42; Wendell Phillips, 13; John M. Palmer, 8; Joel Parker, 7. First, (formal)-David Davis, 88; Wendell Phillips, 52; John W. Geary, 45; Horace F. Day, 8; Joel Parker, 7; George W. Julian, 1. Second-Davis, 93; Day, 59; Phillips, 12; Gratz Brown, 14; Horace Greeley, 11; Parker, 7; Julian, 5. Third-The_names of Phillips, Greeley, Julian, and Brown being withdrawn, Davis received the nomination. The Platform. We hold that all political power is inherent in the people, and free government founded on their authority and established for their benefit; that all citizens are equal in political rights, entitled to the largest religious and political liberty compatible with the good order of society, as also the use and enjoyment of the fruits of their labor and talents; and no man or set of men is entitled to exclusive separable endowments and privileges, or immunities from the Government, but in con. sideration of public services; and any laws destructive of these fundamental principles are without moral binding force, and should be repealed. And believing that all the evils resulting from unjust legislation now affecting the industrial classes can be removed by the adoption of the principle contained in the following declaration: Therefore, Resolved, That it is the duty of the Government to establish a just standard of distribution of capital and labor by providing a purely national circulating medium, based on the faith and resources of the nation, issued directly to the people without the intervention of any system of banking corporations, which money shall be legal tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, and interchangeable at the option of the holder for Government bonds bearing a rate of interest not to exceed 8-65 per cent., subject to future legislation by Congress. 2. That the national debt should be paid in good faith, according to the original contract, at the earliest option of the Government, without mortgaging the property of the people or the future exigencies of labor to enrich a few capitalists at home and abroad. 3. That justice demands that the burdens of Government should be so adjusted as to bear equally on all classes, and that the exemption from taxation of Government bonds bearing extravagant rates of interest is a vio lation of all just principles of revenue laws. 4. That the public lands of the United States belong to the people and should not be sold to individuals nor granted to corporations, but should be held as a sacred trust for the benefit of the people, and should be granted to landless settlers only, in amounts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of land. 5. That Congress should modify the tariff so as to admit free such articles of common use as we can neither produce nor grow, and lay duties for revenue mainly upon articles of luxury and upon such articles of manufacture as will, we having the raw materials, assist in further developing the resources of the country. 6. That the presence in our country of Chinese laborers, imported by capitalists in large numbers for servile use, is an evil, entailing want and its attendant train of misery and crime on all classes of the American people, and should be prohibited by legislation. 7. That we ask for the enactment of a law by which all mechanics and day-laborers employed by or on behalf of the Government, whether directly or indirectly, through persons, firms, or corporations, contracting with the State, shall conform to the reduced standard of eight hours a day, recently adopted by Congress for national employés, and also for an amendment to the acts of incorporation for cities and towns by which all laborers and mechanics employed at their expense shall conform to the same number of hours. 8. That the enlightened spirit of the age demands the abolition of the system of contract labor in our prisons and other reformatory institutions. 9. That the protection of life, liberty, and property are the three cardinal principles of Government, and the first two are more sacred than the latter; therefore money needed for prosecuting wars should, as it is required, be assessed and collected from the wealthy of the country, and not entailed as a burden on posterity. 10. That it is the duty of the Government to exercise its power over railroads and telegraph corporations, that they shall not in any case be privileged to exact such rates of freight, transportation, or charges, by whatever name, as may bear unduly or unequally upon the producer or consumer. 11. That there should be such a reform in the civil service of the national Government as will remove it beyond all partisan influence, and place it in the charge and under the direction of intelligent and competent business men. 12. That as both history and experience teaches us that power ever seeks to perpetuate itself by every and all means, and that its prolonged possession in the hands of one person is always dangerous to the interests of a free people, and believing that the spirit of our organic laws and the stability and safety of our free institutions are best obeyed on the one hand, and secured on the other, by a regular constitutional change in the chief of the country at each election: therefore, we are in favor of limiting the occupancy of the presidential chair to one term. 13. That we are in favor of granting general amnesty and restoring the Union at once on the basis of equality of rights and privileges to all, the impartial administration of justice being the only true boud of union to bind the States together and restore the Government of the people. 14. That we demand the subjection of the military to the civil authorities, and the confinement of its operations to national purposes alone. 