The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-15
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CINCINNATI CONVENTION.

CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
First Days Session-0rganization-
Speeches from Hon. E. D. Morgan,
T. ri. Pomeroy, Temporary Chair
man, Fred Douglass, Gov. Howard,
Of Michigan, and Rev. H. H. Gar
Edward Mcpherson Chosen
Permanent President Gossip Brs-
tow Gaining and Blaine Losing
Ground.
CINCINNATI, June 14-11 :45 a. IN.
The delegates are now gathering at the
hall. The convention will be called to or
der at noon.
SECOND DIsPATCu-TnE CONVENTION IN
pEssIoN.
CINCINNATI June ID.
The convention assembled in exposition
hall, which was tastefully but not gaudily
decorated. The arrangements for seating
the delegates and the public were perfect.
The hall seats about 5000, but many thou
sands desiring admittance were disappont-
ed. Nc person is admitted without tick
ct, and no ticket given for which seats are
not reserved. Back of the large stand is a
bank Of chairs for distinguished persons
with room for 700. The delegates occupy
the front of the hall with the alternatcs
seated seated in their rear, and the space for
1000 people behind them. The galleries
are also filed with spectators. At eleven
o'clock, the nominal hour for assembling,
but few delegates were in the hall, bat they
soon commenced crowding in rapidly at
1l:15 o'clock. AT 11:45 o'clock, the space
for the delegates was nearly filled. The
weather is cool ard pleasant, fine rain
having fallen last night.
At Fix minutes to noon Gov. Morgan
called it TO order. introducing Rev. Dr..
Mullen, of COvinrton, Ky, who opened
the proceedings with prayer. BY the stated
hour nearly every scat in the building was
filled, and the scene was exceedingly bril-
liant.
MR.. MoRGAN's ADDRESS.
Gentlemen OF the convention The day
and hour has arrived for which repre-
sentatives Of the republican party were in
vited to assemble to nominate candidates
for president and vice, president of the
United States, and in obedience to the. au-
thoiiy of the republican national commit
Zee, now respectfully aOk that you will
maintain order In 1866, at Philadelphia,
in 1860 at Chicago and in 1864 in Bslti-
more, acting under the same general au-
thority it has been my privilege to call the
republican conventions to order. If l ex-
cept the action Of the convention Of 1864,
the duties which this intelligent body has
to perform in comparison with former ones
are the most important of all. There is no
special or parliamentary authority for any
remarks from the chair. In the nature of
things there cannot be any. Custom only
is my excuse, If excuse is needed, for even
few words. In June 1864, VIC we're in
the midst of a war for the preservation of
the Union. We had great armies in the
field but they had achieved only partial
SUCCESS, and when successful it was always
at very great cost of life. The bravest
and best of our young men had fall
en- in battle by tens and hundreds
of thousands, and were in pris-
on at Andersonville and Libby. Presi-
dent Lincoln, seventeen months prior to
this, had by proclamation, but only as a
war measure, declared slaves free, while
their masters kept them within their lines
and held full dominion over them. 1t was
then modestly suggested by your chairman
of the national committee that the conven-
ton would not discharge its whole duty
unless, among its other resolves, il should
declare for such an amendment of the ma
tional constitution as would, when adopted
by the requisite number of states, forever
prohibit African slavery on this continent.
The suggestion was received with unex-
ampled enthusiasm by the convention, a
resolution to secure this national blessing
was written in our patty platform on that
day. Both houses OF congress very soon
after passed the required amendment
tweEty-ninc sovereign states ratified IT. the
noble Lincoln proclaimed the result TO the
people, and from that hour to this the sun
has not risen upon bondman or set up
on slave in all this fair land. No. to the
north, not to the south but to that Supreme
Being alone who controls the destiniea of
nations as well as the affairs of individuals
let us give all the glory.
But all this is past, and the past We cor
clude is secure. Pardon me, gentlemen,
if again, with like modesty, make sug-
gestion or TWO bearing directly on the
present. This convention should emphati-
cally demand the prompt and efficient exc
cution of those solemn promises of both
houses of congress, ard the president to re-
deem in coin the legal tender obligations
of the government on the FIRST of January
1S70,and signify its opposition to any modi-
fication or repeal Of this law that does not
guarantee still earlier or better method of
returning to specie payment. Let no
doubtful word go out from this convention
upon the subject of honest money. Prices
are already at specie point stand firmly
by your numerous resolutions and plat
forms little longer and your currency
basis will be transformed into coin basis
SO easily and so naturally that you will be
yourselves surprised, regretting only, as
you will, that it was not determined upon
at an earlier day. Resumption accom-
plished, then, in all human probability,
will follow ten or fifteen years Of prosperi-
ty equal to that of any former period, per-
haps greater than the country has yet seen.
If you will in addition put plank in your
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