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ix _ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. tion for seconding or supporting nominations, syllable from the praise justly due to any; but ‘upon a proper basis. And during the period of ‘these controvercies his reputation had bean EMERGING, GROWING, TOWERING, ‘until at last when, in 1863, reconstruction had ‘een practically secured, his reputation was ‘towering before tho country, and one of the great names of the country had become spread abroad all over the land. It had become ahouse- hoid word. It was familar in every corner, It ‘was looked up to from every part of the coun- ‘try. That name was the Hon. James G. Biaine,. the Senator from Maine. [Cheers.] [The audience did not stop at the usual time, but continued the applause for a minute or two, supplementing it with the waving of handker- chiefs, hats, and umbrellas. There was a lull for a few seconds, and the demonstration seemed to be dying, but some of the alternates arose, followed br afew of the delegates, and ‘then it became evident that there was to bea repetition of the scene of early Saturday morn- ing. After keeping up the din about five min- ‘utes, the galleries, much to the surprise of many, heeded the mps of the gavel, and took it into their Eee wo let Mr. Joy go on, which he did, as follows: When the stormy period of Andrew Johnson's time had passed away, or was passing away, and Gen. Grant was vominated by the country for President of the United States, all eyes in the country turned to the Hon, James G. Blaine, led upon to canvass the country. pe ssvd the country from Maine to the Mississippi, und beyond. | He made himself familiar with the great North and the great ‘West. The people BECAME FAMILIAR WITH HIS in the North and in the great West, And he had about him that wonderful power of attraction which a half-century earlier was possessed in the mosteminent degree also by another great man of this country, the great son of the great Btate of Kentucky,—Hurry Clay. On the second Bomination of Gen, Grant in 1872 he was called upon in the same way, and he travel the country exercising his power, his abillity, and his eloquence in the cause of the cuuntry over the same extent of this northern border. He had become so well known, the people of the country had become so well acquainted with him, he had fustened them tohim by attrac- tions so great, that in the Convention which was held at Cincinnati four years ago he had be- come THE LEADING CANDIDATE OF THR NORTHERN PEOPLE for the Presidency of the United States. Ho ‘was the favorit candidate of the State which I represent. in this Convention. ts dele- that Convention with a view of urxing and securing, if it were possible, his nomination. He came within a few votes of success, when for some reuson his column broke, and the result was another nomination, which had not been before the country. You all know the disappointment, you know perbups the astonishment, which wag ‘created in some sections of the country at that result. In the State which I have the honor to gwepresent upon this fluor it was considered almost a calamity to the individual members of the Repablican ‘party of that State. They felt Mt almost as a personal biow. But while he amight have been disappointed reasonably in the results when the canvass came on, @nd when the fight was a close one, and when it was doubtful whether the Repub- licans would sueceed in electing their candidate, although he had been repudiated at the Conven- tion, he buckled oo his barness, he entered the ranks, he traversed the country, and fought ananfully, gloriously, and vigorously until the Daule was won, though by a small majority. 4Cheers.} The Chairman—The time of the gentleman from Michigau has expired. [‘Go on, go on!"] Mr. Joy—A few minutes more, gontlemen. “Time.” ae] AMr. Joy—The feeling which was created— A delegate—I move the time be extended. ‘The Chairman—Is there a second? A delogate—Mr. Chairmun, 1 hope that wo will Bive the gentleman time. ‘The Chuirman—How much time? ek: Joy—The feciing which was created, gen- jemen— Adelegate—I move to give fifteen minutes Jouger. | [**No, No!"] ‘Mr. Joy—I want but a few minutes before— The Chairman—The gentleman cannot pro- teed without unanimous consent, Objection is auade. Senator Garfleld—I am sure no man will ob- ject. I ask the Chair tb allow the gentleman to proceed BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT. ‘The Chairman—The gentleman will proceed, if no objection is made. Mr. Joy—The result was, gentlemen, that he tadeared himself tenfold more to the working Republicans of this Northwest than he had ever aone before. And when this Convention was called, the people of the State which L represent, and which fad so earnestly advocated him be- fore, determined again to place kim before this To 5 Tam but exceuting their wis! ‘ow, genticmen, I will say, with regard to the Bute of Michigan, itis not a doubtful state. It jsa State which stands by tts bauner ail the time. It will not matter, so far as the work, the Vigor, and the energy which that State will put dato the contest, whether he be nominated here ornot. We stand by the flag there, whoever may be the standard-bearer. (Slight applause. Wit these remarks, gentlemen, longer than intended, [have the honor to present to this Convention, us a candidate for the Presidential Chair for the ensuing term, to be voted for by the people, the name of the Hon. James G. Blaine, of the State of Maine, [Loud and long- continued applause.] it. C, McBeth, of Missouri (exeltedly}—I wantito know if this Convention is going to be run by a mob; whether it fs capuble of running itself and mnaintain order, or whether the galleries are go- ing t@ drive this Couvention from the purpose for which it came here. Lwant to know if we are capable of running this Convention, or whether this mob [shaking his arm at the “galleries} shall drive us out. ‘oices, “That is right." “ Clear the galleries.” ir, Chairman, I ask this: if the gulleries wil not be so kind us to allow us to proceed with our business, with a certain amount of cheering, 1 Proper amount of recognition, that then we, a3 ‘members of this Convention, shall have to ask that the galleries be cleared entirely, that the business of the Convention may be transacted {n a business like and gentlemanly manner. {Applause.] CALIFORNIA SECONDS MICHIGAN. Mr. Pixtey, of California—Mr. Presideat—~ ‘The Chairman—The gentleman from California Ws entitled to ive minutes. Mr. Pixley—Mr. President and gentlemen dele- FRU at the Republican National Convention: have been assigned to a most pleasurable duty. dt has been accorded to me by the ‘de- sire of my associutes and by the consent ‘uf the friends of Mr, Bluine that I should have the boner to second his nomination in this Con- yention for the oflice of President of the United Btates. All the delegates of the Territories of Washington, Jdubo, and Arizona, the States of Oregon, Nevada, and California, composing to- gether the magnificent Empire of the Pacific, a grander and pouder Empire than elsewhere does Bot exist under te sun, unite with me in the pleasure of this opportunity to second the num- nation of Mr. Blaine, and will supplement the com nt by casting ror him the uuited rote of Stutes and all tho Territories comp o3- this Pacific Empire. ur delegation, though limited in numbers, represents an Empire broad in territorial area, extending, with Alaskz, {rom the etermal ice of the Arctic Seas to the semi-tropical belt where the apple and the pincapple grow side by side, extending from the wave-washed sunds of the golden sea to the rock-ribbed mountaina that keparate but do not divide us from you, our Eastern friends; embracing the present worth of gokl and grain, and wine and wool, and an Sucaiculable future wealth that shall yet aston- ash the world. It is a broad and sptendid do- mgin. 113 western shore looks westward to East- ern lands. Its golden gutes stand wide ajar to admit the commerce of the Orient, and to wel- come the intercourse necessary to_its enjo; meut. It is the future bome of your children. tis the inheritance of your sons.” It is the rich dower of your dauchters, and we think, and all of our Republicans think, that the nomination of James G. Blsine will result in bis becoming tho President of the United States; ant AUSe WE think, and because the whole of the Republican party think, that as President he will help to guard tnis rich empire and to preserve it as the home and inberiumee and dower of all the children of = this Ubristiua — Common- wealth. Washington | Territory, Idaho and Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, und California uve sent us, a united delezation, to cast an un- broken vote for the distinguished statesman and Benator from Maine. [Cheers.] 