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all voters, and we deprecate, as unwarrantable and 

 hurtful, all attempts by employers, whether repre- 

 senting capital or political power, to encroach upon 

 or coerce others m the enjoyment of any of the 

 rights or the exercise of any of the duties of citi- 

 zenship. 



4. In the State of New York the whole number of 

 National office-holders, including clerks and subor- 

 dinates of every degree, is 7,465. This is one Na- 

 tional official or subordinate to 152 votes. Of State, 

 county, and town officials, there are, in this State. 

 133,513. This is one State,, county, or town official 

 to every 8i voters. When the potential functions 

 of local officers are taken into account, their near- 

 ness to the citizen and their power over his property, 

 taxes and interest, their relative influence becomes 



even greater than the numbers indicate. The ex- 

 clusion of public servants from political action would 

 disfranchise a great body of our fellow-citizens. 

 The laws make no such exclusion, and we deny, as 

 an imputation upon the people of New York, that 

 they are, or have been, dominated by the Nation's 

 subordinate officials, and we can conceive of no con- 

 dition of affairs, short of the extinction of manhood 

 and patriotism, in which a postmaster or a clerk 

 could subdue to his partisan will 152 other electors, 

 or exert any other influence, beyond such as his 

 character might give him. 



5. Public faith, honest industry, and the general 

 prosperity demand a sound currency of coin and 

 paper convertible into coin, and the already near 

 approach of specie payments enforces the wisdom 



THE NEW CAPITOL AT AIDANT. 



and duty of faithfully pursuing the necessary uter-s 

 to full resumption within the time now fixed by 

 law. 



6. We oppose any further land grants or subsidies 

 to corporations and monopolies, and hold that the 

 public domain should be reserved for the free homes 

 of industrious settlers. 



7. That we regard with alarm and disapprove 

 the demands coming from the promoters of various 

 schemes, that profuse appropriations and grants 

 shall be made, and the National credit used to carry 

 on works of various kinds, local and sectional in 

 character, and not of urgent National importance. 

 New York, with one-tenth of the population, is the 

 source of about one-quarter of all the National reve- 

 nues, and we call upon the burdened tax-payers of 

 this State to watch and defeat all attempts, however 

 specious, to increase the public debt, or to obtain 

 their money for remote and questionable purposes, 



which, if feasible, appeal to State action and private 

 enterprise. Such attempts are the more indefensible 

 when sustained by the votes of sectional minoritic*. 

 adding to the burdens of the more heavily-taxed 

 portions of our country. 



8. We recognize equally the rights of property 

 and the manliness ana dignity of labor, deprecating 

 any resort to violence in the name of either. We 

 insist at all timea upon the supremacy of the law, 

 and the maintenance of public order. The advance- 

 ment of American industry and enterprise depends 

 upon the harmonious cooperation of capital and 

 labor; and the adjustment of their material relation*, 

 whether left to the reason of the parties or effected 

 by legislation, should be governed by a considerate 

 regnrd for the rights of the one and the just claims 

 of the other. 



9. In the affaire of our grent State, alway* vital to 

 the people, and at this time of paramount impor- 



