6. Since the authority for regular immigration and intercourse between the United States and foreign nations rests with the congress of the United States and its treaty-making powers, the Republican party, regarding the unrestricted immigration of the Chinese as an evil of great magnitude, invokes the exercise of that power to restrain and limit that immigration by the enactment of such just, humane and reasonable provisions as will produce that result.

7. That the purity and patriotism which characterized the earlier career of R. B. Hayes in peace and war, and which guided the thought of our immediate predecessors to him for a presidential candidate, have continued to inspire him in his career as chief executive, and that history will accord to his administration the honors which are due to an efficient, just and courteous discharge of the public business, and will honor his interpositions between the people and proposed partisan laws.

8. We charge upon the Democratic party the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and justice to a supreme and insatiable lust of office and patronage; that to obtain possession of the national government and State Gouernments and the control of place, they have obstructed all efforts to promote the purity and to conserve the freedom of suffrage; have labored to unseat lawfully elected members of congress to secure at all hazards the majority of the States in the house of representatives; have endeavored to occupy by force and fraud the places of trust given to others by the people of Maine and rescued by the courage and action of Maine's patriotic sons; have, by methods vicious in principle and tyrannical in practice, attached partisan legislation to appropriations, upon whose passage the very movements of the government depend; have crushed the rights of the individual, have advocated the principles and sought the favor of rebellion against the nation and have endeavored to obliterate the sacred memories of the war and to overcome its inestimably good results of nationality, personal freedom and individual equality. The equal, steady and complete enforcement of the laws and the protection of all our citizens in the enjoyment of all privileges and immunities guaranteed by the constitution is the first duty of the nation. The dangers of a solid South can only be averted by a faithful performance of every promise which the nation has made to its citizens. The execution of the laws and the punishment of all those who violate them are the only safe methods by which an enduring peace can be secured and genuine prosperity established throughout the South. Whatever promises the nation makes the nation must perform, and the nation cannot with safety relegate this duty to the States. The solid South must be divided by the peaceful agencies of the ballot, and all opinions must there find free expression; and to this end the honest voter must be protected against terrorism, violence or fraud. And we affirm it to be the duty and purpose of the Republican party to use all legitimate means to restore all States of this Union to the most perfect harmony that may be possible. And we submit to the practical, sensible people of the United States to say whether it would not be dangerous to the dearest interests of our country at this time to surrender the control of the national government to a party which seeks to overthrow the existing policy, under which we are so prosperous, and thus bring distrust and confusion where there is now order, confidence and hope.

The Republican party, adhering to the principle affirmed by its last national convention, of respect for the constitutional rules governing appointments to office, adopts the declaration of President Hayes, that the reform of the civil service should be thorough, radical and complete. To this end it demands the co-operation of the legislative with the executive department of the government, and that congress shall so legislate that fitness, ascertained by proper practical tests, shall admit to the public service.

Mr. Booker of Massachusetts submitted an amendment, adding the following clause:

The Republican party, adhering to the principle affirmed by its last national convention, of respect for the constitutional rules governing appointments to office, adopted the declaration of President Hayes, that the reform of the civil service should be thorough, radical and complete, To this end it demanded the co-operation of the legislative with the executive department of the government, that congress shall so legislate that fitness, ascertained by proper practical tests, shall admit to the public service.

The amendment was agreed to, and the resolution as amended agreed to.

A recess (at 5.25 o'clock p. m.) was then taken until 7 p. m. After the recess the roll of States was called and the national committee selected, and on motion of Mr. Frye of Maine, the roll of States was called in alphabetical order for nominations for a candidate for president. Names of candidates were then presented, as follows: James G. Blaine of Maine, by James F. Joy of Michigan; William Windom of Minnesota, by E. F. Drake of that State; Ulysses S. Grant, "from Appomattox and its famous apple tree," by Roscoe Conkling of New York; John Sherman of Ohio. by James A. Garfield of that State; George F. Edmunds of Vermont, by Frederick Billings of that State; Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois, by J. B. Cassaday of Wisconsin. The nomination of Mr. Blaine was seconded by Messrs. Pixley of California, Frye of Maine; that of Gen. Grant by Mr. Bradley of Kentucky; that of Mr. Sherman by Mr. Winckler of Wisconsin, and Mr. Elliott of South Carolina; that of Mr. Edmunds by Mr. Sanford of Massachusetts, and that of Mr. Washburne by Mr. Brandagee of Connecticut.