3 In him we recognize the distunguished abilit the uotlinching nerve which is xt all times de- manded in the pertormance of public duties; the possession of an ‘atin and beart that em. pathy all his country- men wholove their cuuntry, bonor its institi- tions, and obey its laws. He is gifted. eloquent, and Brave: he is patriotic, honest, aud true; be has been tried in loa publie service, and may be trused. He will carry into his great office no personnl nor party resentments; he will bring to the discbarye of big otticial duties no ivcal nor sectional prejudices; he 18 broad- Ininded, comprebensive, ‘and generous in the ex¢relse of undaunted moral courage. He will dare to defy the baser political elements, and Sclight to surround himscif with the vost and ablest men of the Nation. He will callintu the counsels of his Administration tho tied, and honored, and honest men of his party. He will exert to the fullest extent the powers and. pre- Togatives of the Presidential office, and secure jotbe humblest citizen the protection of the law. He will, phe porlormancy of his exccu- : no responsibility, nor sevk avid any duty required of him by the Comat: ton and the law, His nomination will violare none of the time-honored traditions of the gountry [loud applause],—traditions that in their long-continued existence and force have bevome binding as the unwritten law of the jand,—traditions that ought to be MORE INVULNERABLE THAN FORMULATED CODES, and as sacred as the written Constitution of our fathers. 1 His nemination - is de- rs 7 'y of the delegates from the solid Republiean North, and itought to be Je conceded by the Solid South, that has every- thing to rveeive and nothingto give [applause], Chat in the coming contest has everything 10 fein and iuthng except honor that it hasnot y lust. Give us this gentleman for a ion of a braces in its magnetic und we of the ultimate West pledge to thee the gallant service of the gallant band of Republican soldiers thut bas now for theso twenty years held and guanied the frontier. outpost ‘of your Republican army. We bave’ never been’ surprised nor found off duty: we have never flinched a fight nor lost a Presidential battle; we have never al- lowed_# Democratic ‘yote to be deposited inthe Electoral urn since we have been welcomed to the sisterhood of States. [Loud applause]. Give us this gentleman for a candidate, and we will go back to our homes with banners, flyinz, with zlad, prond hearts; our people will wel- come and applaud us; our Western sea shall sound its roaring anthems across the Continent toyour Eastern ocean; our pinc-clad Sierras sball nod their tassels in graceful courtesy to the bending plumes of Maine; and we, Mr. Pres- ident and gentlemen, will give twelve Electoril Votes to make James G. Blaine the next Preai- dent of the United States. [Loud applause.] WILLIAM P. ERYE, OF MAINE. The Chatrman—The wzentleman from Maine askS unanimous consent that he may have two minutes. Is there objection to giving him two minutes? The Chair hears none. Proceed. Mr. Frye—[ saw once a storm at sea in the nighttime, and our stanch old ship battling for its ife with the fury of the tempest; durkness | everywhere; the wind shricking ond howling through the rigging; the huge waves beating upon the sides of that ship and making ber shiver frum stem to stern. The lightnings were flashing, the thunders were rollmg. There was danger everywhere. Isaw at the helm a cain, bold, courzgeous, immovable, ing man. In the tempest, calm commotion, quiet; in the dismay, hopeful J saw him take that old ship and bring her into the harbor, into still waters, into satety. That man was ahero. [Applause.] I saw the good old ship, the State of Maine, within the lust year, fighting her way through the same darkness, through the same perils, against the same waves, aguinst the same dangers. She was freighted with all that is precious in the princi- pies of our Republic,--with the rights of Amer- ican citizenship, with all that is guaranteed to the American citizen by our Constitution. The eyes of the whole Nation were upon her; an in- tense anxiety tilled every American heart, lest the grand old ship, the State of Muine, might co down beneath the waves for- ever, carrying her precious freight with her. Lut, sir, there was a mau atthe helm. [Ap- plause]. Culm, deliberate, commanding, saga- cious, be made even the fuolish men wise. Courageous, be inspired the timid with courage; hoperul, be gaye heart to the dismay, and be brought that'géod ald ship sufely into’ the hor bor, into safety, and: there she floats to-day, brighter, purer, stronger from hér baptism of danger. That man too wasa hero, and his nume was James G. Blaine. _ applause.) Maine sends greetings to this magnificent Cot vention. pnd ibe mcmory, of ner: own ative tion from impending peril fresh upon her, she snys to you, representatives of 50,000,000 of American people, who have met here to counsel how the Republic shull be saved, she says to you representatives of the people, take a man, 2 true man, a stanch man for your leader, who has just saved her, and who will bear you to safety and certain victot [Great applause, lasting for several minute: WILLIAM WINDOM. NOMINATED BY E. F. DRAKE, OF MINNESOTA. ‘When Minnesota was called, Mr. E. F. Drake took the platform to nominate the Hon. William Windom. Mr. Drake—The Republicans of the State of Minnesota place before thisConvention asa can- didate for the office of President of the United States the Hon. William Windom of Minnesota. [Applause.] We believe that the candidate whom we present will better uniteall the dis- cordant elements of the party than any of tho distinguished names that are before this Con- vention. Mr. Windom is a statesman of ripe ex- perience. He hus served twenty years in the Congress of the United States, and during all that tine with acceptance to his constituents. Four times was he nominated as a Representa- tive by acclamation, and twice elected to the Senate of the United States without opposition in his own party. During the dark days of the Rebellion he supported the country unfaltering- ly. His Republicanism is of a high order. He has evor in all bis public life maintained a characteg unsullied for honesty. His private lifeis blameless. In his course he has ever sus- tained the cause of the oppressed and supported the Government loyally. Such is the candidate we present to you and ask foryour support. Ono word more and 1 have done. Whomever this Convention may select to be the standard- bearer of the party, whether it is William Win- dom oreither of the distinguished gentiomen whose names will come before you, I am author- ized to pledge in advance by the Republicans in Minnesota to your nominee an unfaltering and unyielding support, and to give you the vote of Minnesota in November. (Applause.] ‘The Chuirman—Is there a second? ‘There was none. ‘The Chairman—The Secretary will proceed. THE THIRD TERM. NOMINATED BY ROSCOE CONKLING. When New York was called Senator Conkling left his scat, and, while walking up. the aisic toward the platform, he was lustily cheered. He took a position on top of one of the reporter's tables, near the delegates, and, when ho drew himself up and threw back his head in his im- perious way, the people in the galleries applaud- édand ‘waved their handkerchiefs, etc. They kept this up for scveral minutes, but ccased when the Senator held up his hand for them to keep quiet, ‘The Chairman invited the gentleman to go on the platform, but he said he would remain where he was. When the utmost silence pre- vailed, Senator Conkling said: And whea asked what State he hails from, our sole reply shall be, He bails from Appomattox {applause and cheers], with ita famous apple- tree, In obedience to instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing also my own firm conviction, I rise to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win. The election before us is to be the Austerlitz of American politics. (Cries of “That's so,” “That's it.”] It will decide for many years whether the country shall be Republican or Cossack. [Cries of “Good, good,” and applausc.] The supreme need of the bour is not a candidate who can carry Michiguo. All Republican candidates can do that. The need is not of a candidate popular in the Territories, because they baye no yote. {Applause and cries of “Good, goud."] The need is of a candidate who can curry doubtful States. fanplause and cries of “Good, good.""} Not the doubtful States of the North, but doubt- ful States of the South [cheers and cries of “Good, good"]. which we have heard, if I un- derstand it aright, ought to take little or no part here, because the Suuth has nothing to give, but everything to receive. [Applause and a voice, “Good for you.""] No, gentiemen, the need that presses upon THE CONSCIENCE OF THIS CONVENTION is of a candidate who can carry doubtful States both North and South. And believing that he, more surely than any other man, can carry New York against any oppunent [cheers], and can carry not only the North but several States of the South. New York is for Ulysses S. Grant. {Applause} Never defeated—[“ Everybody ‘knows it Hise d defeated in peace or in war, his name 4s the most illustrious borne by living man, [Cheers.] TS SERVICES ATTEST TUS GREATNESS, andthe country—nay, the world—knows them by heart. His fume was earned not alono in things written and said, but_by the arduous greatness of things done. [“Good.” and ebeers.] And perils und emergencies will search in Vain in the future, as they hi searched in vain in the past, for any other ou whom the Nation jeans with such confidence and trust. [Cheers.] Never huving bad a policy to enforce aguinst the will of the pcoplo [+ Hight "}, he never be- Urayed a cause. or a ftlend [cheers], and. the will never desert or betray him. i "] Standing on the higaest eminence of humun distinetion, modest, firm, simple, and seli-poised, baving tilled all lands ‘with his re- nown, he bus seen not only the high-born and the tiuled. but the poor and the lowly [That's in the uttermost ends of the carth,rise and uncover before him, {[Cheers.] He has studied the needs and the defects of many systems of government; and he bas returned a better ’ Americ:in than ever, with a wealth of knowledge rand experience added to the hard common sense ,which shone so conspicuously in all the Hierce light that beat upon him during sixteen years, the most trying, the most portentous, the perilous. Viliiied and reviled, truthlesly aspersed by unuuinbered presses, not in other lands, but in his own [Hit ‘em again” and applause), assuults upon him ave seasoned and strengthened his bold on the public heart. {Loud applause.) Calumny’s ammunition has ull been exploded; the burned once. [Applause.] Its force is spent. «ind the name of Grant [applause] wilt glitter a bright and imperishable sturin the diadem of the Republic [applause] when those who have tied to tarnish that name have moldered in forgotten graves (loud cheers}, and when their mewories and. their epitaphs have vanished utterly. fApplause. Never elated by success, never depressed by adversity, he has ever, in peace as in war, shown the very genius of common sense. [Applause.