New-York tribune., 1872-08-19
JUDGE SELDEN DEFENDS THE Liberal
MOVEMENT
TIIE CAMPAIGN IN MONROE COUNTY-RATIFICA
TON MEETING AT ROCHESTER.

TIIE CAMPAIGN IN MONROE COUNTY-RATIFICA-
TON MEETING AT ROCHESTER,.
The Greeley aud Brown ratification meeting
at Rochester, ~ q, last Thursday was largely at
tended the call heipg responded TO IN manner which
took even the most sangune by surprise. The speakers
On the occasion judge Henry r. seden the Hon.
Cnaubccy VI. Depcv, tho Hon. Horace Bemis, and
Demas Barnes. Judge sclden, after giving the reasons
which induced him join the Liberal movement spoke
as fellows closing wIh brief ausion TO the two candi
jatos lor the Presidency:
The one Torn principle. Of which MI Greelev has long
DeCu the advocate ana which think should be estab
Nshed rot by cOnsti'u oual amendment but by public
sentiment would 20 fur toward removing the evil 70
UhchI nave alluded so doubt the President might
select has fvOte and lend his influence TO TO him
tbc but il gonld not be possible for any Pres
iGont 10 concentrate tho power Of the Government in
iFe yod be too mani Candidates for the position 10
admit or such concentration. To one who
appropriate division between the powers OF the
Federai d state Governments as the most important
as IT is tleI-Ost difficult problem OF our politics. the ten
dcnc1 toward the absorption bY the Federal Government
of the pOwers properly appeFta TO the States could
TAI to DC alarming. hruly believe that the recon
catou Of the different races which il Indispensable to
the teTznauol Of these Disorders will be greatly pro-
mOed ~ the change OF administration which we seek
WhateytT may nave been ar"efeeleys previsns opins
obvious that ne Is now alive 10 the necessity OF
dong mere Reconciliation, and less by power than has
hitherto en dQue before peace ard prosperity
turn to ts rogons which have been subject 10 military
rule. lis high character for 2ntegrty, as Wen ~ hu-
mauy pledge for the sincerity ot his statements IN
Inc granting Oft eneral AInnfktyJ W tnOut restlenOn,
20 the southern people engaged IN the late war, which
has been obviously in accordance with the dictates OF
wisdom since the termination OF the war has ceased by
the action Oi Congress since the meeting of the Clnen
matt Convention. to possess the importance that was
then attached Ia IT, Those who engaged In that
movement have the satisfaction Of believing that their
action hasened, ~ cid not produce, the action Of Con
gTess thar subject There is still enough
let GndODe in thai direction. 10 constitute
source OF irritation with possible corresponding
Sdvanage Our SUCCESS in the election will believe,
IsmOvo this remnant of evil which will hardly other
wise be removed II The success Of the Liberal epnbl-
eaa tcket, aided bY Ddaoeratic votes. could by any
possibility revive thOse questions Slavery aud the ques
fiOss gr0ging ont Of Slavery, should be as much
opposed 10 its he most ardent supporter OF
den. Grant. The utter impossibilty OF this - well
known dIOse who asa this account, an1 there
is snc$ity Ia the charge The Democrats are also
assailSd from the same sOuce and charged w1tb an
abandOnmeut OF principle, because they support fhe
Liberal Republican ticket. fhe truth or the Ipstter
IL that the Democrats assembled at Balumfe
accepted mgSfully and ancerey tie results
OF the war, embodied In the Consultation,
Joined with those from whom they had differed
future in regard " which the parties did not differ Ad
Uniting Their snoesty their course instead OF eOnstitu
1ing matter for peprOach, Is worthy OF all eOmmenda-
Do and presents e OF the most cheering signs in favor
of the peimaneDey Of free g0veruEents which modern
tIs.es have furnished The men who composed that con-
xSOn were pot FOOLS aud none but fools could fail 10
knQv that the Successful reOpenings Of the subject en-
bTaeld the late Constitutional amendments could no
accomplished than the current OF the Mississippi
could be turned backwards and made GoW to from Its
its