esolution:

"The Republican party of Ohio, having full confidence in the
honesty, ability, and patriotism of Rutherford B. Hayes, cordially
presents him to the National Republican Convention, for the
nomination for president of the United States, and our State
delegates to that Convention are instructed and the district
delegates are requested to use their earnest efforts to secure his
nomination."

We shall not stop to trace the growth of the Hayes sentiment in other
States. When the Sixth Republican National Convention assembled in
Cincinnati, on June 14, 1876, the situation was this: Hayes was the
first choice of every one for the second place on the ticket, and every
one's second choice for the first. He and his friends had in no way
antagonized other candidates, and had been guilty of no uncharitableness
of judgment toward them. In the convention, he was modestly presented as
the one candidate who could harmonize all interests, and unite all party
elements. His friends argued that he combined merit and availability to
a higher degree than any one whose name was before the convention.

The spirit of the convention was good, and there seemed a willing
response to this portion of the opening prayer:

"By Thy grace, give to them a spirit of concord, that harmony may
prevail in their counsels; a spirit of wisdom that may discern and
use the right means to promote the end for which they are convened;
a spirit of patriotism, that the prosperity of the Nation may
overshadow all personal or sectional desires; a spirit of courage,
that they may be faithful to the deepest convictions of duty."

Ex-Governor Morgan, of New York, Chairman of the National Executive
Committee, in his opening address, pertinently said:

"Resumption accomplished, then, in all human probability, will
follow ten or fifteen years of prosperity, equal to that of any
former period, perhaps greater than the country has yet seen. If
you will, in addition, put a plank in your platform, declaring for
such an amendment of the constitution as will extend the
presidential office to six years, and make the incumbent ineligible
for re-election, you will deserve the gratitude of the American
people."

The Hon. Theodore M. Pomeroy, Temporary Chairman, forcibly declared:

"No, gentlemen, the late war was not a mere prize-fight for
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