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NEW YOKE. 



suggest, with respectful deference to their brethren 

 of other States, and with cordial appreciation of other 

 renowned Democratic statesmen, faithful like him 

 to their political principles and public trusts, that 

 the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden to the office of 

 President would insure the vote of New York, and 

 would be approved throughout the Union us a rec- 

 ognition of this supreme necessity, the incarnation 

 of this vital issue, the pledge of pur high purpose ? 

 and the guarantee of the successful achievement of 

 this arduous work of national regeneration and re- 

 form. 



CEOTO1T AQUEDUCT, CROSSING MILL RIVER. 



A second " Greenback " Convention was 

 held on the 1st of June in the city of New 

 York. There were representatives present 

 from 52 of the 60 counties and 120 of the 128 

 Assembly districts of the State. Four delegates 

 at large were chosen to the Democratic Con- 

 vention at St. Louis, and resolutions were 

 adopted claiming admission for these delegates 

 to the convention as the only duly authorized 

 representatives of the Democracy of the State, 

 and the only organization not controlled by 

 money. Other resolutions recognized the duty 

 of the Democratic party as the champion of 

 the many against the aggression of the few, 

 and declared in favor of the following objects: 

 The unconditional repeal of the Republican 

 resumption act ; the substitution of legal ten- 

 ders for national-bank notes legal tenders to 

 be received for all debts, taxes, and customs ; 

 no forced inflation or contraction, but a circu- 

 lation equal to the wants of all ; legislation for 

 the development of the resources and wealth of 

 the country by the people to the exclusion of 

 monopolists. Declarations were also made in 

 behalf of faithful compliance with the nation's 

 just obligation ; no centralization ; denouncing 

 the present corruption in the affairs of the 

 Federal Government, and demanding the 

 searching investigation and punishment of 

 guilty persons independent of party ; opposing 

 the election of any persons to office who op- 

 posed the repeal of the resumption act, and in- 

 structing the delegates to support the platform 



in accordance with the principles and to ob- 

 tain the nomination of candidates pledged to 

 support the policy declared, and to vote at 

 the convention as a unit, in accordance with 

 the sentiments of a majority of its mem- 

 bers. 



The Republican Convention for the nomina- 

 tion of State officers was held at Saratoga on 

 the 23d of August. A. B. Cornell, who was 

 the choice of many of the delegates for Gov- 

 ernor, withdrew his name, and Edwin D. Mor- 

 gan was nominated, receiving 242 votes out of 

 410. Win. M. Evarts, who was supported by 

 the "Reform Republicans," had 126. The 

 nomination of Mr. Morgan was made unani- 

 mous on motion of George W. Curtis, the lead- 

 ing supporter of Mr. Evarts. The remainder 

 of the ticket was as follows : For Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Sherman S. Rogers; Canal Com- 

 missioner, Daniel D. Spencer; Inspector of 

 State- prisons, Clias. T. Trowbridge; Judge of 

 the Court of Appeals, George F. Danforth. 

 The platform adopted was as follows : 



The Republicans of New York, appealing to the 

 patriotism and judgment of all who maintain the 

 principles of a restored Union, declare as follows : 



1. We reaffirm the platform adopted at the Na- 

 tional Republican Convention of June 14, 1876, and 

 heartily affirm the principles set forth in the letters 

 of Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler, to 

 which, in the light of their high public character 

 and record, we point as the sure pledge of pure and 

 just government. 



2. We especially approve and emphasize the dec- 

 larations for a reformed pulilic service, based upon 

 honesty, fidelity, and capacity ; and we accept the 

 manly and unequivocal declaration upon that subject 

 of our presidential candidate as the platform of the 

 Republican party. 



3. Earnestly seeking the true harmony of the 

 Union on the basis of the amended Constitution and 

 of a just and generous national policy, we also insist 

 that the equal rights and the lives of all citizens 

 must and shall be protected, and that the Govern- 

 ment must be restored from the consequences of war 

 by those who saved it, and not by those who at- 

 tempted to destroy it. So long as the rights of any 

 citizens are insecure, so long us an irredeemable cur- 

 rency remains, the Republican party must live to do 

 a work as great as that of its glorious past. 



4. The interests of trade and industry imperatively 

 demand a fixed financial policy in accordance with 

 the terms and requirements of the act providing for 

 the resumption of specie payments', and, whereas, 

 the legal-tender notes made by the terms of the re- 

 sumption act payable in coin on and after January 

 1, 1879, are valid and legal obligations of the United 

 States ; and, whereas, the date of payment of an ob- 

 ligation bearing no interest after maturity is the very 

 essence of its full and entire validity, and the post- 

 ponement of its payment repudiation to the extent 

 of the usual interest from the dates of promised pay- 

 ment: we, therefore, denounce the repeal of the date 

 of specie resumption by the Democratic House of 

 Representatives, without making the dishonored 

 notes bear the Government rate of interest, as an 

 act of repudiation and disloyalty, and an open viola- 

 tion of the section of the fourteenth amendment of 

 the Constitution of the United States, which pro- 

 vides that the validity of the public debt authorized 

 by law shall not be questioned. The alacrity and 

 great unanimity of the Southern Democrats in the 

 House of Representatives to repeal the date of the 

 payment of United States notes, without considera- 

 tion of the interest and in violation of the plighted 



