The weekly clarion., 1872-07-18

| o. universal negro suffrage as a condition
precedent to the States OF the South having
| any rights or any existence. even rs States
in the Unlon-it is none of these questions
that is now in issue. All these have been
issues in the past-great issues, sufficient in
themselves to create and dissolve political
parties, because ideas are stronger than men
| or parties; but they are All past issues.
! They have been brought out aud fought TO
/ the end. in the forum or i'm the field, and
! they are no more an issue to-day than the
| Mexican war or the war of rebellion. APP
! piause.l We could not Reopen them III we
would, and they falsely misrepresent our
purpose who say that we would reopen
4 them If we could. Loud cheering. This
great union, therefore, means no step back
ward. cheers. Forward! is the word.
/ Loud cheering And first of all. it means
10 do for all the other States of the south
what it has already done in Missouri.
! lCheersl Instead of prescription. test
oaths, suspension of habeas corpus and mil
ltary despotism, It means personal freedom
/ TOR the individual and republican govern
ment for all. loud applausel Instead of
negro supremacy, upheld by prescription
ana the oayonet, 1t means equal rights to
ail-men' white as well as black. Loud APP
plause.J Instead of thieving governments,
organized 70 plunder subjugated States, it
means the domination once more of intelli-
gence and integrity. Applause Instead
of strife. hate and robbery it means JUS
| tee; liberty, peace. loyalty and good will.
| And, gentlemen, for our whole country,
East, West, North and South. it means in
stead of war President, trained ONLY in a
military school, and whose whole character
has been formed in the ideas. arts, habits
and despotism of military life-instead of
this it means the election of a peace Pres
Ident Lcheers, trained in the IDEAS arts.
blessings and republican simplicity of peace
and universal freedom; loud che ring of
peace not enchained; of liberty, not under
arrest awaiting trial, sentence and eXecu-
tlon by drum head cOuTt-martals. but that
liberty and that peace which the Constitu-
ton secures by placing the civil law above
tIle es,S sword, loud applause by preserving
IN tuiI yigor the SPcred writ of habeas cor
pus, and The right of trial by Jury. APP
plauSe.I 1t means another thing. and per-
haps the most important OF them all; it
means 70 arrest the Capitalization Of power
IN the Federal Government rLoud cheer
Ing.I 1t means To assert the vital DriuciDle
Oi our republican system in which it lives
ana moves and has its very being-that con-
stltutions are made by the people in their
sovereign capacity for the eYnress nurDose |
OF defining and limiting the powers of gov |
erhment-lapplauSe. the powers of all gov |
ernments, State or national. 1t means that |
we are determined that Presidents and |
Governors, Congresses and State Legisla- |
tnres, and every department of the govern
ment shall obey the Constitution. [Prolong- |
ed applauSe.I II means, also, "A genuine civil !
service reform. beginning with the presi-
Dental office. Applause
- i4iNtttiS " put an emu forever to certain |
practices which have grown up with this
ADMINISTRATION, which have driven SO many
OF the ab!eSt republicans to IOin in this lib
erai movement, and which have deeply
wounded the hearts of all republicans. as !
wen as democrats, in this country, Tap
piause'l practices which never existed un-
uef any other administration, which are but
100 wen known TO All the world, and which !
our nations good reputation will be best
consulted by not even naming. 1Cheers |
lt means also to give strength and stability
To our financial affairs and our national
credit Dy bringing honesty and economy
thd ldeIIty u every position. Federal. State
ihd municipal, where public moneys are
objected and distributed. 1CheerS. Ii
means also the honest payment of all our
Doil@atlons. Renewed applause 1t
means TO give higher tone and greater vip-
lf 10 the administration of our foreign and
iomestIc affairs, so as to command the re- |
pect and the confidence Of our own peopIe {
ma OF all the civilized world lie means To !
DIace In the highest offices of our govern :
heht men OF whom all the world will saw :
u ey are honest and they are capable CAD-
}lauSe.i lNAP +
Gentlemen, have thus briefly stated the
lLudtioh, the duties and the purposes which :
'Itlg Us mere. n great responsibility rests
lpon TINS Convention. If its action shall {
&c such (and | doubt not it will be- as to e
'ut an end to the mis-ule which for the last /
eW years has afflicted our beloved countrv' /
MS generation and generations to come af l
er us VIII remember with pride and graft /
ude the Convention at Baltimore Of tho 0tI
1 July, 1872. "'N :;