The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-22

the Liberal Republican Convention 70
President Of the United States. We ais,
submit to you the address and resolution
unanimously adopted by the Convention
BE pleased TO signify 10 us your accept
ance OF the platform and nomination: and
believe us
Very truly yours,
@. sCHuRz,
President
GEO. W. JULIAN,
Hiee President.
VIM. E. McLEAN,
JOHN g. DAVIDSON,
j. Il. RHODES,
Secretaries.
Hon. Horace Greeley, Neto York CITY.
Mr.. aREELEY's REPLY.
New YORK, May 90.
Gentlemen have chosen not to &C.
knowledge your letter Of the 3D. inst. until
l could learn how'the work Of your Con.
vention was received in all parts Of our
great country and, Judge whether that
work was approved OF and ratified by
the masses Of our iellow.citizens. Their
response has from day to day reached me
through kilograms, letters and comments
Of Journalists, independent Of official pat.
ronage, and Indifferent TO tho smiles or
trowns of power. The number and
character Of these unconstrained, unpur.
chased, unsolicited utterances satisfy me
that the movement which found the ex.
preston at Cincinnati has received a
stamp OF the public approval, and has
been hailed by majority Of our country.
men as the harbenger Of better day for
the Republic. do not mjsinterpret this
approval as especially complimentary to
myself nor even toe thchivalrous and lust.
ly esteemed gentleman with whose name I
thank your Convenvention for associat.
ing mine. l receive and welcome
1t as spontaneous and deserved tribute
to that admirable platform of principles
wherein your Convention so tersely, SO
lucidly and so iorcibly set forth the con.
victions which impelled and purposes
which guided It's course; q platform which,
casting behind 1t the work and rubbish
of worn out contentious and BY. gone feuds,
embodies in tit and few words the needs
and aspiration Of to-day though thousands
stand ready to condemn every act Hardly
q syllable Of criticism or cevil has been
aimed at your platform, OF which sub.
stance may be fairly epitomized as fol.
lows: i.
Ffrst-All the political rights and fran.
chises which have been acquired through
our late bloody convulsion must and shall
be guaranteed, maintained, endorsed and
respected evermore.
SecOnd-All political rights and fran
chises which have been lost through that
convulsion should and must be promptly
restored and re.established, so that there
shall be no prescribed class and no dis
franchised cast within the limits OF our
Union, whose long estranged people shall
reunite and iraternize upon the broad
basis Of universal amnesty with impartial
suffrage.
Tnird-That, subject to our SOL
emn constitutional obligation TO
maintain the equal rights of all
citizens, our policy should aim at local
self government and at Capitalization j;
that civil authority should be supreme
over military authority; that the act OF
habeas corpus should be jealousy up.
held, as a safeguard Of personal freedom
that the individual citizen should
enjoy the largest liberty con-
sistent with public order and
there shall be no Federal subyersion OF
the internal policy Of the several States
and municipalities, but that each shall be
lett free to enforce Its rights, and promote
the well being Of It's inhabitants by such
means as the Judgment Of lis own peo.
pie shall prescribe.
Fourth-There shall be real and not
merely a similitude reform in the civil
service Of the Republic; to which end 1t
Is indispensable that the chief dispenser
offs vast official patronage shall be shield
ed from the main temptation 10 use his
power selfshly, and as q rule inexorably
forbidding and precluding his reelection.
FJh-That the raising Of the revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be
recognized and treated as the peoples
immediate business, to be shaped and di.
reeted by them through their represen.
tatives in Congress, whose action thereon
the President must neither oSerrule by
his veto, attempt to dictate nor presume
to punish by bestowing office only on
those who agree with him, or withdraw.
ing 1t from those who do not.
Sirh-That public lands must be
sacredly reserved for occupation and &C.
QUESTION by the cultivators, and not reck.
lessly squandered on projectors Of railroads
for which our people have nopresent need
and premature construction OF which Is
annually plunging US into a deeper and
deeper abysses Of Foreign Indebtedness.
Serenlt-That the achievement of these
grand purposes Of universal benefcence Is
expected and sought at the hands Of all
who approve them, irrespective ol past
affiliations.
Eghh-That the public faith must at
all hazards be maintained and the ma
tional credit preserved.
Ninh-That the patriotic devotedness
and inestimable services Of our fellow
citizens, who as soldiers or sailors upheld
the flag and maintained the unity of the
Republic, shall ever be gratefully rcmem.
bered, and honorably requitted.
These propositions, so ably and iorcibly
presented in the platform Of your Conven-
tion, have already fixed the attention and
commanded the assent Of large majority
Of our countrymen, who joyfully adopt
them, as l do, as the basis Of q true, be.
niflcent reconstruction, of q needed depar.
ture from the sjealousies and strifes and
hates which have no longer adequate mo.
tive or plausible pretext in an atmosphere
Of peace, fraternity, and mutual good
will, Invain do the dtiilsergeants Of de.
csying organization flourish menacingly
their trupcheons and angrily insist that
the files shall be closed and Strengthened.
In vain do the whippers.in OF parties
once vital, because averted in vital
needs Of hours, protest against straying
and boiling, deaounce men nowise their
interiors as traitors and rene