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UNITED STATES. 



On December 2d the Central Executive Com- 

 mittee of the National party assembled in Wash- 

 ington, and issued an address to the people. 

 The following extract will present their views 

 and principles : 



2. The National party, continuing the process of 

 organization, in two years increased its votes to 

 1,260.000. 



3. This great increase in the National vote is un- 

 precedented in the history of political parties, but it 

 falls far short of the real strength of the principles 

 advocated hy the National party, or of the hold they 

 have already taken upon the popular mind and heart. 

 We do not include the votes where, as in Georgia 

 and other States, there was no National nomination, 

 hut the contest was between Republican or Demo- 

 cratic nominees and Independent candidates, each 

 contending that he was the best and truest representa- 

 tive of the principles of the National party. If that 

 vote were included in this estimate, it would swell 

 the present strength of the National party to from 

 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 votes. Can any doubt exist 

 that a party which has developed such strength and 

 growth in the past two years can, in the next two 

 that is to say, in 1880 so perfect its organization as 

 to elect the next President? With majorities in 

 Congress and in nearly all the State Legislatures, 

 whom the money power can not buy or intimidate, 

 and who can be relied upon to legislate for the benefit 

 of the whole people, and not as the servants of a 

 " European Grand Council of International Finance," 

 then will the iron hand of oppression laid upon the 

 people by the ''money power" loosen its grasp, 

 labor will be fitly and 'profitably employed, liberty 

 and justice will be reestablished, and peace, pros- 

 perity, and happiness return to bless the homes of 

 all the people. 



4. We warn you, our countrymen, that your re- 

 publican Government, which should be dear to every 

 American heart, is in danger from the combination 

 known as the money power," to whom Congress 



has transferred the trust confided to it by the Con- 

 stitution. We need cite only two instances of dis- 

 regard for the laws and of the will of the people : 

 1. The existing laws for the protection of labor are 

 disregarded and annulled by the Executive authori- 

 ties. 2. The combination of banks, speaking through 

 the Clearing-House Association of New York City, 

 are emboldened to proclaim to the world that the 

 laws which you have established through your organ- 

 ized national Government, decreeing the silver dollar 

 to be a lawful money, shall not be enforced ; that 

 they will not obey them, and so far as in their power 

 they will prevent others rendering due obedience to 

 them. If these banks are permitted to annulth is law, 

 then they can in like manner annul any other law of 

 the land that may not suit their wishes, and the re- 

 sult follows that you will be governed by the mean- 

 est and most heartless of all oligarchies a moneyed 

 aristocracy. This action of these conspirators against 

 the laws of the land and the happiness of mankind 

 should at once determine you to unite with the Na- 

 tional party, which is organized to protect the people 

 against the encroachments of this " money power," 

 that cares nothing for the ruin of all things else, so 

 long as it may fatten upon the wreck of industry. 

 The banks are themselves the creatures of the law, 

 and it is not becoming that the creature should say 

 to the creator, " Thy will shall not be done." The 

 power for evil of these creatures of the law, which 

 have thus assumed to break and annul the law, must 

 be crushed. You can never reach and control it 

 through either the Republican or the Democratic 

 party organizations. The leading and controlling 

 powers in both are in alliance with and fostering 

 this dangerous class who are threatening the life of 

 the nation by annulling the laws of its creation. 



On November 12th a large Convention in the 

 interest of commerce was held at Chicago. 

 The resolutions urge the importance of the de- 

 velopment of commerce with other countries, 

 the completion of the lines of Pacific railroads, 

 etc. 



Another Commercial Convention was held at 

 New Orleans on December 5th. Its resolu- 

 tions embraced, among other objects, the im- 

 provement of the Mississippi Kiver and all its 

 navigable tributaries. 



Some conventions were also held in the in~ 

 terests of labor, but they principally repre- 

 sented local organizations. 



The ninth annual Convention of the "Women 

 Suffrage Association was held at Indianapolis 

 on November 13th. A large number of dele- 

 gates from other associations were present. A 

 report was made on the beneficial results of 

 their labors, and the following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Whereas, Theoretically, governments derive their 

 justpowers from the consent of the governed ; and 



Whereas, Practically speaking, women are the 

 greatest sufferers from defective legislation : there- 

 fore, 



fiesolved, That a government of the people, by the 

 people, and for the people, must be equally com- 

 posed of men and women ; and that the cooperation 

 of the sexes is alike essential to a happy home, a 

 refined society, a Christian church, and a republican 

 state. 



Whereas, The American Women Suffrage Associa- 

 tion was formed for the purpose of combining the 

 women suffragists of the United States, through 

 State societies, in an annual representative delegate 

 convention for conference and cooperation: there- 

 fore, 



Resolved, That the efficient prosecution of the wo- 



