The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-06-01

the Liberal Republican Convention,
and his reply accepting the nomina-
ton:
ClNCINNArI, May 3, 1872.
Dear Si'-The National Convention
of the Liberal Republicans of the Uni
ted States have instructed tho under
signed to inform you that you have
been nominated as the candidate of
the Liberal Republicans of the United
States. We also submit to you the al-
dress and resolutions unanimously
adopted by the Convention.
BE pleased to signify to us your nc
ceptance the platform and nomina-
ton, and believe us, very truly, yours,
G. ScHURZ, President.
GEO. w. JULIAN, Vice President.
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To the Hon. Horace Greeley, Now York
City.
MIR. GREELEI's REPLI.
New YORK, May 20, 1872.
Ge3sfienttW-I have chosen not to ac-
knowledge your letter Of the Bird inst.
until could learn how the work Of
your Convention was received in all
parts of our great country, and judge
whether that work was approved and
ratified by the mass Of our fellOw-citi-
zens. Their response has from day to
day reached me through te1egralns, let
ters, and the comments of journalists
Independent of official patronage and
indifferent to the smiles or favOrs Of
power.
The number and character Of these
unconstrained, unpurchased, unsolicit-
ed utterances satisfy me that the move
ment which found expression at Gin
cinnati has received the stamp Of pub
lie approval and been hailed by a ma
jority of our countrymen as the har-
binger of IL better day for the Repub-
lie. 1 do not misinterpret this APPROX
al as especially complimentary to
myself, nor even to the chivalrous and
justly esteemed gentlemen with whose
names l thank your Convention for as.
sociating me. l receive and welcome
it is as spontaneous and deserved
tribute to that admirable platform Of
principles wherein your Convention
SO tersely, so lucidly, and SO forcibly
set forth the convictions which impell-
ed and the purposes which guided its
course. The platform which, casting
behind it the wreck and rubbish of
worn out contentious, and by-gone
feutls eInbodies in fit and few words the
needs and aspirations Of to-day.
Though thousands stand ready to con-
denim your every act, hardly syllable
of criticism or caVil has been aimed
at your platform, Of which the SUBJ
stance may be fairly epitomized as fol-
lows:
First. All. the political rights and
franchises which have been acquired
through our late bloody convulsion
must and shall be guaranteed, main-
{,i, tod
more.
Second. All the political rights and
franchises which have been lost through
that convulsion, should and must be
promptly restored and re-cstablisheC,
so that there shall be hencefOrth no
prescribed class and no disfranchised
caste within the limits of our Union,
whose long betrayed people shall reu-
mite and fraternize upon the broad ba-
sis of universal amnesty, with impair
tial suffrage.
Third. That subject to our solemn
constitutional obligations to MAIN
tain the equal rights of government,
and not contralization; that the civil
authority should be supreme over the
military; that the writ of habeas corpus
should be jealously upheld as the safe
guard of personal freedom; that the
gest liberty consistent with public
order, and that there shall be no Fed
eral subvcrsion of the internal policy
of the several States and municipalities,
but that each shall he left free to en-
force the rights and promote the we'll
being of its inhabitants by such means
as the judgement Of its own people
shall prescribe.
Fourth. There shall tie Il real and not
merely It simulated reform in the civil
service Of the Republic, To which end
it is indispensable that the chief. ..lispen-
ser of its vast official patronage shall be
shielded from the main temptation to
use his power seltishly by n rule mex
orable forbiding and precluding re-e-
lection.
Fifth. That the raising Of revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, be rec
Ognized and treated as the peoples inn
mediate business, to be shaped and di-
rected by them through their represen-
tatives in Congress, whose action
thereon the President must neither
over-rule by his veto, attempt to die
tate, nor presume TO punish by bestow
ing office only on those who agree with