citizenship of the humblest becomes a sure protection against outrage and wrong as was Roman citizenship of old. SCHUYLER COLFAX. The convention then adjourned. The popular and electoral vote was as follows: Grant's majority, 727,975. O'Connor, "Straightout Democrat," 29,489. Black, temperance, 5,608. Mr. Greeley died Nov. 29, 1872, and the electoral votes to which he was entitled were distributed between Messrs. Hendricks of Indiana, Brown of Missouri, Jenkins of Georgia, and David Davis of Illinois, seventeen votes not being cast or counted for any personviz: six from Arkansas, three from Georgia, and eight from Louisiana. SIXTH NATIONAL CONVENTION. At Cincinnati, O., June 14, 15 and 16, 1876–Hayes and Wheeler. The Sixth national convention of the Republican party was called to order by ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan, of New York, chairman of the Republican national committee, at Cincinnati, O., at 12 m., June 14, 1876, who, on behalf of said committee, announced the nomination of Theodore M. Pomeroy of New York as temporary presiding officer of the convention. On motion, Irving M. Bean of Wisconsin, and Gen. H. H. Bingham of Pennsylvania were elected temporary secretaries, and E. W. Hicks of Wisconsin, sergeant-at-arms. A resolution was then adopted for a call of the roll of States and Territories, the chairman of each delegation to announce the names of the persons selected to serve on the following named committees-viz.: Credentials, permanent organization, rules and order of business, and resolutions. The roll was then called and the various committees chosen. Speeches were then made by Gen. Logan, ex-Gov. Hawley of Connecticut; ex-Gov. Noyes of Ohio; Rev. Henry Highland Govnett, of New York; William A. Howard of Michigan, and Frederick Douglass of New York, after which Mr. Loring of Massachusetts, from the committee on permanent organization, reported the name of Edward McPherson of Pennsylvania for president, and Irving M. Bean of Wisconsin for secretary, with a vice-president and assistant secretary from each State and Territory. The report was adopted and the convention adjourned until 1 o'clock a m., June 15. Second Day, June 15, 1876-Mr. Cessna of Pennsylvania, from the committee on rules and order of business, submitted the following report establishing rules and order of business-viz.: Rule 1. Upon all subjects before the convention the States shall be called in alphabetical order, and next the Territories and District of Columbia. Rule 2. Each State shall be entitled to double the number of its senators and representatives in congress according to the late apportionment, and each Territory and the District of Columbia shall be entitled to two votes. The votes of each delegation shall be reported by its chairman. Rule 3. The report of the committee on credentials shall be disposed of before the report of the committee on platform and resolutions is acted upon, and the report of the committee on platform and resolutions shall be disposed of before the convention proceeds to the nomination of candidates for president and vice-president. Rule 4. In making the nominations for president and vice-president in no case shall the calling of the roll be dispensed with when it shall appear that any candidate has received the majority of the votes cast. The president of the convention shall announce the question to be, "Shall the nomination of the candidate be made unanimous?" but, if no candidate shall have received a majority of the votes the chair shall direct the vote to be again taken, which shall be repeated until some candidate shall have received a majority of the votes cast; and when any State has announced its vote it shall so stand until the ballot is announced, unless in case of numerical error. Rule 5. When a majority of the delegates of any two States shall demand that a vote be recorded, the same shall be taken by States, Territories and the District of Columbia-the secretary calling the roll of the States and Territories in the order heretofore stated, and the District of Columbia. Rule 6. In the record of the votes by States the vote of each State, Territory and the District of Columbia shall be announced by the chairman; and in case the votes of any State, Territory or the District of Columbia shall be divided the chairman shall announce the number of votes cast for any candidate or for or against any proposition. Rule 7. When the previous question shall be demanded by the majority of the delegates from any State, and the demand seconded by two or more States, and the call sustained by a majority of the convention, the question shall then be proceeded with and disposed of according to the rules of the house of representatives in similar cases. Rule 8. No member shall speak more than once upon the same question, nor longer than five minutes, unless by leave of the convention, except that delegates presenting the name of a candidate shall be allowed ten minutes in presenting the name of such candidates. Rule 9. The rules of the house of representatives shall be the rules of this convention, so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with the foregoing rules. Rule 10. A Republican national committee shall be appointed, to consist of one member from each State, Territory and district represented in the convention. The roll shall be called and the delegation from each State, Territory and district shall name, through their chairman, a person to act as a member of such committee. After debate the report was adopted. Mr. Ensor of Maryland, chairman of the committee on credentials, made a report that full delegations were present from all the States and Territories, with the exception of the States of Nevada and South Carolina, and recommending that in those cases the delegates present be authorized to cast the full vote of their respective States. He also reported that the only contests were from the States of Alabama and Florida and the District of Columbia, and submitted the names of the delegates agreed upon by the committee as entitled to seats; also recommending that the twenty-two delegates from Arkansas present be admitted to seats. Mr. Harris, of Nevada, submitted a minority report signed by himself and Messrs. Atkins of Georgia, Swails of South Carolina, Steele of Indiana, Sharp of Tennessee, Rosenblatt of Missouri, Nash of Louisiana, Benton of North Carolina, Quay of Pennsylvania, Platt of New York, and Newcomb of Texas. The report of the committee, except as to Alabama, was adopted, and after debate the minority report, proposing to seat the delegation headed by George E. Spencer, was rejected on a roll-call by yeas 354, nays 275, and the majority report was then adopted. Ex-Gov. Hawley, of Connecticut, from the committee on resolutions, then reported the following platform: When, in the economy of Providence, this land was to be purged of human slavery, and when the strength of government of the people, by the people, and for the people was to be demonstrated, the Republican party came into power. Its deeds have passed into history, and we look back to them with pride. Incited by their memories to high aims for the good of our country and mankind, and looking to the future with unfaltering courage, hope and purpose we. the representatives of the party in national convention assembled, make the following declaration of principles: 1. The United States of America is a nation, not a league. By the combined workings of the National and State governments, under their respective constitutions, the rights of every citizen are secured, at home and abroad, and the common welfare promoted. 