New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-07
The New York Greeley Ratification Meet
ing

The New York Greeley Ratification Meet,
ing.
Associated Press dispatches have reported
who the speakers were at the Cooper Insti
tute Greeley ratification meeting Monday
evening The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
We, citizens of New York, in mass meet
ing assembled, without distinction of party,
do hereby declare and resolve
l. That we reatirm the wise, patriotic
and statesmanlike platform and principles
adopted by the late Liberal Republican
convention at Cincinnati
9. That we welcome the hearty accept
ance of the platform by the late Democratic
State convention at Rochester.
3. That we recognize in OR distinguished
fellOw-citizen and friend, Horace Greeley,
the true representative Of the principles of
the equality of all men and of exact Justice
to ali men; the true representative OF prin-
ciples that must triumph in the genuine re-
uniOn to be secured, not by bayOnets, but
by mutual regard and mutual guarantee of
reciprocal rights and benefits; an honest
man, the constitutional foe to thieves, who
must be driven from the national as well as
municipal authority, as the irst step to real
civil service reform. We pledge ourselves
to him as a life long laborer and associate
Of labOrers, with whom the rights of the
wOrkingmen will be sure of all needful re-
gard; a public man whose commanding
ability the nation has long recognized, and
a leader whose name we welcome as the
watchWOrd Of liberty.
4. That we recognize in Governor B. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri a ChiYalric statesman,
the whole of whose public life proves him
a fit associate Of Horace Greeley in the
task of extending to the whole Union the
work so well done in his own State, giving
back power to the people, peace to the ma
ton and purity to the government
3. That we hail the general approval of
the Cincinnati platform and ticket, and
particularly the enthusiastic support of
both throughout the South, as promising to
lift our politics out Of the dangerous ruts
Of sectiOnalism, wherein they have too long
run, and bury out of sight the hates and
OrtrOversies of the war
g. That we welcome the cooperation of
all parties in the work of reunion and re-
form to which the Cincinnati ticket is dedi-
Gated, and to which we pledge, by an over
whelming majority, the vote of this city
and the Empire State.
Senator Upton, of Nebraska, was the
first speaker. He said:
These are strange times on which we
have fallen. The telegraph informs us that
to-day at noon the great orator, Carpenter,
OF Wisconsin, appeared on the floor of the
United States Senate to demOlish Sumner
and Schurz. The speaker went on to de-
nOunce Grants administration on the !
ground that it sought to make all men who
were war Republicans before the war, war
Republicans after the war, when slavery, |
the real cause Of the war, had been abOl- !
ished Mr.. Upton denounced the course !
pursued by the present administration to- |
ward the South, and said we want men at |
the head OF the government to represent |
the living issues of the day. Mr.. Sumner, |
OF Massachusetts, speaks and lives to-day |
th9 representative sentiment of the Repub.
lican party.
Colonel Alexander Mcclure, of Pennsyl-
Vanla, on being introduced, was greeted |
with enthusiastic applause. He said the
IasJ great battle of our civil war is about
TO De fought. The paramount duty devOlv-
ing on the government after the war was
70 neal the scars left by discOrd and battle,
as IL was the earnest wish of the people to
restore the distracted and bleeding country
to fraternity and prosperitv. The sneaker
claimed that this grand object had not been |
attained, mainly in consequence of the in
capacity OF the members Of the Cabinet
who had been, instead of statesmen, merely
gift bearers and hatterers.- In government |
appointments he asserted incompetencv.
Venalty and shame have been the logical |
results of unbIushing nepOtism and the an
pOintment of INSCRIPTIONS men. Colonel
Mcclure urged that the supreme danger
threatening the people was the purpose of
the administration to enforce an unmixed
personal or centralized government. He
thought amnesty should be universal and
civil authority supreme in every State of
the Union.
General Fitzpatrick spoke at length, ex-
pressing the belief that great political par
ties were dissOlving, and the political lines
which so long have separated honest men
were being sponged out. Honest Demo
Gratis and honest Republicans are standing
side by side, and the people are determined
to commit the government to new and pure
hands. The election of Horace Greeley
Will break up that close corporation which
assumes to possess all the political virtue
of the country; tear down the false banner
which assumes to separate loyalty from
treason, and bring together men of all Sec
tons and parties; destroy that sectional
spirit which forces the passions of war into
civil life when war itself Is ended, and
bring about a real union of honest men from
the North and the South, when the past
shall be forgotten and buried.
Robert B. Roosevelt, in brief speech,
gave reasons why he as a Democrat, and
why other Democrats, can sustain Greeley,
can nominate him at Baltimore, and help
to elect him afterwards.