The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-10-25
= . MORGA NTOwN ". Va SATURDAY. OCTOBER 25 1879

without money to disburse or Offices to
dispense, pleading with millions of
men TO vote for it because it claimed to
represent an idea within the constitu-
ton that lowered about freedom. The
Republican party never before and never
alter occupied position so eminent.
1t was not yet corrupted by power, and
was, IN some sense, made lofty with
hope. 1t seemed to try to stand upon
the constitution, and plead for liberty
for all men. In that convention of
1860. were some of the, men who have
lent luster to the Republican party, and
have been identified with its only
glories. 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 r. Stone,
who was Temporary Chairman of the
last Massachusetts, Republican Com
vention, was IA delegate, and
William Clafiin and Samuel Hooper.
both since then prominent'int the .poh-
tics of Massachusetts, were delegates to
this convention. Gideon Welles, of
Connecticut. was delegate Mt large, as
were William nj. Evarts and Preston
King, of New York. George William
Curtis was the first delegate from the
First district of New York: and il was
he, Of the melodious voice and schol-
arly face, the gentle. cultured dreamer,
then SO much the hope of
our literature, who asked the
convention If it was prepared to
go upon the record as voting down
the words of the Declaration Of INDIE
pendence. William Curtis Moves AMI
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., GiddinRs,
fearless, devoted, conspicuous, was
delegate from Jefferson. Fred Hass-
aurek was there, an eloquent speaker.
David Davis and o. FL. Browning were
delegates from Illinois. Carl Sehurz, of
course, was there, a delegate at large
from Wisconsin. From what conven-
ton has this mercenary destructionist
and place-seek 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 hui
maneness broad as the sea and
spites as little as the pebblea it washes
on the whitened shore, monument OF
tireless toll till he flied a grave OF de-
spair-Horace Greeley, the hater of
Seward. the cratic man Of unsurpassed
sincerity, the weak man of power was
there as a delegate from Oregon. Such
was the composition Of the convention.
George S. Boutwell,, f.. p blair, Joseph
I'll. Barrett, of Ohio, Carl Schurz, j. A.
Kasson and Horace Greeley were among
the members of the Committee on Res
olutions. The Republican party, lett
believe, was then honest and earnest
What did this convention, in that hour,
say about the rights of the. States?
The second resolution in the platform
of this convention declared: IN.
mat the maintenance OF the principles pro
mulgate1 in the DecIaratiou OF Independeuce,
and embodied in the Federal constitution Y n
IL essential to the preservation of our republi-
can institutions; and that the Federal consttt-
aion, the rights Of the States, and the Union Of
the states, must and shall be preserved ''i =
% The Republican party in 1850 was
not content with this enunciation of
the rights Of the States. The fourth
resolution of this platform was follows:
! That the maintenance inviolate Of the rights
of The States, and especially the right Of each
state to order and control its own domestic in
shtutions according 70 its own judgment ex-
clusiyely, is essential to that balance OF power
on which the perfection and endurance of our
pol teal fabric depend and we denounce the
lawless invasion by armed force of the coil OF
any State or Territory, no matter under what
pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
We appeal from Philip drunk to
Philip sober" 1t has become the Re
publican theory that, inasmuch as the
late civil war destroyed all yestige of
the alleged right of secession, no rights
of State remain; that all the rights Of
the States persisted when the Union of
the States was restored. We appeal
from the Republican party in 1879 to
the Republican party in 1860.
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