New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . sion, and the abolition of land grants tocorporations. This party had nominated JoelParker for the vice-presidency. While he declinedthe honor the very use of his name gave the partysome local strength. Besides this movement theGreenback or Ohio idea had swept in fromthe Middle West; from 1865 to 1870 National La-bor congresses had met, the restriction of immi-gration of the Chinese agitated the Pacific slope,while the moral question of prohibition of theliquor traffic assumed formidable to this the Republi
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . sion, and the abolition of land grants tocorporations. This party had nominated JoelParker for the vice-presidency. While he declinedthe honor the very use of his name gave the partysome local strength. Besides this movement theGreenback or Ohio idea had swept in fromthe Middle West; from 1865 to 1870 National La-bor congresses had met, the restriction of immi-gration of the Chinese agitated the Pacific slope,while the moral question of prohibition of theliquor traffic assumed formidable to this the Republican and Democraticparties were divided. The death of Lincoln andthe failure to carry out his plan of reconstructionupon broad and permanent lines had producedmuch bitterness in the South. The schemesadopted by professional politicians had split theRepublicans in Missouri, from which arose a newparty called the Liberal Republicans, owing toits doctrine of more generous consideration for theSouthern States. In the national convention of US NEW JEKSEY AS A COL .rff^S^. HENRY WTLSON. the party in 1872 Horace Greeley, of New York,and B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, were nominatedfor President and Vice-President on a platformwhich for the first time in the politics of the repub-lic declared for civil service reform. The regu-lar Eepublicans, unaffected by this movement,nominated General Grant and Henry Wilson. Thenomination of Greeley and Brown was endorsedby the Democrats, but to many of the old line*Democrats of New Jersey this endorsement wasmost distasteful, in that Horace Greeley, as wareditor of the New York Tribune, had but recentlyaccused many of his new political associates inNew Jersey of disloyalty and even treason. Thebreach in the party widened, and General UlyssesS. Grant was elected President, the State of NewJersey giving him that remarkable majority offifteen thousand two hundred, a majority sincennequaled in a presidential contest, until 1896,when McKinley and Hobart,
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