The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-10
Platform OF the National COaven.
fiOm Of COIOred Liberal
Republicans.

On the 26th of September, a Conven-
ton of colored Liberal Republicans,
representing every State in the Union,
was held at Louisville Below, we pub
Iish correct copy of the resolutions
which they adopted. The object of these
colored men is to place their race in ac-
cord with the Reconciliation Movement
of the day and to rescue it from the peril
of caste agitation and strife in which
INSCRIPTIONS and designing partisans
have placed it:
whereas, In the political history of our
country. by common consent of all. equal
human rights has ceased to be question at
issue between the contending political par
ties, and all citizens are assured OF equal
rights, equal privileges, and equal protec-
ton and
Whereas, The nomination at Cincinnati of
the most devoted Republican ever nomina-
ted, and the adoption of the most compre-
hensive and liberal platform ever adopted.
by the most exemplary Republicans ever
assembled together in this country, is a
fitting climax to this self-sacrificing labors
of the best men in the land for more than a
quarter of century, and augur brighter
and more peaceful future 70 our common
country and,
Whereas, 1t becomes the sacred duty of
| all citizens. of whatever race, origin, or
| condition, to contribute toward that grand
| contamination which is the end and aim of
| the progressive Liberal Republican and
Democratic party, under the leadership of
| the Hon. Horace Greeley and the Hon. B.
| GratZ Brown. tending Inevitably toward the
| unity of the Republic, with equal rights to
all aud reconciliation; therefore
/ Re solved, By the colored Liberal Repub-
/ fyf fhn Init i'm NAL
| Convention assembled, at Louisville, Ken
lucky; first, that as citizens of the Republic
we hail with joy the prospect of the burial
| of all CASTE class, and sectional prejudice,
and fOrgeufulneSS, and forgiveness, and OBJ
| liyion of the past.
Resolved. That our thanks aud gratitude
are alike due to the Cincinnati and Balti-
more ConVentions-to the first for the adop-
tiop of a platform which opens the channel
TO the grand future in which all men will
be known hereafter as American citizens,
and by no other designation; and to the
| latter tor magnanimOusly and periodically
accepting the results of our late internal
CONFUSION, and for making the grandest
stride in the interest of civilization and
good government yet made by Il political
party actuated by motives high above any
selfish aggrandizement on mere political
advantage.
Resolved, That we join our political for
tunes with those of the party having for its
standard-bearer that great and good man
vino has devoted his busy life to attending
to the sutferings OF humanity, and who
while special friend of the American
slave, has not forgotten the requirements
and wants of others who, in the providence
of God, have need of helpful hands; o.
those who, as instruments of the Divine
Power. are permitted to be with us in thai
struggle upward which makes a civilized
and God fearing people, in the full faith ant
sanguine hope that all mems rights viii
thus be assured, and that we as people viii
have more cause to rejoice that can for
get and forgive the past than any other clas
of American citizens.
E Resolved That we deprecate the bitter.
ness of the conduct OF the canvass by the
Grant people, and counsel our people every.
where. no matter what their political pref
erences. to use moderation. kindness, anC
Christian charity toward those who differ
from them, and give more attention t
their material interest and tangible adYan
| tages of education than to tranSitory anC
bootlesS political frenzy, which at best ha!
no result but to a few not of their race o.
blood
Resolved, That we deplore the tendency
of the present Administration toward DIES
pOtic Capitalization, and demand that some
defining line be Theoretically fixed where
the powers of the General Government shall
| cease and the functions OF the local govern
ments begin. and that there shall be equality
| of the States in the Union, a well rs equal
itv of men; that 4 Government like ours
administered by single will controlling
| the policy and vast patronage OF the States
; | wnen the temptation of sef-perpetuatioI
remains, cannot continue Republic exeep
in name, and must, in the eternal fitness o
things. eliminate in an empire or oligarchy
of oflice-holders.
Resolved, That Civil Service Reform mus
begin at the source of all power of abuse
official patronage-and that firm system o
reform is impossible in the absence of thu
one term principle for President.
Resolved, That we tender our gratitud
to the pioneers OF the greatest Christian ac
complishm on human affairs now on the
threshold of final fruitiOn, and give our as
surance of answering fidelity and unboun
ded admiration to and for those grand mel
who have led the way, under the inspired
and superhuman mOnition of Sumner, Gree
ley, TrumbulI, Banks, Tappan, Julian, Clay
, Farnsworth, Austin Blair, aud other spirits
pure men, and peerless and Incompatible
statesmen. to whom we pledge our best eff
forts in this grand labor of reform and re-
| demption.
Resolved, That we denounce as unscrupu
lous and un-American the villainy of ruler
who have foisted themselves upon some o
the Southern States. and who, by the mos
unblushing cupidity, have reduced the PEG
pie of those States, of both races, to a con
dition of poverty which half Il century o
pros perity cannot redeem them from, an(
call upon the cOlOred people of those States
to rise in their might and rid their States o
these vampires. whose continued rapacity
will doom the whole people TO perpetua
poverty and misery.
Resolved. That we speak only for the col
cred Liberal Republican voters of the coun-
try, and those within whose hearts senti
ment of common gratitude is not dead
when we pledge our eff 'rts 10 secure the sal
walton of all the American people and thu
best good of the whole country by the cleo
ton of Horace Greeley and B. GratZ Brown
in November next.
| Resolved. That the First National Libcr-
al Convention of colored men Assem- led IN
Messenger Hall, in Louisville, Sept 26, 1872
do unanimously nominate Horace Greeley
of New York, and B. GratZ Brown, of Mis-
souri,. for President and Vice-President o.
the United States of America. and accept
the Cincinnati platform as the tenets of oul
political faith.