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| GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION
There is no need of my saying tina
) the information of the action of The
Convention, conveyed to me by your com
J mittee, is of peculiar qualification to me;
and 10 accepting the nomination and
the consequent endorsement of my ac
ton aud votes in the recent session OF
Congress, let me return you my heart
felt thanks for the honor you have con
ferred upon me for a second time. l can
only promise that will endcavor to dis
charge the duties imposed by the Office;
and in doing so, will be upheld by the
knowledge that have your well wishes
and that my course thus far has met with
your appreciation.
We are, as Republicans, still called
upon to stand together, to do the work
which lies before us and which makes
the continued existence of the party nee.
essary. Two years ago two parties came
before the people, presenting their plat
forms of principles and their candidates.
Those principles were discussed fairly
and fully. On the one hand was the
Democratic party adopting a platform
in the main good and sound, one on
which even Republicans could stand
They, moreoverover, placed in nomina
ton man who had been the idol of the
Republican party. Yet, with all this,
and Notwithstanding the disatfection in
the Republican ranks, We placed Gen.
Grant upon our platform, and there new,
or was such victory achieved. We
carried 2S6 out of 500 electoral votes,
while the opposition carried but six
states il the Union. Ia 1865, the oppo.
sition carried eigh, States, and after "a
trial Of twelve years, through the most
perilous tunes, in war and peace, such
was the splendid endorsement received
by the Republican party.
On the 4th of March, 1873, this Re-.
publican party entered upon its new
lease of power under the most solemn
pledges to the people and the country.
Only eighteen months have passed away
since this verdict of the people entrust.
Ing you with the administration of pub.
lie affairs, and now the opposition meet
us and say, you must 60 out of power,
you must surrender your trust to any
thing and anybody in opposition, and
candid men ask themselves for what rea-.
son? What has the Republican party
done; what crime has it committed in
these eighteen months what trust has
it betrayed by which it has Justly for
feited the confidence of the people, that
it should be said to it that its mission is
ended, and it must Law down the admin.
istration of public affairs? | say to you,
fellow citizens, that during that eighteen
months, the Republican party has, in no
single instance, broker "a pledge or be
trayed trust; but in so far as it had
the power. it has kept faith with the
people. In the first place, We promised
to sustain the amendments to the Co n
stitution. Let me ask you, has the Re.
publican party failed to keep this pledge?
Then we declared that neither the law
nor its administration should admit of
any discrimination in respect to citizens.
by reason of race, creed, color, or previ.
Gus condition of servitude. / use the
language of the platform adopted at
Philadelphia in 1872. You know the
history of the Civil Rights bill. You
know it has passed the Senate. You
recall the woros of the dying Massachu.
sets senator, 'do not let my Civil Rights
bill fail" Yet in the Senate not sin
gle Democrat voted for it. 1t came to
the House aud lies on the Speakers ia.
bic, where the rules have prevented its
being reached but by a two thirds vote,
although strenuous efforts have been re
peatedly made. Whenever these at.
tempts were made, however, we always
found the Democrats arrayed solidly
against it. They refuse to permit the
negro to bury his dead iu the public
cemetery, or educate his children in the
public schools. find he has right to
occupy a seat next TO me in the House
of Representatives but the black child
has no right to sit by the side of the
white child in the school house, that he
may be educated TO properly perform
the duties which his citizenship has cast
upon him. Some Republicans even,
question the expediency of the proposed
bill, but l can never give vote to en-.
slave or decitizenize the negro. Look
at the South. Look at the "war of ra-
css" we see existing there. The Repub.
lican party has never turned its back
upon the blacklist citizen, and it will not
DO so to-day. 1t has, in our own state,
or the contrary, reaffirmed its fidelity to
the rights of all men. We promised to
maintain an honorable peace with the
nations of the earth. Have we not done
it? We promised that no more grants
of land should be made to corporations
and monopolies, and the public domain
has not been invaded. We promised
you economy, and have we not given
you that? In the appropriations made
at the last session of Congress We made
an honest effort 10 intrench, and sue
ce ded in making decrease of S27,
0UU,O00 in the expenditures for the fis-