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duties of American citizenship. Born since the war, thank God ! 

 their infant vision was first greeted by the light of heaven, unobscured 

 by the smoke of battle, and their infant ear first caught the sweet 

 sound of hallowed peace, unmingled with the hoarse thundering of 

 hostile cannon. Shall they be taught to cherish, and foster, and per- 

 petuate that prejudice and animosity, whose fruits are evil, and only 

 evil? 



" Let the dead past bury its dead " ; and let us, as an organization, 

 with new hope, new aspirations, new zeal, new energy, and new life, 

 turn our faces toward the rising sun of an auspicious and inviting future, 

 and reconsecrate ourselves to the holy purpose of transmitting to our 

 posterity a government " of the people, by the people, and for the 

 people," and which shall be unto all generations the citadel of refuge 

 for civil and religious liberty. 



Adjourned until 7.30 P.M. 



EVENING SESSION. 

 Committee on Credentials reported : 



Arkansas Alliance : L. H. Moore, J. E. Bryant. 



Arkansas Farmers and Laborers' Union : D. E. Barker, I. P. Langley. 



Alabama: H. P. Bone, J. P. R. Beck, B. W. Groce. 



Louisiana: J. T. W. Hancock, T. S. Adams, A. D. Lafargue, T. J. Guice. 



Mississippi : J. H. Beeman, Frank Burkett, W. S. McAllister, A. M. Street. 



Indiana : W. W. Prigg, Thomas W. Force. 



Illinois : M. L. Crum, H. M. Gilbert. 



Missouri : J. S. Hall, N. J. Wallard, J. C. A. Hiller, L. Leonard, Ahira Manring, 



J. W. Gray. 

 Georgia : L. F. Livingston, W. L. Peek, W. A. Broughton, R. A. Wright, T. B. 



Trammell, W. S. Copeland, A. Q. Moody. 

 North Carolina: M. L. Wood, S. B. Alexander, Elias Carr, George Williamson, 



R. B. Vance, E. A. Moye. 



South Carolina : J. W. Stokes, W. J. Talbert, S. C. Latimer, J. E. Jarnigan. 

 Texas : J. M. Perdue', G. L. Clark, Sam. H. Dickson, S. O. Dawes. 

 Colorado : W. S. Starr, E. H. Bruton. 



Tennessee : J. P. Buchanan, J. H. McDowell, E. B. Wade, W. C. Lightfoot. 

 Maryland : Hugh Michell, J. W. Kerr. 

 Kansas: James Blakeley, Frank McGrath, T. B. Maxson, D. H. Walker, Mrs. 



B. H. Clover, A. Terrell, J. M. Nevelle, W. B. James. 

 Florida : R. F. Rogers, Thomas Hines, S. S. Harvey. 

 North Dakota : E. M. Sanford, Walter Muir. 

 South Dakota : H. L. Loucks, C. L. Hinckley, A. V. Vandorn. 

 Kentucky: S. B. Irwin, M. D. Davie, W. T. Winn, P. H. Haney. 

 Pennsylvania : A. W. Knepper, H. C. Demming. 

 Michigan : A. E. Cole, A. N. Howe, George Northup. 

 Indian Territory : J. W. Stewart, R. C. Betty. 



