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ical and efficient administration of the prisons and 

 canals of the State, and for enforcing upon officers 

 charged with their management a stricter responsi- 

 bility to the people. And we favor such reduction 

 of tolls upon and economical management of the 

 canals as will best subserve the interests of the State 

 and of the men engaged in canal-traffic. 



Resolved, That as American citizens and Demo- 

 crats, devoted to the union and equality of States, 

 and the honor and good name of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment, we hereby enter our solemn protest against 

 the recent order of the Secretary of War, approved 

 by the President of the United States, to place Gov- 

 ernment troops in the Southern States with a view 

 to intimidate the people and to control their election. 

 A government by the bayonet to take the place of a 

 government through the ballot-box is ati outrage 

 which demands the condemnation of all who love 

 republican freedom and hate despotic power. 



The same day, during an evening session of 

 the convention, the nomination of William 

 Dorsheimer for Governor was moved, when 



there was a general call of the name of "Sey- 

 mour." It was said that Mr. Seymour would 

 not allow the use of his name as the candidate, 

 on account of the state of his health, and had 

 sent a dispatch to Mr. Kernan to that effect. 

 Nevertheless, after some excited discussion, 

 Mr. Seymour was nominated by acclamation, a 

 committee appointed to notify him, and an ad- 

 journment taken to the next day in order that 

 his answer might be received. The next day 

 William Dorsheimer was nominated for Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Darius A. Ogden for Canal 

 Commissioner, Robert H. Anderson for Inspec- 

 tor of State-prisons, and Robert Earl for Judge 

 of the Court of Appeals. The committee ap- 

 pointed to notify Mr. Seymour of his nomina- 

 tion reported that "under the extraordinary 

 circumstances attending that nomination, Gov- 

 ernor Seymour feels constrained to obey the 



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wishes of the people who have so often hon- 

 ored him." With this assurance, the conven- 

 tion completed its work and adjourned. It 

 appeared, however, that Mr. Seymour had not 

 consented to the nomination, and on the 2d 

 of September he wrote to the chairman of the 

 State Central Committee positively declining 

 to be the candidate, his sole reason being that 

 illness unfitted him for mental or physical ex- 

 ertion. Another convention was called to 

 meet on the 13th of September, to fill the va- 

 cancy on the ticket. Lucius Robinson was 

 nominated for Governor by acclamation, and 

 Mr. Seymour was placed at the head of the 

 electoral ticket, John Kelly withdrawing. 



The " Greenback " party held another con- 

 vention on the 26th of September, at Albany, 

 and nominated a State ticket, as follows: For 

 Governor, R. M. Griffin-, Lieutenant- Govern- 



or, Thomas Armstrong; Canal Commissioner, 

 Anthony J. Cuddeback ; State-prison Inspect- 

 or, John W. Crump ; Judge of the Court of 

 Appeals, Marcus M. Dixon. The Prohibition- 

 ists also made nominations : William J. Groo 

 being their candidate for Governor ; Albert F. 

 Brown, Lieutenant-Governor ; Shotwell Pow- 

 ell, Canal Commissioner; Elias F. Talbot, State- 

 prison Inspector; and Henry Hagen, Judge of 

 the Court of Appeals. 



At the election on the 7th of November 

 there were 1,015,502 votes cast for presidential 

 electors. Of these the Democratic candidates 

 received 521,949; the Republican candidates, 

 489,207 ; the Prohibition ticket, 2,359 ; and the 

 "Greenback" ticket, 1,987. The Democratic 

 plurality over the Republican vote was 32,742 ; 

 majority over all, 28,396. The total vote for 

 Governor was 1,014,040, of which Robinson 



