Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-05-31

Third-That, subject to our solemn
constitutional obligation to maintain
equal rights as citizens, our policy
should aim at local self-government
and not at Capitalization; 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 citizen should en-
Joy the largest liberty consistent with
public order, and that there shall be
no Federal supervision of the inter-
nal policy of the several States and
municipalities, but that each shall be
left free to enforce the rights and pro-
mote the well being of its Inhabitants
by such means Gs the Judgment of its
own people shall prescribe.
Fourth-There shall be real and
not merely a simulated reform in the
civil service fthe republic. To which
end il is indispensable that the chief
dispenser of its vast official patronage
shall be shielded from the main temp
tation to use his power selfishly, by a
rule inexorably forbiddnig and pre-
Guiding his reelection.
Fifth-That the raising of revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall
be recognized and treated as the peo-
pies immediate busines, to be shaped
and directed by them through their
representatives in Congress, whose
action thereon the President must
neither overrule by his acts, attempt
to dictate, nor presume to punish, by
bcstowing office only on those who
agree with him or withdrawing it
from those who do not.
Sixth-That the public lands must
be sacredly reserved for occupation
and acquisition of cultivators, and not
recklessly squandered on projectors of
railroads for which our people have
no present need, and the premature
constitution of which is annually
plugging them into deeper and deep
er abysses of foreign Indebtedness.
Seventh-That the achievement OF
these grand purposes of universal be-
neficence is expected and sought at the
hands of all who approve them, lrfes-
pective of past affiliations.
EIghth-That the public faith must
at all hazards be maintained and the
national credit preserved.
Ninth-That the patriotic devoted
ness and inestimable services of our
fellow-citizens, who as soldiers or sal
lors upheld the flag and maintained
the unity of the republic, shall ever be
gratefully remembered and honora-
bly, requitted.
These propositions, so ably and
forcibly presented in the platform OF
your convention, have already fixed
the attention and commanded the as
sent of large majority of our coun-
trymen. who ioyfully adop them, as
do, as the basis of a true beneticent
national reconstruction, of new de-
parture from the jaelousies and strifes
and hates, which have no longer ade-
quate motive or even plausible pre-
text, into an atmosphere of peace, OF
fraternity and of good will. In vain
do the drill seargeants of a decaying
organization flourish menacingly their
truncheons and angrily insist that the
files shall be closed and strengthened.
In vain do the whippers-in of parties,
once vital because rooted in the vital
needs of the hour, protest against
straying aud boiling, denounce no
wise their interiors as traitors and rem
egades, and threaten them with IN
fanny and ruin. | am confident that
the American people have already
made your cause their own, fully re-
solved that their brave hearts and
strong arms shall bear it on to tri-
umph. In this faith, and with the
distinct understanding that if elected
l shall be the President not of a party
but of the whole people, 1 accept your
nomination, i'll the confident trust,
that the masses of our countryme1l,
North ane South, are eager to clasp
hands across the bloody chasm which
too long divided them, forgetting that
they have been enemies in the joyful
consciousness, that they are and must
henceforth remain brethcrn.
Yours gratefully,
TSignedl HORACE GREELEY.
TO the Hon. Carl Schurz, president,
Hon. Geo. w. Julian, vice president,
and Messrs. VIM, +. Mclean, John
G.. Davidson, J. H. Rhodes, secreta-
ries of the National Convention of the
Liberal Republicans of the United
states.