Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-27

asked whether l.. ID. Fessenden OF Maine,
brother of the Senator. believes as the latter
pretends to believe, and a positive DENIAL wa
received with tremendous cheering
A Mr. Swift, amid much merriment, nom
mated Grant, but withdrew the nomination
at the instance of the whole Convention
Then Gen. Cochrane announced from the
platform that Committee of the Soldiers
and Sailors had resolutions from their Con
vention to present in favor of Gen Grant
which, after some preliminaries, were pre-
sented. These were signal for renewed
cheering, amid which ex-senator Lane OF
Indiana tried to run through the nomination
of Gen. Grant by acclamatlon but Lyman
Tremaine opposed the motion on the ground
that it was without precedent, and that the
proper mode of procedure was for each dele
CATION to present its chosen name. Senator
Lane withdrew the nomination
The Committee on Rules reported. One
Of these rules was that no candidate should
be nominated until the platform had been
formed. This was attempted to be set aside
| in favor of the Immediate nomination OF Gen.
Grant then the attempt was unsuccessful.
The Convention adjourned until morning
Chicago, Nav 81. To-day the Republican
J Convention was large in numboro, ""d iilVro
ir.tenoc in its enthusiasm than 1t was yester-
day. Thousands upon thousands were de-
barred from entering the Opera House, while
the favored persons who had been able to get
inside were packed so closely that IN the
! lobbies and tiers elbow room not to be
/ had. After the Convention had been opened
with PRAYER. Mr. Charles S. Spencer moved
that the resolutions of the Union League,
which were adopted yesterday, be recalled
/ from the Committee on Resolutions, ana
entered on the official record of the proceed
ings This motion was undoubtedly, prompt
ed by the rumor that the platform was not to
be as radical many desired. In response
to calls the resolutions were read, aud those
clauses which advocate impartial suffrage
and denounce the recreant Senators stirred
up the audience to the highest pitch OF en-
thusiasm. Points of order were raised
that under the rules the resolutions could
not be entertained by the Convention until
the Committee on Resolutions had considered
them, and prior to a decision on these
points, a motion to table prevailed. Mr..
Spencer was plainly chagrined at this
refusal, and when he announced hls
determination to bring them up again
before the Convention, the OHIO delegation
commenced shouting for Frederick Hassaurek
of Cincinnati. 1t was easy TO be seen that
they wanted that gentleman to consume the
time until the Committee would complete
their report This he frankly avowed 10 be
his object; but it made his speech none the
less entertaining to the audience, whose
cheers of his extreme Radical sentiments
were indicative of anything but t Conserv-
atism'' among the delegates. He finished
the speech before the Committee reported,
and then shouts were heard for Gen. John
NJ. Palmer, the Republican candidate for
Governor of Illinois, the gentleman that IN
the last Senatorial canvass very nearly out
generated Lyman Trumbull As the Gener-
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Convention rose and cheered him yOcllerous-
ly. His remark that Andrew johnson was
in the way of the country, and should have
been removed, struck a key note, and made
il evident that the Convention heartily ia
v0red the impeachment movement, as the
whole audience delegates and spectators.
cheere1 for many minutes. The same
intense feeling prevailed when the General
warned the delegates not to choose a man
for the second place on the ticket whose
character would give cause for the assas-
sina+ion of Grant. Then loud cries were
make for Senator Thayer of Nebraska and
others, but they declined to make addresses.
Gen Cochrane of New York was also called
for. but as soon as he took the platform
the Committee on Resolutions was observed
entering. and he resigned in its favor.
The President then announced that the
! Committee on Resolutions were ready to
report, and the Chairman, Hon R. W.
Thompson, of Indiana, advanced to the
platform. and read as follows
The National Republican Party Of the Uait
I'd States. assembled IN National Conren-
ton IN the City of Chicago, on the 20th
dan OF Mav 1865, make the folocing
declaration of principles
|. We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the Reconstruction policy
of Congress, as eyinced by the adoption in
the majority of the States lately in rebellion,
of Constitutions securing equal civil and pO
lltical rights to all, and it is the duty of the
Government to sustain those institutions
and to prevent the people of such States from
being rcmitted to a state of anarchy.
>. The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men at the South was
demanded by every consideration of public
safety. of gratitude, and of Justice, and
must be maintained while the question of
suffrage in all the loyal States properly be
longs to the people of those States.
3. We denounce all forms of reputation
as a national crime and the national honor
requires the payment of the public Indebted
ness in the uttermost good faith to all cred
itors at home aud abroad, not only according
to the letter but the spirit of the laws under
which it was contracted.
A. Ii is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalized, and redu-
ced as rapidly as the national faith will
permit.
5. The National debt contracted. as it
has been. for the preservation of the MON
for all time to come should be extended
over a fair period for redemption and it
is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon, whenever it can be honestly
done.
6. That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is to improve our credit
that capitalists will seek to loan us money at
! lower rates of interest than we now pay !,
and must continue to pay, long re-
pudiation, partial or total, open or covert,
| is threatened or suspected.
I. The Government of the United States
should be administered with the strctest
economy, and the corruptions which have
been so shamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew johnson call loudly for radical
reform.
( s. We professedly deplore the untimely
and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession of Andrew johnson to
the Presidency, who has acted treacherously
/ to the people who elected him, and the
cause he was pledged to support who has
warped high legislative and judicial func-
| tions who has refused to execute the laws :
who has used his high Office to induce other
officers to ignore and violate the laws who
has employed his executive powers to render
insecure the property, the peace, liberty and
| life of the citizen who has abused the
pardoning power: who has denounced the
National Legislature as unconstitutional :;
who has persistently and corruptly resisted,
by every measure in his power, every proper
lately In rebellion who has perverted the
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