The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-10

candidates for admission TO the membership OF
the League. During the year, deaih deprlyed
tbe Committee on Membership of two OF It's
Chairmen IN rapid succession, The memories
of samuel G. Morton aud George Erety will long
The roll OF the League, on the drst day of
December, 1861, contained the names of
eighteen hundred aud five members. OF this
number eighty were elected during the year.
We have lost twenty-three members by death,
one hundred and elghty-seven by resignation,
and thirty, who were suspended from member
ship for the nou-payment of their animal tax,
and were finally dropped from the roll, in ac-
cordance with the bylaws.
The income of the League for the year ending
on the LIST Of December, 1867, was sxty-eiqht
thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars
and twenty six cents, which, with the surplus
iromithe previous year, amounted to eighty-six
thousand two hundred and eleven dollars and
forty-iour cents. The disbursements 10 the
same period we're eighty thousand aud nine
dollars and fifteen cents, leaving q surplus of SIX
thousand two hundred and two dollars aud
twenty -nlne cents. Against this surplus there
are no bills outstanding.
Whoever has weighed the facts and figures of
the late election must believe that the State of
Pennsylvania is still with the Union party.
There have been no such changes of public senti-
ment as entitle our opponents to claim this
loyal Commonwealth as their own.
Where the source of a nations power Is inithe
people, that power should always be exercised
in the choice of rulers; or in course OF time
the rulers will cease to represent the will OF the
nation, and q government may exist in an
taeonism or at enmity with the people. This
would be either the drst step towards reyolu-
ton and anarchy or towards Capitalization and
despousm.
While our people take that interest in public
affairs which induces every man TO vote on all
occasions, no danger can befall our Republic;
but when they cease to exercise their franchise,
or become Indifferent about 1t, let them be
assured that the power ich they yield will
pass into other hands; that every danger will
threaten us; and that eventually our social and
political liberties will lie at the mercy first of an
olgarchy and then of despotsm.
a time is close at hand when the test Will
again be applied to our patriotism, and v heu W:
shall know whether or not our State has been in
reality lost to the Union party. Tha test will
be the coming Presidential campaign, towards
which we we shall now turn with an interest
equal to the vast issues that will be involved in
the result. Who doubts that with our time
honored principles, sancti6ed, as they have been,
by the blood Of our people-who doubts that we
shall once more issue tIiumphanty from the
contest?
In that trust we shall continue, following, as
perhaps we may, to new victories the leader
chosen by our martyred Presidenl-the con-
que1or in hundred battle-6elds, the proportions
of which stagger the belief of foreign military
critiCs-the persevering commander who strug-
eled with rebellion until 1t lay liieless at his
feet and who with his own hand gave US
victory and peace together-the illustrious chief
whose whole grand history has been one un-
doubted record of his fidelity to our cause, and
of his willingness to suffer or to die for 1.-THE
beloved, the trusted, the single-hearted, the
faithful Grant
After the adoption of this address, on motion
of Charles Gibbons, ESQ.,, General Ulysses 8.
Grant was by resolution formally nominated as
the candidate of the Union Republican party for
the Presidency. This resolution was carried amid
cheers, and with an enthusiasm that amounted
to acclamation. The polls were kept open till
midnight, heavier vote being cast than proba-
bly, al any previous election. The following
ticket was chosen:-
PREsIDENT-J. Gillingham Fell.
VICE PREsIB ENTs.