National Republican., 1880-02-26
was effected, with Charles f. Smith as per-
manent chairman. After the committee on
credentials had reported, the following resou-
tions were submitted:

oning dangers Il is the duty Of the Republican |
party of the Union in It's united strength to meet
great responsibility iu the coming Presidential |
contest and the fact that 1t must be determined by
the electoral vote Of their state, they hereby sol.
emnly pledge to the Republicans OF other states
their ability TO cast 1t for Ulysses s. Grant.
We declare that in him we repose absolute trust
Judgment and solid Intelligence, his varied ex-
and for the uniform success that has
ever attended his efforts In securing the III;
our common country. For, these reasons,
and because we are satisfied that IN him
greet gre a candidate deserving of its confidence, We
present him as entitled to the sufIrOges of all pa
triotlc citizens, We also declare that the objection
to third Presidential term applies only TO a third
consecutive term and is utterly inappliCabe to the
reelection of General Grant, who Is and has been
a private citizen, absent from the country, desti-
ute of all Presidential official influence or pa
tronage, and whose election must be by free choice
of the people, unaided by those Influences which
alone give force If any there be- to such objection
Therefore
Res0lvod That the Republicans of New York be-
leve the reelection Of U. s. Grant as Il Presiden-
tal candidate of urgent Importance, and the dele
gates this day assembled are called on and in
structed TO use their most earnest and united efforts
to secure his nomination
At the close of tho reading there was long
continued applause and Kisses.
Mr.. Foster moved to amend that portion of
the resolutions pledging the State to Grant by
substituting UHo OF james ". Blame.
[LOng-coutinued applause. He moved to
strike out all that portion of the resolution
referring to Il third term.
After considerable discussion Mr.. w. B.
Woodin moved to strike out the name of Grant
and leave the delegation unpledged.
Mr.. Forster accepted tue amendment.
The question was then put on Forster's
amendment, but Mr. Conkling took the floor
and addressed the convention at great length.
In speaking on Mr.. Forster's amendment,
Mr. Conkling said:
cannot vote with any man who proposes now
TO fritter away and squGnder in the presence of II
great emergency the imperial and oyertopping in
nuence of the great State of New York.
The election before us, fellow Republicans Is
destined TO be memorable when you and may be
orgotten-memorable for the desperation of the
contest, not only before the people have decided It,
but fear afterward also. 1t is the last election to
occur under census which gives unhalowed and
unlawful power TO the South. say unhollowed and
unlawful power, because every colored person is
counted to swell representation, and yet the col
ored vote is tramplcd out and ignored. Applause.
This arrangement gives to the Southern States but
forty-seven electoral votes less than majority.
A new count is about 10 take place. new appor-
tionment is to be fairly made The sceptre win be
taken from the States in rebellion and 1t will re-
pass 20 the North and West. But with Demo-
cratic President next time and Democratic Con
gress to make all these adjustments you will have
an apportonmcnt under which the Republican
party may not carry this country again for ten or
twenty years. Moreoyer, close result however
open the door to train of evils which no prophet
can foretell. The last electoral count when one
house was Republican and one Democratic, the
extra session, with its revolutionary plot the do
ings in Maine and other things are enough TO
warn the blind and the deaf Preparations are al
ready foot to place the choice OF the next Pres-
dent in the hands of q Democratic House. A flaw
found in single electoral certificate of any State
with either Of these two Democratic Houses to
refuse TO count II, and the result is given into
the hands of the House, where the election
must bo made by states-and what do you see +?
Although the House is Democratic, counted by
States It is Republican, and thereiore-yes, ven.
ture to say thereiore-Mr. WaShburn, of Mnne-
sofa, who was elected by more than 1000 majority,
and Mr.. Orth, Of Indiana, are marked for de-
sruction-to be deprived of their seats. Why?
Because they hold the casting vote in their deio.
cations. If Minnesota has majority of Demo.
cratic members and Indiana has u majority of
Democratic members, and If the election for PTcsi-
dent Is thrown into the House the vote being
taken by States the election of the said Democratic
party Is insured. In crisis like this. with New
York the pivotal StGte-New York, whose vote is
to make the next President of the United States
has she no opinion TO declare TO the Republicans
of other States who is the man In crisis like this ?
Let me usk the question as to New York. Have the
Republicans of New York no opinion? Who, in
the presence of such crisis; who among the men
Republicans can trust most certain to be elected
most certain TO be lawfully seated after his eec'
Next year, when we come to have counted
the electoral votes, we shall need two things
first decided, unmistakable result, and see
ond, II man with the whole country behind him
man in which this whole country has SO much
confidence thOtno revolutionary plot or conspiracy
will uplift Its hand to strike down his election.
III the name of history of the last fifteen years
of war and of peace looking over all of those
tragic events transpiring while the country has
been rocked us in storm and earthquake, who is
there in this broad land upon whose name, upon
whose achievements upon whose character and
strength the Republican party and the Nation can
safely repose2 lApplause, and cries of "Gr0nt'0nd
If there Is such q man will fall short in the
N "a. ne iOi1pl ia mi m
constituents have honOred me-eyery other mem
Der of this convention VIII fall short If there be
such man-if we do not express our judgment
and our convictions accordingly
Mr.. President, how history does repeat itselfl l
remember and you remember when Abraham
Lincoln was renominated lapplousel, and you re-
member what preceded that nomination, The
lights we sec now, the sounds we hear now, were
ul seen and heard then. Newspapers took can.
vases of the people and found threeIourths of
them were opposed to Lincoln. anybody but
Lincoln" Anything to beat LINCOLN" Conven-
tiOns were held, IN which the galleries and out
siders undertook TO impress and mislead tho con-
yentons with the idea that the peoples judgment
was against Lincoln. The people knew better.
Mr., President, down below this auttering sur,
face, deep down in the hearts and Judgment of the
people broader, deeper stronger wiser than words
of mine, and, If | may say II without ofense,
than any member of this convention, is
the conscience the Judgment, the conviction of
States. DO we not know that the judgment and
conviction OF our constituents that the safest among
al the eminent men in the Republican party, the
second, allerward TO be lawfully, peaceably and
quietly seated Is that man who carried the flag
through the storm of battle and who, having been
tested, Is found worthy Of confidence aud admra-
Ion Of the people,
Touching on the thrdterm question, he
said the objection had boen offered that the
occupant of the Presidency could WELD official
power TO reuomnato and elect HIMSELF but
General Grant was private ctizen, and had
no official patronage and power, aud had been
absent in foreign lands. He declared cm-
phatically that the official patronage of the
Nation had not been used for General Grant.
In conclusion, Mr.. Conking said
believe more Republicans are for General Grant
than for any other Republican, and l believe that
moro Democrats will vote for him than any other
Republican Ibelieye that il any name can break
into the solid phalanX of the South and carry
either Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Alabama or Florida every one OF which is Re-
publican State as much rs Is Mnssachusetts--ap
plNuSol- believe If there be one man, the luhre
and glory of whose nRme the power OF whose
position commands tho confidence not only OF
white men, but Of those who were painted black
by natures brush, and who had the loyalty and
faith TO cling to tho flag In the dark hours, work
for it, fight for II and pray for tt-f there be any
man ON this footstOol whom the whites
aud blacks at the South cherish in their
hearts, that man is Ulysses 5, Grant
LApplausel This emergency is greater than
any man and rises far above the ambition and
wishes or even tho Mte of any individual II Is
not To honor Grant but IL lis because believe that