Official Proceedings of the Democratic National ConventionNational Document Publishers, 1876 |
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66 James 66 John 66 Second 66 Third adopted amendment Applause Augustus Schell ballot call the roll candidate CHAIR Chairman Cheers Committee on Credentials Committee on Resolutions Cries currency delegation demand Democracy Democratic party denounce desire DOOLITTLE DORSHEIMER Eighth 66 election Fifth 66 floor Fourth 66 Hendricks honest honor Illinois Indiana Jersey Joel Parker Kansas Kentucky Laughter Louis McClernand McLANE Miles Ross millions minority report Missouri motion move National Convention National Democratic Committee National Democratic Convention Ninth 66 nomination North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania platform pledge point of order President previous question prosperity reform repeal Republican party Resolved rule Samuel Second 66 Senator Sergeant-at-Arms Seventh 66 Sixth 66 specie payments Tennessee Third 66 Thos Tilden tion two-thirds rule unanimous Union United vention Vice-President Virginia vote WALLACE WILLIAMS Wisconsin York
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Página 183 - For the Democracy of the whole country we do here reaffirm our faith in the permanence of the federal union, our devotion to the constitution of the United States, with its amendments universally accepted, as a final settlement of the controversies that engendered civil war, and do here record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of republican self-government.
Página 98 - ... upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds upon the revenue; a Secretary of War impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, — the demonstration is complete that the first step in reform must be the people's choice of honest men from another party, lest the disease of one political organization infect the body politic, and lest, by making no change of men or parties, we get no change of measures and no real reform. All these abuses, wrongs, and crimes, the product of sixteen years...
Página 123 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens: a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 98 - When the annals of this Republic show the disgrace and censure of a Vice-President; a late Speaker of the House of Representatives marketing his rulings as a presiding officer; three Senators profiting secretly by their votes as law-makers ; five chairmen of the leading committees of the late House of Representatives exposed in jobbery; a late Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances in the public accounts; a late AttorneyGeneral misappropriating...
Página 34 - The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Página 97 - ... reward of party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency and held for fidelity in the public employ ; that the dispensing of patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of all our public men, nor the instrument of their ambition.
Página 96 - Reform is necessary in the scale of public expense — federal, state, and municipal. Our federal taxation has swollen from sixty millions gold, in 1860, to...
Página 96 - We denounce the present tariff, levied upon nearly four thousand articles, as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality, and false pretence. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few. It prohibits imports that might purchase the products of American labor. It has degraded American commerce from the first to an inferior rank on the high seas. It has cut down the sales of American manufactures at home and abroad and depleted the returns...
Página 98 - Attorney-General misappropriating public funds; a Secretary of the Navy enriched or enriching friends by percentages levied off the profits of contractors with his department; an ambassador to England censured in a dishonorable speculation; the President's private secretary barely escaping conviction upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds upon the revenue; a Secretary of War impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors...
Página 189 - We denounce the financial imbecility and immorality of that party which, during eleven years of peace, has made no advance toward resumption, no preparation for resumption, but instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income; and, while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto.