Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-07-15
WYOMING CO., PA. "WEDNESDAY, JULY Is, 1868.

cheS and functions OF the Government, TO
be enforced By the bayonets Of military
deSpOtism =!
1t is impossible that free and intelli-
gent people can longer submit to such a
state Of things. They will not calmly stand
by to see their liberties subVerted, the pros
perity and greatness of their country un-
dermined, and the institutions bequeathed
to them. They must see that the conserv-
ative and national principles of liberal
and progressive Democracy are only safe
guards of the Republic. Gentlemen of the
Convention: Your country looks to you to
stay this tide of DIsoRGANIzATIoN, v;o-
LENCE, AND DEsPoTIsM. 1t will not look
in vain, and when State after State shall
respond by rallying around the broad BAN
ner of Democracy, on which, in the future
as in the past, will be inscribed out undy-
ing motto: 'THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION,
AND THE LAWS!
The nomination was received with loud
cheers. Mr.. Palmer thanked the Conven-
ton in a brief speech.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan, Rector of St.
Thomas church, offered an impressive
prayer-the vast audience rising and
standing in respectful silence.
The roll of States was then called, and
each found to be fully represented.
Committees of one from each State were
appointed, on permanent organization, on
credentials and on resolutions.
The Declaration of Independence was
read by f. o. Perrin, of n Y, the Secre-
tary, after which the Convention ad-
journed, to meet on Monday, the 9th at
10 o'clock.
SECOND DAY.
The Convention was called to order by
the temporary President. The Rev. Mr..
Quinn was called and opened the session
with prayer.
Hester Clymer, chairman of the com
mittee on permanent organization, reported
as permanent officers of the convention:
For President, Horatio Seymour of
New York For Vice President, Ex-Gov.
Reuben Chapman of Alabama, with list
of Vice Presidents and Secretaries taken
from each State.
Z. o. Perrin of N. Y, was chosen read
ing Secretary.
Horatio Seymour being introduced, ad-
dressed the Convention as follows:
GENTLEMEN CT THE CONVENTION: |
thank you tor the honor you have done
me in making me your presiding officer
This Convention is made up of II large
number OF delegates from all parts of our
broad land. To great degree we are
strangers to each other, and view the sub
jects which agitate our country from diff
terent standpoints. We cannot, at once,
learn each others modes of thought, or
grasp all the facts which bear upon the
minds of others. Yet our session must be
brief, and we are forced to act without de-
lay upon questions of an exciting charac-
ter and Of deep import to our country
To maintain order, TO restrain all exhibi
tions Of passion, to drive out of our minds
all unkind suspicious is, at this time, a |
great duty. | rely upon your sense of
this duty and not upon my own ability to
sustain me in the station in which l am
placed by your kind partiality. Men
never net under greater responsibilities
than those which now weigh upon us
1t is not mere party triumph we seek
We are trying to save our country from
the dangers which overhaDg it. we wish
to lift off the perplexities and the shackles
which, in the shape of bad laws and of
crushing taxation now paralyze the bust
ness and labor of our land. We hope, too
that we can give order, prosperity, and |
happiness to those sections of our country |
which suffer so deeply to-day in their
homes and in all the fields of their indus
try from the unhappy events of the last
eight years. trust that our actions will
show that we are governed by an earnest
purpose to help all classes OF our citizens,
Avoiding harsh invectives against men,
we should keep the public mind fixed up
on the questions which must now be met
ane solved. Let US leave the past to the
calm judgment of the future and confront
the pcrls of the day.
We are forced to meet the assertions |
in the resolutions put forth by the Repub-
lican Convention. aver there is not in
this body one man who has it i'll his
heart to excite SO much Of angry feeling
against the Republican party as must be
stirred up in the minds of those who read
these declarations in the light of recent
events ard in view OF the condition of our
country. In the first place, they congrat-
ulate the perplexed man of business, the
burdened taxpayer, the laborer whose
hours of toll are heightened out by the
growing cost of the necessares of life up
on the success of th at reconstruction poll
cy which has brought all these evils upon
them BY the cost of its military despotlsm
and the corruption of its bureau agencies,
In one resolution they "denounce all forms
of reputation as national crlnae."-
Then why did they put upon the statute
books of the nation the laws which invite
the citizens who borrow coin to force their
creditor to take debased paper. and thus
wrong him ont of a larpe share of his