The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-30
CINcINNATI, May 5.

CINCINNATI, May 8.
DEAR SIR: The National Convention of the
Liberal Republicans of the United States has
instructed the undersigned to inform you that
YOU have been nominated as the candidate OF
the Liberal Republicans for the Presidency OF
the United States. We also submit to you the
address and resolutions unanimously adopted
by the Convention. Be pleased to signify to us
your acceptance of the platform and the n0mi.
nation, and believe us,
Very truly yours,
CARL SCHURz, President.
G. w. JULIAN Vice Pres.
WIN. E. MCLEAN,
JOHN G. DAVIDSON,
J. II. RHODES,
Secretaries.
Hon. Horace Greeley, New York.
NEW YORK, May 20.
GENTLEMEN have chosen not to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your letter of the Sd instant
until could learn how the work of your Con-
vention was received in all parts of our great
country, and judge whether that work was ap-
proved and ratified by the mass of our fellow
citizens. Their response has, from day to day,
reached me through telegrams, letters, and the
comments of journalists independent of Off
cial patronage and Indifferent to the smiles or
frowns of power. The number and character
of these unconstrained, unpurchased, unsolici-
ted utterances satisfy me that the movement
which found expression at Cincinnati has re-
ceived the stamp of public approval and been
hailed by majority of our countrymen rs the
harbinger of better day for the Republic.
do not misinterpret this approval as espec-
tally complimentary to myself, nor even to the
chivalrous and justly esteemed gentleman with
whose name thank your committee for assocl-
ating mine. I receive and welcome 1T as q
spontaneous and deserved tribute to that admi-
rable platform of principles wherein your Con
vention so tersely 80 lucidy so iorcbly set forth
the convictions which impelled, and the pur-
poses which guided its course; a platform
which, casting behind it the wreck and rubbish
of worn-out contentious and bygone feuds, en-
bodies in fit and few words the needs and aspi-
rations of to-day. Though thousands stand
ready to condemn your every oct, hardly ssyl-
liable of criticism or cavil has been aimed at
your platform, of which the substance may be
fairly epitomized as follows:
First. All the political rights and franchises
which have been acquired through our late
bloody convulsions must and shall be guaran-
teed, maintained, enjoyed, and respected ever
more.
Second. All the political rights and fran
chises which have been lost through that con.
vulsion should and must be promptly restored
and re-established so that there shall be hence.
forth no prescribed class, and no disfranchlsed
caste within the limits of our Union, whose
long estranged people shall reunite and frater-
nize upon the broad basis of universal amnesty
and impartial suffrage.
Third. That, subject to our solemn constitu-
tional obligation to maintain the equal rights
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selfpovcrnment, and not at Capitalization ;
that the civil authority should be supreme over
the military that the writ of ha6eds corpus
should be jealously upheld as the safeguard OF
personal freedom that the individual citizen
should enjoy the largest liberty consistent with
public order, and that there shall be no Federal
supervision of the internal polity of the sever
al States and municipalities, but that each
shall be left free to enforce the rights and pro-
mote the well-being of its inhabitants by such
means as the judgment of its own people shall
prescribe.
Fourth. There shall be real, and not
merely a simulated, reform in the civil service
of the Republic; to which end it is indsipensa..
Bile that the chief dispenser of its vast official
patronage shall be shielded from the main
temptation to use his power sel6shly by rule
forbiddng and precluding reelection; that the
raising of revenue, whether by tariff or other
wise, be recognized and treated as the people $
immediate business to be shaped and directed
by them through their representatives in Con-
gress. whose action thereon the President must
neither overrule by his veto, attempt to dictate,
nor presume to punish, by bestowing Office only
IN those who agree with him, or withdrawing
it from those who do not.
Sixth. That the public lands must be sa-
credly reserved for occupation and acquisition
bv cnltiyators, and not recklessly squandered
on the projectors of railroads, for which our
! neople have no present need, and the prema-
ture construction of which is annually plung-
ing us into deeper and deeper abysses of foreign
Seventh. That the achievement of these
nurnoses of universal benefcence is expected
and sought at the hands of all who approve
them, irrespective of party affiliations. =,
Eighth That the public faith must at all
hazards be maintained and the national credit
Ninth. That the patriotic devotedness and
inestimable services of our fellow-citizens, who,
as soldiers or sailors, upheld the flag and maln-
tained the unity of the Republic, shall ever be
gratefully remembered and honorably reqult-
ted. eo;,,.. x,
sented IN the piaIioiLn VI !ooA -
have already fixed the attention ana com9an- an
ded oedntPsmep tns sppThhol %ho oy S adopt hem d.
~ the basis of true, benefcent national re-
construction; of new departure from jeal-
ousies. strifes, and hates, which have no ade-
ouate % motives, or even plausible pretext, into
an an atmosphere of peace, fraternity and mutual
goodwill. 20 In vain do the drill-sergeants OF
adecaying a organizations flourish menacingly
their truncheons and angrily insist that the
files shall be closed and Strengthened In vain
do the whippers-in of parties, once vital be-
cause rooted in the vital needs of the hour,
protest against straying and boiling, denounce
men nowise their interiors as traitors and rem,
egades, and threaten them with infamy and
7 am confident that the American people
have already made your cause their own, fully
soI,.od tbot tbe;r brave hearts and strong