The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-10

tions which impelied and the purpose
! which guided its courses platform which
casting behind it the wreck and rubbish o
worn out contentious and bygone feuls
enbodies in tit ami few words the needs anC
| aspirations of to-day. Though thousand;
| stand ready to condemn your every act
| hardly syllable of criticism or cavil ha,
i been aimed at your platform. of which the
substance may be fairly epitomized as fol-
/ lows:
l. All the political rights and franchise:
which have been acquired through our late
bloody convulsion must and shall be guar
| anted, maintained, enjoyed and respected
| evermOre.
| 2. All the political rights and franchise,
which have been lost through that convuI-
sion should and must be promptly restored
aud re-sstabiished, that there shall BIZ
| henceforth no prescribed class and no dis
1ranchised caste within the limits of our
| Unlon- whose long estranged people shall
| re-unlte and fraterniZe upon the broad basis
OF universal amnesty with impartial SUI
| frage
/ 3. That. subject to our solemn constitu-
/ tlonaI obligation to maintain the eqaal
rights OF all citizens, our policy should aim
to local self government, and not at central
iZatiOn; that the civil authority should be
supreme over the military; that the writ OF
habeas corpus should be jealously upheld as
the safeguard of personal freedom that the
individual citizens should enjoy the largest
| liberty consistent with public order and
| that there shall be no Federal subversion OF
the internal policy of the several States and
municipalities, but that each shall be lett
free to enforce the rights and promote the
well being of its inhabitants, by such means
as the judgment Of its people shall prescribe.
4. That there she'll be a real and not mere
ly "A stimulated reform in the civil service
of the Republic: to which end III il indis-
pensible that the chief dispenser OF its vast
social patronage shall be shielded from the
main temptation to use his power selfishly,
by ruler inexorably forbidding and pre-
GLIDING his reelection,
). Raising of the revenue, whether by
tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized and
treated as the peoples immediate business,
to be shaped and directed by them through
their representatives in Congress, whose ac-
ton thereupon the President must neither
oyerrule by his veto, attempt to dictate nor
presume to punish by bestOwing office only
on those who agree with him, withdraw
ing it from those who do not.
G. That the public lands must be sacredly
reserved for occupation aud acquisition by
cultiVators and not recklessly squandered
on projectors of railroads for which our
people have no present need, the premature
construction OF which is annually plunging
us into deeper and deeper abysses of foreign
Indebtedness.
Z. That the achievement of these grand
purposes of universal beneticencieS is eX-
pected and sought at the hands of all who
approve them, irrespective of past affilia-
tlons.
s. That the public faith must at all haz-
ards be maintained and the national credit
preserved.
8. That the patriotic devotedness and in
estimable services of our fellow-citiZens,
who, as soldiers sailors, upheld the flag
and maintained the unity OF the Republic,
shall ever be gratefully remembered and
honorably requited. These propositions, so
ably and forcibly presented in the platform
of your Convention, have already fixed the
attention and comm anded the assent Of
large majority of our countrymen, who
joyiully adopt them, MS | do, rs the basis OF
true, beneticent national reconstruction
OF a new departure from jealOusies, strif3s,
and hates which have no longer adequate
motive or even plausible preteXt, into an
atmosphere of peace, fraternity end mutu-
al good will In vain do the drill sergeantS
of decaying organizations flourish mena-
cling by their trunchnons and angrily insist
that the files shall be closed up and straight
ened; in vain do the whippers-in of parties
once vital, because footed III the vital needs
of the hour, protest against straying and
boiling, denounce men nowise their infe-
riors, as traitors and rcnegades, and threat
en- them with infamy and ruin. am con-
tident that the American people have al
ready made your cause their own, fully re-
solved that their brave hearts and strong
arms shall bear it on to trium phi. Ii shis
faith, and with the distinct understanding
that if elected, l shall be the President, not
of party, but of the whole people, / accept
your nomination i'm the confident trust that
the masses OF our cuuntrymen, North and
South, are eager to clasp hands across the
bloody chasm which has too long divided
them, forgetting that they have been enc
mics, in joyful consciousness that they are
and must henceforth remain brethren.
HORACE GREELEY.