The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-06-01


ply 90 the official notification OF HI
nomination by the Cincinnati Con
ventioni
NKw YoHK, May n, 1872.
GENTLEMEN ! have chose no, /,
aeknowledge your letter OF the q,
instant until | could learn how In
work Of your convention was rc
ceived in all parts of our great coun
try, and Judge whether that worl
was approved and ratified By IN,
mass OF our fellow citizens. Theil
response has from day to day reached
me through kilograms, letters ant
comments OF journalists, indepeud-
ent Of Official patronage, aud indif.
fercnt to the smiles or frowns OF
power. The number and character
OF these unconstrained, unpurchased,
unsolicited utteranees assures me
that the movement which found ex.
preston at Cincinnati has received
the stamp of public approval, aud
been hailed by a majority OF our
country as a harbinger Of a better
day tor the republic. I do not mis-.
interpret this approval as especially
complimentary to myself, nor even
to the chivalous and Justly esteemed
gentlemen with whose name | thank
your name for associating mine. l
receive and welcome it as a sponta,
neous and deserved tribute 70 that
admirable platform Of principles
wherein your convention 30 tersely,
80 lucidly, so forcibly set forth the
convictions which impelled and the
purposes which guided its course
platform which, casting behind II
the wreck and rubbish Of wornout
contentious and bygone facts, en-
bodies in fit and few words the
needs and aspirations Of ,to-day,
though thousands stand ready to
condemn your every act. ~ Hardly 4
sentiment Of criticism or cavil has
been aimed at your platform, which,
y inSa substance, may b, epit0nii'ed dI'. a'
l.. All political rights and fran
chisss, which may have been &C.
quired through our late bloody con
vulsion, must and shall be guaran-
teed, maintained, enjoyed and
respected evermore. ''''y' e 9'sN
2. All political rights and fran
chises, which have been lost through
that convulsion, should and must be
promptly restored and re-established,
80 that there shall be henceforth no
prescribed class, and no disfran-
chised caste within the limits Of our
Union, whose long estrangsd people
shall reunite and fraternize upon the
broad basis Of universal amnesty,
with impartial suffrage. ~
8. That, subject to our solemn
constitutional obligation to maintain
Iequalrights a. citizens; our policy
should aim ati local sslf,e government,
and not, Of cntraliSation; that the
civil authority be supreme over the
military that the writ Of hsbeaS !
corpus should be jealously upheld
a 4 safeguard Of personal freedom
that individual citizens should enjoy
The largest liberty consistent With
the public order, and that there shall1
b no federal submission Of the ins
;ernal policy Of tie several State
aud municipal governmental !; that
,ack shall b. left free to enforce theI
'ights and promote the well being ofI
Is inhabitants By such mesps as the
Judgment Of its own people shall
,rescribe, and there shall Be real,
md not merely . simulated reform
Q the civil service Of the republic, to
which end il Is Indispensable that
he hs'dispensation of its vast official I
the executive shall be
hselded from thetemptation to usa
'orer selfshlyi byr rule inexorably
orbidding and precluding bis re-
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