The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-24
Alabama Republican Convention.

MONTGOMERY, August 22.-The Republl
can convention renominaled White and
sheets for congressman at large. The Com.
mjttee on Credentials took one day and night
70 report. There are SO proxies out OF
Fobout 200 votes. Eight counties were en-.
tirelv represented in that way. The Con-
yention was made up of Mobile custom
house officers and postmasters, aud as many
more bought up the proxies. Spencer, lays,
and White run the Convention entirely, ana
the fund appropriated By Congress for the
relief of overflo wed districts on the Alabama
and the Warrior rivers is to be used as the
campaign fund, aud great expectations are
based on it. AS q big crop has been made
and there is no restitution in Alabama, ano
| no need for Federal bacon and green0acks,
II will ONLY be used to corrupt voters.
The Republican Convention recessed from
| 1880 p. NJ. to 5 in order to give the platform
committee time to report. 1t IS belleTe co
that the committee will either ignore or de-
nounce Summers bill.
Stonecker, the Government mail transpor
tation agent from Louisiana. said ina speech
last evening that President Grant had au
tborjzed him to say that if it was necessary
to protect the Republicans, Alabama would
be flooded with Federal troops. He said
nothing ABOUT protection to Democrats.
The announcement was received with great
appIuuse. but the State Journal, Republi-
can paper, commented severely on it, and
this morning the Convention, by unanl-
nous vote, censured the Journal.
After Thursdays session oil the ConVen-
ton the following resolutions were adopted
The Republican party of Alabama, in
State Convention assembled, again declare
its unchanged confidence in, and its unaltera-
BILE devotion to, the great principle OF re-
publican liberty which called it into exist
ence-yiz, The civil and political equality
OF all men without distinction of race or
color.
I'd. In the practical application of these
principles we have neither claimed nor desired
the social equality Of different races or OF
individuals of the same race; neither 90 we
claim or desire it now. We regret the issue
of race against race which is rendered us by
the Democratic party, as fraught with meal
cuiable evils to our whole people, which soWs
the seed of ruin to all our material
and political interests, and which, IL per-
sisted in by that party, will steadily plunge
us again in q war with the Government OF
tue United States.
Sd. We have not made race issue ID tue
past, neither do ne tender such an issue.
What we demand for one man we demand
for all men without distinction OF race or
color: we denounce the assertion that II
has been necessary for white people to unite
and act together in sef.detence and for the
preservation of white civilization rs untrue
and an emenation of that selfish spirit which
in the past demanded everything for one
race and was unwilling to concede anything
10 the other.
The resolutions further review the politi-
cal history of Alabama from the beginning
OF the late war, including the existence OF
the so-called kukluX klans.
5th. That we neither desire or seek the in
yason OF the rights OF the white people /;
we only ask equal advantages in matters OF
equal and common rights; that the Republi-
can party does not desire or seek mixed
schools or mixed accommodations for the
colored people; we recognize the fact that
every home is sacred from intrusion, and
that in free country every on. can dictate
for himself the line Of social exclusion; that
society gave us bylaws more exorable than
statute or common law, and opens or closes
its door to whomsoever it will, and that no
civil law can or should invade it.
9Th. We demand vigorous execution of
the laws OF the State and of the United
States; the trial and punishment of all per-
sons offending against the laws by lying in
ambush, etc.
It'll The good faith and the credit of the
State were we'll sustained and the price of
its bonds when the Government passed from
the hands of Governor Smith to his Demo-
cratic successor in 1870; we pledge ourselves
tn use the means of the State for the pay
ment of all its just debts and to provide for
the proper adjustment of what is called the
railroad indebtedness of the State, and to
mt an end 10 the further endorsement Of the
bonds of all private corporations.
9Th. That the Selling of the Alabama and
Charleston railroad by the Democratic adj
mInistration has resulted in greatly impair
inc the value of the securities held by the
State to provide for the payment Of The State
liability therein.
Rapiier (negro) was nominated to-day for
Congress from this district. ;.
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