The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-27


pie shall re unite aid fraterniZe
upon the broad hpsi. of universal
amnesty with par ial suffrage.
Third. That subject to our sol
emn constitutional obligation to
maintain the equal rights of all
citizens, our policy should aim at
local self government and not at
Capitalization; that the civil au
thorlty should be supreme over
the military; that the writ of ba
beas corpus should be jealously
uphe d as the safeguard of Per
sonal freedom that the individ-
uai citizen should enjoy the lar
gest liberty consistent with public
ord II, and that there shall be no
Fe 'erai subversion of the inter
nal polity of the several States
ana municipalities, but that each
shall he left free TO enforce the
rights and promote the well-being
OF the inhabitants by such means
aS The Judgment of its own people
shall prescribe.
/ Fourth. There shall be a real
and not merely simulated reform
/ in the civil service of the Repub-
lie, 10 which end it is indiSpensa-
Die the chief dispenser of its vast
official patronage shall he shield
ed from the oain tempta ton TO
use his power selhshly by a rule
ineXOrabIy fOrbiding and preciud-
ing his Re election.
Fifth. That the raising of reve-
: nue., whether by tariff OF other
, wise, shall be recognized and treat.
ed az the peoples immediate bust
ness, to be shaped aud directed by
them through theirrepreSeutatives
III Congress, whose action thereon
the President must neither over
!. rule 10y his veto, attempt TO die.
= tate, nor presume to punish by
, bestowing Office only on those who
1 agree with him, or withdrawing ii
: from those who do not.
Sixth. That the public lands
= must be sacredly reserved for ac
5 QUESTION aud occupation by cult
{ vators, and not recklesSly squan
z dered on the projectors of rail
}. roads, for which our people have
j no present need, and the prema
u I st-I.. t...Fs-sF ~, .sin,, ~ ,rI;nL =. -,
/ nuaiiy piTnging us into deeper
t and deeper abysses of foreign in
Il debtednesS.
D Seventh. That the achievement
i of these grand purposes of uni
Il versal beniticence is expected and
, sought of all who approve them
y irrespective of past. affiliations.
n Eighth. That the public faitl
must, at all hazards, be maintain
ed, and the national credit be pre-
served.
7. Ninth. That the patriotic de
votednessand ineStimable service
OF our fellow citizens. who as sol
dierS or sailors, upheld the fla:
and maintained the units of thr
II republic, shall ever be grateful,
If remembered and honorably re
n Quilted.
u These propositions, so ably AM
II iorcibly presented in the platform
r OF your convention, have aIread
y fixed the attention and command
$. ed the assent of large maiorit
o o. oar countrymen, who joyful,
;, adopt them, as | do, as the basi
a. of a true, beneticent, national re
D construction of a new departar
IS from jealousieS, strifes and hates
.r which have no longer an adequat
n motive, or even plausible pretexi
1t INTO an atmosphere of peace, fra
ie ternTy AMI mutual god will. Il
: vain do the drill SergeantS of de
d cayIng organizations flourish mer
d acIng.y their truncheOuS, and an
y grliy insist that the files shall b
u closed and Strengthened. In val
D. TO the whipprrS in of parties one
i vital, because rooted in the vita
/ needs of the hour, protest agains
ip StriyIng and boiling, denounc
d men no wise their interiors a
l traitors and renegadeS, aud threat
o. en- them with infamy and ruin.
am confident that the America
a people have already made YOU
ie cause their own, fully resolve
n that their brave hearts and stron
80 arms shall bear it on to triumph
y In this faith and with the iii.
n tinct understanding that, if cleo
IN ed, shall Re President, not of
IN party, but of the whole people,
* accept your nomination in th
n confident trust that the masses
rs our countrymen, North and Soutl
I'd are eager TO clasp hands aero.
,h the bloody Chasm, which has TO
n long divided them, forgetting TIL
IL lhyN have been enemies. in III