} The terms he prescribed for Lee's surrender foreshadowed the wisest prophesies and prin- ciples of true reconstruction. [**Good,” and ap- plause.] Victor in the greatest war of aiodern Umes, he quickly signalized his aversion to war and his love of peace by an arbitration of inter- national disputes, which stands the wisest, the most majestic example of its kind in the world’s iplomacy. [Loud cheers.) When inflation, at the hight of ite popularity and frenzy, had swept BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, it was the veto of Grant which, Binge and alone overthrew expansion, and cleared the way for specie resumption, [Loud und long-continued gpplause.) To him, to him, immeasurably more than to any other man, is duc the fact that ev-. ies dollar isas good as gold. (Loud ap, With him as our leader we shall have no de-" foensive campaign. [Applause.] Nol We ye nothing to explain away, We shall have Leaner male. (Chee: ‘The shafts and the arrows have all been aimed at bim, and they lie broken and harmless at his feet. [Loud cers. crete tiberty, and property will find a safeguard in’ him. [Chocrs.] When he id of the colored’ men” in, Florida, AWherevor Im they may come also” [cheers]; when he so said, he meant that he bad the power, the poor dwellers in the cabins of the South should no longer be driven in terror from the homes of their childhood and the gravesof their murdered dead. [Loud cheers.] When he re- fused to receive Denis Kearncy in California, he meant that Communism, lawlesness, and dis- order, although it might stalk high-hended and dictate law to a whole city, should find a foe in him. {Loud cheers.] He meant that popular or unpopular be would hew to the line of right, let the chips tiy where they may, [Cheers.] iis Integrity, his common sense, his courage, his unequaled experience, are the qualitics of- fered to his country. oes The only argu- ment, the only one t the witof man or the stress of politics has devised is one which would dumbfounder Solomon, because te thought there was nothing new under the sun. Having tried Grant twice and found him faithful, we are told that we must not even, after an interval of years, trust him again. My countrymen! ay, country- men! what stultification does not such a fallacy involve, [Cheers.} The American people ex- elude Jefferson Davis from public trust. Why? Why? Beeruse he wag the arch-traitor and would-be destroyer; aad now the same people is asked to ostricise Grant, aud not to trust him. [Loud applause.) Why? Way, I repeat? Because he wus the arch-preserver of his coun- try [renewed applause], and because not only in war, but twice as Civil Magistrate, he gave his highest, noblest efforts to the Re- public. {Loud applause.) Is this an - elec- uonecring Juggle, or is it hypocrisy's masquerade? Thore is no ficid of human activ- ity, responsibillty, or reason in which rational beings object to an agent because he has been welghed in the balance and not found wanting. [Loud applause, on the subsidence of which there were callsof “Time, time,” and counter cries of “Go on."]_ There is no department — ‘Renewed calls of “Time” and “Go on.”} There is, I sny, uo department of human reason in which sane men reject an agent because HE MAS HAD EXPERIENCE, making him exceptionilly competent and fit. From the man who shoes your horse to the la’ yer who tries your cause, the officer who man- iuges your railway or your mill, the doctor into whoze hands you give your life, or the minister who seeke to suve your soul, what mun: do you reject because, by his works, you have known him, and found him faithful. and fit? {Applause.] What makes the Presidential office an exception to all things else in the common sense to bo applied to selecting its incumbent? Who dures—who dares to put fetters on that free choice and judgment which is tho bitth- right of the American people. [Loud apDlause.. Can it be said that Grant has used official power and pluce to perpetuate his term? He has no place; and official power has not been usedfor him. [Loud and prolonged cheers.] Without patronage and without emissa- rics, without committees, without bureaus [laughter and applausd],_ without _ tele- graph wires [cries of “Good,” “Good, and applause] running from his house to this Convention, or running from his house any- wnere clse. [Crics of “ Good" and applause, followed by orles of “Time,” “Time,” and “Go on,” “Go on."}] Let me finish. [Crit Let mo finish. {Cries of Go on” and “Tims Let me finish. [More cries and cat culis.] Mr. Bishop, of Montana—Mr. Chairman. The Chairman—For what purpose does tho gentleman rise? Mr. Bishop—lI rise to ask the American people the gentleman when he says,“ Lot to listen t me finish.’ The Chairman—The gentleman will proceed unless some member of the Conyention makes a ointof order. No member of the Convention Ena manifested a disposition todoit. The gen- tleman will proceed. Mr. Conkling—Mr. Chairman, let me say to the Chair that I shall be careful not to exceed the forty minutes which, without objection, were given to those who proposed and seconde the last nomination. [Cries of * Good, good, and applause.] Tsay this man without bureaus, without push, witbout appliances, without electioncering con- apy which have made of-—[Cries of * Oh! oar A volee—" Syndicate.” Mr. Conkling —Without effort on his part— ‘A voiee—" Machine.” | Mr. Conkling—His name is on his country’s lips, and he fs struck ut by the whole Demo- eratie party—[Cries of “Oh! oh!""]—beeause his nomination is the death-blow of Democratic success. [Applause] Ho i3 struck at by oth- ers who find an ‘offense and disqualifica- tion in the very services| he hag rondered, “and the very experience _ that he has gained. Show mea better man—[Cries of “Blaine.” “Buuine.”] Name one. [Cries of “ Blaine,” and great applause.) : {While the crowd was amusing itself, Mr. Conkling picked up and complacently sucked a lemon. Mr. Conkling—This doesn't come outof my time, gentlemen, and, therefore, doesn't annoy me. [ aN entEE i was about to say name 1 betterman, and famanswered. But don’t point as a disqualification to the very experience which makes this man fit beyond all others. [Ap- There is no third-term in the the pretense will dic with litical dogdays that gendered (aughter.} One week after the Democratic Convention will hear the lust of this ‘rubbish about a third term. [Cries of “ Right!" and applause.] Nobody, nobody now is really disquieted about a third term [derisive voices, “O;no!"} except those hopetesly longing for a firstterm. [Applause and laughter.] It is the men who long for a tirat term. [Renowed laugh- ter.] Without effort or intrigue on his part, HE IS THE CANDIDATE,— yes, the candidate,—whose friends have threat- ened to bolt unless—— ¥ A man in the gallery—We are not going to bolt. [fentusion: and cries of “O xo,’ Palmer louse.” Senator Conkling—He fs tho candidate whose friends have never threatened to bolt unless this Convention did as they said. [Cheers and eries of “Brayo!"] He is a Republican’ who never wavers. [Applause.) He and his friends stand by the creed and the candidates of the Re- publican party. [Applause] | ‘Thoy hold tho rightful rule of tho jority. as the very essence of their faith [applause], and they mean to up- hola that faith’ against not only the common enemy, but against the charlatans, jahawkers, tramps, and guerrillas frppluuse} the men who deploy between the ‘ines, and forage now on one side and then on the other. Appleuse.] This Convention is Master of a supreme opportunity. It can name the next President. [Applause and eries of “ Biaine.”}' It can make sure of hig election. i itisaes und appinuse mingle, and considerubic isorder—so much that the speaker was obliged to suspend, saying. * {will wait, Twill wait." Then there were cries of * Go on.”"] Senator Conkling—Not until you keep quiet I won't. [Finally order was restored, and then Senator Conkling resumed :} it can uke sure not only of his election, but of his ‘certain and peaceful inauguration. {Cneers.] Itcan break that power which domi- hates and mildews tho South.’ It can overthrow 20 organization whose very existence is a stand- ing protest against progress. The purpose of the Democratic arty is spoils, Its very hopo of existence is # solid South, 118 success is n menace to orderand progress. Tsay this Convention can overthrow that power. It can dissolve and emancipate a solid South. It can specd the Nation in a career of grandeur eclipsing all past achievements. Gentlemen, wo haye only to listen above the din and luvok ‘be- Fond the dust of an hour to behold the Repub- ican party advancing with its ensigns re~ splendent with illustrious avhievements march- ing to certain victory with its greatest Marshal at its head. [Applause, lasting for about ten minutes.] SECONDED BY KENTUCKY. The Chnirman—Mr. Bradloy, of Kentucky, will second the nomination. Mr. W, O. Bradley—Mr. Chairman— Mr. Mitchell, of Nebraskn—Mr. Chairman, I desire to give notice that when the five minutes . Ls 4 Shall insist upon the rule. {*Good, ood! ** Mr. Bradley—Gentlemen of the Convention. I buve never witnessed such a scene of enthusi- asm as this to-night. and I never expect to wit- ness such a scene tigain until after the next No- yember election, and then I expect to witness It in behalf of the same distinguiched soldier in whose behalf it has been exercised to-night. We have heard that portentous storm of which the foe icane from Maine spoke, and wo saw the ightning and heard the thunder, and saw that ship of state as she moved amid the waters, but it was that grand vid soldier who sat at the helm, magnificent in the midst of his ailence, {Cheers.] 1 desire to second the nomination of that man, und through the wisdom of God— the goodness of God—become leader of the grandest army whose banners ever darkened the sky. Swepton by the waters of the Mis- sissippi, from victory to victory, he at length wound his great army like a serpent around the embattled host of treason, and crushed them within its ample folds. He gave voice and strength to that proclamation which struck tho manacies from the hunds of four millions of his fellow-beings. The merciless slave-driver trem- bled and read it inthe Hash of bis cannon, andho piuned it upon the ‘detinnt murderous breust of treason with a million loyal bayonets. Huving been called to the exercise of the office of Chiet Magistrate of this Nation, he proved himself ever true, and before this, when this grand army of the South submitted to him—one tact [ desire to call attention to—he necepted the sword of submission with one hand and he ex- tended aid with the other. feneere There never wasa success of Gen. Grant, however grund, that witnessed the persecution of an enemy. There never was a misfortung that came upon his country or his friend when be dese either. [“Neveri”] In this hour, in this momentous hour, when we reflect and look back ut the light of recent history, and when we remember but a fow months ago, Mr. Chairman, the dominant party in Congress undertook to’ stab the Nation, to destroy its life, when we recollect that buta few months ago they undertook to steal, take, and foloniously carry away the State of Maine, waen we remember that’ they have made their threats, that they will inaugurate their candi- date whether elected or not, the peopie turn in- stinctively to Grant. [Loud cheers] Wede mand a man whose name, whose very name, is a terror to his country’s foes. [Cheers.] We de- mand a man atgthe sound of whose bugle tall a million sold{ers will Spring, into being to inau- urate him. if legally elected. [Loud applause.] We demand a man whose name is the synonym of power, represenis the tri hans aud fae, asteates treasba. “Good!” and cheers. I come not here ds sound the praises ora trained politician. I come not here to sound He prulges of atrumpeter, who, inciting others 2 attie, crept slowly away, and, hiding himss during the conflict, comes forth when Jews over to claim the victory which others have honorably won. (Appinuse and laughter] T nominate this simple American citizen, who, when he was abroad, with all the grand scenes and pageants that were placed before him, we heard his voico coming back over the white caps of the sea, when he said: ‘It is not for me, bu: for my country, that the nations of the carh have honored me.” This is the man that we de- mand in the Republican party to : LEAD ITS COLUMNS TO SIOOR > He has never known, and he never _w , defeat. [Loud applause] Ho fs to-day enthroned in the hearts of forty millions of people, frosting. no kingly crown, but an bumble wreath of modest laurel, in which glitter such names as Donelson, Vicksburg, Shiloh, and Appomattox. [Loud ap- plause.l All the les of slanderers and maligners ave been unuble to tear a single leaf from that crown. They may for a moment have darkened tho lustre of his name; but it was only for a moment: for bofore the light of truth it fled as clouds before the sun, onfy leaving bis name brighter and more giorious by the contrast. His fame is as broad as the universe. 1t 1s as deep as the ocean which but recently bore him upon its bosom, and will live as long as the heavens bend above us, or the stars are reflected in the sen. i Kentucky, holding within her bosom the ashes of the Great Commoner; holding within her heart the memory ot her greatest native son, the adopted child of Tilinois and her martyred Fres- ident, requests me, in the name of a hundred thousand brave soldiers that -marched under his command, to second the nomination of Ulysses 8. Grant. [Loud checrs.} JOHN SHERMAN. ROMINATED BY GEN. GARFIELD. ‘The Chairman—Any further nominations from the State of New York? There being no re- sponso the Secretary will proceed with the call of States. When the State of Ohio was called Senator Garficld rose to address the Chair, and was re- ecived with loud and long cheering. Senator Gurtield—Mr. President, I have wit- nessed the extraordinary scones of this Conven- Uon with deep solicitude: No emotion touches my heart more quickly'than sentimentsin honor of a great and noble character; but I have thought asIsaton these seats and witnessed this demonstration that it seemed to mo you were the human ocean gathored in this circlo. Thave seen the sea lashod in its fury and tossed into spray, and there isa grandour that moves the soul of a man when he looks upon it; ich not Kingly power, but the power whi Jnion upon the one fuimphant Union pon tho otter. but I remember that it is the calm level of the sea from which all hights and depths aro meusured. [Cheers.] When the hour of calm sottles on the occan; when tho sunlight bathes it, then the astrono- mer and surveyor takes the level and measures all terrestrial hights and depths; and, geatlomen. of the Convention, whon tho fervor of our en- thusiasm bas passed, when the passion of tho moment has subsided, itis that calm level of public opinion, below the storm, below the pas- sion, from which the great thoughts of a mighty people ure to be measured [eries of * Good,” and lond applause] and by which they are to be judged. Not here, in this brilliant circic, where 15,000 men and woinen ure gathored, ig the destiny of this Republic to be set- tied for the next four ‘years. [A yoice, “That's so,” and loud ay pinnes. Not bere, where [ see the enthusiastic faces o! ‘70 and odd delegates to cast their lot into the urn and determipe tho fate of the Republic; but by 4,000,000 of Republican firesides, where 4.000,- oo of Foters, with wives and children about them, with tho calm thoughts of home, with the story of their country, with the history of Its life, with the Sanu loans of the great mon that have lived upon it, burning down into their hearts,—thore God prepires tho destiny that shall determine. this mighty question, (Loud eneering.] Not iu {Chicago, in the heat of June, but in the Republic, in the quict, melancholy days of November, when men think and act in the silence of their best judgment, will this question be settlad. [Applause] And now, yeutlemen of the Convention, what do we want? fi voice, “phat’s it. Laughter and cheers.) ‘hat do wo want? Bear with mo a moment; “ hoar me for my cause,” and fer a moment * bo silent that you may hear.” te plauso.] ‘Twenty-five years ago this Republic of ours was bearing and wearing the triple chain of bondage. Long familiarity with traffic in the bodies and souls of men had paralyzed and on- chained the consciences of a majority of our people; the narrowing and disintegrating doc- trine of State-sover¢ignty bad paralyzed the no- blest and most beneficeat powors of the Na- tonal Government; and the aggressive power of slavery was seizing the virgin Territories of ‘our West, and dragging them into the den of eternal slavery. At that crisis the Republican party was born. It drew its ficst laspiration from that fire of liberty which God has lighted in evory heart, and which no power of slavery has ever been ablo wholly to extinguish. [Applause] Tho Eepablican party was born out of this great and God-given impulse, and it came to deliver and saye. It entered where the beleaguered and as- sailed Territories were struggling for life, and it stood beside them and drew about them tho great and sacred circle of liberty. Thoy wero Yorover strengthened by their victory, and the Republicans under the leadership of that great man who, on this