The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-31

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or of its vast official patronage shall be
shielded from the main temptation to
use his power sclfshly by rule inexo-
rably forbidding and precluding his re-
election.
5. That the raisingof Revenue, wheth-
er by Tariff or otherwise, shall be rec
ognized and treated as the Peoples
immediate business. to be shaped and
directed 10y them through their Repre-
sentatives in Congress, whose action
thereon the president must neither
override by his veto, attempt to dictate,
nor presume to punish, by bestowing
Office only on those who agree with him
or Withdrawing it from those who do
not,
6. That the Public Lands must be
sacrcdly reserved for occupation and
acquisition by cultivators, and not reck-
lessly squanderel on the projectors of
railroads for which our people have no
present need, and the premature con-
struction of which is annually plunging
us into deeper and deeper abysses of
foreign Indebtedness.
I. That the achievment Of these
grand purposes of universal beneicence
is expected and sought at the hands Of
all who approve them, irrespective Of
past affiliations.
8. That the public faith must at all
hazards be maintained, and the Nation
al credit preserved.
8. That the patriotic devotedness
and incstimab,e services of our fellow
citizens who, as soldiers or sailors, up
held the flag and maintained the unity
Of the Republic, shall ever be grateful
ly remembered and honorably requitcd.
These propositions, so ably and fore
IDLY presented in the Platform of your
Convention, have already fixed the at
tention and commanded the assent Of a
large majority of our countrymen, who
joyfully adopt them, as | do, as the
basis of true, bcneficent National Re-
construction-of New Departure from
iealouries, strifcs and hates which have
no longer adequate motive or even
plausible pretcNt, into an atmosphere
of Peace, fraternity and Mutual Good
Will. In vain do the drill sergeants
of decaying organizations flourish men,
aceingly their truncheons and angrily
insist that the files shall be closed and
straig htencd; in vain do the whippers-in
of the parties once vital, because rooted
in the yie,l needs of the hour, protest
against straying and boiling, denounce
men nowise their interiors as traitors
and renegades, and threaten them with
infamy and ruin. I am confident that
the American people have already made
your cause their own, fully resolved
that their brave hearts and strong
arms shall bear it on to triumph. In
this faith, and with the distinct under
standing that, if elected, I shall be
President not Of party, but of the
whole people, l accept your nomination,
in the confdcut truot that tho masses
of our countrymen, Mort, and South,
are eager to clasp hands across the
bloody chasm which has too long divid-
cd them, forgetting that they have been
enemies in the joyful consciousness that
they are and must henceforth remain
brethren. Yours, gratefully,
HORACE GREELEY.
To Hon. Carl Schurz, President;
Hon. George W. Julian, Vice-Presi-
dent: and Mcssrs. VIM. 4. Mclean,
John G.. Day:: olson, j. II. Rhodes, Sec
retaries of the National Convention of
the Liberal Republicans Of the United
States.