Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-13

AhoA' nol' NJ Y. Kerr, OF Floyd; E. "
Long, OF kosciusko; Geo. W. Julian, o.
Waynei VIM. Harrow, Of PdseyD Col. Il. p
Gray, OF Randolph, by NJ. Allen, of Vim.
cennes.
Letter from G. w. Julian.
A letter was read from Mr.. Julian as fol
lows: - - 90
Indsaae9Olss, June i2.-To A. Fuett
Dear Sir: l go home this morning and
wish 70 leave line for you, to be used il
there should be occasion for it. While ]
nope tne convention to-day will place some
Liberal Republican on the ticket in order to
make a more perfect union against the
coming campaign, | must not in any event
De made candidate for any place. / 40
not want the position of Congressman at
large nor any other. want no Office what
ever, but shall labor for the cause to the ex-
tent OF my health and strength, and be-
IieVe L can do so more effectually as an indie
pendent citizen than could in the attitude
OF seeker OF place. Please have this laid
before the convention if there should be any
serious purpose TO nominate me. In haste,
yours. GEO. w. JuTJAN.
The naihes OF Messrs. Allen and GRAY
we're withdrawn, and the call of the coun-
ties was proceeded with. Messrs. Heron,
Gray and Julian are Liberal Republicans.
Mr.. Williams was nominated On The hrst
ballot and Hon. III. c. Kerr on the second
ballot. a--s....--.5s ..,....,...
A resolution was offered instructing the
delegates to the Baltimore Convention to
vote for Greeley and Brown. Referred to
the Committee on Resolutions without de-
bate.
Tie Committee appointed to report dele
gates for The State at large to the Baltimore
convention reported list Of delegates.
Nominations for fhinor Stat6 officers
were then made, embracing several Of the
present incumbents. The ticket is straight
Democratic.
A State Central Committee was then Sc
lected, Z. S. Alvord, Chairman:
dhS Platform.
The Committee on Platform and Reso-
lutiOns then submitted the following re-
port r
Resolved by the Democracy Of Indiana
in Contention assembled, that the princi-
pies Of the Cincinnati Liberal Republican
Chnventien taken in connection with the
propositions contained in H. Greeley's let
W. SSSSIeAl5 'AAO AOAhltldJiOll VI Llldb NOli-
ventioD, constitute platform on which all
the elements Of opposition to the present
corrupt administration of the Federal Gov
eminent can stand, and which propositions
are as follows:
l. All the political rights and franchises
which have been acquired through the late
bloody CONFUSION must and shall be guar
anteed, maintained, enjoyed and respected
evermOre.
2. All the political rights and franchises
which have been lost through that convul-
sion should and must be promptly restored
aud re-established, so that there shall be
henceforth no prescribed class and no dis
franchised caste within the limits of our
Union whose long estranged people shall
reunite and fratertize upon the broad basis
of universal amnesty with impartial suf-
frage.
8. That, subject to our solemn constitu-
tional obligation to maintain the equal
rights of all citizens, our policy should aim
to local self government and not at centrali-
cation; that the civil authority should be
supreme over the military; that the writ of
habeas corpus should be jealousy upheld
as the safeguard of personal freedom; that
the individual citizen should enjoy the
largest liberty consistent with public order,
and that there shall be no Federal super
vision ofthe internal policy of the several
States and municipalities, but that each
shall be left free to enforce the rights and
promote the well being Of its inhabitants
by such means as the judgment Of its
people shall prescribe.
4. That there shall be a real and not
merely a simulated reform in the civil SER
vice Of the Republic, to which end it is in
dispensable that the chief dispenser of its
vast official patronage shall be shielded
from the temptation to use his power sell
fishly by a rule inexorably fUrbiddiDg and
precluding his reelection.
Resolved, That we regard it as unwise
and imprudent to place two tickets in no
mination for the offices of President and
Vice-President with the representatives OF
these principles, as the division of its
friends would insure the defeat of both and
it is therefore the fixed conviction Of this
Convention that the Democratic Conven-
ton to assemble in Baltimore in July
should adopt the nominees of the Liberal
Republican Convention instead Of making
other nominations for the Presidency and
Vice-Presidency of the United States.
Resolved, That the delegates appointed
from this State TO the Baltimore Convention
be and they are hereby instructed to vote
only upon all questions in accordance with
the opinion of a majority of the delega-
ton.
Whereas, The Union soldiers and sailors
by their patriotism and courage in the great
rebellion of 1861, preserved the life of the
nation and maze our public domain valua-
bic; therefore
Resolved, That we demand for each of
the living, who was honorably discharged,
and for the widows or orphans of the dead,
one hundred and sixty acres of the public
lands not heretofore entered or given away
by Republican Congress to railroad cor
pOrations, to be theirs absolutely, without
requiring them to become actual settlers
thereon.
Resolved, That justice and equality de-
mand that all soldiers who enlisted in the
military service of the country during the
war of the late rebellion, and who have
been honorably discharged therefrOm, shall
have bounty granted TO them by Congress
in proportion to the time they may have
served, whether that time shall have been
for three months or longer period.
The resolutions were adopted without
debate by a majority vote, very respecta-
BILE number voting in the negative.
Hon. ID. w. voorhees,
has been in the city all day but was moi
present at the Convention,