spot twenty years ugo, was made their leader, they entered the National Capital and took their high places there. [Applause.] The gleaming light from their banners melted away the shackles of slaves about the Capitul, and throwHits rays into fhe darkest corner Of every slave-pon in Wash- ington. ‘Lhat party entered into the control of the Government, and it found allits noblest func- Uons in bondage; tho great National industries, by un impracticable curroncy, were themselves prostrate, and the streams wore so sickly that the Treasury itself was empty, or nearly empty, and the dregs that were in the Treasury were the rags of two thousand UNCONTROLLED AND UNREGULATED INDEPEND- ENT corporations filling this country with a circula- tion that palsone: the life of business erery- where. The Republican party touched all this, threw its protecting arms about the great Na- tional industrics, and thoy rose in: their might and contributed full colfers toa grateful Gor- ernment. They filled with the genius of nation- ality all tho great functions of the Governmeat, and made them live again. More than that, thoy confronted revolution with splendid armies that fought until the mighty contest was ended; but above the storm of battle, and above tho roar of the guns, we hear the sweet, calm words of peace that came from the conquoring Nation, Saying to the Rebels who lay prostrate at thelr feet, “We take this as our only revengo; we ask you to join usin Ufting into the forum of the Constitution, to shine for- ever and ever like tho starof God, the simple doctrine of equality of all men before the lw.” (Applause.] And then returning to our great questions of reconstruction, to our Fecot lebt, to our great public obligation, the Republican party tinished its twenty-five years of giory and success, und It is hero to-night to asi you to luuneh out on another Instrum of glory and victory. [Applause] How shall you do ite You must do it first, my “friends, by asaailing no Republican, Papplaucey God forbid that I should ny one limitation of Worth upon any distinguished name in the great eategory of our herues. [3 ppiause] If we win this fight.—for it isour Thermopyls this Year; we stand on the narrow isthmus, and the little Spartan host must meet all the Persians that Xorxes can bring; the stars in their courses will ight for us; the ‘census that will be taken this month will give us the victory,—therefore, say I, to win this victory now we want every vote of overy Grant Republican in America and every anti-Grant Repudtican in Amorica. {Ap- plause.] We want the vote of every Blaine min and every anti-Blaine man, of every fol- lower of every‘candidnte, or we dare not hope for success. [Applause.} Therefore, say 1, gentlemen, brethren, we are hero to take calm counsel together, and inquire what we sball do. [A voice, “Nominate Garfield,” and cheers.) WE WANT A MAN whose life and opinions embody all these achievements of which I have spoken. We Wanta man who, standing as it wereon a mount- ain hight, beneath his foot all the achievements, and in his heart all the love for the glories of our past, looks forward to mect the dangers to come. We want him in no. spirit of revenye against those that we fought in battle. Tho Ro- publican party Foes to the South with the palms Of peace, the olive branch of peace in its band, and holds {t out ‘to every one on this supreme condtion: that it shall be ndmitted forever and forevermore that we were right and they were wrong. [Applause] On that Supreme condition we mect them a3 brethren, and on any other terms wo make no terms for- evermore. [Applause.] Now, gentlemen, not to weary you, £ am about to present to you a name for your consid- eration,—the name of a man who was thecom- rade, ussociate, the friend of nearly all those persons whose faces took down upon us In this uiiding here to-night; a man who began his cureer in the politics of this country twenty-five Years ago, whose Orst service was done in days of peril on the plains of Kansas when the first red of that bloody shower began that thickened the luge finally into de} of re of the late Rebellion. [Applause.] He stood by it ea, returning to his seat in the ro) to Frall in Kansas. National Legisiature, through all the subse- quent years, his pathway bas been murked by the labors be bas performed in every depart- ment of legislation. You ask for hia monument. I point you to twenty-five years of National statutes. [Applause.] AndItell you that not One great, beneficent statute upon your books aha noeedas, ities} atte as ald, wEe., mien to formulate laws that) Ho oa RAISED OUR GREAT ARMIES AND NAVIES, and carried us through tha War. in the workmanship ‘of the statutes that re- calm of States. His hand wasin all that at legislation that created the great War cu Trenoy, that carried us through, but in the still greater Work that redeemed the promise of the Goyern- ‘bring the thoughts that I desire to,express with- @ mado it good, And whon at last be pigsed from the hails of legislation into a high executive influenco, he displayed that experi- ence, intelligence, fairness, and power of bal- “ance and poiso through a stormy period of two doa balf ars. With half the public press howlin; and erying “Crucify him: he Pore binself on uniswerved by @ single bair from the line 6f his daty. Handling the great fiscal forces of this Goxernment, and the rreat business interests of this country, he carried us through in the execution of that law, and effected it without a jar against the false prophecies and the Cassandras of half a conti- nens. [Applause.] He haa shown himeclf able to moet in the calmness of statesmanship ail tho great omorgencies of the Government. For twenty-five yenrs.he bas trod that peerless hight of publicduty, and against all the shafts has bared his breast unharmed. [Spplianie) He has stood in the blaze of that fierce light that beats against the throne,and ita fiercest ray bas found no flaw in. his armor, no stain on hfs shiold. (Applause.] Ido not pre- sent him as a better Ropublican or a better man than thousands of others that WE DONOR AND HEVERE, odd but I present him for your deliberate co: lera- tion. 7 nominate John Sherman, of Ohio. [Ap- plause and cheers, which continued for five min- utes, quite a “boom” haying been worked up by Mr. Sherman's friends.] 4 A delegate from Misaisalpp!—This is a most disgraceful proceeding. SECONDED BY WISCONSIN. F.C. Winkler, of Wisconsin—Will this hall come to order and allow a represontative to say a— Continued cunfusion. Mr. Winkler—Mr. President, a5. a representa- tive from the commercial metropolis of Wiscon- sin, I desire to express our appreolation of this enlightened statesmanship by seconding the nomination of Secretary Shermun. [Cheers.] Yielding to no man in tho tribute [ would pay to those who hastened to the detense of the Nation in the hour of rebellious fttack, and who have sinco thon stood by the principles of human frecdom, I never- theless coafess to an especial regard for those who haye stood by the cradle of the Republican party, and who, in the dark days, when it re- quired all the moral courage that a humun soul could gustain to maintain a great principlo, came forwird and inid down the first platform for the enfranchisement of the enslaved race, And, Mr, President, when T look back on the course of years, [am proud to see there in that early day the candidnte whom [now support ina most conspicuous plive. We seo him encounter- ing peril on the pliins of Kansas and co tributing his share ofall that one man could contribute to tho great achievement of that day, making Kansas free. I im proud tosee him at that early day, and within a fow years after, singled out asthe worthy leader of the Repub- Nean party in that earnest contlict in the House of Representatives in 1859, when tho Republican party for nearly two months day after day cast their votes for Jobn Sherman for Speaker, in which conflict he only failed of success because he was too radical a Republican to concfliate Democratic votes. From that time forth he has been greatly honored; ho has becn greatly trusted, and it is not too much to say tbat in every public -trust he has adininistered he has exceeded the expectations of his friends |“ Time”}, and thus advancing through the term of years, always a leader, al- ways intrusted with important intorests, we sce him to-day, standing before us as the acknowl- Salirad and foremost Finance Minister of the world. Ido uot claim for his-hand the touch of magic.» Least of all, would 1 claim for him the doubtful talent of pyrotechnics; but [do claim that he, inthe administration of public affairs, would give us the most preciousigift that we could ask, —absolute safety to tthe = great and varied interests of the land. [Ap- Plause.] His administration would atford the most absolute safety to ull the varied in- terests of our industry; and jt would afford the Same absolute safety to the humblest citizen appealing for his rights. [Applause.] It is such 2 man in an era of peace, and for the purposes of the peace, a statesman in the very best sense of the word, that we would put at the helm of State. [Loud and long-continued applause.) SECONDED BY SOUTH CAROLINA. R. B. Elliott, a colored delegate from Colum- bia, S. O., came forward and mounted a chair on the front of the platform. Z Tho Chairman—Mr, Elliott, of