The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-26

sell, Beman Brockway, Daniel j. Mitchell, I. C. Plat,
mont and Jas. Steward.
On notion the respective delegates were authorized
TO select members OF the State Committee BY congress
recess was taken till two Pm
Afternoon Session.
On rSassembling. Mr.. A. LAFLIs, Of Herkimer,
moved that all resolutions relating to platform be re-
ferred TO the Committee on RESOLUTIONS without debate.
The motion was carried
MIR. ANDREW D. WHITE Of onondaga, moved for a
resolutions for the consideration the Convention, and
TO lay that motion on the table for the present.
THE REGULAR ORGANIZATION.
The PRESIDENT called for the report OF the Committee
on Contested Seats
The committee not responding, the PRESIDENT called
for the report Of the Committee Permanent Organiza
ton, whereupon Mr. CHARLES s. SPENCER reported the
following which was adopted unanimously the Of
Roscoe Conklng eliciting cheers
Permanent President-Hon. Roscoe Conkling
Vlcc Pressdsts-First district, NJ Culver, A. J. a.
R.E.nns T Second district Frederick sch1lss
Fourth district, n Laban Judson, L.ndsn; Fifth dis
tsct J. y. Dwight, J. J. Glass; Sixth district, c NJ
LIapham; Eighth district. Albert Sherwood. Leven
Sscretaries-william Drummond, John O. Johnson H.
g Baker, H 1. Crosse, Frank David, Joseph Mason, J.
E. Tyler. NJ c. Rice, Solomon splitter, Allen Cooper,
John Oakley, A. a Sawyer; LYMAN Lyon.
General Van Wyck and Senator White we're appointed
To conduct MI. Coukling to the chair.
SPEECH OF HON ROSCOE coxKIrSo.
On taking tho chair Mr. Conkling said
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoyvENrIoS-You have my very
grateful acknowledgements for tho honor you are
pleased to bestow upon me. and still for the kind
cause you represent party the most eori.
Gus since free government began. Born Of the emer
ton times since It's banner was uufured And now be.
hold its achievements and its mission It had no policy
Or platform to invent II WAS inspired BY creed older
stinct with progress, humanity and liberty II was
party Of ideas not Of privilege for few, but Of human
rights for all That It should have gained ascendancy
almost at once was as natural the heaving or the
tides or the action Of human instinct Majortes
rs ''0a are sure Ii. side ' q
human nature But popular success ia only oppor
must do more than triumph in elections It must mani
fest genius for administration capacity for govern
mont equal 70 the occasion accepts Il by this rule
that tho country will try the republican Union organiza
ton In measuring its deserts in the past and its hopes
for the future Its past is six years In 1891 It ac-
Omitted States. The republic almost extinct; the
Treasury was bankrupt: tho army surrendered: the
form dissolved traitors in the Cabinet and in Con-
gress; atrator presided in the nate: duoe OF trait
everywhere and half continent was in revolt Such
pred cament had never been known in the experience
Of nations. Was restoration possblea The kines and
the cabinets Of Chrs,endom said Our Political oppo
nents said no. The foes Of liberty and ITS timd friends
said no. The republican party said yes and moved
calmly forward, weakened and obstrced in the by
words and bv deeds, which will forever render the
record as dark for one political. party as for
the other; 1t will be bright with imperlshabie
achievements Impcssibes trampled down;
the government was recreaed and ed1cientcy
administered in all its branches The greatest war OF
tho country was conducted to a complete consumma-
ton and finally constitutional and institutional liberty
prevailed where tour million penple ard their an
cesor5 had canked their chains, until nowhere,
where throughout all the broad republic does the sun
rise npon master or set upon slave. This Ia an out
line OF the pas-ts II not enough? Was It not enough TO
anchor the government, to mite tho nation and to
inspire coming generations It would have been enough
against all the Vaccinations that mortal could
mortal apprehension fear Had there bsen nothing
to cope with beyond the treason NJ the South the dis
affection OF our political opponents and the hostility or
foreign Powers tho Union would have readused itself
upon safe and lasting basis and the nation would
have scared to point OF material and ideal progress
which tho eve OF prophecy has hardly seen. Had
no household betrayal befallen the repub-
lican party would ere now have performed It's
ORIGINAL mission, perhaps Its whole mission.
