Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-07-10

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appointed Committee on Resolutions and the
National Executive Committee. To-day, it will
probably complete its labors by nominating
Greeley and Brown, and adopting the Cincin-
natl platform. all 49,
Mr.. DooLlTTLE was elected President of the
Convention, and upon taking the chair made
an eloquent speech, which was enthusiastically
applauded In the course of his remarks he
said As to many of the past issues, We
could not reopen them if waWould, and they
falsely misrepresent our purpose who say that
we would reopen them If we could. Loud
cheering. This great Union therefore means
no step backward Cheers Forward is
the word. Loud cheering And first of all
1t means to day for all the other States OF the
South what it has already done in Missouri.
ICheers. Instead of prescription, test oaths,
suspension Of habeas corpus and military des-
potism, it means personal freedom for the H.
dividual and republican government for all.
Loud applause Instead Of negro suprema-
cy, upheld by prescription and the bayonet, 1t
means equal rights to all men, white as well as
black. Loud applause. Instead of thievine
States, it means the domination once more OF
intelligence and integrity. Applause. In
stead Of strife, hate and robbery, it means jus
tice, liberty, peace, loyalty and good will. And,
gentlemen, for our whole country, East, West,
North and South it means, instead OF war
President, trained only in military school,
and whose whole character has been formed in
the ideas, arts, habits and despotism Of mill
tary life-instead of this it means the election
of a peace President cheers trained in the
ideas, arts, blessings and republican simplicity
of peace aud universal freedom loud cheer
ing]-of peace not enchained, of liberty not
under arrest, awaiting trial, sentence aud exc
cutiou by drumhead court martial, but that lib
erty and that peace which the Constitution Sc
cures by placing the civil law above the sword
Il loud applausel-by preserving In full vigor
the sacred writ of habeas corpus and the right
Of trial by jury. 1t means another thing, and
perhaps the most important OF them ALL 1t
means to arrest the Capitalization of power IN
the Federal Government. Loud cheering. J
1t means to assert the vital principle Of our re-
publican system in which it lives and moves
and has its very being-that constitutions are
made by the people in their sovereign capacity,
for the express purpose Of defining and limiting
the powers Of government applause the
powers of all Governments State or National.
1t means that we are determined that Presl
dents and Governors, Congresses and State
Legislatures, and every Department Of the
Government shall obey the Constitution. Pro-
longed applause. 1t means also genuine
Civil Service Reform, beginning with the Pres
idential Office Applause 1t means to put
an end forever to certain practices which have
grown up with this Administration, which
have driven so many of the abest Republicans
to join 10 this Liberal movement, and which
have deeply wounded the hearts of all Repub-
licans as we'll as Democrats in this country
lapplause J-practices which never existed un-
der any other Administration, which are but
too we'll known to all the world, and which our
nations good reputation will be best consulted
by not even naming. fCheers. 1t means also
to give strength and stability to our financial
affairs and our national credit by bringing hon
ton, Federal, State and municipal, where pub
lie moneys are collected and disbnrsed. Cheers.
1t means also the honest payment of all our OBJ
legations. Renewed applause 1t means TO
give higher loue and greater vigor to the ad-
ministration of our foreign and domestic at
fairs, so as to command the respect and the
confidence of our own people and of all the
civilized world. 1t means to place in the high
est Offices of our Government men Of whom all
the world will say, they are honest and they are
capable" [Applause.l
Mr.. John Goode, Of Norfolk, was appointed
on the National Executive Committee from
Virginia.
Mr.. Jefferson Randolph was warmly chcercd
and applauded when lie rose to address the
Convention as the temporary chairman. When
Virginia put forward Gen. Fitzhugh Lee as
her representative on permanent organization,
there was great applause.