The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-05-23

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DEAR SIR: The National Conyen-
ton of the Liberal Republicans OF the
United States have instructed the
undersigned, President, Nice-Presl-
dent and Secretary Of the Conyen-
ton, to inform you that you have
been nominated as the candidate OF
the Liberal Republicans for the Presl-
dency of tine United States. We al
so submit to YOU the address and res
olutions unanimously adopted by the
Convention. Be pleased TO signify
to us your acceptance of the platform
and nomination, and believe Us very
truly yours, -.
G. SCHURZ, President,
GEO. w. JULIAN, N.Pres' T.,
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HON. HORACE GREELEY, y. \. CITY
Mr.. GREELEY's REPLY.
NEW YORK, May %.
GENTLEMEN I have chosen not TO
answer your letter of the Sd inst. IN
I'll I could learn how the work Of
your Convention was received in all
parts of our great country, ana gudge
whether that work was approved ana
ratified by the masses OF our fellow
citizens. Their response has from
dag to day reached me through tele-
grams, letters and comments of jour
nalists, Independent of official patron
age, and Indifferent to the smiles ana
favors of power. Their number and
character, the unconstrained, unpur-
chased, unsolicited utterances satisfy
me that the movement which found
expression at Cincinnati, has receiv-
ed the stamp of public approval, and
has been hailed by a majority OF our
cOuntrymen as the harbinger OF
better day for the Republic.
do not misinterpret this approval
as especially complimentary 70 my.
self, nor to even the chivalrous and
Justly esteemed gentleman with
whose name / thank your COnven-
ton for associating mine. l receive
and welcome il IS a spontaneous and
deserved tribute to that admirable
platform of principles wherein your
| Convention so truly, so lucidly, and
so forcibIy set forth the convictions
which impelled, and the purposes
which guided its course. A platform
which casting behind it the wreck
and rubbish of worn out contentious
| and by-gone feuds, embOdies in mt
and few words the needs and aspira-
tions Of to-day. Though thousands
stand ready to condemn your every
act, hardly a syllable of criticism or
cavii has been aimed at your plat
| form, of which the substance may
| faialy be epitOmized as follows:
Ist. All political rights and fran
chises which have been acquired
| through our late bloody eOnvulsion
must and shall be guaranteed, main
tanned, enjoyed, and respected ever
more.
ID. All the political regrets and
| franchises which have been lost
through that convulsiOn should and
must be promptly restored and re-
established so that there shall be
henceforth no prescribed class and no
disfranehised caste within the limits
of our Union, where a long estTanged
people shall reunite and frateTniZe on
the broad basis of universal amnesty,
with impartial suffrage; that subject
to our solemn Constitutional Obllga-
ton to maintain equal rights to all
citizens, all policy should aim at local
self-government, and not centraliza-
on; that civil authority should be
up RENE over the military A; that the
writ of Hd6eds Corpus should be
jealOusly upheld, as the safeguard Of
personal freedom; that individual
citizens should enjoy the largest lib
erty consistent with public order, and
that there shall be 10 federal subver-
sion of the internal policy of the sew
eral States and municipalities, but
that each shall be left free to infOrce
its rights and promote tie well being
of its inhabitants, by such means as
the judgment of the people shall
prescribe.
4th. There shall be a real and not
merely an assimulated reform in the
civil service of the Republic, to which
end it is indispensable that the chief
dispenser Of its vast official patronage
| should be shielded from the main
temptation to use his power selfshly,
by rule forbidding and Dreeluding
9TH. That the raising OF revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall
| be recognized and treated as the peO-
pies immediate business, to be shaped
and directed by them, through their
representative in Congress, whose
action thereon the President must
neither overrule by his veto, attempt
to dictate, nor presume to punish by
bestowing Office only on those who
agree with him, or Withdrawing it
| FROM those who do not.
9Th. That public lands must be sa-
credly reserved for occupation and
acquisition by cultivatOIs, and not
recklessly squandered on projectors Of
railroads for which our people have
no present need, the premature con-
structiOn of which is annually plung-
ing into deeper and deeper absysSes
of foreign Indebtedness.
9TH. That the achievement of those
grand purposes of universal benefi-
] cence is expected and sought at the
hands of all who approve them.
irrespective of past affiliations.
Sth. That the public faith must at
all hazards be maintained, and the
national credit preserved.
9th. That the patriotic devotedness
and inestimable services Of our fellow
citizens who as soldiers and sailors
upheld the flag and maintained the
unity of the Republic, shall ever be
gratefully remembered and bOnOrably
requited.
These propositions, so ably and for
chilly presented in the platform of
your Convention, have already fixed
the attention and commanded the
assent of a majority of our country
men who joyfully adopt them as l do,
as the basis of true beneficent national
reconstruction, of new departure
from the jealOusness, stripes, and
hates, which have 10 longer an ade-
quate motive or even q plausible pre-
text, into an atmosphere of peace,
fraternity, and mutual good will. In
vain do the drill sergeants of decay
ing organizations flourish menacingly
their truneheOns and angrily insist
that the files shall be closed, and
Strengthened. In vain do the whip
pers-in of parties once vital, because
rooted in the vital needs of yOre pro-
test against straying and boiling,
deuounce men no wise their interiors,
as traitors and renegades, and threat
eh them with nfany and ruin.
I am confident that the American
people have already made your cause
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brave hearts and strong arms shall
bear,it on to triumph in the faith, and
with a destined understanding that if
elected 1 shall be President, not of a
party, but the whole people, 1 accept
your nomination in confident trust
that the mass of our eountrymen,
North and South, are eager to clasp
hands across the bloody chasm, which
has too long divided them, forget
ing that they have been enemies, in
the joyful consciousness that tt ey are
and must henceforth remain breth-
ren.
Yours, gratefully,
HORACE GREELEY.
To Hon. CARL SCHURZ,
President, and Others
THE COLORED VOTE.
A letter to tt Gazette says:
CLEVELAND, MAY Il.
I herewith drop a few lines to you
/ to LET YOU know bow the cOlOred peo-
Dle in the Western Reserve stand on
I tho next presidential election. They