The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-07-06

party, duu appealing W Gue hmotiCdu
people to forget civil war after eleven
years of peace, and to put aside sectional
strife. He accompanied them with some
earnest remarks. The resolutions were
referred.
The Convention then adjourned to II
o'clock a. m. the next day, to give the
committee on platform time to report.
After adjournment, Hon. Daniel Voor-
hees, of Indiana, was called upon, and
made strong and eloquent speech upon
the issues of the campaign.
At night Hon. s. s. Cox, of New York,
was serenaded, and delivered pleasant
address. He set out to speak against
Tilden, but the shouts of the crowd would
drown his voice with their praises of New
York's noble Governor, and Mr.. Cox was
compelled to give Mr.. Tilden a liberal
amount of praise.
SECOND Days PRocEEDINGs-A PLAT
FORM WHICH IS A MASTERPIECE OF
INTELLECTUAL WORKMANSHIP, AND A
NOMINEE WHO IS EVEN BETTER.
ST. LOUIS, "WEDNESDAY June 28.-
Al IL a. m. every seat and standing place
in the Convention hall was filled. Presi
dent McClernand called the Convention
to order, introducing Father Brady, Of
st. Louis, who offered prayer.
Young, of Georgia, offered resolution
that the Convention endorses the reform
inaugurated by the House of Representa-
tives in cutting down the appropriations,
approves their investigation of fraud and
congratulates the country on the bring
ing of public criminals to justice.
The chair decided that the resolution
must 20 to the committee on the plat
form.
Kelley, of New York, at the request of
som New York delegates, presented a
paper signed by many eminent gentle
men who were opposing the nomination
Of Governor Tilden.: [Applause. and
Kisses.
The chair ruled the paper out of order.
The Convention then took recess till
ppm.
At 2 o. m. the Convention re-as-
sembled, and Judge Meredith, of Vir-
ginia, the chairman of the committee on
resolutions, presented a report, stating
that great many resolutions were pre-
sented, all of which had been carefully
examined and discussed before coming
to an agreement. He then requested
Mr.. Dorsheimer, of New York, to read it
to the Convention, and it was read as
follows:
PLATFORM.
We, the delegates of the Democratic
party of the United States, in National
Convention assembled, do here declare
the administration of the Federal govern
ment to be in urgent need of immediate
reform, do hereby enjoin upon the nomi-
nees of this Convention, and of the Dem
ocratic party in each State Jealous
effort and cooperation to this end, and
do hereby appeal to our fellow-citizens
of every former political connection to
undertake with us the first and most
pressing patriotic duty. For the De
mocracy of the whole country, we do
here reaffirm our faith in the permanen-
cy of the Federal Union, our devotion
to the Constitution of the United States
with its amendments universally accept
ed as final settlement of the contro-
versies that engendered civil war, and do
here record our steadfast confidence in
the perpetuity of republican self-goyern-
ment. In absolute acquiescence in the
will of the majority, the vital principle
of the Republic; in the supremacy Of
the civil over the military authority in
the total separation of Church and State,
for the sake alike of civil and religious
freedom: in the equality of all citizens
before lust laws of their own enactment !;
| in the liberty of individual conduct, un-
vexed by compulsory laws; in the faith
full education of the rising generation,
that they may preserve, enjoy and trans
nit these best conditions of human hap
piness and hope. Webehold the noblest
products of hundred years of'change-
full history; but while upholding the
bond of our union and the great charter
of these our rights, it behooves free
people to practice also that eternal vigi-
lance which is the price of liberty. Re
form is necessary to rebuild and estab-
lish in the hearts of the whole people
the Union eleven years ago.. happily
rescued, to save it from the danger of a
corrupt centralism which, after inhicting
upon ten States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, has honey-combed the
offices of the Federal government itself
with incapacity, waste and fraud, infect
ed States and municipalities with the
contagion of misrule, and locked fast the
prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of Hard Times. Reform is
necessary to establish a sound currency,
restore the public credit and maintain
the national honor.
We denounce the failure for all these
eleven years to make good the promise
of the legal tender notes which are a
changing standard of value in the hands
of the people, and the non-payment of
which is a disregard Of the plighted faith
of the nation.
We denounce the improyidence which
in eleven years of peace has taken from
the people in. Federal taxes thirteen
times the whole amount of the legal
notes, and squandered four times this
sum in useless expenses, without accu-
mulating any reserve for their redemp-
tion.
We denounce the financial imbecility
and immortality of that party which, du-
ring eleven years of peace, has made no
advance toward resumption that instead
has obstructed resumption by wasting
our resources and exhausting all our sur
plus income, and while annually profess
ing to intend speedy return to specie
payments, has annually enacted fresh
hindrances thereto. AS such hindrance
we denounce the resumption clause of
the act of 1876, and we here demand its
repeal. We demand judicious system
of preparation, by public economies, by
official retrenchments, and by wise fl
nance, which shall enable the nation to
assure the whole world of its perfect
ability and its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at the call of the
creditor entitled to payment. We be-
lieve such system, we'll devised, and,
| above all entrusted to cOmpetent hands