The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-06-06


be wise to cooperate with the Liberals
(who have repudiated the Grant Admin
istration,) on the terms proposed at Gin
cinnati, or to nominate straightout
ticket at Baltimore, and thus do precise
ly what the proscriptive party is most
anxious that they should do, for the rea-
son that such a course will divide the OPP
position to them-it is pertinent to con-
slider whether the straightout partisans
propose to adopt a platform differing in
any essential from the one which was
adopted at Cincinnati.
After careful observation we are con-
WINGED that if there are Democrats who
look to Baltimore with the hope that it
will revive the issues settled by the war
--or that it will announce any principle
or policy substantially different from the
Cincinnati Declaration-even though the
Liberal alliance be rejected-they will
realize sad Disappointment. The Con-
vention may nominate Hendricks ON the
ground of his unimpeachable ''war re-
cord;" or it may nominate Hancock on
the ground that he is Democrat who
displayed higher qualities as a Union sol
dier than Grant-but the Southern men
to whom such ticket would be COM
mended may rest assured, that the Plat
form will be essentially of Cincinnati
material 1t will contain no declaration
looking to the abro5ation of the Consti-
tutional Amendments. 1t will contain
nothing that will remotely SAVIOR of oppo-
sition to negro suffrage. But, it will be
replete with the doctrine of decentraliziEg
the administration of the Government-of
subordinating the military to the civil au
thority-of securing to the States the
right of managing their own affairs, and
of protecting the citizens thereof in their
persons and property-of introducing
economy in the Government-and re-
turn to the Republican simplicity and
integrity of its trainers. This, and more
that is good, is contained in the Platform
adopted at Cincinnati, which has been
endorsed by Mr.. Greeley, the Liberal
nominee, in a letter remarkable for its
plain and advantageous declarations.
To leave no room for doubt as to the
intentions of the Northern Democracy in
reference to the ground which they in
tend to occupy in the canvass, we need
only refer to the resolutions of the New
York Democratic Convention, in which
the Liberal Platform is fully en-
dorsed.
Now, it may be good policy for the
Democracy, in making their dispositions
to overthrow the Administration Of
Grant, to appropriate the Platform of the
Liberals and at the same time to repudi-
ate their candidates, but we do not see it
in that way.
To further illustrate the identity of the
Liberal platform and of the advance posi-
ton of the Democracy, we will produce
the annexed extracts from the Address
of the State Committee of the Liberal Re
publicans of the State of New York as
published in the Tribune
FELLOW CITIZENS The present Admin
istration. although falling to fulfill the just
, ! expectations of the American people. is
nevertheless attempting, through its office
holders, to prolong its power for the next
four years.
large portion of the Presidents original
1 supporters, and the entire remainder OF his
. ellow-country without distinction OF
party survey this attempt with indignation
: and alarm.
He has transcribed the limitations of the
Constitution, and done violence to its free
1 shirt by usurping for himself functions
which that instrument reserves To the
States and their citlzens-
/ He has UNANIMOUSLY invaded the political
assemblies of our own and other free COM
: monwealths, mischievously !ntrudtng has FED
/; erdl influence into local GFd1fS.
, He has put crafty anu ambitious parasites
= at the receipts of customs where they SUI
J. continue TO fatten their pflNate purses VI
the public funds.
l. He said TO a nation weary with war, Il lie
. ms have peace" but has kept the word o
promise to the ear 10 break lt 70 tue nope
e fosteriRg in the North tOa0GrCtS the South tenn
= er Of bitterness and resentment, instead OF ira
ternity and good toiH.
l. ~ has c0nniued az and sustained number
4 of alien and rotten governments an the Souttre
\ states, some OF tohose officers hare perpetrdte'
e fr.atd equdted IN magnitude 0Rty Og WOse
- the Tanansdny Ring.
Duripg all this ever-growing maladmin
istration, the Presidents partisans, insUea'
of rebuking his perverSe course, NAYS ;,Sa o.
the contrary and for selfish ends, gilded |
with uncandid flattery, and defended It Wiz
III snecious logic. They have put forth Sc
1t rics ofmocking pretences TO the effect ina
q he is paving the public debt; that he ma
)f reduced the taxes; that he has collected th
revenue: that he has settled the Alabam
claims: that he has tranquilized the Ia
ID dians: and that he has reconstructed I'll
a South.
RI chaIIenge them in detail. Is he paying tn
dabtp The people. not the President. ar
having it. Has he reduced the taxes Con
l. 9ress not the Executive, has lightene
a these burdens of the people mas nc co ii
ed the revenue? Swarms OF MS olncer
ID have grown rich by its collection has u
n settled the Alabama claims They neve
were so unsettled as they are at this houl
'e Has he made peace with the lnus 49,
- latest Intelligence from the frontier Is 2
= massacre and blood, provoked by ifaud
* which his officers have perpretraSed on u
% deceived and eXasperated saNaSes. mas ~ =
Given prosperity and contenCneht 10 III
to SouthS The Southern people, tctth t'te6dh'
\ q,Ied .tnanianitv are demanding me 01tfthfo.
ia 81 an Administration tckieh has tetd uena
n surveillance and treated them icHH scoT,t;
m The Cincinnati platform Is as moral.S nc
III bl. as the great Declaration 10 which GU
a forcfathers pledged ''their lives their loi
tnnes and their sacred honor" Its primer
pies include the equality OF All men S S,,[
he tn, law the perpetual union OF these oed.s
witch nothing now threatens save col
en- runtion at the Federal center; the non,rev
of val of all questions, and the aLnlessole a.
eentance OF all results. which have Deen
US naIlv and forever settled by the Thirteenth
,c- Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment:
TTafrersal amnesty. which Is the most 0lViI
W. act possible to human government, s.e 8 ,
,,1oral OF all political disabilities oecasioRsd
= sr1r whose battle-fields have now Dee
le seven years green with peace; the ever :;
~ cred and iuviolate supremacy 81 Ahe etet &c
at az .uailftrn tilncfiOa OF free Q0cefl.eNtl ~