Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-04
GREELEY And BROWN
The Agony Over---HOraee Greeley,
OfN. Y, and b. Gratz Brown,
Of No., the Nominees.
Only Six Ballots for Presidential
Nominee and Two for Vice
President.
Enthusiastic Ratification of the
ChOiee--The Whole Country
Thoroughly Aroused.
Full and Complete Report of the
Details Of the Several Votes
and Debates.

Details of the Several Votes
and Debates.
CINCINNATI, May Sit being known
that to-day would be the great decisive
field-day in the convention, the galleries
were densely packed, together with
every inside spot to which access could
be gained by spectators, among whom
were larger proportion OF ladies than
at any previous session. The seats of
the delegates were also much more than
usually full at the hour of meeting.
Lookers-on employed the time between
their arrival and the commencement Of
business in surveying the notables on
| the floor, many of whom became the
center of optics aided by Opera-glasses.
At precisely ten o'clock Mr.. SchurZ,
whose appearance on the platform was
greeted with some demonstration of ap-
plause, called the convention to order.
The reading Of the journal was dis
pensed with at the suggestion of an
Iowa delegate.
The President desired to make state
y
| attention has been called to the fact that
the morning newspapers of this city had
published a dispatch, alleged to have
/ been sent by me to one of tn he candidates
before the convention. desire to say
/ that that statement is wholly untrue.
| TCheers.1 / deem il incumbent on me,
/ in the official position here occupy, to
act with the utmost impartiality, and
not to take part in the contest between
/ the candidates for nomination, but
/ to use whatever influence / can
exercise for the same object of promoting
/ the harmonious action of this cOnven-
ton. ICheers.l 1t has also been stated
that this dispatch accounted for the
anxiety of the Chair to prevent the
nomination Of candidates last evening.
desire to say that every statement
which proceeded from the Chair last
night was made at the express request of
/ the Committee on Resolutions. APP
plause.
Mr.. Gilmore submitted a resolution
| that when the convention reaches the
point of ballot for President and Vice
! President of the United States, that no
! formal nominations shall be made, but
! that the Secretary should at once pro-
ceed to call on the States for their votes.
Mr.. Dexter rIllinoisl- desire to say a
word in favor of the resolution.
Our own delegation, together with
many others, feel as though our pa
! tience had been trespassed upon enough.
We find no fault with anybody. We
appreciate the difficulties that have lain
in the path Of the proceeding here, but
now the time has come for business,
and we earnestly desire it may come to
it, and l do hope that the delegates pres
ent will relieve US from all speeches re-
| lating to the candidates which are hard
! " ever anything but fulsOme eulogies,
which will not change the opinion of
any man, and have no relation TO the
| business we have to transact. Let us
have done with it. [CheeTs. The res
olution was carried.
The President then said: / desire to
announce to the Convention that the
! Committee on Resolutions are now ready
to report. Loud cheers.
Here Horace White, Chairman of the
! Committee on Resolutions and Plat
forms, advanced TO the front and hand
ing the President the report, said the
committee had requested that the pre-
siding officer should read the preamble
and resolutions.
The President-The voice of the chair
man of the committee being weak, he
has requested me to read the resolutions,
and has requested me also to state that
they were adopted by almost a unani-
NOUS vote.
A delegate hoped that before the Pres
ident proceeded to the reading of the res
olutions, the delegates be requested
to take their seats.
The PRESIDENT am requested to
state that the report was unanimously
adopted. Tremendous applause.
