Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-10

We lay before our readers today the plat
form and address of the late Cincinnati
Convention, which put Horace Greeley and
Gratz Brown in nomination respectively
for President and Vice President of the
United States. For the platform we ask of
our readers a careful and studious perusal (;
not more for what it does say than for what
ii does not say. The convention was called
chiefly by men who have heretofore acted
with the Republican party, but who now
seem to suffer from real or fancied personal
griels. few earnest civil service and
revenue reformers had hand in the con-
vention. These last, however, We're only
the few.
TO us it is difficult to imagine how
more ialsehood and less truth, both in fact
and history, could be compressed into the
space occ uped by this address. 1t assails
not one Of the cardinal principles OF the Re-
publican party, for the reason that ii could
not and stand before the people. 1t does
not arraign the general administration of
these principles 10y the party, for it dare
not. 1t does not claim that the business
and finance of the country are not in sound
and healthy condition by reason of any NAL
administration on the part of the Republic
can party, or President Grant. II does not
pretend that taxation is not properly laid,
and the revenues honestly and faithfully
collected and disbursed. 1t does not claim
that the credit of the country suffers either
at home or abroad through any fault of the
Republican party, or through Gen. Grant
or anybody else. 1t does not claim that the
National debt is being paid too rapidly, or
too slowly. 1t does not claim that the
rights of the citizen are not upheld and
protected throughout the whole country so
far as is possible so to do, except as to the
late rebels.
All these, which are the chief matters in
the administering of the Government, about
which the great mass of The people concern
themselves, were let entirely alone, and
instead of proposing any new public meas
nres or change of public policy, has con-
hned Itself to the arraignment of the per-
sonnet of the administration of President
Grant and to the friends of the President in
Congress, whom this platform styles ''par'
tisans' of the Executive and guilty of 'bast
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