Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1873 — Resolutions Adopted by the New Fork State Republican Convention. [ARTICLE]

Resolutions Adopted by the New Fork State Republican Convention.

Mesolveil , 1. That, having abolished slavery, suppressed rebellion, preserved the Union, established equal political and civil rights, restored the national credit, paid or refunded a large part of the national debt, reduced the burden of taxation, disarmed and abashed the threat of repudiation, provided a uniform national currency and adjusted grave foreign complications, assurea general stability and prosperity throughout the land, and furnished a wise, economical, and wholesome administration of public affairs both in the nation and State, the Republican party has notvinty established the strongest title to the gratitude and confidence of the people, hut has presented the best pledge that it will be as true to every future obligation as it has been to every past requirement. 2. That as well for the maintenance of these great achievements as for the fulfillment of every new demand of public reform and popular rights, wu believe the people will look not to the long-re-jected party which has stolidly resisted every step of progress and act of patriotism in our later history, but to that long-trusted party whose enduring principles and unexampled career are honorably identified with all these advances and triumphs, and which meets all new questions as they arise with the same patriotic and faithful spirit. _ 3. That the Tammany ring, with its colossal plunder of the people, pollution of the ballot-box*, defilementofThe tench, mismanagement of the public works, increase of taxation, and addition of a deficiency of $b,(i00,000 to the public debt,-were direct fruits of Democratic rule hi this State; that with the aid of honest men of all parties, whose co-operation is still invited, the Republican organization lias overthrown the Tanunany iniquity, purified elections, elevated the judiciary, redeemed the State Administration, and made provision for all public obligations, and that the completion of reform, as well as the geueral welfare of the State, requires a continuance of its work. 4. That having enacted a statute permitting suits forthe recovery nf civil damages in cases of Injury sustained from the sale of intoxicating beverages, and being committed to the principle of allowing each locality to determine for itself whether it wifi prohibit such sale, the Republican party has shown itself the true friend of temperance. 5. That it is essential to the prosperity of the StnU' of New York, and especially of her commercial metropolis, that all lines of communication with the producing States of the West and South, whether by land or water, should be available for the purpose of an uninterrupted and adequate transportation at minimum rates; that the subject should he considered in a broad and statesmanlike spirit commensurate with its great importance, and that we hold it to be the paramount duty of the coming Legislature to devise means whereby the cereals of the country may find their way with sure dispatch to the seaboard, and thence to the markets of the world; that, considering the necessity of wise action to prevent a diversion of trade, the main canals of this State should lie adapted to steam navigation, and by the refunding of the debts in long bondß at a low rate of interest, should be made as free to the commerce of the nation as their economical maintenance, without taxing the people, will permit. We hold, also, that Congress should put forth all the power it may wisely exert within the limits of the Constitution, and recommend to the consideration of Congress the natural advantages and just claims of the great channels which run through the State. 6. That public approbation belongs to Senators and Representatives who, in the last Congress, opposed the appropriation of money for increased compensation for Congressional services already rendered and paid for, and that public censure belongs to those, of whatever politics, whose votes enacted such a provision. We do not charge this wrong upon either party, although it was supported by a larger relative proportion of the opponents thau of the friends of the Administration, and although among those who promoteA~tL and those who were conveniently absent when the votes were recorded were several members of a small faction who had recently deserted their party under the pretense of unfounded charges of Republican extravagance. Wu commend, also, Senators and Representatives who have refrained from appropriating the back pay; and we hold that the only effectual mode of restoring to the United States the money which such members have declined to receive is by law to cover the same into the Treasury. We therefore request the Republican Senators from this Stale to introduce and urge at the next session a hill which shall refund to the Treasury all such moneys not claimed, including all stilus which have been merely left untouched, and all sums which have been, in one form or another, publicly or privately, renounced. 7. That we point with pride to the Republican AdministrationsHoth of the Nation and State; that the former exhibits honest purpose, the successful policy aud auspicious results of which, together with Ids own practical wisdom and patriotic services, led to the triumphant re-eiectiou of President Grant; that tile latter, by his watchful ctire of every public interest, has justified the expectations of the people, and that with the ticket nominated to-day we confidently pledge the maintenance of faithful and efficient government.