winter previous by the Democracy, as they vainly thought, to a burial beyond resurrection. The last Congress, too, has been such as to command the respect of all lovers of the Government. General Grant did not do all that I would liked to have had him do yet he has redeemed the pledges made in his inaugural address. Congress has been criticised, and has not exactly suited all Union men, but it merits the confidence of the Republican party. A year ago four States were unreconstructed, but now every star in our flag represents a State in the Union. Congress has reduced the National debt and our currency has been increased and strengthened. Over $79,000,000 in currency has been secured to the West and South which would have been retired under the old policy. The Republican party in Ohio is a unit for a protective tariff. It struck down monopoly in caste in striking down slavery, and is prepared now to strike down every monopoly in trade should any be attempted. The burdens of Government should be distributed equally all over the country. The Democrats expect to profit by a difference of sentiment among the Republicans on the tariff, but they will find themselves mistaken. The Republicans of the West demand that our revenues shall be collected from the luxuries imported by us, and believe that the laborers are the ones to be protected. What we desire is to obtain a revenue from these sources by which laboring men will at least have the same protection as capital. Another proud distinction of the Republican party is its rejection of the money changers the Whittemores and the Galladays-from Congress. It is a new experience in the history of the party. It would be a radically new experience for the Democrats to even hint at expelling one of their members at any time for corruption and bribery. Altogether this Congress has done well. Indeed, we owe our excellent currency, the Reconstruction Acts and the Fifteenth Amendment all to Republican Congresses. Let us stand by the principles of the party, forget all differences of opinion, and cease forever all internal wranglings and jealousies. All schemes of plunder should be discountenanced. When the contest has been between liberty and slavery, loyalty and treason, and union and disunion, the Republican party has ever stood by the Old Flag, and has preserved the only free Government in the wide world; and now it proposes to forever maintain it-setting the standard higher and higher as the world rolls along.

James C. Young, of Lake County, moved that Isaac R. Sherwood, of Williams, be nominated by acclamation for a second term as Secretary of State. Several dele

gates seconded the motion, and amid a whirl of enthusiasm he was declared the unanimous choice of the party. In response to calls he appeared on the platform and spoke as follows:

Gentleman, I thank you sincerely for this unmistakable evidence of your confidence, and not less heartily for the more graceful compliment of your cordial recognition. The character of this Convention, its spirit and enthusiasm, are convincing indications of the solidity and vital energy of the National Union Republican party of Ohio. With the Government in the hands of its friends; with economy and rugged honesty in every department of the Administration; with taxation reduced to the lowest figure consistent with the necessities of the Government; with reconstruction complete; with the ballot in the hands of every citizen; and with an untrammeled press, brave enough to rebuke corruption within the corporation as well as outside of it, the Union Republican party, true to itself and its past history, is destined for a long and prosperous career. Gentlemen, let us go into the canvass with energy and zeal and there can be no doubt of the result.

For Supreme Judge, D. Thew Wright, of Hamilton; Walter F. Stone, of Erie; Milton L. Clark, of Ross; Leander J. Critchfield, of Franklin; Cooper K. Watson, of Seneca; George W. McIlvaine, of Tuscarawas; Ichabod Corwin, of Champaign; and Jerome Buckingham, of Licking, were named, and the first ballot resulted: Stone 125, McIlvaine 104, Clark 59, Corwin 52, Critchfield 45, Wright 45, Buckingham 38, and Watson 5. On the second ballot Stone received 129 votes, McIlvaine 104, Corwin 60, Clark 49, Critchfield 41, and Buckingham 36. The latter was withdrawn. On the third ballot McIlvaine received 151 votes, Stone 137, Corwin 77, and Critchfield 46. The call of counties on the fourth had proceeded nearly to the close when Hamilton changed its vote to McIlvaine. This was a signal for a general change, and concentration of votes to McIlvaine and

Stone, each change being greeted with uproarious applause by the friends of the one or the other. So great was the excitement that before the ballot was finished more than half the delegates were on their feet cheering and gesticulating "like mad," and the result as finally announced showed only two votes difference between the leading candidates, McIlvaine 225, Stone 223, while Critchfield had 19 and Corwin 2. The fifth ballot proceeded more quietly, and resulted in McIlvaine receiving 242 votes to 231 for Stone, whereupon the nomination was at once made unanimous.