The President then read in clear and
emphatic manner, and with sufficien-
cy and sOundness of voice to reach every
part of the immense hall the following
platform Of the Republican Convention
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE
The Administration, now In power, has rem
dered itself guilty Of wanton disregard of the
! laws OF the land and Of powers not granted by
! the constitution. It has acted as ii the laws
| had binding force only Tor those who are gov
erned and not for those who govern. II has
thus struck blow at the fundamental princi-
! pies OF constitutional government and the lib
! critics OF the citizens. The President Of the
United states has openly used the powers and
| opportunities OF his high Office for the promo
! ton Of personal ends. He has Kept nOtorl-
/ ously corrupt and unworthy men in places OF
! power and responsibility to the detriment OF
! the public interest. He has used the public
| service Of the government as a machinery OF
1 partizan and personal influence and inter
] fered with technical arrogance in the pollti-
/ cal affairs OF the States and municipalities
| He has rewarded, with influential and
/ lucrative office, men who had acquir-
| ed his favor by valuable presents
thus stimulating the decentralization
OF our political life by his conspicuous exam
/ pie; he has shown himself deplorably unequal
| 10 the tasks imposed upon him by the neceSsi-
| ties of the country, and culpably careless OF
| the respo nsibilities Of his high office. The
partisans OF the administration, assuming TO
| be the Republican party, ana eontrolilng is
| orRani ization, have attempted TO justify such
| wrongs and palliate such abuses 10 the end OF
maintaining partisan ascendancy. They nave
! stood in the way OF necessary investigation
! and indispensable reform; that as serious a
| fault as could be found with the present ad-
minisITation OF public affairs is the seeking to to
| blind the eyes Of the people by Keeping alive
! the passions and reSentments OF the late civil
| war for their own advantage; they have re-
sorted to arbitrary measures, IN 9lIect ,S,l eon-
70 the better instincts and latent pairloLIsn OF
] the southern people by restoring those rights
| the enjoyment of which is indispensable for
| a successful administration Of local AFFAIRS
| and would tend TO move a patriotic and hope
| full national feeling They have degraded
| themselves and the name of their party, and
are Justly entitled to the confidence OF the ma
ton BY base gychophancy TO Executive
! power and patronage unworthy Of republican
freemen. They have sought TO silence TN {
voice OF just criticism, 70 stife the moral
sense OF the people, and to ubjugate pubhc
opinion by a tyrannical party dlscl pine
4 They are striving to maintain themselves IN
authority, for selfish ends, by an unscrupu'
lOus use Of the power which r1ghuuily be-
longs 70 the people and should be employed
only in the service OF the country. Believing
that an organization thus led and controlled
can no longer be OF service to the best inter
ests Of the republic, we have resolved to make
an independent appeal to the sober Judg
ment, conscience and patriotism of the Amer
THE PLATFORM.
n 81. 500
States in national convention assembled al
Cincinnati, proclaim the following principles
as essential to just government;
Ftrst-We recognize the equality OF al
men before the law and hold that il Is the du
" OF the government, in its dealings with th'
people to mete out equal and exact Justice t'
all, whichever nativity, race, color or persua
sion, religious or political.
Second-We pledge ourselves to maintain
the union Of these states, emancipation ant
enfranchisement, and 70 oppose any reopen
ing Of the questions settled by the Thirteenth
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments OF thu
| Tbird-Vye demand the immediate and alb
solute removal OF all disabilities imposed OF
| account OF the rebellion, which Was finally
subdued seven years ago, oelleying that mn nm
. | yersal amnesty viii result in complete pacih
| cation in all sections Of the country.
/ Fourth-Local self-gOvernment, with impair
tial suffrage, will guard the rights 9i al cru
| zens more securely than any centralized pow
er. The public welfare requires the suPremael
| Of the civil over the military authority ant
freedom OF person ullGcT tue pIoltCtlou VI III
hdbeds corpus. We demand for the individua
the largest liberty consistent with public or
! der; for the state. self-gOyeTnment, and 10
. | the nation, a return to the methods of peac
and the constitutional Limitations OF power
fifth-The Civil service OF the Government
has become O mere instrument Of partisan
| chiancery and personal ambition, and an Oh
Ject Of selfshuess, greediness and scandal, am
Is reproach upon Our free institutions, aL'
breeds decentralization, and II dangerous Z
the perpetuity Of q Republican Government
hiNth-We therefore regard thorough re
form in the civil service as one Of the mes
, pressing Necessities Of the hour, and tina