2. The Republican party has preserved these governments to the hundredth anniversary of the Nation's birth, and they are now embodiments of the great truths spoken at its cradle-"that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that for the attainment of these ends governments have been instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Until these truths are cheerfully obeyed, or if need be vigorously enforced, the work of the Republican party is unfinished. 3. The permanent pacification of the Southern section of the Union and the complete protection of all its citizens in the free enjoyment of all of their rights is a duty to which the Republican party stands sacredly pledged. The power to provide for the enforcement of the principles embodied in the recent constitutional amendments is vested by these amendments in the congress of the United States, and we declare it to be the solemn obligation of the legislative and executive departments of the government to put into immediate and vigorous exercise all their constitutional powers for removing any just causes of discontent on the part of any class and for securing to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise of all civil, political and public rights. To this end we imperatively demand a congress and chief executive whose courage and fidelity to those duties shall not falter until these results are placed beyond dispute or recall. 4. In the first act of congress signed by president Grant the national government assumed to remove any doubts of its purpose to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and "solemnly pledged its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of United States notes in coin." Commercial prosperity, public morals, and national credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by a continuous and steady progress to specie payment. 5. Under the constitution the president and heads of departments are to make nominations for office; the senate is to advise and consent to appointments and the house of representatives is to accuse and prosecute faithless officers. The best interest of the public service demands that these distinctions be respected; that senators and representatives who may be judges and accusers should not dictate appointments to office. The invariable rule in appointments should have reference to the honesty, fidelity, and capacity of the appointees, giving to the party in power those places where harmony and vigor of administration require its policy to be represented, but permitting all others to be filled by persons selected with sole reference to efficiency of the public service and the right of all citizens to share in the honor of rendering faithful service to the country. 6. We rejoice in the quickened conscience of the people concerning political affairs, and will hold all public officers to a rigid responsibility, and engage that the prosecution and punishment of all who betray official trusts shall be swift, thorough and unsparing. 7. The public school system of the several States is the bulwark of the American republic, and with a view to its security and permanence we recommend an amendment to the constitution of the United States forbidding the application of any public funds or property for the benefit of any schools or institution under sectarian control. 8. The revenue necessary for current expenditures and the obligations of the public debt must be largely derived from duties upon importations, which, so far as possible, should be adjusted to promote the interests of American labor and advance the prosperity of the whole country. 9. We reaffirm our opposition to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the national domain be devoted to free homes for the people. 10. It is the imperative duty of the government so to modify existing treaties with European governments that the same protection shall be afforded to the adopted American citizen that is given to the native born; and that all necessary laws should be passed to protect emigrants in the absence of power in the States for that purpose. 11. It is the immediate duty of congress to fully investigate the effect of the immigration and importation of Mongolians upon the moral and material interests of the country. 12. The Republican party recognizes with approval the substantial advances recently made toward the establishment of equal rights for women by the many important amendments effected by Republican legislatures in the laws which concern the personal and property relations of wives, mothers and widows and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class of citizens for additional rights, privileges and immunities should be treated with respectful consideration. 13. The constitution confers upon congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government, and in the exercise of this power it is the right and duty of congress to prohibit and extirpate, in the Territories, that relic of barbarism-polygamy, and we demand such legislation as shall secure this end and the supremacy of American institutions in all of the Territories. 14. The pledges which the nation has given to her soldiers and sailors must be fulfilled, and a grateful people will always hold those who imperiled their lives for the country's preservation in the kindest remembrance. 15. We sincerely deprecate all sectional feeling and tendencies. We therefore note with deep solicitude that the Democratic party counts, as its chief hope of success, on the electoral vote of a united South, secured through the efforts of those who were recently arrayed against the nation, and we invoke the earnest attention of the country to the grave truth that a success thus achieved would reopen sectional strife and imperil national honor and human rights. 16. We charge the Democratic party with being the same in character and spirit as when it sympathized with treason; with making its control of the house of representatives the triumph and opportunity of the nation's recent foes; with reasserting and applauding in the national capital the sentiments of unrepentant rebellion; with sending Union soldiers to the rear, and promoting Confederate soldiers to the front; with deliberately proposing to repudiate the plighted faith of the government; with being equally false and imbecile upon the overshadowing financial questions; with thwarting the ends of justice by its partisan mismanagement and obstruction of investigation; with proving itself, through the period of its ascendancy in the lower house the of congress, utterly incompetent to administer the government; and we warn country against trusting a party thus alike unworthy, recreant and incapable. 17. The national administration merits commendation for its honorable work in the management of domestic and foreign affairs, and president Grant deserves the continued hearty gratitude of the American people for his patriotism and his eminent services in war and in peace. Edward L. Pierce of Massachusetts moved to strike out the eleventh resolution, which motion, after debate, was rejected upon a roll call by States by yeas, 215; nays, 532. The delegations from the States of California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, |