For Comptroller of the Treasury, William T. Wilson, of Portage; Allen T. Wikoff, of Adams; and Matthew T. Gooding, of Franklin, were presented, but Gooding's name was withdrawn after several counties had voted. General Wilson was nominated, receiving 285 votes to 188 for Captain Wikoff, and the nomination was made unanimous.

Philip V. Herzing, of Auglaize, was nominated for a third term as Member of Board of Public Works, receiving 298 votes to 132 for John W. Irwin, of Butler, and 36 for William Dickman, of Mercer.

Governor Dennison, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, being unavoidably absent, the platform was presented by John Coon, of Cuyahoga, and unanimously adopted, as read:

Resolved, 1. That we adhere with undimished confidence and pride to the party that by its wisdom and courage preserved the Union, and by a change in the organic law of the land established liberty and equity. We believe that by the continued ascendency of the Republican party, the success of free government will be secured; that it is the safeguard of the Constitution, the promoter of education, order, industry, thrift, universal freedom and universal rights.

2. That we congratulate the country on the suc

3. That a tariff for revenue is indispensable and should be so adjusted as to be the least prejudicial to the industrial and producing interests of every class or section, while securing to the home producer a fair protection against the foreign producer.

4. That a change in our navigation laws so as to admit the registration of vessels purchased abroad, is demanded by the best interests of the country, and that such action would largely contribute to the restoration of our plundered commerce and again give it the supremacy of the seas.

5. That the policy of granting subsidies of public lands to monopolies and corporations is unqualifiedly condemned.

6. That adhering to our traditional policy of neutrality, the American people look with profound indifference upon any European controversy regarding dynastic interests merely, and are concerned in the present struggle between Germany and France only so far as it involves the great principles of liberty. We remember that the great uprising of 1848 failed of success, mainly for the want of Germanic union, and that during our recent National trial the people of Germany supported our cause with their sympathy and material aid, while the armies of the French were endeavoring to subvert a Republic on this continent and establish in its stead an imperial throne. We, therefore, can not refrain from declaring our sympathy with the present heroic efforts of the Germans to establish, maintain and defend their national unity.

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HE campaign of 1871 in Ohio is memorable in Democratic annals, both for Mr. Vallandigham's "new departure" and for his tragic death. At the Montgomery County Convention, on May 20th, he astonished the country and dumbfounded his party by offering a series of resolutions, which were adopted, renouncing the Democratic position on slavery, emancipation, negro suffrage, reconstruction, repudiation of the war debt and other odious tenets of his party and declaring that the Democracy must accept the situation and the incontrovertible facts that slavery was dead, and secession impossible; that negroes were free and equal citizens of the Republic, and that the Nation must proceed to pay off its war debt on the terms that Congress had enacted. He supported these views in a speech which was recognized as a bid for the United States Senatorship. It was evident that he intended to carry them, as he subsequently did, through the State Convention, which met at Columbus, Thursday, June 1st. This was a notable gathering of the party leaders, over which George H. Pendleton, of Hamilton County, presided and William Heisley, of Cuyahoga, officiated as Secretary. The policy of Mr. Vallandigham met with fierce and determined opposition. Immediately after the various committees had been announced, Frank H.

Hurd, of Knox, offered the following in an effort to forestall the action contemplated by Vallandigham:

WHEREAS, The coming political campaign in Ohio should be conducted on the living and vital issues of the day, therefore

Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that the Committee on Resolutions be instructed to make no allusion in their report to the so-called XIVth and and XVth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

The preamble and resolution were quickly disposed of by reference to the Committee on Resolutions without debate. The platform adopted was, for the most part, equivocal; but some of its expressions were positive enough, especially the confession that the Democratic policy of the previous six years had been a mistake. The platform was read by George W. Morgan, who moved its adoption, Mr. Vallandigham seconding the motion. Frank H. Hurd, of Lucas, and Daniel S. Uhl, of Holmes, attempted to secure the adoption of a minority report to the effect that the Democracy of Ohio would never recognize the war amendments as valid, because they never had been legally ratified, and because an overwhelming majority of the people of the State had scorned the XIVth Amendment as an insult and libel on the right of franchise." Confusion reigned for more than an hour. Forty or fifty delegates endeavored to speak at once and

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