The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-11

the ,neeo5 ana aspirations OIL 10 udy
Though thousands stand ready TO con.
denim your every act, hardly q syllable
OF criticism or cayil has been aimed at
your platform, of which the substance
may be fairly epitomized as follows:
First-All the political rights and
franchises which, baye been acquired
through our late bloody convuIsions
must and shall be guaranteed, main.
tanned, enjoyed aud respected evermore.
Secoha-All the political rights and
franchises which have been lost through
that CONFUSION should and must be
promptly restored and re-established. go
that there shall be henceforth no pre-
scribed class and no disfranchised caste
within the limits OF our Union. whose
long estranged people shall reunite and
fraternize upon the broad basis Of uni
yersal amnesty with impartial suffrage.
Third-That, subject 10 our solemn
constitutional obligation to maintain
the equal rights of all citizens, our
policy should aim at local self-govern-
ment, and not at Capitalization that
the civil authority should be supreme
over the military; that the writ OF
habeas corpus should be jealousy
upheld as the safeguard Of personal
freedom; that the individual citizen
should enjoy the largest liberty consist
ent with public order, and that there
shall be no federal subversion Of the
internal polity of the several States and
municipalities, but that each shall be
left free to enfore the rights and promote
the we'll being of the inhabitants by such
means as the judgment OF its own
people shall prescribe.
Fourth-There shall be q real and
not merely simulated reform in the civil
service Of the Republic, to which end
it is indispensable the chief dispenser
of its vast official patronage shall he
shielded from the main temptation to
use his power selfsbly by rule mex
orably forbidding and precluding his
reelection.
Fifth-That the raising Of revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be
recognized and treated as the people,
immediate business, to be shaped and
directed by them, through their repre-
sentatives in Congress, whose action
thereon the President must neither
override by his veto, attempt to dictate,
nor presume to punish by bestowlng
office only on those who agree with
bin, or withdrawing it from those who
do not.
Sxth-That the public lands must
be sacredly reserved for acquisition and
occupation by cultivators and Lot
recklessly squandered on the projectors
of railroads, for which our people have
no present need, and the premature
construction of which is annually
plunging us into deeper and deeper
abysses Of foreign Indebtedness.
Seventh-That the achievement OF
these grand purposes of universal ben:
efcence is expected and sought of all
who approve them, irrespective Of past
affiliations.
Eigbth-That the public faith must,
at all hazards, be maintained, and the
national credit be preserved.
Ninth-That the patriotic devoted
ness and inestimable services Of our
.ellow-citizens, who, as soldiers or sail
ors, upheld the flag and maintained the
unity of the republic, shall ever be
gratefully remembered and honorably
requited.
These propositions, so ably and for
ciblv presented in the platform Of your
Convention, have already fixed the at
tentiop and commanded the assent OF a
large majority Of our countrymen, who
joyully adopt them, as | do, as the
basis OF true, benefcent. national re-
construction, Of new departure from
iealousies, strifes and hates, which have
no longer an adequate motive, or even
plausible pretext, into an atmosphere oil
peace, fraternity and mutual good will.
In vain do the drill sergeants of decay
ing organizations flourish menacingly
their truncheons and angrily insist
that the files shall be closed and
strsightened. In vain do the whippers
in OF parties once vital, because rooted
In tue VIAL Dccuo VI Tue hOui, ploNSoS
against straying and boiling, denounce
men nowise their interiors as traitors
and renegades and threaten them with
infamy and ruin. / am confident the
American people have already made
your cause their own, fully resolved
that their brave hearts and strong arms
shall bear it on to triumph.
In this faith, and with the distinct
understanding that, if elected, | shall
be the President not of party, but Of
the whole people, accept your nom-
nation in the confident trust that the
masses OF our countrymen, North and
South, are eager to clasp hands across
the bloody chssm which has too long
divided them, forgetting that they have
been enemies in the joyful conscious
ness that they are and must heuceforth
remain brethren. HORACE GREELEY.