravagance in our homes 

 and dishonesty in our public and private trusts ; it 

 fosters corrupt combinations of sectional interest* 

 and is the prime cause of the late financial di-: 

 in which fortunes have been wrecked, credit de- 

 stroyed, labor deprived of employment, and its sav- 

 ings of security. In the midst of these wide-cprc.i.1 

 calamities, and for this general distress, we scout the 

 President's pill for panics, " More inflation, more 

 subsidies, more ballooning," and we point the coun- 

 try to their true remedy and cure, in the tried and 

 historic principles of the old Democracy us applica- 

 ble throughout our national, xat". and mui 

 life, which limit and localize most jealously the power 

 intrusted to public servants and which enforce 

 honesty and frugality in public and private affair.-; 

 which provide equal" taxation for all and a currency 

 as good as gold, and wo hold out to the farmers of 

 the United States the right hand of hearty fellowship 

 in their just resistance to the exactions of monopol- 

 ists and their just demands for these great reforms. 

 Raolced, That those who arc vested by our laws 

 with the appropriation and expenditure of public 

 money should be subjected to the same restrictions, 

 rules, and regulations as arc imposed upon tax-pay- 

 ers and collectors, and should in like manner be re- 

 quired to keep such accounts of their business af- 

 fairs as are demanded of merchants and manufac- 

 turers, so that an examination of their books and 

 transactions will show any frauds and corruptions in 

 their official business ; that they shall take and sub- 

 scribe to official oaths at proper periods that they 

 have not in any way been unlawfully benefited by 

 their official action. 



Remitted, That we recognize in the Liberal Repub- 

 licans worthy coadjutors, and we cordially invite 

 them to unite witli us in our efforts to restore pure 

 government in our State and in the Federal adminis- 

 tration. 



Raolrfrl, That the Democratic party having in- 

 augurated the system of low tolls and "cheap b 

 portsition tgalntt the violent opposition of the Re- 

 publican party, reaffirms the policy at this time. 



The Executive Committee of the Liberal 

 Republican State Committee held n mooting in 

 Now York, on the 11 th of September, and 

 after considerable discussion issued the follow- 

 ing call for a State Convention 



W/iertaf, The questions and issues that have here- 

 tofore divided the people of this country into politi- 

 cal parties have ceased to exist, and tin' principal 

 'luostions demanding consideration arc those relat- 

 ing to the industrial or labor interests of the country, 

 in which the people of the present day are more in- 

 terested than the parties of the past; and 



Whereat, It is not reasonable to suppose Ihnt 

 reform in public affairs conceded to : y and 



now generally demanded, can lie .tie. led liy the 

 Republican party, which is identified with public 

 abuses, or that it will he by the Democratic party, 

 whose State Committee has refused to unite with us 

 in repressing them ; and 



