The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-05-30
HORACE GREELEY.
HtS Opinion 81 the Cincinnati Plat.
fern. - Declaration Of Principles
and the Grounds On which the
Campaign will Proceed.

| DIAR SiK:-The National Convention of
Liberal Republicans Of the United States
| have instructed the undersigned, President,
| Vice President, and Secretaries of the Con-
ventlon, to inform you that you have been
nominated as the candidate of the Liberal
| Republicans for the Pres idency Of the Unit
| ed States, We also submit to you the ad-
| dresses and resolutions unanimously adopted
| by tie Convention; be pleased to SO sgnnify to
US our acceptance of the platform and NOM
nation. and believe US very truly yours.
C. Scu-Rz, Pre- sident.
GEO. W. JULIAN, Vice President.
NM. E. MCLEAN,
JNo. G. DAVIDSON,
J. ii. RHODES,
Secretaries.
To the Hon. Horace Greeley N, Y. City.
Mr.. GREELEYs REPLY.
GENTLEMEN:-I have chosen not to ac-
kn nowledge your letter of the Sd inst. until l
could learn how your convention was re-
ceived in all parts of our great country, and
judge whether that work was approved and
ratified by the mass of our fellow citizens.
Their response has from day to day reached
me through telegr ans, letters and comments
of our press. Independent of official pat
ronage, and Indifferent to the smiles or
frowns of power, the number and character
of these unconstrained, unpurchass5, unso-
licited utterances satisfy ne that the move
ment which found expression at Cincinnati
has recc~-d the stamp Of public approval,
and has been hailed by u majority Of our
countrymen harbinger of better day
for the Republic. do net misinterpret this
approval, as especially complimentary to my !
self. nor even to the chivalrous and justly !
esteemed gentlman with whose name thank !
yonr Convention for associatinG mine. Ire !
ceive aud welcome it as a spontaneous and
deserved tribute to that admirable platform !
of principles, wherein your Convention so
tersely and so Justify set forth the convictions
which impelled, and the purposes which |
guided its course; a platform which, casting
behind in the wreck and rubbish Of worn
out contentious and bygone feuds, emboles, |
in fit ani few words, the need and aspira-
sions Of to-day. Though thousands stand
ready to condemn your every act, hard !
ly a criticism or cayil has been aimed at
your platform, which may be fairly epitom-
lied as follows.
lst That ali the political rights and fran
chises winch have been acquired through |
our late bloody convultion. must and shall |
he guaranteed, maintained and enjoyed ever
more.
ID All the political rights and franchises
which have been lost through that convul- /
sion should and must be promptlys restored I
and re- established, so that there shall be .
henccforth no prescribed class and no disin-
reimbursement within the limits of our union; /
when long estranged people shall unite
and fraternlze upon the broad basis OF uni |
vcrsal amnesty and impartial suffrage. |
Sd. That subject to our solemn constitu-
,ional Obligations to maintain equal rights !
under all conditions, our policy should aim
at local self government; that civil authority
should be supreme over military; that the
writ of habelus corpus should be jealously
upheld as the safeguard of personal
freedom; that individual citizens should en-
Joy the largest liberty consistent with public
order, aud that there shall be no submis-
sion of the internal policy of the several
states aud municipalities, but each shall be
left free to enforce the rights and promote
the well being OF its in habitants by such
means as the Judgement Of its own people
shall prescribed.
4th There shall be real and not merely a
stimulation Of reform in the civil servise OF
the republic:
5. That the raising of the revenue wheth-
er by tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized
and treated as the people, immediate bu.l-
ness.
6 That the public lands must be sacredly
reserved for occupation and cultivation, and
not neeilessly s9uindered upon projectors
railroads, for which our people have no
present need.
T. That the achievement of the grand
purposes of the universal benefciencs Is e1-
pected and sought at the hands Of all who
approve them, irrespective Of past affiliations.
8. That the ruclic faith must at all AZ
ards be maintained and the national cred
it preserved
9. That patriotic devo.edness and inc TINA
BILE services of our fellow citizens who as
soldiers OF sailors upheld the flag and main
| tained the unity of the republ ic, shall ever
| be gratefully remembered and honoraby re-
gretted.
| These propositions, so ably and forcibly
presented in the platform Of your CONVEX
ton, have already fixed the attention and
commanded the assent of large majority
of the couutrymen who joyfully adopt them
as do as the basis Of a true ben:hcient ma
| tional reconstruction of new departure
from the jealousies, strifes and hates. which
have no longer an adequate motive or even
plausblc pretext into an atmosphere of
peace, fraternity an6 mutual good will.
! In vain the drill sergeants of the decay.
| ing organizations flourish menaceingly their
truncheons aad angrily insist that the files
shall be closed and st-aightencd. In vain
do the whippers in Of parties, once vital be-
cause rooted in the vital needs of the hour,
protest against the strayina and holting, de.
nounce men nowise their interiors as traitor
and renegrades and tn reaten them
with infamy. | am confident that the Ameri-
can people have already made your cause
their own, fully resolved that their brave
hearts and strong arms shall bear it on in
triumph.
In this faith and with the distinct under
! standing. that if elected l shall be the
President not Of party hut Of the whole
pcople. 1 accept your nomination in conf
dent trust, that the masses of cur country
men, north and south, ere eager to clasp the
hands scross the bloody chasn which has
too long divided them, forgetting that they
have been enemies, in the joyful concious-