tisans, the Tammany Democracy of New York,shows that the large part of their adherents are ?not even true to the time-honored American principle of entire religious freedom, and this condition of things, added to the astounding extravagance and corruption recently exposed on the part of the Democratic government of New York, shows how unfit is this divided, and, to a great extent, corrupt organization to govern a country saved by loyal blood and preserved in peace by the great party of liberty and progress.

7. That we are heartily in favor of such a reform of the civil service as shall make appointments to public office dependent upon fitness and character, and allow removals for cause only.

8. That the Democratic administration in Maryland has failed to provide the people with a sufficient system of public education. It has squandered hundreds of thousandsof dollars on a militia, for which it has now nothing to show but one crack regiment and thousands of useless guns and worthless uniforms. It has administered the oyster laws so as to spend a great deal of money, and uselessly to harass that large class who make their living by the oyster fisheries. It has, both at Annapolis and in the counties and city, spent largely more than the former Union government, and has less to show for it, with cheaper times to spend in; and it has now no policy except to try and flourish on the decaying prejudices of race and color.

9. That the Republican party of Maryland places education among the first duties of the State, and that the safety and success of popular government depend upon the general education of all classes of its citizens. That efficient measures should be at once adopted so that schools shall be established where those portions of our population recently enfranchised and heretofore deprived of all school advantages shall have full opportunities for education. That the repeal of the school law adopted by the Legislature of 1865, and the criminal neglect of the party in power in a majority of the counties of the State to properly expend the money so lavishly furnished by the people for the education of the children of the State, meet our severest condemnation. That the provisions of the act of 1865, which required the levy and collection of taxes for school purposes, and did not leave the education of the masses of the people to the mere caprice of aristocratic landholders, ought to be reenacted.

10. Urges a full vote.

11. Announces that the Republican party earnestly desires to bury all the animosities of the past.

12 and 13. Concern the time of meeting and composition of State central committee.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Republican, September, 1871*

Whereas the Republican party needs no "new departure," but only a strict adherence to those principles that have preserved the

Union, secured freeuom and equality before the law to all classes, and diminished the burdens of the people by an honest and economical administration of the Government: Therefore,

Resolved, That the Republicans of Massachusetts renewedly give their adherence to the great principles that have guided the National Republican party, and pledge to it their undivided support in enforcing all the laws for the protection of life and liberty in every part of our land; in the honest payment of our national debt; in reducing taxation, and in such reform of the civil service as shall secure efficiency and honesty in every department of the Government.

2. That the present national Administration, by the large reduction of the national debt and interest upon the public bonds, so that the national credit has been restored and the burdens of taxation diminished; by its successful adjustment of the controversy with Great Britain, and by its vigorous and successful action in learning the political rights of the people, is entitled to our hearty commendation.

3. That the Republican party of Massachusetts has been and is the party of progress and reform; that its great mission has been to blot out all class distinction on American soil; that it knows no class to be favored, and will permit none to be oppressed, but regarding all citizens of the State as equals before the law, it seeks to secure for them the blessings of free education and protection in every field of honest industry, and the position of Massachusetts in its credit at home and abroad, and in its rank among the most forward States of the world in all that makes a powerful and happy Commonwealth, is the best proof of the wisdom and success of the present and past Republican administration of the State government.

4. That the long-continued depression of American shipping interests should receive the immediate and careful consideration of Congress, and that such changes in our revenue and navigation laws as will tend to restore the business of ship-building and ship owning to a condition of healthful prosperity should be made without loss of time.

5. That the Republican party of Massachusetts is mindful of its obligations to the loyal women of America for their patriotic devotion to the cause of freedom; that we rejoice in the late action of State Legislatures in recognizing the fitness of women for public trust, and that in view of the great favor which the movement has received from many of the Republican party, the subject of suffrage for women is a question that deserves the most careful and respectful consideration.

6. Indorses Governor William Claflin.

7. Nominates Hon. William B. Washburn for Governor.

8. That the Republican party will do its best to elevate the condition of the wages of the receiving portion of its citizens by a full, searching inquiry into the facts bearing upon their condition, and by such legislation as that inquiry shall show to be for their advantage, having respect to the judgment of the laborers of the Commonwealth themselves as to what measures shall be best adapted to their wants.

