The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-16

siories. John A. Andrew was there
from Massachusetts, brave, eloquent,
lofty. tender, with convictions made
beautiful by courage and favored with
sentiment. George s. Boutwell,, from
the same State, was there, tame but
tenacious; somewhat dull but firm; not
snowy but tireless. Eben F. Stone,
who was Temporary Chairman of the
last. Massachusetts, Republican Con-
Ventiun, was delegate, and
William Clafin and Samuel Hooper,
both since then prominent in the poll
tics of Massachusetts,, were delegates to,
this convention. Gideon Welles, of
Connecticut, was delegate at large, as
were William M. Eyarts and Preston
King, Of New York. George William
Curtis was the first delegate from the
First district of New York; and it was
he, of the fnelodious voice and schol-
arly face, the gentle, cultured dreamer,
then SO much the hope Of
our literature, who asked the
convention if il was prepared to
go upon the record as voting down
the words of the Declafation of Inde-
pendence. William Curtis Noyes an /
James W. Nye were delegates from New
York. David Wilmot was delegate at
large from Pennsylvania. Thad Stevens
the indomitable, the heroic, was also a
delegate at large. VIM. d. Kelley was
there. Francis P. Blair and Montgom-
cry Blair were delegates Tom Corwin,
the wit, the man of sunshine, was del
egate from Ohio. Joshua R. Giddings,
fearless, devoted, conspicuous, was a
delegate from Jefferson. Fred Hass-
aurek was there, an eloquent speaker.
David Davis and O. q. Browning were
delegates from Illinois. Carl Schurz, of
course, was there, delegate at large
from Wisconsin. From what conven-
ton has this mercenary destructionist
and place-seeker been absent since Eu-
rope spewed him into this country?
Kasson and Allison, of Iowa, were dele
gates. Frank Blair, Jr., and Gratz
Brown were delegates at large from
Missouri. And Horace Greeley, that
strange combination of guilelessness
and intrigue, of ambition and modesty,
Of loving kindness and bitterness,
of breadth and narrowness, of
philosophy and fickleness, of hu-
maneness broad as the sea and
spites as little as the pebbles 1t washes
on the whitened shore, monument OF
tireless toll till he filed grave of de-
spair-Horace Greeley, the hater OF
Seward, the erratic man of unsurpassed
sincerity, the weak man of power, was
there as delegate from Oregon. Such
was the composition of the convention.
George 8. Boutwell,, F. P. Blair, Joseph
II. Barrett, of Ohio, Carl Schurz, J. A.
Kasson and Horace Greeley were among
the members of the Committee on Res
olutions. The Republican party, let us
believe, was then honest and earnest.
What did this convention, in that hour,
say about the rights of the Statesp
The second resolution in the platform
of this convention declared:
| mat me maintenance of the principles pro-
mu'gs.ed in the Declaration of Independence
and embodied in tbe Federal constitution y y
is esse tial to the preservation of our republi-
can institutions; and that the Federal constitu-
ton, the rights Of the States, and the Union Of
the States, must and shall be preserved.
The Republican party in 1860 was
not content with this enuncietion of
the rights of the States. The fourth
resolution of this platform was follows
That the maintenance iuviolate of the rights
Of the States, and especially the right Of each
Stateto order and control its own domestic in
stitutiops according 70 its own Judgment ex-
clueivelv, is essential to that balance Of power
on which the perfection and endurance Of our
| pol teal fabric depend; aud we denounce the
lawlcss invasion by armed force of the soil OF
| any State or Territory. no matter under what
1 pretest ss among the gravest of crimes.
We appeal from Philip drunk to
Philip sober" It has become the Re
publican theory that, inasmuch as the
late civil war destroyed all vestige oi
the alleged right of secession, no rights
of State remain that all the rights Of
the States perished when the Union oi
| the States was restored. We appeal
from the Republican party in 1879 tt
| tha RaDuhliean r,artv in 1870