Resolved, That we recognize the great principles laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independence as the true foundation of democratic government, and we hail with gladness every effort toward making these principles a living reality on every inch of American soil.

After the adoption of the platform the name of GEN. ULYSSES S. GRANT was proposed as the candidate for President of the United States, and the roll of States was called. Every delegate voted for Gen. Grant, and amid great enthusiasm he was declared unanimously nominated, having received 650 votes.

The Convention next proceeded to ballot for Vice President, a number of names having been presented for that office. The following was the result of the five ballotings which followed:

Before the announcement of the fifth ballot many States transferred their votes to Mr. Colfax and he was declared to have 522; Fenton, 75; Wade, 42; Wilson, 11. Gen. Sickles, of New York, moved to make the nomination of SCHUYLER COLFAX unanimous and the motion was carried. The convention soon after closed its proceedings.

THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

GEN. ULYSSES S. GRANT, candidate for President, was born in Mount Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, April 27th, 1822. He graduated at West Point in 1843, and was brevetted Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to duty as Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1845, and was in active service during the Mexican war. For gallant services at Molina del Rey he was made First Lieutenant, and again distinguished himself at Chapultepec, for which he was brevetted Captain in 1850. After the

Mexican war, he was assigned to duty on the Pacific coast, and in 1853 he received a full commission as Captain, but resigned the next year, and for several years subsequent he was engaged in private pursuits, first working on a farm near St. Louis, and afterward was interested with his father in the leather business at Galena, Illinois. When the rebellion commenced, in 1861, he at once offered his services to Governor (now Senator) Yates, of Illinois, and in June of that year was commissioned Colonel of the 21st Illinois Regiment, and two months later was promoted as Brigadier General of Volunteers by President Lincoln. He soon after drove the rebels from the vicinity of Paducah, Kentucky, and performed other good work, but his first great victories were the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, in February, 1862, the terms given in the latter case to Gen. Simon B. Buckner, the rebel commander, being "unconditional surrender." Gen. Grant was immediately promoted to the rank of Major General, and on April 7th and 8th following he fought the battle of Pittsburg Landing, the rebel General A. S. Johnston, having been killed. In July, 1862, Gen. Grant, was made commander of the Department of Tennessee, and soon after occupied Memphis and Holly Springs. After an investment of several months, Vicksburg surrendered to Gen. Grant, July 4th, 1863, with Gen. Pemberton's rebel army, numbering 31,000 men. This with the great Union victory at Gettysburg the day before, caused great rejoicing in the loyal North. Gen. Grant was immediately after the surrender of Vicksburg appointed Major General in the regular army. mained at the head of the Western Army planning several victories, until March 2d, 1864, when he was appointed Lieutenant General, and immediately thereafter assumed command of all the Union armies, his immediate duties being with the Army of the Potomac. May 3d, the latter Army crossed the Rapidan, and on the 5th, 6th and 7th, the battles of the Wilderness were fought, and on the 11th, Gen. Grant after a summary of the events of the preceding few days, said "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." The

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siege of Richmond was fairly inaugurated June 14th, and the lines were being constantly contracted from that date until the latter part of March, 1865, when commenced the final battles of the war, which in one week terminated by the capture of Richmond, April 2d, and on the 9th of that month Gen. Robert E. Lee, surrendered the main rebel Army to Gen. Grant. July 25th, 1866, Gen. Grant was appointed General of the Armies of the United States, the highest military title ever conferred in this country, and which rank he still holds. He served as Secretary of War ad interim from August 12th, 1867, to January 13th, 1868, when in obedience to a vote of the United States Senate he retired that Edwin M. Stanton might be restored to the office from which he had been suspended. May 21st, 1868, the Union Republican National Convention unanimously nominated Gen. Grant as candidate for President of the United States.

HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX, candidate for Vice President, is a native of the city of New York, born March 23d, 1823. He received a fair common school education, and in 1836, removed with his mother's family to South Bend, Indiana. He was clerk in a store for a time, but soon after reaching his majority, became proprietor and editor of the St. Joseph's Register, published at South Bend. In 1848 and 1852 he was delegate to the Whig National Conventions, serving as a secretary of each. In 1850 he was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention, and the following year he was a candidate for Representative in Congress, but was defeated by less than 300 majority. He was successful in 1854 and has been six times re-elected. Soon after he entered Congress he became a prominent member on the Republican side, and for two successive sessions was chairman of the committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. He was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1863, and will have served in that capacity six years when his present term expires. In 1865, he made a tour" Across the Continent" to the Pacific, and has lectured on his tour in the principal cities of the North. May 21st, 1868, he was nominated by the Union Repub

lican National Convention as candidate for Vice President of the United States, over several competitors, and the nomination was afterward made unanimous.

