The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-06-28
GOV. BROWNS LETTER OF AC-
GgsPTANGE.
ClNclNNAr1, May 3, 1872.

CINCINNATI, May ., 1oiZ.
HoS. j. GEArz BnowN, st. Louis, Mo:
Dean Shuttle National Conven-
ton of tile liberal Republicans Of
the United States have instructed the
undersigned, President, Vice Presi-
dent md Secretaries Of the Conven-
ton, TO inform you that you lave
been nominated as the candidate of
the Liberal Republicans for the Vice
Presidency of the United States.
30 pleased to signify to us your
acceptance of tho nomination, and
believe us very truly yours,
G. Schulz, President.
Gro. w. JULIAN, Vice President.
WM. Il. MCLEAN,
Jons y x. DAvipsos, Secretaries.
j. IL. RHODES,
EXECUTIVE OFf1cz,
JEFFERSON Cry, May 81, 1872.
GESTLEMEs:-Your letter advising
me Of the action of the Liberal Re-
publican Convention at Cincinnati
has been received, and / return
through you my acknowledgment Of
the honor which has been conferred
upon me. / accept the nomination
as n candidate for Vice President.
and indorse most cordially the reso-
lutions setting forth the principles
on which this appeal is made to the
whelo people OF the United States.
A century is closing upon our ex-
perience Of republican government,
and while that lapse Of time has wit
messed great expansions Of our free
institutions, yet it has not been with
out illustration also OF grave dangers
to the stability Of such SYSTEM. OF
those successfully encountered it is
needless to speak; of those which
| remain to menace US the most threat
ening are provided against, as firm.
~ believe, i'll the wise aud pacific
measures proposed by your platform.
1t has come to be the practice Of
those elevated to positions OF nation
al authority to regard the public SER
vice not as public trust, but only
as means TO retain power. This
results in substituting a mere party
organization for the government it
self; constitutes n control amenable
to no laws or moralities, impairs all
Independent thought, enables the.
few to rule the many, and makes
personal allegiance the road 10 favor
1t requires little forecast to perceive
that this willzwreck our liberties un-
less there be interposed timely re-
form of administration. from its
highest TO its lowest station, which
shall not only forbid those abuses
but likewise take away the incentive
10 their practice. Wcaried with cou-
tentions that are carried on in avarice
of spoils the country demands repose,
resents the effort of officials to dra-
geon 1t again into partisan hosalities,
and will zealonsly sustain any move
ment promising sure deliverance.
OF the perils which have been
connected with the war, it is safe to
say that only those are now to be
feared which come of an abuse of
victory into permanent estrangement.
The Union is fortified by more pow
er than ever before, and it remains
as an imperative duty to cement our
nationality By a perfect reconciliation.
At the North widespread sympathy
is aroused in behalf of those States
of the South which long after the
termination of resistance to rightful
federal authority are still plundered
under the guise of loyalty, and ty-
ranized over in the name of freedom.
Along with this feeling is present too
the recognition that in complete am
nesty alone can be found hope of any
return to Constitutional government |
as of old, or any development of a
more enduring unity, and broader |
national life in the future. Amnesty,
however, to be efficacious must be |
real, not nominal: genuine, not eva
sive. It must carry along with it |
equal rights as well as equal protec-
ton to all; for removal of disabilities /
as to some, with enforcement as to
others, leaves room for suspicion that |
pardon is measured by political gain
Especially will such proffered clem-
ency be futile in presence of renewed
attempts at prolonging a Suspension
OF the habeas corpus, in persistent
resort to martial rather than civil
law, in upholding those agencies
used to ALLEVIATE races where concord
is most essential, and in preparing
another elaborate campaign on a
basis of dead issues and arbitrary in
terventions. All will rightly credit
such conduct as but a mockery of
amnesty, and demand an Admins
tration which can give better warrant
of honesty in the great work of re-
construction and reform. e
In the array of sectional interests
n republic SO widespread as ours is
never entirely safe from serious con-
flicts. These become still more dan
gerous when complicated with ques-
tons of taxation where unequal bur-
dens are believed to be imposed on
one part at the expense of another
part. 1t was bold as we'll as ad-
mirable policy in the interest of pres
ent as well as future tranquility to
the decision of industrial
and revenue matters from the virtual
of an electoral college,
chosen with single animating pur-'
pose of party ascendency and refer
them for a more direct popular ex-
preston to each Congressional dis
trict. Instead of being muzzled by
some evaslve declaration, the coun-
try is thereby invited to its frankest
utterance, and sections which would
revolt at being denied voice, out