Sous Carolina, asks unanimous consent of the Convention to further second the nomination which has been proposed. is there any objection? The Chair hears none. ‘A voice—I object. Whe Chairman—Odjection is made. But the colored gentieman was not to be abashed by such a slight opposition, and he per- sisted in speaking. . dr. Elliott—Gentlemen of the Convention; [Cheers.] From the land of the bulldozers and tho tissue ballots we have come, with ready feet, to stand once again with you around the altar of-our party, dedicated to universal liberty, there to renew our obligations of loyalty to our country and our fealty to our party. [Ap- plause.] We huve come, gentlemen, appealing to you who represent constituencies from moro fuvored sections of our op tO. put in nomi- nation, for the support of the country, only such candidates as will be most certain to meet the country’s approval. [Applause.] This, gen- tlemen, is the purport of our mission: While we bave thus come, you will pardon mo, ou behalf of a portion of the delegation from the South, and at their poquesls to respond to the nomination of tho distinguished statesman whose uame bas been qresoued by the gentle- man from Ohio, [Applause.] And in so doing, I would not seck to take one single jewel rroum the rich diadem of hearfelt gratitude with which his countrymen have gemmed the proud coronet of that distinguished soldier whose name hus been presented by the gentleman from New York.” [Applauso.] Nor would I willingly Pluck one single tower from that bright. gariand of hearty appreciation with which an admiring and grateful poorle, had encircled the brow of mo kallant leader] James G. Bluine. [Ap- use. By tho greatness of the services he has ren- dered to his country, by tho magnitude of the achievements he has wrought for his party, ho ba3 won the proud title of a leader among lead- ers, Whatever may be our individual prefer- ences in the selection of a Presidential nomince, wo can do no otherwise than render our fullest meed of praise to James G. Blaine, of Maine. [Cheers.] Nor, gentlemen, would I willingly utter one single word that could be justly re- garded as an intention on my part to take away ‘one jot or tittle from the just fame of any other candidate. While bestowing upon the, other gentlemen whoso names are in nomination full tribute, [nevertheless must heartily respond to the nomination of the distinguished patriot and statesman, John Sherman, of Ohio. [Cheers.; Irespond to his nomination because by his long and consistent advoency of the right, by bis far-secing und enlightened views upon all pub- Me questions, by bis sublime moral enthusiasm, be has lifted himself up beyond the plane of or- dinary politics into the higher and der re- gion of American peucnraii Bis is ‘heers.] £ respond to the nomination of John Sherman be- cause he ist man of well-defined and approved | mothods. In his aims he is always direct, and in: the selection and acquirement of means for their accomplishment he has always been like- wise direct. I support the nomination of John Sherman because; a friend to hu- manity, he bas been for a quarter of a century the unyielding und consistent champion of' human rights everywhere. When were the rights of men ever called in question, or the claims of humanity needed u champion, that the volce of John Sherman was not HEARD IN THEIR DEFENSE. Believing that his country, under Divine Providence, is titted for the’ highest possible destiny, when has_he ever failed to uphold its dust cause or to defend itshoner! felieving that the true grandeur of the Nation must rest not alone upon its vast resources or upon its physical power, but as well upon its fino sense of natural justice, when bas bo ever failed to insist upon the fullest and-strictest enforcement ot the golden rule inall its dealings, whether with nations or with individuals? Gentlemen of the Convention, L respond to the nomination of John Sherman because his whole life bas been n continual battle against all forms of oppression, all forms of injus- tice, of caste, prejudices, and of human injustice. Gentlemen, I support the nomina- tion of John Sherinun, of ‘Oho » because £ be- lieve that, if be should be the nominee of this Convention, the rights of every citizen of the United States, without regard to their raco or their nattonailty, without regard to their station or condition in life, will receive the fullest pro- tection xt his bands. [Applause.] Gentlomen of the Convention, I respond to the nomination of John Sherman, of ‘Ohio, be- cause Leannot forget how. with ‘that heroism prester than Roman devotion itself, for nine long weeks in the Thirty-sixth Congress he stood as the shining mark for the concentrated hate of the Pro-Siuvery party of the country on. account of his devotion to principle and his Patriotism to his country, Isupport the nomi- nation of John Sherman because, in the Thirty- fourth Congress, in the elcution of a Speaker, he stood there pledging bimself to a continual warfare against slavery until itshould be ex- tinguished from the land. Who can forget his utternnce when he said, “I willunite with men of all parties and of allshades of opinion who will steadily nid ~in preserving our West- ern Territories to tree jabor [applause); and I say that never will support any man for Speaker of this House unless he convinces me by his conduct and by his views that he never will, if he has tho power to pre~ vent it, permit the institution of slavery to de- rive any advantage from repealing the com~- The romis® of 180.” [Applause. resident, wero words’ tedent s glad tidings ¢5 the slave, and of rich promise to the friends of freedom, Throughout the whole memorabl Period Of reconstruction, on all the measures ‘or the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fif- teenth Amendments, and for the suppression of Ku-Kluxism in the’ South, the voive of John Sherman was heard [erios of “Time, time “} insisting upon the vindication of the rights of the citizen and tho strictest observance of tha laws of the country. [4 voice, “Cut it short!” I Support the nomination of John Sherman be- cause, in addition to the reasons that I bave al- ready assigned, he has by his genius and by his energy, by his prudent management, directed by wise forethought, advanced the interests of the Country, restored the currenoy to a sound basis {applause}, and established beyond all danges Of adversity the success of our industries. [He- newed calls of “ Time!” and counter cries ot a eh Gentlemen of the Convention, it ig irpose trespass upon the this Convention. [have ‘endeavored belo oe Jn the limits of the thme fixed by the Conven- ‘Cries of * Go on!"” % . & Tam aware that fgontlemen in this Convention havo their preferences; I bave mine. Every other delegate hns his preferences. [Crica of Time, time!”] And we desire to present our candidate to this Convention, asking for {ts support, De~- lieving that if Joho Sherman is the nominee of the Republican party ho will be able to bring SUCCESS TO THE BANNERS of the Republican party, [Cries of “Time,” time!"] ‘¢ believe Frat if John Sherman is the nominee of this Convention he will be able to carry States which sre safd to be doubtful. It +bhus been said that be could ‘not carry any of the States of the South. Neither can any other candidate, in my judgment, that can_be named by this Convention secure a single Electoral vote in the South. With a solid Democratic South, con- trolling 138 votes in the Electoral College, with the voice of loyalty hushed throughout the en- tire South iand, with universal suffrage prac- tieanlly abolished, with free speech strangied, with the rights of a helpless people subject to the domination and control of treason itself, I confess toyou that we must rely entirly upon you, who come from the Republican States of the North and West, to carry our party to yictory. And whatever others may say I desire to express this one thought, that if the Republican party goes into the canvass relying upon any State in the South as an element of calculation for success, it cannot triumph. Gen- tlemen, we shall certainly do allthat wo can to help you in the canvass. We will put the votes in the bailot-box, but we desire to say to 792 that we are powerless at the present moment to have them counted in favor of ournominee. [Continued calls of Time, time!" accompa- nied the remarks of the speaker for the last few minutes, finally drowning him out.} Mr. Logan—I hope the Chair will preserve or-- der so the gentleman may speak without dis- turbance. The Chairman—There is but one way in which this disturbance can be ended. If the Conven- ton will pasa an order that, if it continues or ia repeated during this evening, all persons except members shull be excluced from its future meetings, this disturbance will end. [(‘*Good,"* “Good."} The gentleman from South Carolina will proceed. < Mr. Elliott—Mr. President and gentlemen of the Convention: Thad said abvut all that I de- sired to say in thetime which was allowed me. Ihave endeavored to present the reasons why L alyance the claims of John Sherman, of Ohio. have endeavored to state to the Convention as briefly as I could my observation concerning the condition of political affairs in the section of country from which Lcome. 