GEN. GRANT'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

To Gen. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, President of the National Union Republican Convention: In formally accepting the nomination of the National Union Republican Convention of the 21st of May inst., it seems proper that some statement of views beyond the mere acceptance of the nomination should be expressed. The proceedings of the Convention were marked with wisdom, moderation, and patriotism, and I believe express the feelings of the great mass of those who sustained the country through its recent trials. I endorse the resolutions. If elected to the office of President of the United States, it will be my endeavor to administer all the laws in good faith, with economy, and with the view of giving peace, quiet and protection everywhere. In times like the

present it is impossible, or at least eminently improper to lay down a policy to be adhered to, right or wrong, through an administration of four years. New political issues, not foreseen, are constantly arising; the views of the public on old ones are constantly changing, and a purely administrative officer should always be left free to execute the will of the people. I always have respected that will, and always shall. Peace and universal prosperity-its sequence-with economy of administration will lighten the burden of taxation, while it constantly reduces the national debt. Let us have peace.

With great respect, your obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT.

Washington, D. C., May 29, 1868.

MR. COLFAX'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

Hon. J. R. HAWLEY, &c.,-Dear Sir: The platform adopted by the patriotic Convention over which you presided, and the resolutions which so happily supplement it, so entirely agree with my views as to a just national policy that my thanks are due to the Delegates as much for this clear and auspicious declaration of principles as for the nomination with which I have been honored, and which I gratefully accept. When a great Rebellion, which imperiled the national existence, was at last overthrown, the duty of all others, devolving on those entrusted with the responsibilities of legislation, evidently was to require that the revolted States should be re-admitted to participation in the Government against which they had erred only on such a basis as to increase and fortify, not to weaken or endanger, the strength and power of the

nation. Certainly no one ought to have claimed that they should be readmitted under such rule that their organization as States could ever again be used, as at the opening of the war, to defy the national authority or to destroy the national unity. This principle has been the pole-star of those who have inflexibly insisted on the Congressional policy, your Convention so cordially indorsed. Baffled by Executive opposition, and by persistent refusals to accept any plan of reconstruction proffered by Congress, justice and public safety at last combined to teach us that only by an enlargement of suffrage in those States could the desired end be attained, and that it was even more safe to give the ballot to those who loved the Union than to those who had sought ineffectually to destroy it. The assured success of this legislation is being written on the adamant of history, and will be our triumphant vindication. More clearly, too, than ever before, does the nation now recognize that the greatest glory of a republic is that it throws the shield of its protection over the humblest and weakest of its people, and vindicates the rights of the poor and the powerless as faithfully as those of the rich and the powerful. I rejoice, too, in this connection, to find in your platform the frank and fearless avowal that naturalized citizens must be protected abroad at every hazard, as though they were native-born. Our whole people are foreigners, or descendants of foreigners; our fathers established by arms their right to be called a nation. It remains for us to establish the right to welcome to our shores all who are willing, by oaths of allegiance, to become American citizens. Perpetual allegiance, as claimed abroad, is only another name for perpetual bondage, and would make all slaves to the soil where first they saw the light. Our National cemeteries prove how faithfully these oath of fidelity to their adopted land have been sealed in the life blood of thousands upon thousands. Should we not, then, be faithless to the dead if we did not protect their living brethren in the full enjoyment of that nationality for which, side by side, with the native born, our soldiers of foreign birth laid down their lives. It was fitting too, that the representatives of a party which had proved so true to national duty in time of war, should speak so clearly in time of peace for the maintenance untarnished of the national honor, national credit and good faith as regards its debt, the cost of our national existence. I do not need to extend this reply by further comment on a platform which has elicited such hearty approval throughout the land. The debt of gratitude it acknowledges to the brave men who saved the Union from destruction, the frank approval of amnesty based on repentance and loyalty, the demand for the most thorough economy and honesty in the Government, the sympathy of the party of liberty whith all throughout the world who longed for the liberty we here enjoy, and the recognition of the sublime principles of the Declaration