Questions would then have received attention which
ought to-day to occupy the pnbc mindquestons com.
mercis, industrial and financial In their character.
Whether either of the existing parties would have been
found adapted tn the needs and OF the country
they would then have been needed need not be de-
bated now. Both Of them might have been dismissed,
perhaps, and their places given 10 new organizations
Stopping there the record OF the rad cal party would
have been the history Of the republic IN its greatest and
most heroic are But this was not to be- Having
mounted every obstacle; having put under its feet
nation was not permitted to enter its life Of
| peacs and prosperity. bullet changed q policy and
almost established dynasty. Millions OF bullets had
tried In vain; but assassination Is scerc &c
than war-mor precise than sh,lock's knife: Had
striking till came to Andrew johnson and s?arng him
| IL won.
Come. DER The counseis Of Ire brave.
To blast them in their hour Of might
How Just s fates remorseless oec How instruments
Of evil are bass and dwarnsh in the ratio OF tho harm
nctc spark unquenched by all great oceans pillows yet
one little bit Of sordd steel could parayze the electricity
march OF human progress which necs and aris could
not check, sumb the aposiacv OF degraded
man In this the day oeunespected trial and OF deep
spirit and the energies which have overmastered
al perils OF the last six wears The heroes
soldiers SO much rs the private soldiers and the
and the women who stood by theml tn thew to
whom the nation groaus for aid We went to war to
gain peace lasting peace We conquered aud the law
OF nations aud OF nature gave US tho right 10 require
that the red eye Of battle hal closed never to open
more upon fraterna strife Congress, upheld this right
rrcreant Executive denied IT, The issue thus made
carried tn the grand ASHES Of the American penle
Il was submitted TO t1M great jury from whose verdict
il is written. there shall be earthly appeal Exsca
ponents did their shameless work. but agans. them all
volume OF Indignation swept the land like torrnt
nays Thus instructed Congress passed acts
Ss osous ns ss SsS s s me s
ninth CONGRESS, CHOSEN IN the midst OF war was un
equal TO the probems OF peace and ignorant Of the
public sense yet after the elections Of 1866, no less
than before. veto followed Veto until year there
we're twelve or moro, and this In repubic In Erglsod
crowned monarchy sho is there has not been veto
In a hundred and sixty years Bri,crs though their
constitution permits H. will no, brook the Executive
throttle upon acts Of Parliament veocs hateful
10 the mon who cut OF Charles head and TO the men
who de,hroned James for granting amnesty to traitors
and they hateful 10 the who breaking dS~n
ratings to royal parks aud carving universal Suffrage
But in FREQ America bear vetocs, and We
could be thankful n vctoes wero the worst or
Executive infections. We have deeper wrongs
than these. We bills vetoed, aud thcn when they
become laws them evaded and dcaod upon pre-
tancs that they wanting tho very things for which
the veto was put forth We see the nation nsucd by
MESSAGE 10 Congress intended 10 stab financial Gre
dit; message cksdly inmasng that by chas;islng
traitors the American people have become liable 20 pay
the debt OF The lately rebelous States In plain perver
sion OF law II not In open defiance Of law, the
mova OF the urnnchng Minister Of War, who has been
" cloud by day and pillar OF FIRE by night" through
the long watch and agony Of the republic; see the
most brilliant soldier OF his time deprived OF his COM
msnd and treated like cupr because he is ably and
successfully executing the laws OF tho land We SEQ
others equally bameess driven from their posts OF duy
reconstruction hindered and prevented rsora.
ton and on bafled. order destroyed aud peace dis
turbed by makesht and subtefuge that sinister