New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-08

Boston.
The report was accepted.
On motion OF Mr. Beard. Committee Of three was
appointed to wait Mr. Dawes and inform him Of hts
selection and escort him to the chair namely A. W.
Beard Of Boston, the Hon. John E. Sanford Of Taunton
and c. c. Dame Of Newburyport. The Committee
retired and soon after returned with Mr.. Dawes who
took the chair amid applause and called upon the Rev.
C. d. Hills, who offered prayer. Mr. Dawes then spoke
follows:
SPEECH OF THE HON. HENRY L. DAwEs.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: Before the Conven.
ton shall proceed to the consideration of the business
for which 1t is assembled you will permit me to return
my most grateful for the honor con-
ferred on me by an invitation to preside over its
deliberations. That honor derives Its chief value from
the fact that this is Convention Of Massachusetts, Re-
pubicans 1t was in this Commonwealth that political
organization to meet Overshadowng national peril
with the principles Of the Republican party, had tic
origin and here those principles have commanded an
support through all the phases OF early de-
veopment in every emergency OF conflict with NATIONAL
enemies, and during all the subsequent years Of doubt
and disbursement waiting on the work OF national
restoration. And now, without stain upon its honor
with the betrayal OF no trust committed to t care ito
gathered in convention nefe tOooy
in the State Of its BIRTH TO deserve CONTINUED
correcting the and misseps OF the past py an
wise and comprehensive staesmanshp for the future
shall not seek to tickle the ear with Boosting OF set
to turn your attention from the ouy
Of hour tohe glorious record already made up no
Republican party 1t is not on these we i've Aoe9rans
shall meet the present and prepare for the future
will be the measure Of public confidence bestowed upon
We deserve success or not hope g &c 20
backward the brilliant record Of what has been
done but to light up the gss OF aaf smU
sraed that the when led this nation sses
meet every new exigency, and cope with every new
force that shall spring up in Its pathway What that
party has done which ought not to have done iet ~
hat haa Qa Vet
IL make haste to accomplish. >
The unbrOken control OF public ahairs in Maeeacno.
setts the beginning Of Republican power brings 10
your door security but increased responsibility ana
work That wise policy oas %
works OF internal improvement OF TINS or any aee TO
qures at the hands OF those VINO Sa o
transportation and bring back to her In return or ne
expenditures the wealth Of new industries and enlarged
competition in old ones. - -
The burdens Of taxation which the necessities Of the
war and the great OF the state nave 'a rs
for these burdens that the elements OF neces
for s4
elements will lift without complaint the heavest
too heavy to be tolerated by the tax.
payer The labor of the State its largest capital ana
win not impair just fair to those whose
prosperity is inseparabe from that OF labor ltse O
the public mind as thinking men, differ in respect TO
the means and methods and their just m pa'
tanned, we are unit and in earnest.
But work ends not here We are also part OF
that great national organization out of the glory OF
whose past comes light which ilumnes the present
and the voice which is the inspiration of the future
we shall discharge duty at home shall we neet
the requirements Of that larger and broader relation
our action here to-day and its results will reach In their
influence beyond our own Commonwealth TO the re-
hottest limit OF national authority and national security
The and vote Of Massachusetts, in the councils OF
the nation been unbroken and undivided since the
Republican party has had being. Shall they so con-
nuei the spirit Of the Rebellion always sleeping so
waking into iDcarnate ferocty at the fantest prom
has Seen deiuded by the Spring elections, and has
come from it's lurking places full armed to hunt and
murder the 'front.' and sVe
single vote to that party with which by some strange
themselves and refuse to shaken Off There not
Democrat in Massachusetts know whose soul does
less Southern citizens, and who would not shun their
perpetrators as he would leper. And yet the
GOOD resolutions Political allies must be political
friends. Until the humbest American citizen in
The meanest howell, though his face be as black as
the heart Of his prosecutor shall be armed with all
legal weapons defend himself IN the enjoyment Of
there is no room dele in Con-
gress a single representative OF that party whose
Massachusetts has sacred legacy in the Civil Rights
bill which cannot barter away nor nrust TO any I'M
and lives of coOred citizens at the South shocking
the heart OF nation and the attempts TO overthrow
with serious forebOdngs. But these violent demOEstra
tOns are premature, and will d6ieat their ends.
tbboId confidence from mere professions and to thank
God devoufly that Grant ana not Buchanan wields,
No more than in civil rights can Massachusetts, Re
pubcans abe Their aea ~ ~ ae III OF tue
open assaults against which the Executive whom they
support has interposed as tue lqst exercise OF
President of their choice in this controversy SO long
there shall exist opposition to the restoration OF gold
early resumption OF specie payments and the payment
Of the debt Of the nation in the money recognized by
Tho lizea
II You shall be to your trusts and awake to your
then will ii be demonstrated that by and
through the Republican party Of the State and nation,
snail the live issues Of the present and the Just expeca
tons Of the future be successfully met Thus and then
will il be that in and through the Republican party
shall the civil service be regenerated the public faith
level the public expenditures reduced to the lowest
pont Of necessity and efficiency. the National debt
land 30 cared for that the American
aborer shall control the labor and the wages that sup
and uncared Rebel shall be taught to respect the civil
rights every citizen and the constituted authorities
of every State To accomplish these results Ia the duty
of the hour They lie in the direct pathway Of the Re-
publican party and their attainment is the condition Of
Continued success But in the future at our
very DOORS questions OF the utmost gravity, and OF
the broadcast scOpe-from the solution OF which there
will be no escape but In surrender No fail to
discern approach, and they will not admit OF post
The deepseated political disease which, folio wing the
Rebellion, has perverted and wasted the life OF the
Southern states, demands heroic treatment How shall
the healing Influences OF interrupted eelfgOvernment
be made to pervade body polite too sick to discern
them, and too weak to grasp themi The subtle and
mighty agencies Of the telegraph and steam. covering
the continent with the and arteries OF sys
TENS of communication and OF transmission, crossing
State nes passing under rivers. over mountains, and
through tunnels and binding the nation in unbroken
and network unknown to the fathers
made this republic Of separate States. These
working their marvellous results through corporate
powers and combined forces that rival the Government
itself In their ability TO control the people and their In
teress What shall be hereafter their relations to that
Government Where shall the limit and check be
placedf These questions 10 which the political
cannot be indifferent II 1t would
Another and greater question than all others con-
fronts thoughtful statesman he turns his face to
the future The power Of the central Government is
increasing while that OF the States is decreasing The
Deeessty efficient, unQuestiOned central