1 do not come here to paint with roseate hues tho condition of affairs in the Southern States. I do not come here in the spirit of dictation to force upon this Convention any candidate against the deliberate judgment of those who have the Electoral vote to give. I come here ratherin the form of a petitioner asking that whatever may be done in this Con- vention [** Good,” “good” ], do not nominate any candidate upon tho ’’ belief, which in my judgment is erroneous, that he can be elected by the aid of Electoral yotes obtained from the Southern States. Haring said this much, gentlemen, and thank- ing you for the courtesy which you have ox- tended me, I now give way. [Appluase.] GEORGE F. EDMUNDS. NOMINATED BY FEED BILLINGS, OF VERMONT. ‘There was a spurt of applause when Vermont was called, and Mr. Frederick Billings, of the Green Mountuin State, taking the stand, pro- posed another candidate for Presidential honors. Mr. Billings—Genulemen of the Convention: That quiet State in New England, earliest born into the Union after the old Thirteen, whose people have always been loyal to liberty, enthusiastically urges the mame of our most distinguished son as tho fittest name to be ijuscribed on the Presidential ban- ner. [Applause.] Her delegates bring that message here with joy and pride alike supremo, because they know no Stato has a better right toname a Republican candidate, and that no State cun name a better man. [Applause.] For tho first time in her history, although always in tho advance-guard of the Republican hosts, Vermont thus comes to the front in a National Convention. She thus comes, not secking a reward for loyalty, which bas never faltered in years gone by, not making a condition ‘of loyalty, which 1s never to falter inthe years to come. Her Re- publicanism is not born of selfishness. It is bred in her bone, and it runs in her blood. [Ap- plause.] Nor does she thus come because the man she numes for her Presidency sprang from her Joins. He ig no longer hers. He is the ossession and the pride of none. [Appiause.} Still more, Vermont would call on her ever- lasting mountains to fall on her and hide her before she would thrust any mere local pride or selfish ambition into the counsels of this critical epoch. [Applause.] Vermont rises fo the hight of the occasion. She looks backward through the years, and she feels the infinit peril, the ignominy, aye, the crime of turning over the Government tothe administra- tion of a revolutionary Democracy, {Applause.} And she longs for victory,—the VIOTORY OF PATRIOTISM at the polls and the victory of statesmanship after the polis. [Applause.] And she implores this Convention to Iet no unnecessary is- gues, to let no discords, born of hot rivalries, to let no personal ambitions, to let no dissensions, tolet noanythings put that victory in peril. [Applause.] She prays you to make that victory secure by going straight to the con- science and intelligence of the people, not only by your platform ringing with honor and hon- esty for money clear up through everything to human rights, but by putting on that platform a candidate far better than the ‘platform, be- cause known everywhere through the length and the breadth of the land what is their incarnation, long-tried found wanting. [Applause] A candidate weak nowhere, strong everywhere, he will com- pact the party, bring every independent into line, and win recruits even from the ‘enemy. That is victory hore and now, victory for years tocome. Any other course forebodes disaster and courts defeat for years to come. Such a candidate, healing all dissensiors, of wondrous ability, of aggressive integrity, of the largest ex- perience in ‘publi affaira, of the highest states- manship, is that brave, clean, vigilant man, on whom rests no shadow of reproach, to whom, in every crisis in the counsels of the Nation, we turn and press with joy and contl- dence; the central figure and leader of the Sen- ate, the foremost type and defendor of what ig best in the Republican taith, tho ideal candidate secking not the office, worthy of the best of this Republic, having the Promise and the potency of yictory, is George F. Edmunds. [Cheers. and George F. Edmunds Vermont nominaves for the Presidency. and, geutlemen, we pray you to welcome this breeze from the Green Mount- ains. How quickly it will swell into a gule, and how surely it will sweep the land! [(Cheers.] MASSACHUSETTS SECONDS. John E, Sanborn, of Massuchusetts—Mr. Chatr- man and gentlemen of the Convention, im behalf of the Republicans of Massachusetts und by the express sanction of her delegation, to which I have the honor to beloug, I desire to’ second the nomination which has just been mado by the gentleman from Vermont. I shall not repeat the tribute which ho has go justly and eloquent- ly pald to tho gallant Republican State for which he has spoken, and to the ability, the statesmanship, the character, and the services of her distinguished son. ' The record of the Stato and of the statesman,'alike conspicuous and untarnished, needs no ‘enco- miuim here. By all Republicans, at least, it is already known, and no word can be spoken here to add to its lustre or diminish its fame. The Republicans of Massachusctts, trained like their brethren of Vermont by long and unfaltering devotion to the principles and fortunes of the Republican party, have learned to regard the Success of tha arty a8 far more important than io success «of any candidate Within the party. ‘They have also learned to believe that, if there ts wis- dom in the maxim that the most available nomi- nations are the best, there ig also truth in the converse of that maxim, that the best nomina- tions are the most available. Deeply sensible of the Importance of the impending election to the Prosperity, the honor, and safety of tho Nation, the Republicans of Massachusetts, unembar- rassed by any candidate of their own, have selected from the list of eminent names pre- sented to their choice n lender who should bear the standard of the party triumphantly through the contest that lies before us; that enthusiasm wholly spontaneous, "ond that large deeree of unanimity, they have given their preferences unsolicited and earnest to the Senator whose name and th fame of whose manhood is identified with that Green Mountain Stato among whose Majestic hills he was born and reared.’ I shall enter, sir, Upon no comparison, much less shall I discourage the claims or merits of any candidate to whom any State or delegate in this Convention has given its preference. It is enough to say, und desire to say it with all courtesy, that wo of the State of Massachusetts have no other man who has seemed to us to possess in a larger degree the requisit qualifications for the high oftice of poe idgat OF who Is more likely to combine the @ Republican heros tae pr Party Jn the emergenoy I will not delay you, gentlemen. Yi weary and impatient, and { close by saying thay the Republicans of" Massachnaotis doe tant their brethren of his own State in Presenting t@ thie Convention and commending rt 0) ‘. het [Loud applanse} = as, of Vermont, E. B. WASHBURNE. NOMINATED BY J. B. CASSODY, OF WISCONSIN. When the State of Wisconsin was Talla B. Cassody mounted the rostrum, and, after being introduced by the Chairman, said: Mr. President, and gentlemen of the Conven- tion: During the exciting and arduous duties of this Convention, I have not occupied to ex- ceed three minutes of your time, Dotwithstand- ing I was the Chairman of a delegation. And I Promise now, if you will respectfully tisten for afew moments, not to use up the time of ten minutes allowed to me, by two or threo minutes, It is mdeed fortunate for our party and civil. (Ap- Plause.] Far be it from me to detract a singlo we live in a vast country, embracing many eminent statesmen whose names havo not been Presented to this Convention. Here are me delegates, representing 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 Ree publican voters, embracing many nationaitites, having diverse interests and various, that arg Scattered over 3,000,000 square miles of territory, And any view of our duty is incomplete and altogether too narrow which fails to take in the whole field and all the probabilities and ims probabilities of a united support in November, [Applause .] = it may be that in France and some other oa tions, success in Government depends wholly’ upon the character of the leadership, but in this representative Government it must ever depend. largely upon the broad common sense and good” judgment of the masses of the People. And hence the truism uttered by our martyred Preg- ident that, “No life is necessary to the existe ence of the nation.” [Cheers.] Behold in this seat, inthis very presence, men whose ability: and statesmanship have become famons on this and other continents. There is no lack of capac ity for leadership, much less of a dis; lead. What we want most just nee ie Uni of purpose, through the entire party (cheers), for the We g00d, and that can best be secured not by self-assertion, but by self-negation, ‘The question is not whose nume will elicit the greatest applause at this present moment of time, but whose name is s0 oatablished in the confidence of the people as to allay all opposi> tion in his own party, and secure the greatest number of votes in November. The man of my choice is not a candidate, and has not sou; ot any fuipport from any quarter. He has rat repelled it. But let us remember that in the tabernaclea of God those are not chosen who seek the bighest seats and deinand the richest crow; but rather those who empty themselves of vanity and conceit, and go down into the arena, into the face of death, and there are content. to Jabor for the common Feud: [Cheera.