The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-17
New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention.

CONCORD, January 10. The Demo.
cratic State Convention met to-day.
Col. Henry o Kent, President OF the
Committee on Resolutions, reported the
following:
Resolved, !. That we cordially reaffirm
the National Democratic Platform OF
1876 as an Acknowledgements Of the
principles OF the Democratic party, and
we congratulate our political brethren
Of the whole country that these pripci-
pies were endorsed in the National can.
vass by the sutirages Of a majority OF
more than q quarter OF a million OF the
American people.
2, That we denounce upon the Re
publican party stern retribution Tor the
great crime by which the people were
detrauded of their right TO be governed
by rulers of their choice, and hold il up
TO universal execrstion, and we dc.
msnd of the present Congress the adop-
ton or initiation OF such measures of
legislative enactment or constitutional
amendment as shall render impossible
the contamination OF another such out
rage
3, That we congratulate sll good citl-
zens upon the happy results which have
ensued through the adoption
Democratic principles by the National
administration, 10 reference 10 the South
ern States, and trust that hereafter there
will be no Southern policy, no Northern
policy, bnt one common policy for the
whole Union, in the equality and duties of
al the States and OF all men before the
law.
4. That we are in favor Of stable cur.
rency, an honest payment Of the public
debt, and are opposed TO sill measures BY
which the public credit may be impaired.
5. We resssert our unqualified opposI.
ton 10 all schemes for depicting the pub
lie lands in aid Of private corporations or
monepohes, and We congratulate the peo-
pie upon the protested eleventh hour
conversion OF the Republicans of New
Hampshire 70 this staEds Democratic
doctrine
8. That we declare our abiding faith in
the doctrine Of our 'athors that the
United States is federal republic of free
and independent States, a. set forth in
the Declaration of Independence, united
under = government of limited DO Sers
for mutual protection and advantage.
and lesving 10 the States respectively
and 70 the people entire control, under
the Constitution, OF matters pertaining 70
their government and social, moral. re-
ligious and educational prosperity and
progress.
7. That in the interests Of American
commerce, which Republican nisruIe has
bsnlshed from the seas, in the interest of
the great body Of American people oot.
rageOusly taxed for the benefit OF the
favored classes, We demand a thorough
revision and reform OF the federal tariff
50 thsi II shall operate TO stimulate rather
than restrict trade between our own ana
iofelgn countries, and 10 the production
Of honest revenue rather than the On.
preston Of the masses for the agyrxn-
basement OF few protected nonopoli4,
5 That We tender our thanks 70 the
Democrats and Conservatives In the
Forty-iourth Congress, and commend
their example 10 the present Con gress for
reducing the expenditures in the VARIOUS
departments Of the government more
than thirty million dollars, and for their
refusing 70 appropriate money for the
army while used in illegal and despotie
oppression Of citizens ia any portion OF
the republic.
.. That the public interests demand +.