15. That we deem it expedient for Congress to supervise the patent laws, so as to give labor more fully the benefit of its own ideas and inventious. 16. That fitness, and not political or personal considerations, should be the only recommendation to public office, either appointive or elective, and any and all laws looking to the establishment of this principle are heartily approved. Judge Davis's Response. SIR: Be pleased to thank the convention for the unexpected honor which they have conferred upon me. The Chief Magistracy of the Republic should neither be sought nor declined by any American citizen. DAVID DAVIS. Judge Davis's Declination. BLOOMINGTON, June 24, 1872. Hon. E. M. CHAMBERLAIN, President of the Columbus Convention, Boston, Massachusetts: DEAR SIR: The national convention of Labor Reformers, on the 22d of February last, honored me with the nomination as their candidate for the Presidency. Having re garded that movement as the initiation of a policy and purpose to unite various political elements in compact opposition, I consented to the use of my name before the Cincinnati convention, where a distinguished citizen of New York was nominated. Under these circumstances deem it proper to retire abso lutely from the presidential contest, and thus leave the friends who were generous enough to offer their voluntary support free to obey their convictions of duty unfettered by any supposed obligation. Sympathizing earnestly with all just and proper measures by which the condition of labor may be elevated and improved, I am, with great respect, your fellow-citizen, DAVID DAVIS. Governor Parker's Declination. New Orleans, April 10-14, 1872. [Met under call of the "southern States convention of colored men," issued from Columbia, South Carolina, October 18, 1871.] The Platform. Regretting the necessity which has called into existence a colored convention, and have been intrusted to our consideration, we deeply sensible of the responsibilities which hereby acknowledge our gratitude for past triumphs in behalf of equal rights, and respectfully submit our peculiar grievances to the immediate attention of the American people in the following platform and resolutions: 1. We thank God, the friends of universal liberty in this and other lands, the bravery of colored soldiers, and the loyalty of the colored people for our emancipation, our citizenship, and our enfranchisement. 2. Owing our political emancipation in this country to Republican legislation, to which all other parties and political shades of opinion were unjustly and bitterly opposed, we would be blind to our prospects and false to our best interests did we identify ourselves with any other organization; and as all roads out of the Republican party lead into the Democratic camp, we pledge our unswerving devotion to support the nominees of the Philadelphia convention. 3. We sincerely and gratefully indorse the administration of President U. S. Grant in maintaining our liberties, in protecting us in our privileges, in punishing our enemies; in the dawn of recognition of the claims of men without regard to color, by appointing us to important official positions at home and abroad; in the assurances that he has given to defend our rights, and that while we in our gratefulness acknowledge and appreciate his efforts in behalf of equal rights, we are not unmindful of his glory as a soldier and his exalted virtues as a statesman. FREEHOLD, N. J., June 28, 1872. EDWIN M. CHAMBERLAIN, President Columbus Convention, Boston, Massachusetts: SIR: Your letter, informing me that the convention of the Labor Reform party, which met at Columbus on the 22d day of February last, placed me in nomination for the office of Vice President of the United States, has been re ceived. I feel honored by the preference thus expressed by the representatives of a large and 4. Our thanks are due and are hereby teninfluential body of my fellow-citizens. I am dered to President Grant for overriding the in favor of all legal and just measures that precedents of prejudice in the better recog tend to improve the condition of the working.nition of the services of men without regard men. I have always been a member of the to color in some parts of the country, and we Democratic party. For nearly thirty-five years earnestly pray that colored Republicans of I have shared its triumphs and defeats, adhering to its fortunes because I considered its success essential to good government and to the elevation of the laboring classes. Having been placed in an important public position 5. It would be an ingratitude, loathed by men as the nominee of that party, I am bound in and abhorred by God, did we not acknowledge honor, as well as by inclination, to stand by our overwhelming indebtedness to the services States where there are no Federal positions given to colored men may no longer be ignored, but that they may be stimulated by some recog nition of Federal patronage. Now, in view of this disgraceful inconsistency, this affectation or prejudice, this rebellion against the laws of God, humanity, and the nation, we appeal to the justice of the American people to protect us in our civil rights in public places and upon public conveyances, which are readily accorded, and very justly, to the most degraded specimens of our white fellow citizens. of the Hon. Charles Sumner, who stood for a (all such public places and conveyances wel long time alone in the Senate of the United come and entertain all white persons, whatStates the Gibraltar of our cause and the north ever may be their character, who may apply. star of our hopes; who