The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-09
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
Horace Greeley for Presidcnt---B. Gratz Brown
for Vice-Presidcnt,
The Tariff Question Dodged---Grant D
nounoed- Davis, Trumbull and
Adams Rejected.

day and c0ntlnuedln session until riuay
evening. During Wednesday and Thurs
day none but preparatory business was
done, as the managers were fully occupied
with efforts to bring together the clash
ing interests and views of different Sec
tions. 1t was not until Friday noon that
balloting for candidates commenced. On
the sixth vote Horace Greeley of New
York was nominated for President.
The attendance at the Convention was
numerically large, great crowds from the
near States Of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana
being present. together with many poll
ticans of all parties who were drawn
thither by interest or curiosity Very
few of the delegates made any pretentions
to representative authority, as nearly all
were voluntary attendants. They were
generally. organized by States, certain
number appointed to act as delegates in
the Convention. Several States were no.
represented at all, and others by only a
single individual.
THE PLATFORM.
We, the Liberal Republicans of the
United States, in National Convention as
sembled at Cincinnati, proclaim the fol-
lowing principles as essential to just gov
ernment: .......-.
FIRST: We recognize the equality of
all men before the law, and hold that it
is the duty of Government in its dealings
with the people to meet out equal and ex-
act justice to all of whatever nativity,
race, color, or persuasion, religious or
political. ..1
Second: We pledge ourselves to main
tain the union of these States, emancipa
tion and nfranchisement, and to oppose
any reopening Of the questions settled by
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and FIT
teenth Amendments to the Constitution
Third We demand the immediate
and absoluate removal of all disabilities
imposed on account of the Rebellion,
which was finally subducd seven years
ago, believing that universal amnesty will
result in complete paci6cation in all sec
tions of the country.
Fourth: Local lf-government, with
impartial suffrage, will guard the rights
of all citizens more securely than any cen
tralized power. The public welfare re,
quires the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority and freedom of person
nnder the protection Of the habeas corpus
We demand for the individual the large st
liberty consistent with public order; for
the State, self government, and for the
nation return to the methods Of peace
and the constitutional limitations of DOW
er.
Fifth: The Civil Service of the Gov
ernment has become a mere instrument
of partisan tyranny and personal ambition
and an object of selfish greed. 1t is a
scandal and reproach upon free institu
tions and breeds demoralization danger
Gus to the perpetuity of republican gov.
ernment We therefore regard such
thorough reforms of the Civil Service as
one of the most pressing necessities of the
hour that honesty, capacity, and fidelity
the only valid claim to public
employment that the Offices of the Gov
ernment cease to be matter Of arbitrary
favoritism and patronage, and that public
station become again post of honor
To this end it is imperatively required
for reelection.
Sirth: We demand a system of FEEDER
al taxation which shall not unnecessarily
interfere with the industry of the people,
and which shall provide the means neces.
sary to pay the expenses of the Govern
ment economically administered, the pen
sions, the interest on the public debt, and
a moderate reduction annually of the
principal thereof and, recognizing that
there are in our midst honest but rrecon
cilable differences of opinion with regard
to the respective systems of Protection
and Free Trade, we remit the discussion
of the subject to the people in their Con
gress Districts, and TO the decision of Con
gress thereon, wholly free of Executive
interference or dictation.
Seoenth: The public credit must be
sacredly maintained, and we jdenounce
reputation in every form AMI guse.
Eighth: A speedy return to specie
payment is demanded alike by the high
est considerations of commercial morality
and honest government
Ninth: We remember with gratitude
the heroism aud sacrifices of the soldiers
and sailors of the Republic, and no act of
ours shall ever detract from their Justly
earned fame or the full reward of their
patriotism.
Tenth: We are opposed to all further
grants of lands to railroads or other cor
porations. The public domain should be
held sacred to actual settlers.
EteoenM: We hold that it is the duty
of the Government, in its intercourse with
foreign nations, to cultivate the friend
ship of peace, by treating with all on fair
and equal terms, regarding it alike dis
honorable either to demand what is not
right, or to submit to what is wrong.
TtoeHth: For the promotion aud sue
cess of these vital principles and the sup
port of the candidates nominated by this
Convention, We invite and cordially vel,
come the cooperation of all patriotic cit
Zens without regard IN nravious a|4l;