New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-03

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, a political party aetuated by motives higl
above any selfish ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or nev
political advantage.
Rcsolrcl. That we Join our political for
| tunes with those Of the party having for it
: standard-hearer that great and good ma,
who has devoted his busy life to attendin,
to the suficrings of humanity, and who, Will
) a special friend Of the American slave, ha
not forgotten the requirements and wants O
2 Others who, in the providence of God, hav
need OF helpful hands; Of those who, rs in
struments Of the Divine Power, are pcrmtte'
: to be with us in that struggle upward which
makes q civilized and God-tearing people, i,
the full faith and sanouine hope that al
mems rights will thus be assured, and tina
we as people will have more cause to re
ioice that we can forget and forgive the pas
than any other class of American citizens.
ResoIred, That we deprecate the bitterness:
of the conduct Of the canvass by the Gran
people, and counsel our people everywhere
no matter what their political preferences, t.
use moderation, kindness, and Christian
charity toward those who differ from them
and give more attention to their materia
ton than to transitory and hootless politica
frenzy, which at best has no result but to 9
few not of their race or blood.
Resof "a, That we deplore the tendency o.
the present Administration toward despotit
Capitalization, and demand that some defin.
ing line be ineradcally fixed where the pow
ers Of the General Government shall cease
and. the functions of the local governments
| begin. aud that there shall be equality of the
States in the Union, as well as equality OF
men that a Government like ours. admin
istcred BY single will controlling the policy
and vast patronage of the States, when the
temptation Of scll-perpetuation remains, can
not continue a Republic except in name, and
must, in the eternal fitness of things, culmi-
nate in an empire or oligarchy of office
holders.
| ReSotced That civil service reform must
begin at the source OF all power of abuse
official patrOnage---aud that firm system of
reform is impossible in the absence of the
one-term principle for President.
| Resoiced, That we tender our gratitude To
the pioneers Of the greatest Christian accom-
| plishmeui on human affairs now on the thresh-
old of final truition, and give our assurance
of answering fidelity and unbounded adn-
ration to and for those grand men who have
led the way, under the inspired and super
| human monition OF Sumner, Greeley, Trum-
bull, Banks, Tappan, Julian, Farnsworth,
Clay, Austin Blair, and other bright spirits,
| pure men, ana peerless and incompatible
statesmen, to whom we pledge our best
efforts in this grand labor Of reform and re-
demptiOn.
Rcsjlred, We IenOunce as unscrupulous
| and un-American the vilainy of rulers who
have forced themselves upon some of the
Southern States, and who, by the most I'M
blushing cupidity, have reduced the people of
| those States, of both races, to condition of
poverty which half a century of prosperity
cannot redeem them from, and call upon the
81 Il, af4 IL
might and rid their States of these vampires,
whose continued rapacity will doom the
whole people to perpetual poverty and
misery.
Resotcea, That we speak only for the coll
ored Liberal Republican voters Of the cOun-
try, and those within whose hearts a senti-
ment of common gratitude is not dead, when
we pledge Our efforts to secure the salvation
OF all the American people and the best good
of the whole country by the election of Hor-
ace Greeley and b. Gratz Brown in Novem-
Der next.
Resotced, That the First National Liberal
Convention of colored men assembled in
Weissiger Hall, in Louisville, September 20,
1872, do unanimously nominate Horace Gree
ley, Of New York, and Il. Gratz Brown, of
Missouri, for President and Vice President of
the United States Of America, and accept the
Cincinnati platform as the tenets of our po-
iitcal faith
The Convention also adopted the following
resolutions:
Whereas, Wendell Phillips. who, owing to
his personal i'll will toward Horace Greeley,
counsels the c0lored people of the United
States to vote against that noble representa-
tive OF constitutional liberty, and advises
ms to arm and arm Immediately in case Mr.
Greeley is elected; therefore be it
Resoired, That we, the National Liberal
Colored Convention assembled, do denounce
such counsel as injudieious and unpatriotc !;
calculated, if needed, To hurl us to destruc-
ton and humiliation, and is only the out
growth of envy and personal difference and
utter disregard for the right and welfare of
the coiored man and peace and prosperity of
this great Republic.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The names Of the members of the National
Executive Colored Liberal Republican Com
mittee were announced as follows:
Alabama -Richard Hason.
Arkansas-Tabbs Gross.
Connecticut James A. Hanson.
CaiiOrnia-James III. Hanson.
Delaware--Abel Jefferson.
Florida--Dr. J. X. X. Kingston.
Illinois-R. II. Fnlay, J. Robinson.
Indiana-Rev. j. M. Williams, q. w. Rob-
inson, VIM. II. Chambers.
Iowa--Wm. Tam, John Tucker.
kansas--llarper Frances.
Kentucky Freeman, r.. A. Boyd,
DR.. c. Davis.
1.ouisiana--Rev. j. Sella Martin.
Minnesota---Wm. Williams.
Mssour--rIsaac Turne.
Mssissippi--James Gooden.
Nebraska Johnson.
Nevada
New Hampshire Hendricks.
New Jersey-Col. II. T. Taylor.
Washington-Jas A. Castolo.
Arizona-Henry T. Pike.
New York-S. Il. Section, DIR. j. w.
Gloucester, Rev. G. b. Ray, Howe Mobeley.
Ohio-J. S. Williams, A. J. Chambers.
Oregon--Ascar T. Livingston.
rennsylyanla-M. McCaeb.
South Standardization Summers
Tennessee--Julius Strong.
Texas-W oodford r. Hughes.
Nerm0nt--Wn:. Wilkinson.
Virginia. ii. Henderson.
West Virginia-Daniel III. Green.
WiscOnsn-lEorace X. Wilson.
North Carolina II. Williams.
South Carolna-John Deleavey.
Colorado---James l.. Sinoon
yoniing-Owen GoOdson
| New MeXico-Richard r. LANSING