The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-06-01

NEW foRK, May 20.
GESrLENES lhave chosen not to acknowl-
edge the receipt Of your letter Of the Sd instant
until could learn how the work Of your Con-
vention was received in ali parts OF our great
country, and judge whether that work was
approved apd ratified by the mass OF our fell
low-citizens. Their response has, from day
to day, reached me through kilograms, letters,
and the eomhents Of journalists independent
OF official patronage aud indifferent to The
smiles or frowns OF power. The number and
character ofthose uncOnstrained, unparchased
unsolicited tterances satisfy me that the move
ment which found expression At Cincinnati has
received the stamp OF public approval and been
hailed BY ma aj0rity Of our countrymen as The
harhinger of better day fer the Republic.
do not misinterpret this approval as espe-
cialiy complimentary to myself, nor even to the
ohivalrous and justly esteemed gen tleman with
whose name / thank your committee for assO-
ciating mine. receive and welcome 1t as a
spontaneous and deserved tribute 10 that ad-
mirable platform Of principles wherein your
Convention so tersely, so lucidly, so forcibly
set forth the conviction which iinpelled. and
the purposes which guided its course; platform
which, casting behind ii the wreck and rubbish
Of worn-out contrptions and by-gone feuds,
embodies In a tit aud few words the needs and
ASPIRATIONS Of to-day. Though thousands stand
ready to condemn your every act, hardly syl-
liable OF critisism or cavi has been aimed at
fairly epitoiniEsa as follows:
First. All the political rights and franchis-
eS which have been acquired through our lste
bloody convulsions must and shall be guaran-
teed, matutained, enjoyed. aHd respected ever
more.
Second. All the political rights and franehis-
es which have been lost throagh that convulsion
should aud must bs promptly restored and
re-e-tAbiished, 90 that there shall be heneeforth
no prescribed class, and no disfranehised caste
within the limits OF our Union. whose long
estranged people shall reRniIa and fratern ze
upon the broad basis Of universal amnesty and
impartial suffrage.
Third. That, subject to our solemn cons,itu
tional obligation to maintain the equal rights
OF all citizens, our policy should ain at local
selfgoyeTnment, and not at Capitalization ,
that the civil authority should be supreme
over the military; that the writ Of habsas cor
pas should be jenlously urheld as the safeguard
Of personal freedom that the individual citi-
zcn should enjoy the largest liberty consistent
with public order, and that there shall be no
Federal subversion OF the internal p0lity OF the
several States and munieip palities, but that each
shall be left free to enfnrce the rights and pro.
mote the weli-being Of its inhabitants BY such
means as the Judgment OF It's own people shall
prescribe.
Fourth. There shll! be real. and not N ere.
aly simulated, reiorm in the civil service OF
the Republic; 10 which end IL is INDISPENSABLE q
that tha chief disnensAr of ia ras, ,fici.I -.
,rnnsce shan he sbisld.d e., ~ 80 pa
ration no as. M noxs- saisshIv hs a.'a s',nP
biddinS and nrerIndins re-aI :c,;s.. ~, ~
yai.ing of raverna wbe,he. hv ,snik - 'ue
wise r.. rsrosni,sd snd sra.,ya ~ - o,Ie
Immediate hnsinsss ~ he s,,,ns5 ~ s fsop,e
nv tbeU throngb ,hsir R.nr..ss.,i... - a. -
iongrs~s vhoss sc,inn ,h.r'.pn ~, p.ss,. -.
musf neiihs- nverrnIs hS III. xo,n .,,a, -
dictate nor presnme to 5nni.h by has,asr;,'. :.
oifiee onlv 90 thosa vha 1890 .s,,S ~ ~
withdrawing n from ,ho.. ,sbn A" sa ~, A'u' W
sinh. That tbe nubiis nd ,n,,., 'bs' ~ .a
iv re.ervsd for ocr,ns,son ana sas,te;,,
cuilivators and no, recLIsssIy s,as1.ia.aS :! :!
,bs ,roisc,ar. ~ r.;iro'ds * ,f4sl. oh
Ma 6ays ma nrs.sn, need .na ~ a 80 ~. peo,
rrans,rnc,iorf' ~ sb;.b = '.ti' e peniaeure
in,n dssncr .nd aa"nas .i,'.sa" PtanEias "a
dobtednsSs " 'V'V's" "''
serrnth. Th., ,hs acb;ovuar, - 49,
moses of naIverssI bcnricsncs \. d =. susse papdi
sought at the hands Of ali who apnroys them.
irrespective Of party affiliations.
Eighth. That the public faith must at al
hazards be 10 ain sined and the national crsdi
| preserved.
Ninth. That the patriotic deyotedpea, and
inestimable services OF our fellow citizens. WIN
as soldiers or sailors, upheld the flap and main
tAined the unity Of the Republic. sia ail ever b,
| gratefully remembered and honorably y reonited
These propositions, so ably and forcibly pre
sented in the platform Of your Convention
have already fired the attention and eommand
ed the approval Of a large majority Of on,
| countrymen, who ioyfully adopt them. as Az
as the basis Of true, beneiicisut national re.
construction; Of new departure from isal.