Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-14

OatlO0 as NlCe-ETeSlu6Ht1 Wy 'hS ~
natl Convention, Governor Brown makes
the following response
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
JEFFERSON CITY, May 81, 1879.
GENTLEMEN Your letter advising me Of
the action of the Liberal Republican Con-
vention Mt Cincinnati has been received, and
| return through you my acknowledgment
of the honor which has been conferred on
me. | accept the nomination as candidate
for Vice President and indorse, most cor
daily, the resolutions setting forth the prin-
ciples on which this appeal Is made to the
whole people of the United States. A cen
tury is closing upon our experience of Re-
publican Government, and while that lapse
of time has witnessed great expansion of our
free institutions, yet it has not been without
Illustrations also of grave dangers to the
stability of such system. Those successfully
encountered, it is needless to speak of.
Those which remain to menace us most
threateningly, are provided against as firm
ly believe, in the wise and pacific meas
ures proposed by your platform. 1t has
come to be the practice of those elevated to
positions of national authority to re-
gard the public service, not as a
public trust, but only as a means to retain
power. This results in substituting party
organization for the Government itself, con-
stitutes control amenable to no laws or
moralities; impairs all Independent thought;
enables the few to rule the many; and makes
personal allegiance the road to faver. 1t re-
quires little forecast to perceive that this
will wreck our liberties unless there be inter
posed timely reform of the Administration,
from its highest to its lowest station, which
shall not only forbid abuses, but likewise
take away the incentive to this practice.
Wearied with the contentious that are car
ried on in avarice of spoils, the country re-
sents the efforts of officials to dragoon it
again into partisan hostilities, and will zeal
Vs.-iJ ---t-i- 10y .-oun-nant nromisinp n
sure deliverance. OF the perils which have
been connected with the war it is safe to say
that only those are now to be feared which
come of an abuse of victory into permanent
estrangement. The Union is fortified by
more power than ever before, and it remains
as an imperative duty to cement our nation
ality by perfect reconciliation. At the
North a widespread sympathy is aroused in
behalf of those States of the South, which,
long after the termination of resistance to
rightful Federal authority, are still plundered
under the guise of loyalty, and tyraniZed
over in the name of freedom. Along with
this feeling is present, too, the recognition
that in complete amnesty alone can be found
hope of any return to constitutional govern
ment as of old, or any development of a more
enduring unity and broader national lite in
the future. Amnesty, however, to be effica-
cious, must be real, not nominal; genuine,
not evasive. 1t must carry along with it
equal rights, as well as equal protection to
all; for the removal of disabilities as to
some, with enforcement as to others, leaves
room for suspicion that pardon is measured
by political gain. Especially will such prof
fered clemency be futile in the presence of
renewed attempts at prelonging suspension
OF the hdbedS corpus In persistent resort
to marshal rather than civil law, in uphold
ing these agencies used to ALLEVIATE races
whose concord is most essential, and in pre-
pairing another elaborate campaign on basis
of dead issues and arbitrary Intervention
A w0ffh .sarl,N n, ,l,,,k
as but mockery of amnesty, and
demand an administration which can give
better warrant of honesty in the great work
of reconstruction and reform.
In the array of sectional interests, repub-
lie so widespread as ours is never entirely
safe from serious conflicts. These become
still more dangerous when complicated with
| questions of taxation where unequal bur-
dens are believed to be imposed on one part
| at the expense of another part. 1t was n
bold, as well as admirable policy, in the in
terest OF present, as well as future tranquil
! ity, to withdraw the decision of industrial
| and revenue matters from the virtual arbi-
tration of an Electoral College, chosen with
single animating purpose of party ascen-
dency, and refer them for more direct pop
ular expression to each Congressional Dis
trict. Instead of being muzzlcd by some
evasive declaration, the country is thereby
invited to its frankest utterance, and sections
which would revolt at being denied a voice,
out of Difference to other sections would be
content to acquiesce in a general judgment
honestly elected. Iflocal government be- as it
undoubtedly is, the most vital principle of our
institutions, much advance will be made
toward re-establishing it by enabling the
| people to pass upon questions so nearly af-
fecting their well-being dispassionately
through their local representation. The
precipitancy which would force controlling
declaration on the tax or tariff through the
Presidential candidacy iQ disD Ga1
form of Capitalization, involving hazardous
breaches of Executive influence. The con-
clusion will be much more impartially deter
mined, and with less disturbance to trade
and finances, by appealing to the most truth
full and diversified local expression. Indus
trial issues can be thus likewise emancipated
from the favor of great monopolies, each
| canyass n ade to determine its own specific
instruction, and each representative held to
| fidelity towards his immediate constituents.
These are the most prominent features OF
| the general concert of action which pro-
poses to replace the present Administra-
tion by one more in sympathy with the
| aspirations of the masses of our coun-
trymen. OF course such concert can
not be attained by thrusting every minor
or past difference into the foreground, and
| 1t will be for the people, therefore, to
determine whether these objects are of such
magnitude and present urgency as to JUS
| tify them in deferring other adjustments un-
til the country shall first be restored to a
| free suffrage, uninhuenced by official dicta-
tion, and ours become, in fact, free Repub-
| lie, released from apprehension of a central
! domination.
~ Without referring in detail to various 9th.
er propositions embraced in the resolutions
| Of the Convention, but seeing how all con-
template restoration of power to the people,
peace to tine nation, and purity to the Gov
ernment; that they condemn the attempt to
establish an ascendency of military over
civil rule, and affirm with explictness the
maintenance of equal freedom to all citizens,
irrespective OF race, previous condition, OF
pending disabilities, / have only TO pledge
again myself and my sincere co operation.
/ have the honor to remain, very respect
| fully, yours,
(Signed) b. GRATz BRowN,
s9g-The New York World says 1t is in re.
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