The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-06
POLITICAL.
Address and Resolutions of the
Cincinnati Convention.

venEion reads as follows, and viii
be found Il strong indictment
against President Grant:
The administration now in pow
or has rendered itself guilty of
wanton disregard of the laws OF
the land and of powers not grant
ed 10y the Constitution: it has
acted as if the laws had binding
force only for those who are gov
erned. and Bot for those who
govern. II has thus struck blow
at the fundamental principles o.
Constitutional Government and
the Liberties of citizens. The
President of the United States
bas openly used the powers and
opportunities OF his office for the
promotion of personal ends; he
has kept notoriously corrupt and
unworthy men in places of power
and responsibility. to the dctri-
ment of the public Interests; he
has used the public service OF the
government as machinery parti-
san aud personal influence, and
interfered, with tyrannica! AFRO
gance, in the political affairs Of
the States and municipalities; he
has rewarded with influential aud
lucrative offices those who have
acquired his favor 10y valuable
presents, thus stimulating the de
mOralizatiOn of our political life
by his sconspicuuuS example; he
has shown himself depIurably un-
equal to the tasks imposed on
him by the necessities of the
country, and culpably careless OF
the responsibilities of his high
Office. The partisans Of the Ad.
miniStration, assuming TO be the
Republican party and controlling
its organization, have attempted
to Justify such wrongs and palate
such abuses, 10 the end of main
tanning partisan aScendancy.-
They have stood in the way o.
necessary investigation and indis
penSable reforms, pretending Il a
no serious fault could be fOunt
with the present administration
of public affairs, thus seeking t,
blind people. They have KEEP
alive the passions and resentment
of the late war to use them TO
their own advantage. They hay,
resorted to arbitrary measures il
direct conflict with the organi
law, and instead of appealing t
the better instincts and iaten
patriotism OF the Southern peopl
by restoring to them those rights
the enjoyment Of which is indi,
penSable for the successful admin
iStraticn of their local affairs, an
would tend TO move a patriot
and hopeful national feeling, the
have degraded themselves and til
name of their party, once justl
entitled to tho confidence of til
nation, hy Il base sycOphancy I
the dispenser of executive powe
and patronage unworthy of repui
lican freemen. They have sough
TO stitie the voice of just criticism
the moral sense Of the people, an
subjugate public opinion by t.
rannical party discipline. The
are striving to maintain then
selves in authority by an unscrl
pulouS use of power which RICH
fully belong to the people, an
should be employed only in til
service of the country; believin
that an organization thus lea
and controlled can no longer be
service TO the best interests of I'll
Republic, we have resolved [
make an independent appeal
the sober Judgment, cOnscienC
aud patriotism of the America
people.
The following is a full text
the resolutions
we, the Liberal Republicans
the United States, in Nation
Convention assembled, at Cinci
natl, proclaim the following pri
ciples as essential to a just go
ernment:
l. We recognize the equality
all men before the law, and no
that it is the duty of the Cover
ment, in its dealings with Il
people, 10 mete out equal al
exact justice to all, of whatev,
nativity, race, color or persuasio
religious and political.
.. We pledge ourselves to mai
tain the Union of these. State
emancipation and enfranchi>
ment, and to oppose any re ope
ing of the questions settled by &
thirteenth, fourteenth aud
teenth amendments of the cons