MICHIGAN.

Ilepu-'filicasi, ITelbruaajry 33, 1871.

Besolued, That as the Republican party proved a good party in time of war, and with fidelity, constancy, and unshaken courage sustained the Government and the cause of civil liberty in the dark days of the rebellion, until peace and freedom were secured to the country, so it has proved a good party in time of peace, reconstructing rebellious States in the interest of freedom, maintaining inviolate the public faith, establishing equality of all men before the law, and administering the Government in such a manner as best to promote the general good.

2. Eulogizes Grant, especially as to reduction of taxation and of national debt.

3 and 4. Praise the candidate for the Supreme Court, and appeal to the people for support.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

BLepnTblioan. Resolved, That in the fulfillment of its mission it is the duty of the Republican party to establish and enforce such a national system of education as shall place within reach and ultimately compel every subject of the Government, of sufficient capacity, to embrace and improve such opportunities for meutaland moral culture as will qualify him to discharge with fidelity and wisdom the responsible duties of an American citizen.

2. That all laws which favor capital at the expense oflabor, or offer bounty to accumulated wealth at the expense of productive industry, are inconsistent with the principles of democratic republicanism, and we hereby repudiate and denounce them as in direct conflict with the purposes and aims of the Republican party.

3. That as the success of any system of goverment depends almost wholly upon the character and ability of those who administer its affairs, it is preeminently important in a free republic that the selection of public officers should be determined by merit and qualifications; we are therefore in favor of rigidly applying the Jeffersonian tests of honesty and capacity to the choice and appointment of all officers in the civil service.

4. That we protest against the so-called revenue reform movement now being inaugurated by a few quasi Republicans, in concert with the great body of Democrats, because while we desire, in common with the great majority of the people, that all taxation shall be reduced so far and so fast as is consistent with the necessities of the Government, we still believe that necessary taxes should be imposed chiefly upon the rich rather than the poor, upon the luxuries of life rather than its necessaries, and that a duty upon such articles of foreign manufacture as come in direct com

petition with the products of our own industry is essential to the well being and permanent prosperity of the nation.

5. That the sympathies of the Republican party have ever been and still are with and for the laboring men of this country. Prompted by this sympathy, we struck the fetters from the slave, and threw open the public domain for the location of free homesteads for the workingman thereon. We have always favored all legislation calculated to advance the true interests of labor, and will continue so to do.

6. That the wealth of the nation should pay its debt, and hence we are opposed to abolishing the income tax, or taxes upon those luxuries that wealth only can afford, while we favor the reduction of all taxes upon the necessaries of life.

7. That the Republican party of New Hampshire looks with alarm upon the efforts made to squander the public lands in the interest of schemes backed by railroad speculators, lobbyists, and stock-gamblers, and is opposed to each and every one of them; and, while it opposes them, looks with favor upon any act that may give a homestead to each disabled soldier who periled his life to put down the slaveholders' rebellion, and save this nation to equality of labor, religious toleration, and liberty.

NEW JERSEY.

BLepuiTblicam, geptiemHser 79 1871.

1. Pledges the Republican party to faithfully complete its unfinished work.

2. That the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, embodying the principles of the equality of all men before the law, is not only just in theory, but is ennobling in practice, and we will by all lawful means oppose any attempt to blot it from the grand record of our country's progress.

3. That the Republican party is now, as heretofore, pledged to economy in the expenditure of the public money; to good faith in the payment of the public debt; to the careful fostering of all branches of trade and industry; to wholesome laws, a pure and learned judiciary, and an upright administration of the Government, both State and national.

4. That by the unprecedented reduction of the national debt; by the large reduction of interest upon the public loans, and the restoration of the national credit in all the markets of the world; by the wise and happy adjustment of the late threatening controversy with Great Britain; by its honest, straightforward policy, and its high patriotic spirit, the national Administration is entitled to our warmest commendation and active support.

5. That we are heartily in favor of such a reform of the civil service as shall make appointments to public office dependent upon fitness and character, and allow removals for cause only.

6. Considers that national recognition should be accorded by the erection of Jersey City into a port of entry, and the establishment there of an independent custom-house.

7. Approves liberal provision for education.

8. That the present system of special and private legislation is the source not only of unnecessary expenses to the State and the public, but also of legislative corruption, and this convention therefore declares itself in favor of the passage of a general law of incorporation, and of the abolition, as far as practicable, of all special and private legislation.