The convention then (11.46 p. m.) adjourned to Monday at 10

a. m.

Fifth Day, Monday, June 7, 1880, 10 a. m.

On motion of Mr. Hale of Maine the convention proceeded to ballot for a candidate for President, resulting as follows:

Minnesota cast its ten votes for Mr. Windom; Mr. Washburne received 7 votes from Connecticut, 8 from Illinois, 1 from Indiana, 1 from Massachusetts, 1 from Maine, 2 from New Jersey, 1 from Texas, and 9 from Wisconsin. Gen. Grant received 1 vote from the Territories of Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia, and Mr. Blaine 1 vote from Dakota, Wyoming, and District of Columbia, and 2 votes each from Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Washington.

During the roll call the chair ruled that nothing could interfere with the roll call, and that at its conclusion, any question raised regarding it could be settled by the convention.

During the day, twenty-seven additional ballots were taken without material change. Gen. Grant led with 304 votes and his vote fluctuated between 302 and 309. Mr. Blaine was next with 284, his number varying from 285 to 275. Mr. Sherman started with 93 and ended with 91, having dropped to 88 and risen to 97. Mr. Washburne had 31 at the start, raised to 36, and finished with 35. Senator Edmunds had 33 on the first, lost one on the second and one on the eighth ballot, and finished with 31. Senator Windom started and finished with 10 votes. Gen. Garfield received one vote on the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, twelfth, thirteenth, nineteenth, twenty-first, and twenty-second ballots (from Pennsylvania), two votes on the sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth ballots, and none on the

fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth ballots. Scattering votes were also cast for Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, George W. McCreary of Iowa, E. J. Davis of Texas, John F. Hartranft of Pennsylvania.

And then (at 9 o'clock and 50 minutes P. M.) on motion of Mr. Lovering of Massachusetts, the convention, after roll call thereon) by yeas 446, nays 304, adjourned to meet at 10 A. M. the following day.

Sixth Day, Tuesday, June 8, 1880, 10 A. M.

The convention proceeded at once to balloting, the twenty-ninth resulting in some changes. Twenty votes previously given to Mr. Edmunds were transferred to Mr. Sherman, which, with others, gave him 120 on the thirtieth ballot. On the thirty-fourth ballot the Wisconsin delegation cast its vote (18) for Gen. Garfield, and on the thirty-fifth ballot he received 27 votes from Indiana, four from Maryland, and one each from the States of Mississippi and North Carolina, making 50 in all, the additional votes being given by Mr. Blaine's supporters.

The thirty-sixth and final ballot resulted as follows-viz.:

Mr. Sherman received 3 votes from Georgia and Mr. Washburne 5 from Illinois, all the Territories and the District of Columbia (18 votes) voting for Garfield.

The president announced that James A. Garfield had received 399; Ulysses S. Grant, 306; James G. Blaine, 42; Elihu B. Washburne, 5, and John Sherman, 3, and that James A. Garfield of Ohio, having received a majority, was the nominee of the convention for president.

The chair having put the question: Shall the nomination be made unanimous ? Mr. Conkling made that motion and spoke in support of it, as did Messrs. Logan of Illinois, Beaver of Pennsylvania, Hale of Maine, Pleasants of Virginia, Campbell of West Virginia, Hicks of Florida, Norton of Texas, Foster of Ohio, Houck of Tennessee, Harrison of Indiana after which the motion was unanimously agreed to.

The convention then (at 2:25 P. M.), on motion of Mr. Harrison, of Indiana, took a recess until 5 P. M.

After the Recess.

The convention then proceeded to make nominations for a candidate for vice-president, and names were presented as follows, viz.: Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois, by Mr. Pixley of California; Marshall Jewell of Connecticut, by Mr. Robinson of that State; Thomas Settle of North Carolina, by Mr. Hicks of Florida; Horace Maynard of Tennessee, by Mr. Houck of that State; Chester A. Arthur, of New York, by Mr. Woodford of that State; Edmund J. Davis of Texas, by Mr. Chambers of that State. Several speeches were made seconding the various nominations, after which the roll of States and Territories was called, resulting as follows: