New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-10
TERMSI SIG 90 PER ANNUM.
WHOLE NUMBER 1908.

well known to you all, that ! viii not re
state them. For weeks that platform an'
these candidates have been before the eOun
| try. Meanwhile the convention called t
nominate General Grant [hissesl and Il
indOrse and TO continue the principles, prac
tees and policy of his administration, hal
done its work. [Hisses. As between thu
Liberal Republicans and the followers o
the Grant administration, the issue is clearly
made up. il is Grant or Greeley. I'm
mense enthusiasm, and cries of Greeley
Greeley.I
While these events we're passing, the
Democrats and Republicans whom We
represent held their conventions in the
States. The Liberal Republican move
ment-the example of Missouri-the Cln'
cinuati convention, its platform and It's
candidates, with their letters of acceptance,
were all before the conventions, which
we're largely attended by their ablest men,
and the paramount questions before these
conventions were Shall we accept this in
vitatiOn to cooperate with the Liberal Re-
publicans [Great applause Shall we
adopt their platform Loud cries of Eyes,
yes" and some cries OF ''neverll Shall we
nominate the same candidates Cries Of
yes, yes And shall we elect them lYes,
yes; yes, and loud cheering Or shall we
refuse to cooperate No, no, and nominate
other candidates No, no, Greeley, Gree
ley j and strive to elect them over both
tickets already in the field
Gentlemen, these are the questions you
| are to decide now and here that you will
decide them wisely | can not doubt, nor can
| any one doubt who looks over this body of
men, representing as they do 100000 of
/ citizens, and who feel, as every one here
must feel, the high and patriotic purpose
which inspires you.
| Gentlemen, what means this great and
rising movement which we everywhere
! see What means this proposed reunion
| of 100000 OF Democratic Representatives
| with 100000, it may be, of Liberal Re-
| publicans What means this union on
| common platform, and this proposed union
| on the same candidates A union so sud
| den, so compact, so earnest, as to surprise
| its friends and to cOnfound its enemies
| [applausel; which comes as the winds
came; which, to borrow figure, over
| whelms the ordinary currents of public
| opinion, as the great storms always run
| counter to the surface currents. What
means all this There are some things,
| gentlemen, it does not mean. 1t means no
| abandonment of what is true, of what is
| Just, of what is good in human govern
ment. [Applause.l 1t means no union
| OF the dead upon dead issues, but
union of the living upon the living
| issues of the present. Applause. 1t
means no union for the spoils Of Office APP
| plausel-but it means union of men with
! the same facts upon the great aud para
mount issue of the present hour, frank,
manly, honest, able and equal union ofmen
who have the sagaeity to see, and the moral
| courage to accept the situation. lCrles OF
| "GoOd!1 "good - and loud cheers 1t
means union of men who have the sagaci-
| ty to see what is past, and to deal with the
issues of the present, and for the future to
| do their duty to their country, their God.
and their feIlOw-men. [Applause.l The
| issue of to-day is not the repeal OF the Mis-
| souri, COM promise. nor the question
| of slavery in the Territories, upon
which alone the Republican party was
| organized in 1856. 1t is not
upon that which followed when.
! the LeeOmptOn constitution for Kansas
| divided the Democratic party in twain, aud
elected Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency
| in 1860. 1t is not the question of seees-
! sion, nor the war to put down rebellion, nor
| the abolition Of slavery in the States by
military order, or by constitutional amend
ment, upon which Mr.. Lincoln was reelected
| in 1861 nor yet is it Ae question Of recon
| structiOn,. or of the fourteenth or of the
fifteenth amendmen' nor the question of
negro suffrage, nor o. The establishme Z by
| federal power of UNI ersal negro suffrage
as a condition preceden to the States Of tile
| South having any rigb or any existence,
| even, as States in the Union. 1t is none OF
| these questions that is now in issue-all
/ these have been issues IN the past-gTeat
| issues, sufficient in themse yes to create and
| to dissolve political parties, because ideas
are stronger than men or parties
! but they are all past Issues; thev
| to the end in the forum or in tn field, and
i they are no more in issue to day than the
| Mexican war or the war of the rebellion.
| TApplause We could not reopeN hem if
we would. They falsely misrept BIT. our
| purpose whOsaY that we would reopen them
if we could. Loud cheering.l This great
| union, therefore means no step backward
| ICheers. Forward is the word loud cheer
| ingl, anu first of ali, it means to-day for all
the other States Of the South what it has al
ready done in Missouri. [Cheers Instead
| of prescription, test Oaths, suspension of ha-
! beas corpus and military despotism, it
means personal freedom to the Individual
| and republican government for all Loud
| applause Instead of negro supremacy,
| upheld by prescription and the bayonet, it
means equal rights TO ali men,
| white as well as black. Loud ap-
| plause Instead Of thieFing govern
ments organized to plunder suhjugated
| States il meansthe dominion once more of
| intelligence and integrity. Instead of
strife, hate and robbery, it means Justice,
| liberty, peace, loyalty and good will; and,
gentlemen, for our whole country, East
| West, North and South, IL means, instead
| of a war President, trained only in q mili-
| tarv 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 President
| Gcheersl. trained in the arts, ideas, bless
| ings and republican simplicity of peace and
universal freedom [oud cheers] of peace
not enchanted, of liberty not under arrest
and awaiting trial, sentence and execution
by drum head cOurt-martial, but that lib
erty and peace which the constitution
secures by placing the civil law above the
sword llOud applausel by preserving in
full vigOr the sacred writ of habeas corpus
the right Of trial by jury. [Applause.J 1t
means another thing, and perhaps the
most important of them all-it means to
arrest the Capitalization of power in the
federal government. Loud cheers.l 1t
means to assert the vital principle of our
republican system, in which it moves and
has its very being, that constitutions are
made by the people in their sovereign ca
pacity, tor the express purpose Of defining
and limiting the powers of the government
Tapplausel, the powers of all governments,
State or national. 1t means that we are de-
termined that Presidents and Governors.
Congress and State Legislatures, and every
department Of the government, shall obey
the constitution. Prolonged applause.
Mr.. DOOlittle concluded: Gentlemen, !
have thus briefly named the situation,
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