The weekly clarion., 1872-07-25
pi~sers.sts Suffrage Aaa Iaiserssal
Amnesty.


Inasmuch as the reelection of Grant
means the continued imposition on the
Southern people of the burdens that have
driven them to the very point of despair,
they should look to the only quarter
which holds out a prospect of relief
Need they be told what it is? \ state
ment Of the evils viii suggest the RENE
I dy. What policy do their necessities
and the peace and well being Of the
/ whole country require shall be carried
out in the Administration Of the Gov
ernmeut It's announced in the Cincin-
natl and Baltimore Platform, and still
more forcibly expressed in these words
"Our policy should aim at local self
government. and not 1T Capitalization
''the civil authority should be supreme
over the military; the writ of Habeas
Corpus should be upheld as the safe
guard Of personal freedoms the indi-
'vidual citizen should enjoy the largest
'hberty consistent with good order; and
there should be no federal subversion of
the internal polty Of States and mu
1licipalitic-, but each should be left
free to maintain the rights and promote
'.the weII-being Of lis inhabitants by
''such means as the judgment Of the
people shall prescribe.
To this sentiment is joined the doc
trinc Of Universal Suffrage and of Uni
vorsaI Amnesty the perfect equali
ty Of every American citizen before the
law.
It's author is Horace Greeley.
1t Is appropriate, as Prescription and
5ectionalism are the great evils of the
day that he should be selected as the rep
resentative Of the opposing ideas of
Equal Rights and a restored Fraternity
on he.basis set forth in his letter ac-
ccpting the Presidential nomination. He
was the first to proclaim this policy after
the close Of the war. When its passions
were still surging he wrote the following
manly letter:
OFFICE OF THE TRIBUNE,
New \ ork, MAY IL. 1860.
DeaF Sri heartily concur with your |
view OF what should be our national policy. |
and am doing my utmost to have mercy and |
maguauimity its ruling attributes. Only |
let the late Insurgents join with US in say
ing slavery Is no more, and ! think we shall |
gradually mould the public will to our |
views. Just now the assassination OF Pres |
ident Lincoln mas made the North furious; |
bat we shall out grow that. | shall not hes |
itate TO labor and suffer reproach in the |
service OF Heaven blessed charity and mer-
ty- Yours,
HORACE GREELEY
Without variableness, or shadow of
turning through good and through evil
report-In sunshine and in storm-he
has followed where this sublime spirit led
The representative man of the Southern
people III the movement for a separate
government was imprisoned and loaded
with fetters. Northern passion clamored
for his blood. 1t demanded that he
should suffer vicariously for the crimes of
which II accused his countrymen with be-
ing guilty. Horace Greeley interposed
and advocated his release. Proving his
faith by works, he went upon his bond
and braved the wrath which his act had
aroused in the Northern heart.
The same spirit of intolerance and sec
tlonal hate which called for the murder
Of Jefferson Davis, clamored for the dis
of the white people of the
south And this issue was met by Hor-
'ce Greeley in the same manner Ask
ne full equality Of privilege for the
blacks, he also claimed amnesty for the
flung his banner to the
'reeze with the inscription, UNIVERSAL
SUFFRAGE and UNIVERSAL AMNESTY.
1t is around this flag with all its cheer
ne augeries, that our people are called
o rally in the approaching election.