The New York herald., 1879-09-04

The report was adopted unanimously.
Messrs- Arthur. OF New York. and Post, OF Cayuga
were appointed 10 conduc. the permanent president
to she chair When the applause which followed
his Introduction had subsidized Mr. Wheeler addressed
the Convention as follows:-
MR.. wHEELEg's SPEECH.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNyEsrioS-Thrice have
now assigned me. and ii gratitude can be computed
by progression, thrice I grateful for your kind
partiaty. had the honor to preside over the
Republican State Convention twenty years ago,
when the slave power, having the constitu-
ton. the laws, the Executive. Congress and the
courts in complete doniination was nevertheless
demanding for its pecuir interest rights and pro-
lection without the pale OF the constitutions
secretly organizing vast conspiracy against the in
tegrity of tho Union and kindling tho lame OF the
ruthless civil war which. within two years thereafter.
opened its dread drama in Charleston Harbor in the
glare of eev. n batteries of artillery which hurled
their iron bolts upon small siege-worn company
United States troops whom the government. IN
Its earnest desire to avoid hostile demonstrations
was endeavorng to feed and not to rein
force. 1t at sumter that the expert
mont of starving the government initia-
ted, with repetition at AndersOnville and
other places OF historic brutality, and more re-
Gently ut Washington at the late extra session of
Congress. came to this position again in 1872 The
cuvtain had then fallen upon the bloody drama
opened ut Charleston. The long. weary battling
years that had interviewed had drifted into tho
from its humiliation ut Sumter, and again
inviolnte and supreme proclaimed the
Grandc A half million OF the defenders of that
sovereignty were sleeping in soldiers graves. The
blood OF hundreds Of battlehelds, the
blenis of mourning the tears in million Of
sacrificial homes-the bercft. the desolate. the
helpless. the Scared and wasted encountered on
every hand atested the costlincss OF the sacrifices
which had been made for the national life. We then
confidently believed TINT by an immutable law Of
the Supreme Ruler such sacrifices had not
been made in vain; that the nations blood.
the nations tears and the nations treasures had
found compensation i'll the destruction OF the germ
of the fatal heresy of secession and in saving the
grand framework OF our government from falling
into wretched Fragments.
REPUBLICAN MANAGEMENT.
With immense majoritics III Congress and every
Northern Stato and omnpetenr to fix the status OF
it's defeated enemies the government with mag
naniinity for which tho history OF the world fur
nislies parallel. treating tho contest as one
OF principle and not OF personal hatred.
aud lifting itself above the low level OF
sectional triumph. had condoncd the
crime of treason and rebellion. and actually rein
vested traitors and rebels with the rights they had
forfeited and mado them cqnal participants
off i'll their mad purpose to destroy the
national authority This maenanimity has
been supplemented by overy possible effort to
inaugurato in tho southern section of this coun-
try substantial era of reconciliation and peace.
Military garrisons have been withdrawn. all alleged
natiopa interference heretofore complained of dis
contmued. and. contrary TO All poEticai
precedent, appointments to Office have been given
to those who a few years since were moving heaven
and Garth to prostrate the government and Union.
To-day We are here confronting the consequence
of hc magnanimity Of the government and
Of its wasted and dcspised efforts TO con-
ciliate its late armed assailants. In the light
OF rccent events it is not hyperboe to inquire was
tho Surrender of Appomattox, wrctcLed hollow
truce patched to enable the rebellion to choose
new Nne of assault upon the Union. and was tho
mushroom Contederacy proclaimed at Montgomery
really failure the founders and ideas to be-
como the living controlling forces OF tho country?
THAT SOLID SOUTH
Tho spirit which deiied the authority and sought
to destroy the unity of the republic has again taken
living form in a solid South. supported by the whole
power of the party North. which. in 1861 declared
that the constitution had left the government power
valorous spirit but fanting hesh pledged itself
to resist coercion unto blood. and which. when
victorious legions had prepared the winding
sheet OF the rebellion in its national conventions
assembled resolved the war failure. Stripped Of
al cuise the two great parties of tho country arc
again ranged on either side OF the line OF de-
inarcuton of the powers OF the nationl government
and the States wherAn now differs the issue
from tliat nLio up in 1851? Then the democratic
party demanded OF President Lincoln that he should
perjurc himself in his official oath or they would
overthrow tho government by armed iorce Lincoln
answered i'll his inau9ural:-
You have no oath Registered heaven destroy tho
government while have the most solemn to
protect and defoud IL.
This demand was refcrrod to tho last dread court
Of sybrament. where, for four years. in tho white
hesfe; fearful war. the great argnment proceeded:
was declared to that matchless soldier.
whose marshaling of the Union forces
had brought rebel traitors to submission and
avenged an outraged nation. That verdict was that
the constitution Of the United States was not
a compact entered into by the States. but was
the United states for thomsc and their
posterity: that State combination of States
nullify the constitutions that the Union is a
family of States, independent OF each other
for local concerns. but united under one
government for the management of COM
mon interests and the preservation Of the gen-
orai peace-a plan. to borrow the lang uase
OF another. most hopeful for combining the bome-
bred blessings of small State with the stability and
power of great empire In short, that verdict
that the nationality proclaimed by fathers shall
stand until justice. domestic tranquility, the COM
mon defence the general warfare and the blessings or
liberty shall. In Gods own good timc under the
and stripes, be the lasting heritage OF all who
may be dwellers upon the face Of this entire conti
nent and the republican party OF tho Elm
pire State, remembering that the great charter
OF nationality enacted upon her soil. and re-
calling tho heroic deeds the sacrifices and the hdel-
ity of the almost half million Of ner sons who part-
cipated that bloody assize, pledges itself hero
anew to stand by the verdict.
CRIMES DRMocRcY.
In this year of grace this democratic party
which sought to coercc President Lincoln from his
Official duty has demanded OF President Hayes that
he should perjuro himself In his official oath;
that he should surrender prcrogative
given him by the constitution. that Con-
gress alone might become the law-making power
enactment, strip tho government OF the lower to
protect its citizens. to enforce it's laws for tho
OF the ballot box to the end that this pal
ladium of liberties might be left prey
to frind and violence m ,s Y S,rt the rss Gatn rovo
tionary demand accomplished by the menace
that, tho President refusing the whole machinery Of
the government should be brought to - staudstill
by withholding the supplies which constitute its
worry life currents. This assault upon
the Constitution. differing in form only
from that made by the Same party in
1861. was met with hrinness. dignity and patriot
ism which made Rutherford b. Hayes illustrious in
his high Office. and worthy of him who.
for twelve years. in field and cabinet stood against
every such assault as wall OF alamant
The democratic party lacks now only tho Execu-
tive Department. to control tho government. Tho
Congress has already passed. to tho absolute
rule of that ovcr-mastering Southern section Of
the party which. by more than two-thiris
majority. chosen always for its conspicuous hdcity
TO the rebellion. dictates tho action of its Northern
followers. 1t is OF this democratic party am
speaking to-day which. despite all debate upon tho
question of Northern southern responsibility for
the Initiation of any given OF governmental
policy. alono control and does FIX tho inal i'm
press and give IL effect
PLAGUE ITS INvENToRs.
This ascendancy in the House of Representatives