Democratic, September 13, 1871. Democratic—September 13, 1871: 1 and 2 refer to the State record of the party.

3. That we favor a prompt and complete amnesty of all persons for political offenses.

4. That we favor the raising of a revenue for the economical support of the Government and the payment of the principal and interest of the national debt, and so far as such revenue is raised from the tariff it is to be upon the principle of taxation upon luxuries and the abolishment of taxes upon the necessaries of life.

5. That the Democratic party recognize the laboring element of the country as the true source of national wealth and strength, between which and capital no antagonism can exist so long as the rights and dignity of labor are properly recognized; and there is no duty the party owes to the country or to itself superior to the full protection of the laboring interests.

6. That, denouncing all conspiracies against law and good order, North or South, we protest against the extraordinary grant of military power given by the late Congress to the President, and declare the same to be most dangerous in precedent and unnecessary in fact.

7. That the Democratic party in the present, as in the past, recognize the Constitution and the amendments thereto as the organic law of the country, and not as open political questions of the day.

8. We believe that the Government of the United States is, as it ought to be, a Government of limited powers; that these powers are described and enumerated in the Constitution of the United States, which Government is founded upon its adoption by the people, and creating direct relations between it and all its subjects. It is not a supreme, unlimited, imperial, consolidated Government, but it has its distinct and recognized sphere of action, already ample; the governments of the separate States have their distinct and recognized sphere of action; and it is to the last degree important to the preservation of local independence, to the universal diffusion of political vitality, to the prevention of military despotism, to the security of individual rights, and the perpetuity of our institutions, that these separate spheres of action should be kept forever distinct and inviolable.

9. That we regard the creation of commissions by the Legislature for the regulation and government of municipal corporations as hostile to the principles of self-government.

10. Recommends rigid enforcement of election law.

11. Indorses Governor Randolph's administration.

MW TOKK.

Republican, September 3 8, 1871.

1. Recites the various triumphs of President Grant's administration.

2. That we have seen with horror and grief the astounding revelations of fraud, corruption, and municipal criminality in the city of New York; we have seen an infamous cabal take possession of its treasury, apply its resources to their own profit, issue bonds without stint and without law for the payment of dishonest and exorbitant claims under the pretext of reform. This desperate ring of conspirators and plunderers, controlling a Democratic Legislature, has secured the passage of laws and ordinances giving them irresponsible power; they have destroyed the sacred rights of the franchise by repeated piracies upon the ballot-box; the judiciary has been polluted, the right of speech and petition, and the freedom of the press and of public procession have been assailed, and by weakness and vacillation a piteous massacre has been encouraged and provoked. The name and credit of the first city in the Union have been dishonored at home and abroad. Rejoicing in every effort to prevent these crimes and punish their authors, we shall gladly welcome the aid of men of all parties in our labors to redeem the honor of New York city. We hold the Democratic party responsible at the bar of public opinion for these manifold and unparalleled crimes. That party gave these men power, influence, authority, and dignity, and has at all times supported and acted with them. They have sat in its councils, and controlled its policy. By the assistance and encouragement of the whole Democratic party the men who have made the government of New York city a reproach to the republic and republican institutions in every part of the world, have aimed, and do now aim to seize the State and national Government, and rule the State and the Republic as they now rule the city. Jn view of the crimes perpetrated by those having the control of the Democratic party in New York, we should regard the success of the party asa calamity almost as disastrous as would have been the triumph of the rebellion in its war against the Union ; and having by harmony and earnest efforts crushed treason and secession, the Republican party enters this canvass resolved to achieve a triumph over misgovern- ment organized for corruption and fraud.

3. That we call upon Congress, as far as may be compatible with the national credit, to continue to reduce taxation, and as rapidly as possible remove the burdens from the national industry; that while our interest account, our pension-rolls, and other obligations entailed by the rebellion shall remain, we are in favor of such a tariff as will yield the needed reveinue with the least injury to the people, at the same time affording protection to our own rather than to foreign manufactures.

4. That as the Government owes to the citizen every guarantee of fairness and legality in the performance of his duties at the polls, we cordially approve of the measures taken by Congress for the protection of the franchise, and are in favor of such a law for the registration of votes as will give to our elections freedom and purity.

