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money, as it has heretofore been in this State, must 

 be apparent to all honest men ; and we ask all such 

 to meet in their several Assembly districts and select 

 delegates to represent them in a State Convention, to 



be held in on the , 1876, for 



the purpose of selecting delegates to the National 

 Democratic Convention, to be neld on the 27th day 

 of June next, in the city of St. Louis, Mo., and to ask 

 their admission into said convention, as the repre- 

 sentatives of the Democratic voters and people of this 

 State, and also the adoption of the following resolu- 

 tions : 



Resolved. That we are opposed to any repudiation 

 of the nation's obligations, and that we are in favor 

 of an honest payment of the public debt according to 

 the terms of the original acts of Congress under which 

 they were created, and that we regard the act of Con- 

 gress passed in March, 1869, promising to pay the 

 five-twenty bonds of the Government in gold, -as a 

 gross violation of the contract by which said bonds 

 were issued, and charge that the passage of said act 

 was procured through fraud by the payment of money 

 to corrupt public officials, and to suborn the press ; 

 and we demand the payment of said bonds according 

 to the statute by which thev were created, and the 

 resolutions adopted by the National Democratic Con- 

 vention held in the city of New York in 1868. 



2. That the effort now being made by the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury to pay the fractional currency in 

 silver should be immediately prohibited, since silver 

 is now being produced in quantities equal to lead, 

 copper, and many other of the baser metals, and is 

 worth less than legal-tender notes, in which said cur- 

 rency is made payable by law. 



3. That there should be no further funding of the 

 bonds of the Government until a thorough examina- 

 tion of the books of the Treasury Department has 

 been had, and the exact amount of bonds outstanding 

 been ascertained, and the amount, if any, due from 

 the syndicate been settled. 



4. That the legal-tender notes of the Government 

 are the standard of value throughout the country, be- 

 cause they will employ every hand to labor, or pur- 

 chase every foot of land within its borders for a given 

 sum and for any limited time, while gold fluctuates 

 according to its production, the price of American 

 securities in foreign countries, or the caprice of specu- 

 lators in London, Frankfort, and "Wall Street. 



5. That commerce should be the master and not 

 the servant of money, and that the amount of money 

 required by a people depends on their intelligence, 

 and that the daily requirements of the American peo- 

 ple for money to purchase books, newspapers, and 

 other articles necessary to satisfy their intelligence, 

 cannot be compared with that of any other people ; 

 and we wonder when we see certain newspapers ad- 

 vocating contraction of the currency and a reduction 

 in the price of labor, whereby that intelligence which 

 they have done so much to bring about cannot be 

 gratified. 



6. That the Government should not discredit its 

 own obligations, and that the money which pays the 

 President and members of Congress their salaries, 

 the merchant for his goods, the manufacturer for his 

 wares, the farmer for his produce, the laborer for his 

 work, the soldier's and sailor's widows their pensions, 

 should pay the bondholder his interest, and all other 

 debts, private and public, including duties on im- 

 ports. 



7. That the act of Congress, passed in January, 

 1875, pledging the resumption of specie payments on 

 January 1, 1879, has proved a failure, since there is 

 less coin now in the Treasury than there was when 

 said act was passed, and that it comes with poor 

 grace from those public officials and journals who ad- 

 vocate the sale of bonds for the purpose of obtaining 

 gold with which to redeem greenbacks, when they 

 have for years urged the sale of gold for the purpose 

 of purchasing bonds : and, since the only effect of the 

 passage of said act has been to paralyze industries 



and create distrust in business, we demand its imme- 

 diate repeal. 



8. That we favor the enactment by Congress of 

 laws for the encouragement of labor, agriculture, and 

 all the other industrial interests, and for the develop- 

 ment of the nation's resources and wealth by the 

 people to the exclusion of monopolies. 



The Eepublicans held their State Conven- 

 tion for the purpose of choosing delegates to 

 the National Convention on the 22d of March, 

 at Syracuse. There was a division of senti- 

 ment between those known as the Reform 

 Republicans, under George "W. Curtis, who fa- 

 vored the nomination of B. H. Bristow as the 

 candidate for President, and the regular Re- 

 publicans, under A. B. Cornell, who supported 

 the claims of Roscoe Conkling for the presi- 

 dency. The platform reported was as follows : 



The Eepublicans of New York, in this centennial 

 of the nation, reaffirm the sacred truths and principles 

 of their fathers, and make the following declaration : 



1. We are for the unity of the nation and the 

 just rights of the States ; for the full reconciliation 

 and enduring harmony of all sections ; for the invio- 

 late preservation of the results of the war and the 

 constitutional rights of every citizen; for grateful 

 recognition of the brave soldiers of the republic ; for 

 thorough retrenchment and reform ; for the unspar- 

 ing pursuit, exposure, and punishment of public frauds 

 and official disnonesty ; for the elevation of the pub- 

 lic service, and pure and efficient government ; for 

 maintaining untarnished the national credit and hon- 

 or ; for a sound currency of coin, or paper convertible 

 into coin ; and for common schools absolutely free 

 from sectarian influence. 



2. We charge the Democratic party with being 

 the same in character and spirit as when it sym- 

 pathized with treason ; with making its control 

 of the House of Eepresentatives the triumph and 

 opportunity of the nation's recent foes ; with reassert- 

 ing and applauding, in the national capital, the sen- 

 timents or unrepentant rebellion ; with sending Union 

 soldiers to the rear and promoting Confederate sol- 

 diers to the front ; with deliberately proposing to re- 

 pudiate the plighted faith of the Government ; with 

 being equally false and imbecile upon the overshad- 

 owing financial questions ; with thwarting the ends 

 of justice by its partisan mismanagement and obstruc- 

 tion of investigation through the four months of its 

 ascendency in the Lower House of Congress ; with 

 proving itself utterly incompetent to administer the 

 Government : and we warn the country against trust- 

 ing a party alike unworthy, recreant, and incapable. 



3. Without regard to past differencesj we cor- 

 dially invite all wno believe that the direction of the 

 Government should not pass into the 'hands that 

 sought to destroy it, and who seek pure and economi- 

 cal government by honest and capable officers, to 

 unite with us in fraternal and mutually considerate 

 cooperation for the promotion of these ends. 



4. We emphatically condemn the dishonesty and 

 treachery of every official who is faithless to his 

 trust, and approve the injunction to let no guilty man, 

 however high, escape. We believe the virtue of the 

 people, which saved the nation through the storm of 

 war, will preserve it from the dangers of corruption. 

 We commend the good work of the national Admin- 

 istration in protecting the public Treasury and punish- 

 ing public offenders ; and in laying down his trust at 

 the close of the period for which he has been chosen, 

 President Grant will carry with him the lasting grati- 

 tude of the American people for his patriotic services 

 in war and in peace. 



5. As a statesman and a patriot of the highest 

 ability and character, whose long and distinguished 

 public career is without reproach, who has faithfully 

 served the cause of freedom and the Union through 