} 1 Such ought to be the rule in every Republican Convention, Let us not be too sanguine. A comfortable berth is of no account tu the pas- senger when the sbip ia fast driven upon the rocks. Let us save the ship and take care of the berths afterwards. Our enemies are in pos- sceesion of both Houses of Congress. They will demand and claim the right to dictate the meth- ods and the tests of the Electoral count. With that object in view, they have purposely omitted, a8 the distinguished Senator from New York tha other day very emphatically told them, all CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY GUARANTEES, With an inordinate Just for executive power and putronage on their partwe have nothing to gain, nothing fo expect trom adecision of theirs in: case of a repetition of 184to 185, dor from an Electoral Commission of their choosing. The only security is to make such a show to every doubtful State by the choice of a candidate around whom the entire party can solidly join and march on to victory. That man asce ed with reusonabie certainty, it becomes the bounden duty of all tosecure the success of the party, and through that purty the salra- tion of our country, by mak man the nominee of this Convention. No other man bas the right to insist upon it, and that man. has no rightto decline it. In the judgment of some in this Convention, and many with cool heads all over the land, there are two men wno ssess all of these requisit qualities. One is. Elihu B. Washburne, of Litinois {loud cheering, clapping of hands, and waving of bats and hand-. kerchiefs], and the other is George F, Edmunds, of Vermont. [Applause.] Only realizing that divided bree at the close of the Convention forebodes defeat in November, and a united. Party at the close of this Convention {nsures success in November, and looking over the whole field, I take that man whose history is familiar to’ you; who at the breaking. out of the War sought out an obscure indi- vidual in Galen, led him up to Springfield, up tothe mountain of his glory, and stands by hig side, one of his chief admirers and friends to- day. And therefore I nominate Mr. Washburne, of Illinois. (Loud applause.} : INDORSED UY CONNECTICUT. Mr. Brandigee, of Connecticut, said: Gentle mea of the Convention, the State of Connecticut, .one of the oldest of the old thirteen, sends greee- ing aeross the lakes and over the ies to ‘Wisconsin, one of the youngest of the: ‘and unites with her in presenting to this grand Re- ee bitean Council the name of that wise,sagacious, ‘onored, faithful, stalwart Republican states- man,—the only name that is sure to carry evel doubtful State [loud applause] and poll a 5 Republican vote,—Elibu Washburne, of Illinois. [{Applause.] We come here, sir, from the State: of Connecticut presenting no candidate of our’ own; not but that there are within her borders very many eminent civil statesmen within the’ reach of the Presidential possibility of being struck Dy lightning. But, sir, there are within that State two military living heroes, one not, trained at West Point, but who, with the force’ of native genius, inspired with a blazing patriot- ism, went to the War ns a private and graduated from the War as the hero of Fort Fisher, en. Alfred H. Terry, of Connecticut. We have also within that State another gallant soldier, statesman, and orator,—gallant Joe Hawley, of Connecticut. fcheers.] He, {n the Convention that nominated Grant, sitting in the: chair, and holding the gavel which you now hold, enunciated and crystallized, when the. great financial heresy of soft money repudiation arose, the true heart and thought of Repubilo- anism in one living sentence when he said that every dollar ofthe National debt should be as sacred as a soldier's grave. t We present no candidate here of our own. We come here uniustructed, uncommitted; and, until we had come here and heurd the debate, entirely undecided. We came here to consult: with you in this momentous crisis of the history of our party, and, as we believe. in the history of our country. Sir, unless this Convention shall uct wisely and name him who not only can: be nominrted. but also elected at the polls, we, believe that nothing that has been garnered up, from the storm of battle is safe beyond all bility of destruction. We believe, sir, that un- Jess the Republican party can elcct itacandidate and inaugurate him in this Presidential election, 500,000 soldiers will have gone to their graves {2 Vain, and gone from the batticfield at STRAIGHT UP TO GLORY. = Now, Mr. President, and gentlemen, sirteen ‘ears ago Isnt by the side of the atatesman of Hinois in the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-elghth Congress, I have never seen him since. Lhave never written him since. I have never heard, from him since, and, therefore, I am not tha engineer of any bureau of Washburne’s. But sir, 1 then saw that he was the terror of thé lobby. Isawthen that he wasa friendof thd’ soldier, Isaw then that that great and sainted man, whose portrait is at the ol end of this hall, and whose spirit I bes lieve looks down upon the deliberations of this assembly, trusted to no other statesman as he did to the advice, the wisdom, and the cot of Washburne. [Applause.] But I know fall well, sir, too, that at that dark hour fn the day. of the Republic, when everything was at stake, when men’s hearts failed them for fear, when 600,000 soldiers were on the other side of the Potomac, face to face, 1 know then that it-was through the a persistent, indomitable pertinaclty of Elihu B. Washburne that the great man who broke the Rebellion was brought up from Southwest and put in command of the Potomac army. [Applause.] And I know, too, sir, for here are gentlemen that I have met to-night for the first time since, that, with unwearicd perti- nacity against a reluctant Congress, In season and out of season, he demanded of that Con- ‘ess, that it should pass a bill creating Ulysses ,Grant Lieutenant-Generat of all the armies of the Republic {applause}, thus commissioning by Congress what the Almighty had alrex commissioned—the great hammer of the Al-, mighty to brenk tha back of tho Rebellion’ {Applause The friend of Grant, the friend of economy, the friend and exponent of Republic~ an “principles. Now, Mr, President, there are to-day in the City of New York 150.000 Germans ‘There are sons and daughters of Fatherland {0 their sentiments Repubilcans, and ina doube ful State. There are in the Ntate of Connecte cut enough gto make the difference between 8 Democratic and Republican majority in No- vember. . CONNECTICUT IS A DOUNTFUL STATE,— 8s doubtful as Indiana. We must carry State for tworeasons: You want it in the Ke- publican line, and don’t you want Republican. Senator, too, in the place of William W. Eaton,’ who’ misrepresents New England there? [4 yoley- "¥es."] We cleo the Legislature in November that elects a Senu- tor in the place of Eaton. Do you want one new Republican Senator in the Senate of tho Unit States, or don't you care fora majority of Re- publican Senators there? Give us Washburne, i pledge my life, I pledge everything. that the State of Connecticut In November will go Be- Publican. {Applause.] I know it, I kaow it And Ido bolieve, too, that he will carry the. State of Indiana ‘with such a “Sweepy as no man ever bas curried it in modorn times. [Applause.} New York ig the third German city of the world to-day—more Germans there than in any other city in the Prorld except two. Washburue’s name—if there {s a German on this continent that don't respon! to that he is unworthy of the traditions of the Fatherland: [Applause.] He collected 30,000 of them within the bluck and scurred Paris, with the Commune howling like tigers to lap their blood, and beneath that fag every one of them wus safe. There isn’t a German qyamen or a prattling chtld that will not take up his name, and we t carry four-fifths of the whole German vote 0! the United States. [Appiuuse, and a vole “Amen."] The gentieman from New Yorl (Conkling) shakes his head. He shakes bis bh magnificently. No man can shake it like bim Maughter], or shake such wisdom ‘and rheto outof it. [Cheers and laughter.] But let Lrg tell the gentleman from New York he cannot i down at the chair of every voter and give the. argument that he has given to-night against the traditions of uur fathors. He may, by the MAGIC OF HIS ELOQUENCE, take this Convention and the fair galleries fiaugnter) off thelr fcer in bis fervor; but even is great abilities fapplause and hisses], even his great abilities (hisses],even his unmatched eloquence cannot go down to the fireside every voter and persuade them that all the tra~ ditions of the fathers with reference to & third term are but humbug and masquer- ade, [Cheers.] Ho says ‘that a certain other candidate, not naming him, ut us on the defensive from the exinning. Doesn't he know that his candidato would be on thedefensive, that even the magio mame of Grant will hardly carry himin es Convention? [Applause and hisses.} he know—noone knows 60 wellas he [Disses .