5. That as honest and justly paid labor is the foundation of a nation's greatness and its protection the highest mission of the Government, we earnestly urge all wholesome legislation fostering relations and conditionsin which all who labor may be properly rewarded for their toil, and encouraged in every effort toward their prosperity, education, and advancement.

6. That so long as the people of the several localities have the right by law to license the sale of intoxicating liquors, they also, by a majority of voters, should have the right to prohibit such sale.

7. That the Republican party is the party of enterprise and progress, and declares for cheap transportation, and for bringing the breadstuff's and products of the West, with the least expense, to the homes and markets of the East; and, reprobating as we do the profligacy and extravagance which have characterized the Democratic management of our canals, we are in favor of low tolls, and of making the great avenues of trade as rapidly and nearlyfree as can be done without increasing the burden of taxation.

8. Congratulates the country on recent Republican successes.

9. Counsels harmony in the party and deprecates faction.

10. Eulogizes the ticket.

Democratic, October 4, 1871*

Resolved, That the Democracy of New York arraign before the people of the Union the Administration at Washington as false to its pledges and faithless to its constitutional obligation. It has prolonged the dissensions that follow civil war, kept alive sectional animosities, refused amnesty to submissive citizens, and denied peace to the restored States. It has setup privileged classes and initiated a system of exemptions from taxation and protection to moneyed interests, the tendency of which is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. It has squandered on mammoth corporations the lands which were the pledged heritage -of the settlers, and it now attempts to perpetuate its power by a recourse to the grossest corruptions, by the direct interference of Federal office-holders in popular elections, and by a resort to military force to repress the civil tribunals of the country, and to control popular assemblages and elections—acts and usurpations which all history shows are strides toward despotism, and which, if not arrested, must prove fatal to our republican institutions.

11. That we recognize the emancipation of the freedmen of the South and their en

franchisement and perfect equality before the law as the inevitable sequence of the civil war and of the overthrow of the rebellion against the Union, and we hold it to be the duty of all to sustain them in the enjoyment of their established rights, and to aid them in promoting their own welfare and the general prosperity of the country.

III. That we view with indignation the corruption and extravagance recently brought to light in the management of the municipal affairs of the'city'of New York, and denounce as unworthy our countenance or toleration all who are responsible therefor; we pledge our best efforts to prevent a repetition of such abuses, and will look with satisfaction upon the punishment of all upon whom guilt can be fixed. We appeal to the record and the facts to prove that the deplorable condition of affairs existing in New York was inaugurated and fastened upon the city by a system of irresponsible government, instituted by the Republican party, ami coniinued by them through many years, under which the growth of extravagance, peculation, and fraud was inevitable; and we demand on the part of our next Legislature such further reforms in the city chapter as shall eradicate the legislation through which such frauds were possible, and secure, among other things:

1. An early opportunity for the people of the city to choose new municipal officers.

2. On the part of the mayor more complete control, and consequently more complete responsibility, for the subordinate departments of the administration.

3. The liability of the mayor of New York, with all mayors of cities, to be removed by the Governor in the same manner as sheriffs of counties are now removed, upon proof before him of malfeasance in office or neglect of duty.

4. Elections in the spring of each year, so as to place in the hands of the people the power to make a complete change of the city government.

5. Publicity of accounts at all times, and facilities to the tax-payer to restrain and punish abuses, and to secure speedy trials of offenders in independent courts.

IV. That experience has shown the necessity of restraining and defining by constitutional enactment the power of towns, counties, and municipalities to create debt and to tax the property of citizens.

V. That while ready and determined to purge local administration of abuses, we must not lose sight of the duty of correcting the confessed and all-prevailing corruption in the Federal Government, Congress and the Executive, in consummating their scheme of centralization, openly disregarded their constitutional obligation and tampered with the judiciary, and so manipulate the system of expenditure, debt, and paper money as to demoralize public sentiment, to corrupt social and business life, as well as nearly all the channels of political administration; and the profligacies in the custom-house, the internal revenue boards, in the Army and Navy, and in the highest walks of office, as well as in municipalities, are the ripe fruits of this system; and we call the attention of the people to the fact that this corrupt power triumphed in and controlled the recent Republican convention at Syracuse.