forfeited caste in the estimation of a large portion of his countrymen by his unswerving devotion to equal rights; who has been maligned for his fidelity to principles; who has been stricken down by an assassin for advocating liberty throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof, and in whose giant body, rising as it were almost out of the grave to marshal the hosts of impartial justice with his mighty ideas, going to the farthest part 7. That wherever Republicans have betrayed of the land, and finding a responsive echo in the colored constituencies, we recommend that triumph of liberty over slavery, we have an better men be elected to succeed them, and assurance of this good, great, and beloved especially do we pledge ourselves to elect sucpatriot that he will be as faithful to the Repub-cessors in Congress, wherever we have the lican party in the future as he has been unfal- power, to every Republican who voted against tering in the past. or dodged the supplementary civil rights bill recently introduced into the United States Senate by Hon. Charles Sumner; and also successors to those who shall not show a satisfactory record on the civil rights bill now in the United States House of Representatives. 6. Having been by solemn legislation of the American Congress raised to the dignity of citizenship, we appeal to law-abiding people of the States, and especially of those who in the days of the fugitive slave law exhorted obedience to statutes however offensive, to 8. That while men professing strong radical protect and defend us in the enjoyment of our sentiments, and elected to Congress by overjust rights and privileges upon all convey- whelming majorities of colored voters, were ances which are common carriers, at all resorts found voting against the supplementary civil of public amusements, where tastes are cul- rights bill in the Senate of the United States, tivated and manhood is quickened, and in all we honor that manly exhibition of devotion places of public character or corporate asso-to the principles of the Republican party ciations which owe their existence to the which influenced the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, legislation of the nation or States; against Vice President of the United States, to honor the spirit of slavery, which attempts to de- the cause of justice by recording his casting grade our standard of intelligence and virtue by forcing our refined ladies and gentlemen into smoking-cars amid obscenity and vulgarity; which humiliates our pride by denying us first-class accommodations on steamboats, and compelling us to eat and sleep with servants, for which we are charged the same as those who have the best accommodations; and which closes the doors of hotels against famishing colored persons, however wealthy, intelligent, or respectable they may be, while vote as President of the Senate in favor of equality before the law as indicated in the supplementary civil rights bill as it passed the Senate by virtue of the aforesaid casting vote. 9. That we, in the name of the colored men of the United States, repudiate any sympathy or connection whatever with the late Labor Reform convention, lately held at Columbus, Ohio, and also the convention of Liberal Republicans called for the 1st of May, 1872, at Cincinnati. INDEX TO HAND-BOOK OF 1872. ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY, amount of, ABBOTT, JOSEPH C., Senator in 41st Congress, 1. ADDRESS of National Liberal Republican Conven- ADMISSION OF STATES, proposed amendment respect- AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, 184. AKERMAN, AMOS T., resigned as Attorney Gene- ALABAMA, Senators and Representatives in 41st Con- ALABAMA CLAIMS, President Grant on, 18; treaty relative to, 97-105; supplemental treaty article. AMBLER, JACOB A., Representative in 41st Con- AMENDMENTS. proposed constitutional, 38-43; AMES, OAKES, Representative in 41st Congress, 2; AMNESTY, resolution respecting, and vote on, 36. ANTHONY, HENRY B., Senator in 41st Congress, 1; in APPOINTMENT TO OFFICE, proposed rules for, 66-69. ARBITRATION, members of tribunal of, 106. ARIZONA, population of, (note,) 182; wealth, local ARLINGTON ESTATE, the, proceedings respecting, ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM H., Representative in 41st ARNELL, SAMUEL M., Representative in 41st Con- ARTHUR, WILLIAM E., Representative in 42d Con- ASHLEY, JAMES M., bill on reconstruction in 37th ASPER, JOEL F., Representative in 41st Congress, 2. 215 AXTELL, SAMUEL B., Representative in 41st Con- AYER, RICHARD S., Representative in 41st Congress, BALLOT, VOTE BY, proposed amendment to provide BARNUM, WILLIAM H., Representative in 41st Con- BARRY, HENRY W., Representative in 41st Congress, BEAMAN, FERNANDO C., Representative in 41st Con- BEAMEN, CHALES C., jr., solicitor for United States BECK, JAMES B., Representative in 41st Congress, 2; BELKNAP, WILLIAM W., Secretary of War, 62. BELL, SAMUEL N., Representative in 42d Congress, BENNETT, DAVID S., Representative in 41st Con- BENTON, JACOB, Representative in 41st Congress, 2. BETHUNE, MARION, Representative in 41st Con- BEVERIDGE, JOHN L., Representative in 42d Con- BIGBY, JOHN S., Representative in 42d Congress, 63. BINGHAM, JOHN A., Representative in 41st Congress, BIRD, JOHN T., Representative in 41st Congress, 2; BLACK, JEREMIAH S., ballot for the Presidency, 210. BLAIR, JAMES G., Representative in 42d Congress, 64. BONDS, resolution on taxation of, 37. BOREMAN, ARTHUR I., Senator in 41st Congress, 1; in BOUNDARY, provisions in treaty of Washington rela- BOUNTIES, amount paid in. (note, War Department,) BOUTWELL. GEORGE S., Secretary of the Treasury, |