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scope of Federal power, and inevitably producing 

 corruption. 



Resolved, That we congratulate the whole people 

 of this State that, notwithstanding the suffering to 

 which the laboring classes have been for years sub- 

 jected, in spite of their failure to obtain remunerative 

 employment, and the bitter privations which have 

 been imposed on them thereby, they have endured 

 these calamities for the most part with patience, 

 without disorder, or violation of the public peace ; 

 and we declare that it is through the beneficent 

 operation of equal and just laws, favoring no one 

 class at the expense of another, a stern refusal on 

 the part of legislative bodies to yield to the schemes 

 of grasping monopolies, and the decrease of pub- 

 lic expenditures and taxation to the lowest prac- 

 ticable point, that 'the laboring classes of the coun- 

 try (with whom the Democratic party has always 

 strongly and intelligently sympathized) are mainly 

 to find effectual and permanent relief. 



Besohed, That we favor a uniform and equitable 

 excise law, having regard for and protective of the 

 rights of all the people, accompanied by stringent 

 provisions punishing its violation. 



Resolved, That we demand more complete protec- 

 tion for the sayings of the industrial classes by the 

 stricter supervision and control of savings banks, in- 

 surance companies, and other institutions in which 

 tne people's money may be invested, and the enact- 

 ment ol laws providing severe and certain punish- 

 ment of all official neglect, extravagance, or fraud, 

 by which the people's earnings may be endangered 

 or lost. 



Resolved, That the deliberate refusal of the Re- 

 publican majority in the State Legislature during 

 two sessions, in open defiance of the plainest and 

 most peremptory mandates of the Constitution, to 

 apportion the representation of the people of the 

 State in the Senate and Assembly in accordance 

 with the census, is a reckless disregard of duty 



EKTBAL DEPOT, NEW YOKK C1TT. 



hitherto without precedent in our history, and aims 

 a blow at the very root and foundation or represent- 

 ative government. That this act, the most revolu- 

 tionary and lawless ever ventured upon even by that 

 revolutionary and lawless party, renders it indis- 

 pensable to the preservation of the right of repre- 

 sentation that the legislative power should be wreot- 

 ed from its hands at the coming election. That the 

 hypocritical promise of apportionment appearing in 

 the resolutions of the recent Rochester Convention 

 is upon its face a mockery and insult to the Consti- 

 tution. It boldly calls for a direct violation of the 

 organic law, in demanding that the amount of popu- 

 lation should be disregarded and a system of rot- 

 ten boroughs maintained, to prevent "a preponder- 

 ance " of the inhabited over the uninhabited portions 

 of the State. 



The Democracy of New York, in Convention as- 

 sembled, again pledge themselves, their nominees, 

 and their representatives in the Senate and Assem- 

 bly, to follow where an honest and fearless chief 

 magistrate has dared to lead in reforming the ad- 

 ministration of our great canals, so long despoiled 

 in their construction, maintenance, repairs, and reve- 

 nues ; to carry on with unwavering purpose and 

 fidelity wise measures to increase the efficiency of 



all the departments of public works and service, and 

 to persist in reducing our State tax. As proof of 

 their devotion to this work they point to tlie fruits 

 of the illustrious administrations of Governors Til- 

 den and Robinson. The civil service of the State baa 

 been purified. Economy and prudence have been 

 introduced in every department. Offenders agairict 

 the law, defaulters in the public funds, embezzling 

 county treasurers, profligate boards and tru*r-. 

 swindling contractors, and those who have debauched 

 legislation and political justice, have been relentless- 

 ly prosecuted. 



A State Convention of Workingmen or Labor 

 Reformers wa*< held in Troy, October 9th, and 

 adopted a platform, of which the following i 

 a synopsis : 



1. We favor a currency of gold, silver, and United 

 States Treasurv notes, which shall l>c a full legal 

 tender for all debts, public and private, and the re- 

 tirement of national-bank bills. 



2. That labor has a perfect right to an equal share 

 of the wealth which it creates. 



8. That the invention of labor-saving machine ry 

 should have the effect of reducing the houra of labor. 



