Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1870 — A Card from General Milroy. [ARTICLE]

A Card from General Milroy.

Ta lha Brpakllcaa Valera *f I«The Convention ofthe 22nd ult. having done me the honor to select me as votir candidate for the office of Treasurer of State; and fully recognizing your right to know the opinions of your candidates upon all political Questions of interest to you; and believing that all such subjects are embraced in the platform adopted by your Convention, at whose hands I received the nomination, I hereby proclaim to you, 1 frankly and without mental reservation, that I fully accept, aud squarely stand upon that platform; and if elected Treasurer of State, 1 will officially and otherwise, abide by, sustain, and use every effort to carry into effect, in latter and spirit, 1 every resolution of that platform, especially^the thirteenth resolution relating to the Wabash and Erie Canal Bonds, which reads as follows: XIII. Canal Bonds.—That the canal stocks, issued under the legislation of 1846 nnd 1847, commonly culled the “ Butler Bill,” were by the terms of the contract, charged exclusively upon the Wabash and Erie Canal, its revenuesand lands; and the faith of the State never having been directly or indirectly pledged for the payment or redemption thereof, said canal stocks therefore constitute no part of the outstanding debts or„liabilfties of the State. That the Constitution of .this State ought 1 , to’be amended at the earl period, so as to prohibit the taking effect of any law or acts of the General Assembly proposing to recognize or create any liability of the State for the said canal stocks, or any part thereof, until such proposition shall have been submitted to a direct vote of the people of the State and approved by them. I quote the foregoing resolution of our and particularise my position on tlfe name, for the satisfaction of such republican voters as may have been led to entertain doubts as to where I stand, by reason of the persistant statements of the democratic press as to the inconsbtancy of my alleged views with said resolution. Being a republican it would, of course, be impossible for me to escape the vituperation of the democratic press, or to answer, or attempt to satisfy them in relation to the Wabash and Erie canal, or any other charge they may make against me. In 1867, the legislature did me the honor to elect me Canal Trus tee on the part of the State; but I am not pow, and never have been the owner of one cent of canal stock, nor have I been otherwise pecuniarily interested therein to the amount of one farthing. If elected Treasurer of State, I shall endeavor to discharge the dutes ofthe office according to law. R. 11. Milboy. Delphi, March 14, 1870