VI. That as registry laws so far from preventing frauds in elections have proved to be shields under cover of which they can more easily be consummated, we demand that some other safeguards be provided against a fraudulent repetition of votes and a dishonest canvass of the ballots—crimes which are treason to representative government; and that we approve of the passage of the constitutional amendment now pending making bribery a ground of challenge to the elector, and denying the suffrage alike to him that receives and him that offers a corrupt inducement.

Yll. Refers to the State record of the party.

VIII. That the freest exchange of commodities between this and every other country, as between various districts of our own land, is of the greatest benefit both to the buyers and the sellers; that Government should lay no tax on imports except for revenue purposes; thatrevenue to be justly levied should be moderate in amount and fairly based upon the value of the property taxed; that raw materials and unfinished articles cannot be especially taxed without an unjust burden being laid upon our domestic manufactures so as to prevent them from competing fairly with those of other countries; that our present tariff violates every principle of political economy: it is complicated in its provisions, requiring an enormous body of officials for its collection, and thus debauching our politics by throwing into party contests a large element of persons

. subservient to the selfish aggrandizement of the appointing power; it has driven our manufactures, though the most skillful in the world, from all foreign markets by enhancing the cost of the materials they use. Many of its duties are so high as to encourage smuggling, and so complicated as to entrap the honest importers. That in the present circumstances of the country an ample revenue for the payment of the interest and large installments of the principal of the debt, and for the ordinary expenses of the Government, can be had without levying any tariff whatever upon necessary articles, such as iron, coal, clothing, medicines, and all materials used in the mechanic arts.

IX. Eulogizes Governor Hoffman.

X. That now that apprehensions are expressed that the religious and civil equality of citizens is menaced, we renew the pledge of our fidelity to the great Democratic doctrine of equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever creed or nationality, and special favors to none.

Republican, June 31, 1ST 1.

1. The Republican party of the United States may well challenge the admiration and confidence of the country for its patriotism, courage, and wisdom in preserving the Union

of the States, for its justice, firmness, and magnanimity in establishing for all the people liberty and equality before the law, for its gratitude to and provision for the national defenders and pensioners, for honor and good faith toward the national creditors, and generally for the successful administration of public affairs in peace as well as in war.

2. We not only recognize the Xll hh, XiVth, and XVthamendments to the Constitution of the United States as accomplished facts, but also as just, wise, and valid anicles of organic law, to be jealously defended and enforced as parts of the Constitution now, henceforth, and forever.

3. As it will be necessary and desirable to obtain from duties on imports a large proportion of the revenues needed to defray the expenses of the Government, to pay the interest on the national debt and the principal as it matures, such duties should be so adjusted as not to prejudice but promote the interests of every section and branch of industry, as far as may be possible.

4. The present Administration of the national Government has vindicated its right to the continued confidence of the people. Its success has been illustrated in the impartial execution of the law, in its faithfulness, honesty, and economy in the collection of the public revenues, and in the expenses of the Government, so that, while taxation has been reduced to the extent of $100,000,000 per year, the national debt has been paid to the amouut of over $230,000,000, a reduction unparalleled in history. The Administration has been equally successful in the management of our foreign relations, and has achieved imperishble honor in the settlement of our differences with Great Britain upon terms creditable to both countries as embodied in the Treaty of Washington. The head of the Administration thus distinguished by success and statesmanship, is justly entitled to be regarded as a wise and careful civil magistrate, and his uniform deference to public sentiment shows him to be one whom the country may trust, having fully redeemed the pledge he made before entering upon the duties of Chief Magistrate, that he would have no policy of his own to enforce against the will of the people.

5. We repeat our condemnation of the policy of granting subsidies of public lands to corporations and monopolies, and having originated the policy of granting homesteads to actual settlers, we declare that the public domain should be kept for our laboring population.

6. We are in favor of the adoption of a thorough system of civil service reform, and we indorse heartily the action of President Grant in selecting commissioners under the action of the recent so-called civil service act.

7. We unite with our fellow-citizens in every portion of the Union in the hope that the enmities and resentments of the war may be soon ended, and that the day may soon come when, in every State, every citizen may be safe in life, person, property, and civil rights, and may have the equal protection of the laws, so that no man that was loyal to the Union dur