The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1876-07-19

APPOINTMENTS OF COMMITTEES.
The secretary then proceeded with the
call of the roll for the appointment of
committees Oh Credentials and PERMANENT
organization.
The secretary then called the roll for
! the appointment of committee on reso-
lutions, with the following result
Alabama, Leroy P. Walker Arkansas t.
Y. MaRgun; California, John s. Hagar
Colorado, F. J. Marshall; Connecticut Il. b.
Hubbard; Delaware, George Gray Florida;
hJohn WeseOtt /, Georgia, @. P. Howell; Iii
| nofs, John A. M'Clernand Indiana, ID. W.
| Voorhees,; Iowa, Il. II. TFiniblej Kansas
Thos. L. DstisI Kentucky, Alvin Duvall !;
Iyohisiahs, Il. H. Mann; Maine, D. R. Hast
ings; Maryland, George Freanor; Massachu
setts, Edward Avery; Michigan, William L.
sippi, A. M. Claytonl Missouri, G. II. Harden;
| Nebraska, George L. Melleh; Nevada, A. G.
Ellis; New Hampshire, E. G. Braley; New
Jersey, James w, Gates; New York. VII
liam DOrshimer; North Carolina, Thomas L.
| Clergyman; Ohio, General Thomas Ewing;
Oregon, NV, Brown; Pennsylvania, Malcon
Hay; Rhode Island, William B. Bead; South
Carolina, Samuel M'Gowan; Tennessee,
John c. Brown; Texas, Ashbel Smith; Yer
mont, James H. Williams; Virginia, John A.
Meredith; West Virginia, John j.. Davis
Wisconsin, Alexander MITCHELL
Resolutions were offered by S. S. Hayes
of ILL.,, and Mr.. Miller, Of Nebraska, and
referred to the committee,
The secretary then, upon request, re-
announced the times and places of meet
ing of the various committees, and the
convention took a recess until five o'clock
in the evening.
RBAssEMBbBb.
The convention reassembled at twenty
minutes past five O'Clock.
The first business before the conveu-
tion being the report of the committee
on credentials, the secretary read as fol
lows:
| Your committee OH credentials would re-
spectfully report that there afe no contested
seats [Bpplause1, that the states are fully rep
resented [renewed applauseb and that the
delegates reported by the chairmen of the re-
spective dele cations as delegates to the con-
ventiOn are entitled to seats in this cenven-
ton as delegates from their respective states.
| Respectfully submitted,
JAMES LAWRENCE ENGLISH,
| Chairman of the Committee.
Mr.. Hauna, of Missouri, from the
committee on permanent organization,
made the following report:
| Mr.. CHAIRMAN-fn behalf of the commit
tee on permanent organization l have the
homer to submit the following report of Off
| GERS for this convention;
| For permanent president, Gen. John A.
! McClernard, of Illinois.
Far Iytna.nroSidaufs and anprptaripS onp
! from each state.
The temporary secretaries, with Mr.. Prince,
of Boston, as chief, were continued as the
working secretaries, and sergeant-at-arms
Able was also reappointed.
Gen. M'Clernand was then escorted to
the platform amid loud applause, and
spoke as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE NATIONAL DEMO
CRATIC CoNvENTIoN-I thank you for the
distinguished honor which you have done
| liberatIons. You are the delegates of the
democracy of the whole union of fthirty-seven
states, once unnaturally estranged, but
now forever united in one indivisible repub-
| lie, brethren of one political family, with
the same heritage of liberty, under equal
| laws, and heirs of one destiny. Shall we
preserve and transmit that great inheritage? :?
Shall we make that destiny the most glo,
! rious in the history of free peoples? If
your deliberations, fellow-democrats, to-day,
shall be wise; if your perception Of the
necessities Of our time, our country and our
politics shall be Just and sagacioHs; if
your sympathy shall be quick with the
hearts Of great people, then. beyond all
peradventure, we will transmit to our chill
dren and our children's children, unim-
paired, this priceless heritage. Yours will
| be a better renown than the renown most
priced by the Romans-the coadit0rs iB1peT-
7ioraas-for greater than the founders OF
empires are the preservefs of republics
There are no enemies Of the union on this
continent except that administrative CEN
tralism which is congesting at the capital OF
vital currents which ought to flow through
every part, giving life to the farthest ex-
tremities of therbody polite and energy to
all its members, exceBt that corruption
which is the curse that centralism has never
failed in age or land to entail upon any
government. Centralism has imposed upon
ten states the Fapacious tyrannies of carpet!
bag rule, and since war have added two
hundred millions to their debts. They have
infected the governments of our northern
states and cities with the same disease of
extravaganza and fraud. They have de-
bauched the federal government itself, and
made the names of scores Of its high officers
and public men our public scandal and our
open shame. The record is horrible in in
capacity, venality, waste and fraud. The
republican marty, which has been powerless
to head down and trample under foot its
corruptionists, with stupeEdous effrontery
pledges itself to reform Of which II has. be-
come incapable. That party pledged itself
to restore specie payments, and every year
| is taking us further from specie payments.
TtnTadrrod tfraIf ~ oipil cnPEyiaa rnfor0a and
then dropped and Knocked its reformers. So
it pledged itself to protect American labor,
and with its monstrous eustomhouse taxa
ton ON over three thousand articles it has
| impoverished American labor. A few score
monopoIists, few thousand corruptionists,
have been enriched, but capital in the hands
Of those that earned it by industry end
saved it by frugality, is everywhere distrust-
ful and rusts unused, while honest labor
goes about the streets begging bread. Is
this the final outcome of q centenary Of re-
publican self government? God forbid itt
But we have wandered far from the right
paths We must return to the constitU-
tionRl principles the frugal expenditures
and the administrative purity of the found
ers Of the republic. This IS the FIRST, the
most imperious necessity of our day and
nation. This is the appeal we have to make
to our fellow-eitizens Of every former politi-
cal atfl1aIion- lnls is the one supreme colH-
nanding issue TO which all others are in
ferior, all others trivial. Reform reform
reform If you shall recognize this i'm
perious necessity; II you shall guarantee in
your platform the successful achievement Of
thiR ardUous work Of national regeneration;
il you shall select standard bearers true to
your own high purpose and faithful to your
pledge, victory in the November, and vic
tory in the October contest is already yours.
Incarnate the vital issue 0f reform in the
candidates and platform, and the states that
have honored Douglass and Lincoln, the
states that to-day honor Hendricks and
Thurman, Hancock and Parker, Bayard aRd
Tilden, these states, with all their vast popu'
latioRs, win rise like the woods and the
winds that followed the aeeting 0tpheus
and follow yon to victory,
August Belmont, of New York, then
obtained the floor and addressed the con.
vention, finishing by Offering the fol
lowing resolution, which was referred.
-Resoleed, That we appeal to the honor and
manhood of the American nennie to begiE