The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-06-28

Lincoln, the states that today honor Hendricks
and Thurman, Hancock and Parker, Bayard
and Tilden, these states with all their vast pop
ulation will like the wood and the winds that
followed the teeting Orpheus follow you to
victory.
Some Resolutions.
August Belmont offered the following reso.
luton and supported them in speech:
We appeal to the honor and manhood of the
American people to begin the second century
of the American Union and independence by
trampling under foot and extinguishing forever
the smouldering ashes of distrust, rancor and
luminosity between the two great sections of
our country
We denounce with Indignation the.caculated
malignity with which the leaders of the Repub-
lican party have labored to keep alive through
eleven years of peace the worst passions of civ
il war. The Machiavelian motto of the Re-
publican party has been and is to 'Divide the
people and we shall rule them" For the Dem
ocratic party we reply, gu mite the people and
make them free"
We denounce the Republican party on this
great issue as party of false pretenses 1t is
false pretense to assume the character OF
union party and at the same time to exist only
by sectional divisions. 1t is false pretence to
assume the name of the Union party and at the
same time to be an obstacle to real unity. 1t is
false preteDSe to assume the name of a liberal
party and at the same time to appeal to the re-
ligious prejudces of the people. 1t is a false
and at the same time to turn the people back
from peace and the future to war and the past
The resolutions were referred.
The following resolution offered by S. S.
Hayes of Illinois. was offered to the Committee
on Resolutions without being read to the con-
vention:
With the frankness and candor to be expect
ed of great party coeval with the republic
and founded on the eternal principles of truth
and justice, we declare our opposition, first, to
further increase of the public debt and of the
demand notes of the government which shout
be restrained by constitutional amendment;
second, the interference with the operation of
the laws of trade by legislative favors to any
clans or by reckless charges.in the measures of
value; third, to the resumption clause of the
act of 1875 which subjects the country to years
any good result and threatens the destruction of
industries and the ruin of our people. Its i'm
mediate repeal is demanded by every considera-
ton of sound policy.
We also declare in favor of, first the strict
maintenance of the public faith and the pay
ment of all our obligations according to law
and the pledges we have made to our creditors;
second, an early return to specie standard by
providing for the redemption in coin
or coin bonds of our demand notes with the
proper provisions for their issue; third the con-
tinuaRce of our legal tender laws and of the
volume of our national currency without inf1a-
ton or contraction, leaving our merchants,
manufacturers and laborers free to prosecute
their lawful enterprise without fear of injury
from the government and thereby to hasten our
recovery from the effects of msrule and bad
| legislation, restore the general prosperity and
secure to labor its just reward.
Adjournment.
7 Adjourned till II o'clock tomorrow.