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THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

nation as Presidential Candidate-Cen-
eral Henderson's Address aud Mr.. BIaine's
Reply-Geueral Logan Serenaded by Ex-
Soldiers and Sailors ut washington-
Logan's speech in Response.
AUGUSTA, Me-, June g.
The Committee appointed by the Ma
tional Republican Convention to notify
Hon. James G. Blaine of the action Of the
Convention performed that duty on Sat
urday, the shady lawn in front of the
Blaine homestead being chosen as the
scene of the ceremonial. When all the
preliminaries had been arranged General
Henderson, of Missouri, stepped forward
and presented the address of the COM
mittee, reading from manuscript as fol-
lows:
Mr.. BLAINE-Your nomination for the
office of President of the United States
by the National Republican Convention
recently assembled at Chicago, is already
known to you. The gentlemen before
you, constituting the committee, COM
posed of one member from each State
and Territory of the country, and one
from the District of Columbia, now
come as the accredited organ of that
convention to give you formal notice of
the nomination and to request your ac-
ceptance thereof. 1t is of course known
to you that beside your own, several
names, among the most honored in the
councils of the Republican party, were
presented by their friends as candidates for
this nomination. Between your friends
and the friends of the gentlemen SO just
ly entitled to the respect and confidence
of THAR political aSsOciatas the contest
was one of generous rivalry, free from
any faint of bitterness, and equally free
from the reproach of injustice. At an
early stage of the proceedings of the Con-
vention 1t became manifest that the Re-
publican States, whose aid must be in
voked at the last to insure success to the
ticket, earnestly desired your nomina.
ton. 1t was equally manifested that the
desire SO earnestly expressed by the
delegates from these States was but
a truthful reflection of the irresistible
popular demand. 1t is not thought
nor pretended that this demand had its
origin in any ambitious desires of your
own or in the organized work of your
friends, but 1t was recognized to be
what it truthfully is-a spontaneous ex-
preston by the people of love and admir-
alton of their chosen leader. Nonomina-
would have given satisfaction to all the
members of the party. This was not to
be expected In country so extended in
area and so varied in interests. The
nomination OF Lincoln in 1860 disappoint-
ed so many hopes and overthrow SO many
cherished ambitions, that for "a short time
the disaffectioD threatened to ripen into
revolt In 1872 the discomfort was so
pronounced as to induce large masses of
the party to organize in opposition
to its nominees. For many weeks after
the nomination of Garfield in
1850, defeat seemed inevitable. In each
case the shock of disappointment was
followed by sober, second thought. IN
dividual preferences gradually yielded to
convictions of public duty. Promptings
of patriotism finally rose superior to the
irrItstions and animosities of the hour.
The party in every trial has grown
stronger in the face of threatened
danger. In rendering you the nomina-
ton 1t gives us pleasure to remember
those great measures which furnished
causes for party congratulations by
the late convention at Chicago, and
which are now crystaliZed into the
legislation of the country, meas
ures which have strengthened and dig
nihed the Nation; and while they ele-
waited and advanced the people,
have at all times and on all proper occa-
sions received your earnest and valuable
support 1t was your good fortune to
aid in protecting the Nation against the
assaults of armed treason; you were
present and helped to unloose the
shackles of the slave: you assisted in
placing new guarantee of freedom in
the Federal Constitution; your voice was
potent in preserving the National faith
when false theories of finance would have
blasted National and individual prosper
ity. We kindly remember you as fast
friend of honest money and commercial
integrity. In all that pertains to the Sc
curity and repose of capital, dignity
of labor, manhood elevation
and freedom of the people, the right of
the oppressed to demand, and the duty
of the Government to afford protection,
your public acts have received unqual-
fled Endorsement and popular approval.
But we are not unmindful of the fact that
parties, like individuals, can not live en-
tirely on the past, however splendid the
record. The present is ever charged with
immediate cares, and the future presses
on with its new duties and its perpleXiug
responsibilities. Parties, like individuals,
however, that are free from stain and
unyiolated faith in the past are fairly en-
titled to the presumption of sim
cerity in their promises for the
future. Among the promises made
by the party in its late convention at
Chicago ares Economy and purity of ad-
ministration; protection OF citizens, ma
tive and naturalized, at home and abroad;
the prompt restoration of the Navy; a
wise reduction of the surplus revenues,
relieving the taxpayer without injuring
the laborer; the preservation of public
lands for the actual settlers; import
duties, when necessary at all, to be levied
not for revenue only, but for the double
purpose OF revenue and protection; the
regulation of internal commerce and the